B2.1-SEMI-NEW: ✍ Written mediation: Wacky Inventions

TOPIC: Wacky Inventions

You read the following article in an online newspaper:

Crazy inventions for the Home – Interactive Coffee Table

Say goodbye to boring coffee table books. This table puts on a show. Your neighbor sets the drink tray on the coffee table, and the surface lights up, surrounding the tray with bright, twinkling white lights.

The coffee table is called the Wave, and it uses LED lights to interact with whatever is placed on or near the table's surface. The coffee table lights up using optical sensors that can read pressure and light changes when something is placed near them.

Not only is this coffee table attractive and responsive, it's environmentally friendly. It uses sustainable, wood from American Maple, is finished with a water-based lacquer and uses only 35 watts of energy when fully lighted. Most of the time it's dormant, using even less energy. The coffee table can cost anywhere from $1,795 to $2,340.

Adapted from: https://home.howstuffworks.com/10-wacky-home-inventions4.htm

You think the article is very interesting and decide to write a summary to inform a friend who loves hearing about crazy new inventions.

TASK 1. MEDIATION

Explain the main idea in the text.
Summarise the most important information you have read.

Write between 60 - 70 words

Indicators of achievement.

Rubric for mediation

12.5

Communicative purpose fully achieved
General ideas and relevant details are clearly transmitted
The speaker uses effective communication skills to get the message across
The speaker adapts their language to the listener’s needs by breaking up the message

10*

7,5

Communicative purpose adequately achieved
General ideas and basic details are transmitted
The speaker tries to use effective communication skills to get the message across
The speaker generally adapts their language to the listener’s needs

2,5

Communicative purpose not achieved
Unnecessary, irrelevant and incomplete ideas are mentioned
The speaker makes it difficult to get the message across
The speaker uses an inappropriate language for the communicative situation and/or the listener’s needs

Limited communicative ability
Lack of language
Production does not correspond

* Those two marks are for those tasks that share descriptors from the previous and following row.