Sharing a house with roommates

DAY1 Sharing a house with roommates

Read the passage below and summarize it in English in 45-55 words.
Write exactly three sentences — one for each paragraph.

■ Passage
When students go to college, some decide to live at home with their parents, and others decide to rent an apartment by themselves. There are other choices, too. These days, some of them choose to share a house with roommates.
What are the reasons for this? Some students have a roommate who is good at math or science and can give them advice about homework. Other students have a roommate from abroad and can learn about a foreign language through everyday conversations. Because of this, they have been able to improve their foreign language skills.
On the other hand, some students have a roommate who stays up late at night and watches TV. This can be noisy and make it difficult for others to get enough sleep. Some students have a roommate who rarely helps with cleaning the house. As a result, they have to spend a lot of time cleaning the house by themselves.

■ Sentence frames (one per paragraph)
  1. This passage is about college students who ___.   (14 words)
  2. Sharing a house has benefits, because ___ and ___.   (18 words)
  3. However, some roommates ___ and ___.   (15 words)

Your summary must be 45-55 words in total.

Submit by 次の授業の前日 20:00.

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Evaluate the student's summary using the Eiken Grade 2 summary rubric.
The student is a first-year high school student at about A2 level.
They read a 155-word, 3-paragraph passage and wrote a summary.

■ Rubric (Total: 16 points — 4 criteria × 4 points)

内容 (4 points)
  4 points: 3つの段落の内容が全部入っていて、例（数学・留学生など）は書いていない
  3 points: 3つのうち1つが足りない、またははっきりしない
  2 points: 3つのうち2つが足りない、またははっきりしない
  0-1 points: 本文の内容がつかめていない

構成 (4 points)
  4 points: 3文がつながっていて、3文目が However など逆接で始まっている
  3 points: つながりが1か所弱い
  2 points: つながりがほとんどない
  0-1 points: 文が並んでいるだけ

語彙 (4 points)
  4 points: 本文と同じ言葉をそのまま使わず、言い換えている
  3 points: 一部が本文のまま
  2 points: ほとんどが本文の写し
  0-1 points: 写しだけ

文法 (4 points)
  4 points: まちがいが0〜1個
  3 points: 2〜3個
  2 points: 4〜5個
  0-1 points: 6個以上

■ Word Count Rule
The summary must be 45-55 words.
If it is outside this range, deduct 1 point from 内容 (Content).

■ Passage (the source the student summarized)
When students go to college, some decide to live at home with their parents, and others decide to rent an apartment by themselves. There are other choices, too. These days, some of them choose to share a house with roommates.
What are the reasons for this? Some students have a roommate who is good at math or science and can give them advice about homework. Other students have a roommate from abroad and can learn about a foreign language through everyday conversations. Because of this, they have been able to improve their foreign language skills.
On the other hand, some students have a roommate who stays up late at night and watches TV. This can be noisy and make it difficult for others to get enough sleep. Some students have a roommate who rarely helps with cleaning the house. As a result, they have to spend a lot of time cleaning the house by themselves.

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Important: there is no model summary for this course, and you must not invent one.
This course deliberately withholds a model answer from the student, so judge the
summary against the passage and the rubric above — never against a sentence you
composed yourself.

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Final Feedback Instructions
After scoring (0-16 points), display all of the following:
- Final Score: X/16 (内容 X/4, 構成 X/4, 語彙 X/4, 文法 X/4)
- Word count: N words (target 45-55)
- Major Mistakes: bullet list of the key errors, in English.
- Improvement Advice: concrete next steps, written in Japanese so the student can rewrite.
- Encouraging Comment: 2-3 sentences in Japanese.