Throughout the semester you will practice and present role play conversations from the Integración sections in your textbook.

The Taped Role Play assignment requires you and your partner to practice, tape record and submit one of those conversations.

The main purpose of this assigment is to provide you with feedback on your pronunciation and intonation (50%).  To a lesser extent, you will also be graded on your ability to use new vocabulary in a meaningful context (25%) and your grammatical accuracy (25%).

The role-play should be at least four minutes in length.  If your conversation is less than four minutes in length, the number of points you receive in the Content & Vocabulary category will be reduced accordingly.  For example, if your conversation lasts only three minutes (which is 75% of the required length), you will be eligible to receive a maximum of 18-19 points.

Label your cassette tape with both names (yours and your partner’s) and also say your names on the tape before you begin recording the role play.

You will need to turn in your script with the cassette tape.  Your TR instructor will let you know if he/she wants you to type the script or if a hand-written script is acceptable.

Your instructor will use this form (you will be graded individually):
 

	A 90-100	B 80-89	C 70-79	D 60-69	F 59 and lower
PRONUNCIATION & INTONATION	50 49 48 47 46 45	44 43 42 41 40	39 38 37 36 35	34 33 32 31 30	29 28 27 26 25
GRAMMATICAL ACCURACY	25  24  23	22  21  20	19  18	17  16  15	14  13  12
CONTENT & VOCABULARY	25  24  23	22  21  20	19  18	17  16  15	14  13  12

Choose one of these situations:
 

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p.	situation
p.	situation

• If you wish to use a micro-cassette or to burn a CD instead of using a conventional cassette tape, check with your TR instructor.
• If you do not have access to a cassette tape recorder, please let your TR instructor know.  He/She will make arrangements to loan you one, most likely during his/her office hours.  Do not wait until the last minute to make these arrangements.
• The Media Center (212 Smith) may have a cassette tape recorder available for you to use only if you remain in the immediate vicinity of the Media Center. Be prepared to leave your University ID.

Note:
If your instructor(s) revised any of the above topics when you practiced them in class, you should prepare the revised topic
for the taped role play assignment.