The pre-assessment activities and the assessment tasks were planned, implemented and evaluated through collaboration between among the three teachers. In order to cater for the needs and interests of three different S4 classes, students were allowed to choose their own assessment tasks from a number of assessment activities. They could also choose to do their presentations in pairs or individually.

A range of warm-up activities were conducted and some specific oral presentation skills were taught. Two of the classes also conducted self-assessment and/or peer-assessment of a practice presentation where students had the opportunities to video-tape and evaluate their own presentations and that of their friends prior to the assessment. Evaluation forms were provided to students as reference. Miss Janus Chan commented that she had enjoyed watching her students' performances. Miss Joan Chan thought the process of preparing her students for assessment, including playing voice projection games and showing video clips of good presentations from other classes, was particularly useful. Her students had gained a lot from watching their peers. Miss Chan was also pleased that her students were able to identify the effective aspects of their peer presentations and that students found the process enjoyable.

Teacher	Miss Janus Chan, Miss Joan Chan, and Miss Mary Thorp
Class	S4
MOI	CMI
Name of Task	Book promotion
Oral text-type	Pair/individual presentation
Type of genre	Print fiction/Print non-fiction
Name of the book	various
Description of the pre-assessment activities	To view Miss Janus Chan and Miss Joan Chan talking about the pre-assessment and assessment tasks. Teaching and learning activities included: Some guided reading. Developing understanding of the content component. Developing awareness of presentation skills, e.g. discussion, modeling, self observation, peer observation. Click here to view the peer evaluation form. Class discussion on how to improve presentation skills and how to prepare for the final. presentation. Click here to view teacher notes for a warm up activity for voice projection. To view a warm up activity for voice projection conducted in Miss Janus Chan's class. To view a document on how to control one's breathing in order to control volume, tone and so on. To view teacher notes on an activity called Paper Bag Book Report in which students select items/objects relating to the content of the book and put them in a paper bag for a show and tell presentation.     5. Self-assessment of a practice presentation.   Click here to view the self evaluation form.     Click here to view the teachers' assessment plan and the reminder of their planning which highlights things to be done at different stages.
Description of the assessment activities	Pair / individual presentation (students chose one of the following activities) Comparing and contrasting (e.g. characters in the story, characters in the story vs. own character, background of the story vs. Hong Kong etc.) Making of storyboard Producing an advertisement for the book Solving the conflicts of the story in an alternative way Selling the book to a target group as a salesperson Examples of student presentations: To view an individual presentation from Miss Mary Thorp's class. To view an individual presentation from Miss Joan Chan's class. Note that students can present in pairs - this can make the presentation less stressful and more interesting for both students.
Feedback/Comments regarding the assessment task and trialling experience	To view teachers' evaluation of the experience. To view the teachers' suggestions regarding how to prepare for SBA.