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: 8 / 20
Examiner Comments:
This piece of evidence exemplifies a script awarded 8 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 8 marks for the following reasons:
Paragraph 1
- An attempt was made, albeit unsuccessfully, to begin the response appropriately and refer to the job advert
- The candidate omitted the verb (cur) which was crucial to success and accuracy of the sentence
- Accurate use of a more complex prepositional pronoun (thugaibh)
Paragraph 2
- The candidate attempted “S e” construction but used the incorrect prepositional pronoun
- Age and home town written correctly
Paragraph 3
- Candidate used basic structure to address the second bullet point. There is, however, insufficient detail at this level
Paragraph 4
- Candidate used a more complex connective correctly (gu bheil). This sentence was also extended using “agus” but the accuracy was not sustained in the final part of the sentence
Paragraph 5
- Candidate correctly used the past tense of the verb ‘to be’ but the accuracy was not sustained in the final part of the sentence
- The second sentence in this paragraph contains significant grammatical errors
Paragraph 6
- The candidate attempts to address the first unpredictable bullet point. Accurate use of two prepositional pronouns (leam and agam). The first sentence is mainly accurate and contains a connective (agus)
- There are, however, significant errors in the second sentence
Paragraph 7
- Candidate addressed the second unpredictable bullet point
- There are significant grammatical errors
Page 2
- The candidate attempted to finish the response appropriately
- Grammatical error: deagh dùrachd
Application of Marking Principles for National 5 Writing
Content:
- The candidate has attempted all six bullet points
- The candidate’s response is approximately 113 words. There is insufficient use of detailed language
Accuracy:
- There is only one spelling error in the response (cuispairean)
- Regarding grammar, however, there is more incorrect than correct
Language resource:
- The candidate was not secure in their use of basic grammatical constructions
- Nearly every sentence contained at least one grammatical error
- It was agreed that this response did not meet the standard for a pass as it did not contain an accurate range of grammatical constructions required at National 5 level
