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A06 – FINAL INTEGRATED INTERVIEW- READING

Dear student,
Please, read the following indications about the Final Integrated Interview
to know more about the procedure and criteria for the evaluation.
 The interview takes place on the 15th day of classes on the regular
program (4 days a week), and on the last day of classes on the
weekend and only Saturdays program.
 The interview is in pairs or groups of three. Your teacher will moderate
the interview in a session different from the main one.
 While a group of students is in the interview, the others need to be
working on an activity assigned by the Teacher on the main session.
 You need to turn on your camera during all the interview.
 The interview evaluates your communicative skills and your
knowledge of the structures studied during the month.
 The exam consists of 2 communicative tasks. You will work on the
tasks providing detailed and cohesive ideas related to the text in the
last pages of these document.
 The interview score is obtained from 3 criteria: Fluency and
Pronunciation, Vocabulary and Grammar use, and Accuracy of ideas
and Task completion.

o “Fluency and Pronunciation” refers to your fluency, intonation

and pace when talking.
o “Vocabulary and Grammar use” refers to how correctly and
effectively you use the grammatical structures and vocabulary
that are expected for a student in your current level.
o “Task completion” refers to how successfully you achieve the
communicative tasks, and how detailed your ideas are for a
student in your current level.

 Your score in the final integrated interview will be sent to the e-mail
address you gave your teacher within 30 minutes of the completion
of all interviews in the class.

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 Remember to keep the following in mind, in regard to the use of

complete sentences and expected supporting details.

Communicative task
Example of instructions Not expected response

“I agree. He gave a lot of points that seemed fair”

Expected response
“What do you think about the
author’s position? Would you agree “I couldn’t agree more. First, the author mentions
with him?” that the extinction of animals is inevitable due to
our huge consumption of plastic. We can witness
that in our own town, where many people get rid
of their garbage on the streets every day. Second,
….”

 Teachers will use the following rubrics to evaluate your Final

Integrated Interviews:

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FINAL INTEGRATED INTERVIEW - RUBRICS - ICPNA RC

Points FLUENCY AND VOCABULARY AND GRAMMAR TASK COMPLETION (C)

PRONUNCIATION (A) USE (B)
4  In general, the student speaks clearly  The student accurately uses grammatical  The student's performance exceeds
with almost no pauses or hesitations. structures that are expected for a student in expectations for their current level.
 There are almost no pronunciation or their level.  In general, ideas given during the interview are
intonation problems.  The student's word choice is effective for cohesive, and specific for their current level.
relevant expression of ideas.
 There may be minor errors in grammar or
vocabulary use. These errors are not
noticeable.

3  In general, the student speaks clearly  The student uses grammatical structures that  The student's performance meets expectations
with few pauses or hesitations. are expected for a student in their level, but for their current level.
 Also, there are few pronunciation or there are few noticeable mistakes.  Ideas given during the interview are mostly
intonation problems.  The student's word choice is ineffective in few cohesive, and specific for their current level.
 These problems may interfere with the parts of the interview.  There may be few gaps in the ideas, but they
student's expression of ideas at few  These mistakes become noticeable and may are not significant.
points of the interview. interfere with the student's expression of ideas
at few points of the interview.

2  In general, the student speaks with some  The student uses grammatical structures that  The student's performance doesn't completely
pauses or hesitations. are expected for a student in their level, but meet expectations for their current level.
 Also, there are some pronunciation or there are some noticeable mistakes.  Ideas given during the interview are only
intonation problems.  The student's word choice is ineffective in sometimes cohesive, and specific for their
 These problems interfere with the some parts of the interview. current level.
student's expression of ideas at some  These mistakes become noticeable and  There are some significant gaps in the ideas.
points of the interview. interfere with the student's expression of ideas
at some points of the interview.

1  In general, the student doesn't speak  The student uses grammatical structures that  The student's performance is far from meeting
clearly and there is a considerable are expected for a student in their level, but expectations for their current level.
amount of pauses or hesitations. there is a considerable number of noticeable  Ideas given during the interview are mostly
 There is also a considerable number of mistakes. disorganized and too general for their current
pronunciation or intonation problems.  The student's word choice is ineffective in level.
 These problems interfere with the most parts of the interview.  There is a considerable number of significant
student's expression of ideas at many  These mistakes become noticeable and gaps in the ideas.
points of the interview. interfere with the student's expression of ideas
at many points of the interview.

