Question
Total marks—20
You are preparing an application for the job advertised below and you write an e-mail in Gaelic to the company.
Bòrd na Gàidhlig
Tha Bòrd na Gàidhlig a’ lorg neach a thig a dh’obair anns an oifis aca ann an Inbhir Nis. Feumaidh eòlas a bhith agad air Gàidhlig agus feumaidh sgilean coimpiutaireachd a bhith agad.
Airson tuilleadh fiosrachaidh no airson do chunntas-beatha a chur thugainn, cuir fios gu: oifis@bord-na-gaidhlig.com.
Checklist
To help you to write your e-mail, you have been given the following checklist of information to give about yourself and to ask about the job.
You must include all of these points:
- Personal details (name, age, where you live)
- School/college/education experience until now
- Skills/interests you have which make you right for the job
- Related work experience
- Your experience of Gaelic
- What your computer skills are like
Use all of the above to help you write the e-mail in Gaelic. The e-mail should be approximately 120–150 words. You may use a Gaelic dictionary.
Marking Instruction
Task: E-mail application for a job in this country or abroad, including information specified in six bullet points.
Assessment process:
Candidates will write a piece of extended writing in the modern language by addressing six bullet points. These bullet points will follow on from a job-related scenario. The bullet points will cover the four contexts of society, learning, employability and culture to allow candidates to use and adapt learned material. The first four bullet points will be the same each year and the last two will change to suit the scenario. Candidates need to address these ‘unpredictable bullet points’ in detail to access the full range of marks.
With reference to Content, Accuracy and Language resource, assess the overall quality of the candidate’s response and allocate it to a pegged mark. It is important to assess how candidates have addressed bullet points and detail in relation to this as highlighted in bold in Content.
Your Mark
Your marks:
Reveal examiner feedback
Examiner marks:
Mark: 20 / 20
Examiner Comments:
This piece of evidence exemplifies a script awarded 20 marks for the Writing element of this Course Assessment component.
Candidates were required to respond to a job advert by addressing four predictable bullet points and two unpredictable bullet points.
The candidate was awarded 20 marks for the following reasons:
Opening/closing
- Authentic opening and closing (minor error: a’ charaid)
Paragraph 1
- Candidate referred to the job advert
- Past tense of irregular verb used correctly (Thàinig e gu m’ aire)
- Correct use of adjective with feminine noun (ùidh mhòr)
- Minor error (ann an obair seo)
- Complex grammar used correctly (mum dheidhinn fhèin; rugadh mi)
Paragraph 2
- Complex grammar used correctly (tha mi nam sgoilear)
- Complex connective used correctly (tha mi an dòchas gun dèan mi math)
- Minor error (an deuchainnean)
- Final sentence is extended and a connective and prepositional pronoun (as fheàrr leam) are used correctly
Paragraph 3
- Subjunctive tense used correctly (chanainn). Genitive case used correctly (airson na h-obrach). These are more complex grammar points.
- Error in sentence structure: “Tha mi” used instead of “’S e”
- Range of adjectives used (freagarrach, sgiobalta, dìcheallach, càirdeil)
- Final sentence is extended and contains a prepositional pronoun (rium)
Paragraph 4
- Past tense of an irregular verb used correctly
- Past tense of a regular verb used correctly (chòrd)
- Idioms used correctly (fad mìos; gu mòr)
Paragraph 5
- Candidate has attempted the first of the unpredictable bullet points
- Candidate’s sentence structures are basically correct. There are a few more errors in this part and, apart from the final sentence, these are of a minor nature
- Candidate has correctly used Gaelic idiom (math air)
Paragraph 6
- The candidate has been very successful in addressing the second unpredictable bullet point and has written a detailed paragraph containing only two minor errors
- A sentence is extended using “agus”
- The future tense of a regular verb is used correctly (gabhaidh)
Application of Marking Principles for National 5 Writing
Content:
- All six bullet points have been fully addressed using a range of verbs and constructions
- Overall, the candidate has produced a well thought-out and serious application for the job.
- Despite a few errors, the candidate was successful in addressing the unpredictable bullet points.
Accuracy:
- The candidate handles nearly all aspects of spelling and grammar successfully despite a few errors of a minor nature.
- The candidate has successfully used language more appropriate to Higher (mum dheidhinn, chanainn)
- The candidate uses accents fairly consistently
Language resource:
- The candidate has used a wide variety of verbs and tenses: past and present tense of verb ‘to be’; past tense regular verb; past tense irregular verb; future tense regular verb and subjunctive tense
- Connectives, adjectives and prepositional pronouns are used successfully
- The language of the e-mail flows very well
Overall, this was considered to be a very good piece of writing.
