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:
The candidate addressed all six bullet points competently.
Paragraph 1
- Candidate is able to use the dative case correctly
Paragraph 2
- Candidate is able to write a sentence with a connective
- Candidate is able to use a more complex prepositional pronoun
Paragraph 3
- Candidate’s word order is correct
- Past tense of a regular verb used correctly
- Genitive plural used correctly (tòrr dhuaisean)
- Candidate correctly uses an adjective with a plural noun (òrain Ghàidhlig)
- Adjective used correctly with a feminine noun (ùidh mhòr)
- Range of more complex adjectives used (dìcheallach, comasach, earbsach)
- Candidate used the genitive case correctly (saor-laithean an t-samhraidh)
Paragraph 5
- Unpredictable bullet point addressed fairly competently
- Correct word order in final sentence
Paragraph 6
- Unpredictable bullet point addressed competently.
- Negative sentence structure used (Chan eil mi math air…)
- Dative case used correctly
Application of Marking Principles for National 5 Writing
Content:
- The job advert has been addressed competently and in full, including information in response to both predictable bullet points. A range of verbs, tenses and constructions are used, although it would have been useful if the candidate had demonstrated an awareness of irregular verb tenses.
Accuracy:
- There were a few minor errors when the candidate addressed the two unpredictable bullet points but they did not detract from the overall very good impression.
Language resource:
- The candidate used a wide variety of constructions and tenses: Is mise…; Tha mi…; Is toigh leam…; ‘S urrainn dhomh…; bhuannaich mi…; ’S e … a th’annam; Ann an…;Is fhearr…; leam; Bidh mi…; Chan eil mi math air…
- The candidate demonstrated secure knowledge of conjunctions, dative case, adjectives, word order and plural nouns.
Summary:
This piece would have been enhanced if the candidate had referred to the job advert and also if they had shown awareness of irregular verbs. Due to the high quality of the response as a whole, however, it was agreed that this candidate had met the standard for 20/20.