0  The student does not make efforts to  The student doesn't make efforts to use the  The student doesn't make any efforts to
speak clearly or to avoid pauses or grammatical structures that are expected for a complete the task.
hesitations. student at their level.  Ideas given during the interview are always
 There are only few instances where  The student's word choice is ineffective during disorganized and too general for their current
pronunciation or intonation are correct. all the interview. level, and there is no effort to avoid
 These problems interfere with the  All of these mistakes interfere severely with inaccuracies in the ideas given.
student's expression of ideas during all the expression of ideas.
the interview.

Final Score points (A+B+C)

4 11-12 points

3 8-10 points

2 5-7 points

1 2-4 points

0 0-1 points

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READING
Instructions: Read the following text before the Final Integrated Interview. Prepare
to respond questions about information mentioned in this text.
Stories of controversial issues
Adopted from https://www.theguardian.com/ https://toronto.citynews.ca/ https://edition.cnn.com/
https://edition.cnn.com/

1- Story of Damian Meins – Gun Control

Damian Meins could just as easily not have been in the office that Wednesday afternoon.
Retired and working a new job as an inspector
with the San Bernardino health department,
Meins was expecting to be out in the field until
he got last-minute word that he had to come in
to the Inland Regional Center for a meeting.

Even still, with his wife battling a brutal case of

the flu, he considered staying home before
thinking better of it and going in.

These are the types of “what ifs” that rack the

minds of people like Tina Meins, Damian’s
daughter: the small choices and facts of
happenstance that place a loved one in the
wrong place at precisely the wrong time. “That was tough to accept,” she said. “He shouldn’t
have even really been there in the first place.” But he was there. According to Damian Meins’
co-workers, he had been standing by the Christmas tree at the office holiday party when two
people entered the building with semi-automatic rifles and handguns, donning tactical gear
and firing off rounds in rapid succession. They managed to kill 16, including Meins, and injure 24
before being gunned down by police in a shootout.

A police helicopter hovers around the

Inland Regional Center in San
Bernardino. Photograph: Luis Sinco/AP

Tina Meins, then 33, remembers showing

up with the rest of her family a few hours
after the news broke and being hustled
off to the reunification center, which was
set up a few blocks away from the site of
the shooting.

Busload after busload of survivors pulled

into the location, each bringing with it a
moment of hope followed by a little bit
more dread.

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“Finally the last bus came and he wasn’t on it,” Meins says. “It’s really weird because you hold
on to hope even if you know …” She pauses. “Even if you basically know, you hold on to hope
until the very last second.

“There’s obviously the emotional and psychological trauma of trying to deal with the fact that
you no longer have a dad. But there’s also the logistical and practical side of you that thinks: ‘OK
well. What does this mean? Financially is my mom going to be able to live in this house?’ … You
find a different way to live but it takes a long time for things to even feel OK.”

Part of that new life for Meins, her mother and her sister has been as advocates for what she
calls commonsense gun control for things like universal background checks on gun purchases
nationwide. “You kind of wonder with every passing shooting, what will be the proverbial straw
that breaks the camel’s back. They [Congress] have already had two people in their own ranks
shot,” Meins says, referring to Steve Scalise and Gabrielle Giffords.

“But I do feel some optimism that things will change eventually. I don’t think it’s a short path,
but I think it’ll change eventually.”

2- Story of a mother – Abortion

Although I always thought it was a woman’s right to choose, I

honestly thought if I got pregnant I’d find a way to make it
work. All that changed. My boyfriend terrorized me. At some
point, I decided it was safer to have him in my life than cut
him out. But when I got pregnant, I knew right away I didn’t
want a lifelong connection to that person. I was right; when
we later broke up, he sawed my clothes in half and poured
corn syrup in my gas tank. During the ultrasound, I shouted,
“We’re not keeping it!” It was a way of not acknowledging the
life-form. When I went to the clinic, there were protesters
with awful, very graphic signs. I felt their judgment. Other
experiences changed me more. This year, I had another D&C
after I miscarried, and it’s amazing how much I mourned that
pregnancy. The same experience can be so different when
you’re in a different place in life. My first husband died. With
the slew of shitty things that have happened to me, I wonder,
am I paying the price for what I did? I believe in a God who
wouldn’t punish that way. But when you don’t want the gift
you’re given, will the universe offer up that gift again? As I
started to get older and was nowhere near having kids, I
started to wonder if that was my chance and I blew it. But I’m 21 weeks pregnant now.

