UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL ABIERTA Y A DISTANCIA UNAD

Instituto Virtual de Lenguas - INVIL

Programa: Programa Nacional de ingls
Curso: Ingls 3 - 90121
Campo de formacin: Componente Bsico Comn
Tipo de curso: Terico-Prctico
Crditos: Dos (2)

WRITING ASSIGNMENT - ENGLISH 3

ACTIVITY GUIDE AND RUBRIC
General Objective:
To express ideas and real situations effectively in writing through the use of
grammar and vocabulary learned in the course.
Objectives:
To read comprehensively different readings in order to identify important and
key information.
To show the use of writing skills learned through a text where the student
tells a real situation happened in the past.
To write a short text in which the student shows the use of the grammar and
vocabulary learned through the units and levels.
To stimulate the writing skill as an organized process.
Topics:
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.

Compound Adjectives
Modal verbs
The Past Progressive
Use of ING forms
Prepositions and phrasal verbs
Past perfect tense

Learning strategy:
To write a text in which the e-student shows the handle of the grammar and
vocabulary acquired during the English courses and through accompany of the etutor and e-students. During the development of the writing the e-student acquires
the skills according to writing following a series of steps to complete the final
product, in which the skills acquired will be evident in their writing competences
such as: style, creativity, coherence, cohesion, grammar, vocabulary and
punctuation.

Score: 100 points

UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL ABIERTA Y A DISTANCIA UNAD

Instituto Virtual de Lenguas - INVIL
Programa: Programa Nacional de ingls
Curso: Ingls 3 - 90121
Campo de formacin: Componente Bsico Comn
Tipo de curso: Terico-Prctico
Crditos: Dos (2)

Activity Schedule:
According to the Course Agenda.
Instructions:

In order to develop this writing process, students must study Unit 1 and 2, and then
follow the step by step guide:
Expected outcomes in the forum (30 points):

STEP 1
1. Each student must select a role and do it through all his/her
participations.
You can see the roles and responsabilities in the box below.

2. Read the text anecdote example (page 4) and answer the following questions:
Do you like to read or listen about people anecdotes? Why? Write your
reasons!
In your opinion, which tittle could be given to this anecdote example?

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Instituto Virtual de Lenguas - INVIL
Programa: Programa Nacional de ingls
Curso: Ingls 3 - 90121
Campo de formacin: Componente Bsico Comn
Tipo de curso: Terico-Prctico
Crditos: Dos (2)

STEP 2
1. Each student must choose ONE of these words and create an acrostic:
ANECDOTE STORYTELLING INCIDENT EPISODE - NARRATIVE. Look at this
example:

Achieve
New vocabulary
Expressing your
Cool stories
Doing an
Outstanding writing and
Telling an
Extraordinary funny story.
STEP 3
1. Each student must write a text describing an anecdote of his/her life which must
consist of 3 paragraphs. Each paragraph must have minimum four (4) sentences
and maximum six (6) sentences.
The text must have a tittle and it is necessary to highlight with different colors the
verbal tenses required:
Simple Past
Past Progressive

Past Perfect

You can select one of these possible topics for your anecdote:

A
A
A
A
A
A
A

holiday you had.

difficult journey you had.
perfect day youve had.
special event in your life.
birthday you remember.
time when you lost something important.
time when you gave someone a surprise.

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Instituto Virtual de Lenguas - INVIL
Programa: Programa Nacional de ingls
Curso: Ingls 3 - 90121
Campo de formacin: Componente Bsico Comn
Tipo de curso: Terico-Prctico
Crditos: Dos (2)

This is an anecdote example:

I remember an inconvenience I had once. This happened about five years

ago. I was coming back home from Santa Marta where Id been on holiday
with some friends, who had rented a cabin near Sierra Nevada. Anyway, we
were on the plane and had just taken off when there was a loud bang from
the right hand side of the plane and I could see a lot of smoke coming from
one of the engines.
Of course, everyone started looking around but the plane carried on flying
normally. And then a few minutes later the pilot came on and said there was
a problem with one of the engines and we would have to return to the
airport. I felt pretty nervous, I can tell you, but I tried to concentrate on my
book and about ten minutes later we landed without any problems. We had
to wait for about an hour, and then we got back on the plane.
Actually it was a different plane, and I was pretty relieved that it was. One of
the girls started crying and feeling as if she was going to faint and
everything. One of the flight attendants try to calm her down.

All the participations must be written directly in the forum. Please do not attach any files
because they wont be taken into account!

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Instituto Virtual de Lenguas - INVIL
Programa: Programa Nacional de ingls
Curso: Ingls 3 - 90121
Campo de formacin: Componente Bsico Comn
Tipo de curso: Terico-Prctico
Crditos: Dos (2)

STEP 4
Consolidation of the texts participations of the group to send
just a final file which must have these pages:
Front page.
The texts identifying the name of each participant.

Final outcome (70 points):

The leader must submit the group final product taking into account this:
PDF file which will be sent to in the corresponding link (Evaluation and
Monitoring Environment)
File Name :(Final Writing Product_group)
Example: (Final Writing Product_135)

These web sites can help you during your writing process:

How to use of the present perfect and simple past

Online Dictionary

Check your vocabulary and grammar:

http://www.grammarly.com/?q=proofreading&CID=2617611&PID=5146016
http://eslbee.com/
http://www.writinga-.com/