Webquest: Job Interview

Introduction: You have been asked to give a presentation about yourself for a job interview. You must do it in English and you must have good pronunciation as you will be working as an English teacher in a primary school.  

Task 1: First you must show that you can produce difficult sounds (vowel and consonant) in English. You can choose which sounds you can record, but make sure those are sounds you have had difficulties with during this PAFI. 

Here is a link where you can check the different pronunciation of the English sounds with videos for better understanding:

Videos for pronunciation

You can also download an application which can help you practice a bit more. Look for:

English Phonetic Pronunciation (Android)

Once you have studied the sounds make sure you can pronounce them correctly. Practice a lot because you will need it for the following activity.

Task 2: Now you have to show evidence of what you have learnt. You have to record a video of yourself pronouncing the three vowel sounds and the three consonant sounds. For this you will be using this link:

Movenote

Here is an English Tutorial

Here is a Spanish tutorial

Make sure you give a short presentation, but do it as clear as possible. Obviously, before you start with the activity, you will have to introduce yourself and give some personal information (name, age, what you study, hobbies, etc.) Then you will talk about the difficult vowel and consonant sounds. (maybe you can include the difficult sounds in words during your presentation. You can invert the pattern)

Example

Finally, send the link to me in this blog as a reply, please.

Task 3

In this part of the project you will have to show your ability to talk about your previous experiences in order to show the interviewers why you should be hired.

First make sure you are capable of pronouncing the verbs correctly:

Check out this links on regular and irregular verbs in past simple:

Regular past verbs pronunciation:

Irregular verbs pronunciation:

After having practiced the pronunciation of some of the verbs, record yourself on movenote now saying some verbs in past simple. Keep in mind that you will have to use these verbs for the final task. Please make sure to think about what activity you will do as a final task in order to start thinking about the verbs you will use.

Here is an Example

Task 4

In this final task you will have two options:

Option 1: record yourself giving a presentation of yourself for the final job interview. Make sure to include aspects such as personal information, where you were born, information about your childhood, likes, dislikes and talents, etc.

Remember you can include as much information as possible.

Option 2: record yourself doing a conversation with a friend doing a job interview. In this conversation you can talk about previous job experiences, abilities, likes and dislikes,  etc.

Remember you can include as much information as possible.

After choosing one option, you will have to write what you will say and give a presentation using movenote . Make sure you send the link to me for the last day of classes (later, I will make comments on what aspect you can improve).

Here is an example for option 1:

Here is an example for option 2:

Best regards,

Mr. Aguilar


Rúbrica de Evaluación:

	Rúbrica para la evaluación del desempeño del proyecto final PAFI “Improving Pronunciation”
Criterio de desempeño	Niveles de desempeño
	deficiente	pts	regular	pts	bueno	pts	excelente	pts
		1		2		3		4
Actividad 1 Revisión de videos para practicar fonemas	No ha visto los videos y no demuestra conocimiento alguno de algunos fonemas		Ha visto los videos, pero muestra conocimiento casi nulo de los fonemas		Ha visto los videos y muestra un dominio y entendimiento básico de los fonemas		Ha visto los videos y muestra un dominio y entendimiento aceptable de los fonemas.
Actividad 2 Video: fonemas consonantes y vocales	Su pronunciación es poco entendible y no se nota el fonema a resaltar		Su pronunciación es ligeramente entendible y el fonema a resaltar es poco notable		Su pronunciación es entendible y resalta en cierta forma el fonema a pronunciar		Su pronunciación es bastante entendible y los fonemas son claros a la hora de pronunciarlos
Actividad 3 Video de pronunciación de verbos regulares en pasado simple	Su pronunciación es poco entendible y no se nota el fonema a resaltar		Su pronunciación es ligeramente entendible y el fonema a resaltar es poco notable		Su pronunciación es entendible y resalta en cierta forma el fonema a pronunciar		Su pronunciación es bastante entendible y los fonemas son claros a la hora de pronunciarlos
Actividad 4 Entrevista de trabajo en un monólogo o en una conversación	El video es pocas veces entendible y el estudiante tiene un dominio casi nulo de algunos rasgos suprasegmentales (entonación, estrés, sílaba tónica, etc.)		El video es ligeramente entendible y el estudiante muestra un dominio limitado de algunos rasgos suprasegmentales (entonación, estrés, sílaba tónica, etc.)		El video es entendible en gran parte y el estudiante muestra un dominio de una variedad de rasgos suprasegmentales (entonación, estrés, sílaba tónica, etc.)		El video es totalmente claro y entendible y el estudiante muestra un domino casi total de los rasgos suprasegmentales (entonación, estrés, sílaba tónica, etc.) puestos en práctica durante su grabación
Total		4		8		12		16