3- Story of Kevin Johnston – Hate Speech

A Mississauga man has been charged with a hate crime after police allege he made a number
of statements against the Muslim community online. Police would not say what the alleged
comments were, only that they were made through social media over five months. Kevin
Johnston, 45, was arrested on Monday.

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He was charged with willful promotion of hatred, specifically “communicating statements other
than in private conversation, willfully promote hatred against an identifiable group”, in this case,
Muslims. Johnston runs the website Freedom Report, but police would not say whether the
charges are linked to that publication. CityNews spoke to Johnston outside a Brampton court
house after he appeared before a judge on Monday.

“I am the first Canadian in the history of Canada to be arrested under motion M103″ he said,
citing the motion put forth in parliament
to condemn Islamophobia in Canada and
all forms of systemic racism and religious
discrimination.

“It means the average Canadian citizen is

going to be arrested at their homes like I
was today, brought to the courthouse
here and be made to stand trial for having
opinions that are different than the left
wing…M103 is the end of Canada.” he said.

However, M103 is not a law nor can

citizens be charged based on its
recommendations. Johnston was arrested under existing hate crime laws — section 319(2) of
the criminal code — which deals specifically with the willful promotion of hatred.

He was released on his own undertaking, under a number of conditions including not being
allowed within 100 meters of any mosque of Muslim community center in Ontario.

He has also been ordered not to communicate with a Muslim lawyer and two politicians, whose
names are all covered under a publication ban. He was further ordered not to possess firearms
and not to reveal any details of his case to anyone outside of his own legal counsel.

Ontario’s attorney general, who gave consent for the charge to be laid, would not comment on
the case. But he says the government takes hate crimes seriously.

4- Story of Ray Krone – Capital Punishment

“I was the 100th person exonerated from death row.

So, there was lots of media attention when I got out.
On that first day, a reporter asked me, ‘Ray, given
your faith in God, why do you think he left you in
prison all those years?’

“How do you answer a deep question like that? It

shot in my head, ‘Maybe it’s about the next 10
years.’”

Ray Krone was sentenced to death for a crime he

did not commit. After serving more than 10
consecutive years in Arizona prisons, including 32
months on death row, he was successfully
exonerated in 2002. His innocence was finally
established after DNA tests proved another man
had committed the murder of a female bartender:

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“One time after my release, I was being interviewed, and so was my mom. I happened to pass the
room in which the reporter was speaking with her. I heard my mom tell him, ‘Our family used to set
a place at the table for Ray at every Thanksgiving and Christmas.’ To hear that, to think of what
my mom went through, to hear her say, ‘We wondered what he was eating in prison,’ that helped
me realise how I need to do this for her, for my sisters, for all the people who have sat in a courtroom
and been told that they are guilty when they are not.

“There was the time when I was testifying on behalf of Witness to Innocence, and a prosecutor said
to me, ‘You’ve been exonerated. They got the guy who did it. You’re out now. See: the system works.’
I said, ‘Tell my mom the system works.’ He didn’t ask any more questions.

“So, now I’m speaking out for my friends, my family, for all the people who need me to tell my story.
I was a Boy Scout, a postman…I was in the Air Force. If they could do it to me, they could do it
anyone.”

5- Story of Nick – Racism

A third-generation Mexican-American, Nick Valencia says

duality is reality for millions of Americans. "Go home!" she
yelled at me. "Why don't you go back home to Mexico
before you ruin this country like you ruined your own!" I
was standing in a crowd at the Music Midtown festival in
Atlanta, where I live. A few minutes earlier I'd met a group
of five people who'd been standing in front of me -- here
from Mexico City -- and I had begun speaking Spanish
with them.

