Universidad Nacional Abierta y a Distancia

Vicerrectoría Académica y de Investigación

Activity 6 – Speaking assignment-Synchronous meeting

1. General description of the course

Faculty or Academic Vicerrectoría de Relaciones Internacionales

Unit
Academic Level Professional, specialization, master
Academic Field Common basic interdisciplinary training
Course name English A2
Course code 900002
Course type Methodological Can be re- Yes No ☒
opened
Number of credits 3

2. Description of the activity

Physical Remote
☐ ☐ Simulator ☐
laboratory laboratory
Type of
Specialized Professional
practice Field works ☐ ☐ ☐
software experiences
Other ☒ Which: Skype
Type of activity: Individual ☒ Collaborative ☐ Number of weeks 7
Moment of Intermediate,
Initial ☐ ☒ Final ☐
evaluation: Unit 2
Score of the activity (if Delivering environment: Collaborative
70
applicable): Learning
Starting date: April 30 , 2018
th Closing date: June 20th, 2018
Topics addressed in the practical component:
Present simple
Present progressive
There is are
Prepositions of place
Adverbs of frequency

Activities to carry out:

 PHASE 1: VIDEO RECORDING “MY LIFE”

1. Each student has to make a video, in which he should introduce himself with
all the information such as: FULL NAME, AGE, PROFESSION, STUDIES, WORK,
ETC. The student should be recorded showing parts of his/her real life routine,
his/her real job and his/her real house. The video should not be more than
2:00 minutes long. Look at the video to copy the format

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RTZfnO743Ig
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jGeasFdAlGs

2. Share the recording or the link of the video in the forum.

3. Comment one video from other person in the forum
4. The video has to be uploaded in the forum ONE DAY BEFORE THE
INTERVIEW

PHASE 2: SKYPE INTERVIEW

1. Your tutor will send you a link containing a time table for you to register in the
established days and hours.
2. Register on the schedule your ID number, full name, group number, email and
Skype username.
3. Login to the virtual tool at least 10 minutes before the interview.
4. Remember to have from 10 to 15 minutes and guarantee the headset, microphone
and camera work fine to carry out the interview.

The interview has two major parts:

 Self-introduction
Make sure you are prepared to answer one of the following questions:

HOW ARE YOU?

WHAT IS YOUR FULL NAME?
WHAT IS YOUR LAST NAME?
WHAT IS YOUR FIRST NAME?
HOW OLD ARE YOU?
HOW OLD IS YOUR FATHER/MOTHER/SISTER/BROTHER?
DO YOU HAVE CHILDREN?
HOW MANY CHILDREN DO YOU HAVE?
ARE YOU MARRIED?
ARE YOU SINGLE?
WHAT IS YOUR MARITAL STATUS?
WHAT DO YOU DO FOR A LIVING?
WHAT IS YOUR PROFESSION?
WHAT DO YOU DO IN YOUR FREE TIME?
DO YOU LIKE SPORTS?
DO YOU LIKE TO READ/TO EXERCISE/TO JOG/ TO PLAY CHESS?
WHAT IS YOUR FAVORITE FOOD?
WHAT IS YOUR FAVORITE MUSIC?
DO YOU LIKE TO DANCE?
WHERE ARE YU FROM?
WHERE WERE YOU BORN?
WHERE DO YOU LIVE?
WHO DO YOU LIVE WITH?
DO YOU HAVE PETS?
WHAT ARE YOU STUDYING?

 A conversation about one of the following topics:

 Talk about your daily routine. (Full description of one COMPLETE day. From
waking up till going to bed)
 Talk about your house (full description of your house, the rooms, the
objects in the room etc.)
 Describe the following picture
Ilustracion 1: Cuidad. Profesoras con sus alumnos en fila. Dos personas montando bicicleta. Tres
adultos y 4 niños esperando en la cebra para pasar la calle. 4 carros y un bus en la calle. 3 Casas
con ventanas. Una escuela. Una tiende de abarrotes. Un tren en la parte de atras. Un avion

Working
Collaborative Learning
environment:
Products to
deliver by the Video recording
student:
Type of No product must be
Individual ☒ Collaborative ☐ ☐
product: delivered
Individual:
Upload the video in YouTube, Vimeo, Dropbox, Onedrive etc.
4. Evaluation rubric

Evaluation rubric
Activity type: Individual ☒ Collaborative ☐
Moment of Intermediate,
Initial ☐ ☒ Final ☐
evaluation Unit 2
Items to Levels of performance of individual activity
Score
evaluate Highest score Medium score Lowest score
The student
records the video
describing The student records
his/her life and the video but it does
covers all not fully correspond to
aspects allocated the parts allocated in
There is no
Video in the guide. The the guide. He/she
evidence of video
recording video is clear and may(not) have
recording and
and forum understandable. participated in the 35
forum participation
participatio Also, he/she forum. The video is
n participates in not fully
the forum giving understandable or has
feedback to one some inaudible parts
of the forum
mates
(up to 35
(up to 18 points) (up to 0 points)
points)
The student can The student can The student has a
fully understand communicate in a great deal of
and communicate simple fashion, using problems
all his/her ideas un repetitive structures communicating
English about his/her ideas in
Skype and fair vocabulary.
himself. He/she English. Also, he/she
Interview: He/she understands 15
can interact with does not understand
Interaction minimum or /no some commands and simple commands
error in an English questions and and questions.
Speaking eventually needs some He/she needs first
environments. The repetition. There are language to
pronunciation is some mistakes in the communicate or
 fluent, with good pronunciation, but it confirm the
intonation and doesn’t affect the information during
appropriate understanding of the the interview. The
intervals between student makes many
message.
sentences pronunciation
mistakes and the
message is not clear.
(up to 15
(up to 7 points) (up to 0 points)
points)
The student can There is a limited
construct number of sentences The student does
sentences using The student not construct
a wide range of sometimes constructs complete sentences
grammatical
a complete sentence or uses only
structures.
but the structure is isolated words.
He/she is able
too repetitive and the He/she does not
Skype con link them
range of vocabulary is use structures
Interview: together using
limited. He studied in the
Structure connectors. The 15
sometimes combines course. The student
and student uses a
Spanish and English uses a vocabulary
vocabulary vocabulary
to construct in an incorrect way,
suggested in the
sentences. The used beside there is no
units. The
vocabulary is scarce cohesion in the
message is clear
and not always speech..
and
understandable correct.
(up to 15
(up to 7 points) (up to 0 points)
points)
The student
The students
presents the
follow the plan of
Skype interview but
the interview.
Interview: he/she changes
He/she programs
Preparation, schedules, shows
the interview 5
Responsibili up late, in a
one time and
ty and different schedule
shows on time
punctuality or alters the order
and ready
of the interview
(up to 5 points) (up to 0 points)
Final score 70