Universidad Nacional Abierta y a Distancia

Academic and Research Vice-rector

Activities guide and evaluation rubric

1. General description of the course

Faculty or Vicerrectoría de Relaciones Internacionales

Academic Unit
Academic Level Professional, specialization, master
Academic Field Common basic interdisciplinary training
Course Name English A2
Course Code 900002
Course Type Methodological Can be yes ☐ No ☒
enabled
Number of Credits 3

2. Description of the activity

Numbe Numbe
Type of the Individua
☒ Collaborative ☐ r of r of
activity: l
weeks weeks
Unit
Moment of
Initial ☐ Intermediate ☒ Final ☐
evaluation:
:
Evaluative score of the Delivery Environment of the
activity: 70 activity: Collaborative forum
Starting date of the Deadline of the activity: November
activity: October 29 , 2018 26 th, 2018
Competence to develop:
Speaking
Topics to develop:
Present simple
Present progressive
There is are
Prepositions of place
Adverbs of frequency
Steps, phases of the learning strategy to develop
- Record two audios
- Record one video
- Take an interview
Activities to develop
PHASE 1: PRACTICING PRONOUNCIATION AND SPEAKING

1. Each student will perform all the exercises of the KNOWLEDGE

ENVIRONMENT and record them in VOCAROO to share the link in
the forum
Audio 1

Audio 2

PHASE 2: VIDEO RECORDING

2. Each student has to make a video, in which he should introduce
himself/herself with all the information such as: FULL NAME,
AGE, PROFESSION, STUDIES, WORK, FAMILY, LIKES, DISLIKES,
HOBBIES. 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

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

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

- CONVERSATION  DESCRIBING YOUR BEDROOM.

ABOUT YOUR YOU NEED TO PROVIDE A
PERSONAL PICTURE TO THE TEACHER
INFORMATION:  DESCRIBING WHAT YOU MUST,
QUESTIONS HAVE TO, SHOULD AND OUGHT
ABOUT YOU
TO DO IN ORDER TO BE A GOOD
STUDENT AT UNAD

Environmen
t for the
Collaborative environment
developmen
t
Individual:
Record two audios with the two tasks in the guide

Record one video with the characteristics from the

Products to
guide
deliver by
student
 General guidelines for the collaborative work

Planning of
activities for
the The collaborative work consists on commenting the
development rest of the classmates audios and videos and give
of feedback in order for them to improve
collaborative
work
Roles to
perform by
the student
No roles required
in the
collaborative
group
Roles and
responsibilit
y for the
No roles required
delivery of
products by
students
Use of
N/A
references
In the agreement 029 of December 13, 2013, article
99, the mistakes that infringe upon the academic
order, among others, are the following: paragraph e)
“To plagiarize is to present as your own work the
whole or part of a writing, report, task or document of
invention performed by another person. It also implies
Plagiarism the use of cites or lack of references, or includes cites
policy where there is no coincidence between them and the
reference” and paragraph f)”To reproduce, or copy for
profit, educational resources or results of research
products, which have intellectual rights reserved for
the University”.

The academic punishments that the student will face

are:
 a) In case of academic fraud proved in the
academic work or evaluation, the score achieved will
be zero (0.0) without leading to disciplinary measures.
b) In case of plagiarism proved in the academic
work of any nature, the score achieved will be zero
(0.0), without leading to disciplinary measures.

To know how the documents must be cited, check the

following document:
Centro de Escritura Javeriano ( ) Normas APA. Sexta
edición. Taken from
http://centrodeescritura.javerianacali.edu.co/index.ph
p?option=com_content&view=article&id=138:normas-
apa&catid=45:referencias-bibliograficas&Itemid=

4. Evaluation rubric

Evaluation rubric
Activity type: Individual ☒ Collaborative ☐
Moment of Intermediate,
Initial ☐ ☒ Final ☐
evaluation Unit 2
Levels of performance of individual activity
Items to Scor
evaluate Highest e
Medium score Lowest score
score
The student The student
records the records some of
audios and the audios or the
shares them audios are hard to
Audio
in the forum. understand. The There is no
Video
The audios student records evidence of
recording
area the video but it video recording 25
and forum
understandabl does not fully and forum
participati
e and correspond to the participation
on
coherent. The parts allocated in
student the guide. He/she
records the may(not) have
video participated in the
 describing forum. The video
his/her life is not fully
and covers all understandable or
aspects has some
allocated in inaudible parts
the guide. The
video is clear
and
understandabl
e. Also,
he/she
participates in
the forum
giving
feedback to
one of the
forum mates
(up to 25 (up to 15 (up to 0
points) points) points)
The student has a
The student
great deal of
can fully
The student can problems
understand and
communicate in a communicating
communicate
simple fashion, his/her ideas in
all his/her ideas
English. Also,
un English using repetitive
he/she does not
about himself. structures and fair
understand
He/she can vocabulary. He/she simple commands
Skype interact with understands some and questions.
Interview minimum or commands and He/she needs
/no error in an
: questions and first language to 30
English
Interactio Speaking eventually needs communicate or
n some repetition. confirm the
environments.
There are some information
The
during the
pronunciation is mistakes in the
interview. The
fluent, with pronunciation, but student makes
good intonation it doesn’t affect the many
and appropriate understanding of pronunciation
intervals
the message. mistakes and the
between
message is not
sentences
clear.
 (up to 30 (up to 20 (up to 0
points) points) points)
There is a limited
The student number of
can construct sentences The The student
sentences
student does not
using a wide
sometimes construct
range of
constructs a complete
grammatical
complete sentences or
structures.
sentence but the uses only
He/she is able
Skype structure is too isolated words.
con link them
Interview repetitive and the He/she does not
together using
: range of use structures
connectors.
Structure vocabulary is studied in the 10
The student
and limited. He course. The
uses a
vocabular sometimes student uses a
vocabulary
y combines Spanish vocabulary in an
suggested in
the units. The and English to incorrect way,
construct beside there is
message is
clear and sentences. The no cohesion in
understandabl used vocabulary the speech..
e is scarce and not
always correct.
(up to 10 (up to 0
(up to 5 points)
points) points)
The students The student
follow the presents the
Skype
plan of the interview but
Interview
interview. he/she changes
:
He/she schedules,
Preparati
programs the shows up late,
on, 5
Responsib interview one in a different
time and schedule or
ility and
shows on time alters the order
punctualit
and ready of the interview
y
(up to 5 (up to 0
points) points)
Final score 70