Atlanta has a growing Latino community, and I am

actively involved. Whenever I get the chance to speak to someone in Spanish here, I introduce
myself. My new acquaintances and I were talking about what a great time we were having and
how remarkable the city of Atlanta was for bringing back the festival to Piedmont Park. And
that's when I heard the yelling woman next to me. As if "go home" wasn't clear enough, the
woman -- a 20-something Caucasian -- repeated the words in Spanish.

"Vete!"

I froze. I didn't quite know what to say, and I didn't want to believe she was talking to me or the
group of people I had just met. As a third-generation Mexican-American growing up in Los
Angeles, I had never encountered such overt racism. In fact, because my family was long since
assimilated, among my Latino friends I was always considered the "pocho" or "white boy" of the
group. (As I write this, a part of me knows somewhere in L.A., a friend of mine will be proud to
know someone actually considered me Mexican enough to yell "go home" at me.)

My Mexican friends remind me that I am American first, Mexican second and that my English is
better than my Spanish.

"Yes," I tell them. "But I can never walk into a room and be white."

Evidently, to some the brown color of my skin means I'm not even American. My friends and
family tell me what I experienced that night is a microcosm of what is happening to Latinos
across the country. You don't have to look hard to find it. In news stories, in political discourse,
on talk radio, in everyday conversation it seems it has become OK to treat Latinos in a negative

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and antagonistic way -- whether they are new immigrants or longtime Americans. The anti-
immigration legislation sweeping across the United States has made this plain. People in my
Latino networks say they've noticed the change. And now I understand what they mean.

Like many Americans whose grandparents or parents came here from somewhere else, I live at
the intersection of my two cultures. I eat tacos, but I love cheeseburgers. I go salsa dancing, and
listen to rock n' roll. I speak Spanish and English, and depending on the crowd, sometimes
Spanglish. I love my country and my cultural community. My duality is my reality, just like the
50 million other Latinos in the United States.

I have been luckier than many. Before this incident, the closest I'd ever come to blatant racism
was in junior high. I was in the jazz band and played first trumpet. One day our jazz band teacher
invited in his predecessor, a local legend who had made Eagle Rock High School's jazz program
famous in the 1980s.

The visiting instructor pointed me out and asked me to play him 16 bars of music. I did, but he
quickly interrupted.

"Stop, stop, stop. I don't want to hear any of that mariachi music. This is jazz."

I didn't think anything of it. Instead I felt terrible that the legend standing in front of me didn't
think I was good enough. I went home that night, and like every night, at 6:30 p.m. my family sat
down for dinner to talk about our day.

"How was your day, Nicky?" my dad asked.

So I told him. Outraged, the next day he went to my principal and filed a formal complaint. The
legend didn't come back to visit the jazz program again. Weeks later we received a letter in the
mail from him apologizing for his insensitive comments. My family saved the letter.

My father was hypersensitive to ethnic identity and deeply proud of his Latino heritage. The son
of a naturalized immigrant from El Salvador and a Mexican mother from Texas, he grew up in
Los Angeles during a time of racial tension. When I was young he would tell me stories of the
race riots in his high school, violence against people of color, and awful accounts of the struggle
he had to make it as a Mexican-American teen in the 1960s.

He died when I was 17 years old, but one of the phrases he implanted in my mind before he
passed was a statement activist Cesar Chavez made famous:

"Si se puede" -- "Yes you can."

And now, here I was, at 28, with this stranger yelling at me to "leave." I stood there in the middle
of a damp crowd on a late Atlanta evening, not comprehending, the wind still and the vibrations
of Coldplay's "Yellow" filling the space in the air.

I didn't say a thing.

I didn't have to.

The crowd around us looked in amazement at this woman. Some of them spoke up to her, telling
her she was wrong to talk to us like that. The group of people from Mexico City looked at her in
disgust and, realizing from the look on my face that I must not be accustomed to what I was
hearing, they turned toward me to offer support.

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One of them, a young man, grabbed my hand and raised it high in the air.

"Estamos aqui," he said, which translates to "We are here."

It was the "Si se puede" moment.

The woman continued to taunt us for some minutes, but when we did not reciprocate her
hatred, she stopped.

The band played a few more songs before ending the set, and the crowd dispersed across the
park into the Saturday evening.

As I walked away, the woman and I locked eyes.

"I don't think you understand who you said that to," I told her. Thinking to myself, I am as
American as you are.

"What," she said laughing. "Are you some kind of celebrity or something?"

No. But like the Mexicans I was standing with, I am a human being. And I am home.

6- Story of dogs – Animal abuse

A man who disregarded animal

welfare to make a profit from
puppies was disqualified from
keeping dogs for life. The puppies
were born in filthy conditions,
weren't microchipped or
vaccinated and were being sold
without the benefit of any licence.

The man sold puppies to the

public and had over 70 dogs
including Bulldogs, Pugs,
Labradoodles, Poodles and
Golden retrievers - all were found
neglected and living in filthy conditions.

We were contacted by police after they had received reports of multiple dogs running on a
busy road. Once the police had contained the dogs, they saw many more within a barn looking
dirty and unkempt.

Pens found to be in terrible conditions

One of our inspectors went to the property and saw the terrible conditions that the dogs were
being forced to live in. They described the pens as:

 filthy, cold and damp

 without heating or access to water

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 stone floors sodden with thick layers of urine and faeces

 without any ventilation so there was a nasty smell

 and no bedding at all

 the only thing available to the dogs were tubs of dry dog food.

The first pen contained a mum and her pups

In the pen we found a yellow Labrador and her 10 newborn puppies, one of them had sadly
died. All were laying on a thick layer of wet faeces. The inspector also found a small pen with a
white and brown terrier puppy, who was shaking and clearly terrified.

In a similarly kept pen were eight dogs (poodle and retriever breeds) looking filthy with their
coats matted. A police officer provided water for the dogs via a hosepipe, who all fought to drink
first and huddled around the bucket. Our inspector said it was heartbreaking to watch. Some
dogs were so thirsty they were drinking for over a minute non-stop!

More dogs were contained within a conservatory, the floor was wet with urine and no bedding
could be seen. Several dogs were barking whilst others looked withdrawn. A Bulldog was seen
housed in a metal wire cage with exposed rods pointing in various directions (which could easily
hurt the dog). A second cage contained several small breed dogs - the whole setup was a mess.

There were also two dogs with their litters of puppies found in the living room.

No attempt had been made to keep the place clean

A vet who attended said he had been to the property earlier in the year on the local council's
behalf. He had been there to inspect the property because an application had been made for a
breeding licence. He was appalled by what he saw on the returning visit.

Opening the doors revealed some of the filthiest conditions he had ever seen dogs kept in. The
floor of the out-building was covered in urine and faeces and there were a lot of flies buzzing
about - it hadn't been cleaned out for weeks! No attempt had been made to increase the
exercise area for the dogs or to feed them individually and hygienically - which were all license
conditions discussed with the owner from the vet's previous visit.

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It was clear the man had very little intention of following the license conditions, which had
already been outlined. Failure to meet the requirements meant he had committed offences
under the Animal Welfare Act.

Matted coats and ear infections

A second independent vet

examined each of the animals. A
golden retriever and a
Newfoundland type dog were
taken into possession, after the vet
said they were suffering
unnecessarily from severe ear
infections. A poodle type dog who
hadn't been adequately groomed
was also found. The golden
retriever gave birth to a litter of
puppies shortly after arriving into
our care.

Twenty of the dogs had mild to severe matting to their coats which were filthy. There were 72
dogs and puppies at the property. The labrador and her puppies were removed because their
needs were not being met, which is an offence under section 9 of the Animal Welfare Act.

Warnings and advice were ignored

Our inspector issued multiple warnings and advice notices to bring about improvements in the
environmental conditions. Treatments were also provided for health issues that some of the
dogs had, particularly skin and eye conditions.

After the man had been interviewed, we were still receiving a number of complaints regarding
sick puppies at the property. He had continued with his illegal activity and five months later was
advertising online and offering puppies for sale again. This all being after he had been
summoned to attend court in relation to offences detected during the inspection and before his
first hearing.

A warrant was executed and once again neglected animals were removed. It was clear the man
hadn't learnt from the advice he had previously been given and further offences were made.

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