Universidad Nacional Abierta y a Distancia

Academic and Research Vice-rector

Activity 3 – Writing assignment

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 b1
Course Code 900003
Course Type Methodological Can be yes ☐ No ☒
re-
opened
Number of Credits 3

2. Description of the activity

Number
Type of the
Individual ☐ Collaborative ☒ of 16
activity:
weeks
Moment of
Initial ☐ Intermediate: ☐ Final ☐
evaluation:
Delivery Environment: Monitoring
Evaluative score: 70
and Evaluation
Starting date: September
Closing date: October 11th
06th
Competence to develop:
Build a text that accounts for work produced with the support of the E-
Tutor and e-students. Through this exercise, the student will e-
recognition and ownership of the contents of the units, their
environment and the context to express themselves according to their
level.
Topics to develop:
Grammar, Unit 1 and 2
Should, simple past tense, modal verbs of advice: should,
ought to, had to, comparatives, go +ing
Recommendations, giving advice. Description of price and length,
past events, recreational activities.
Steps, phases of the learning strategy to develop:
Central task - Writing assignment - Production
Phase 1: Students work in collaborative groups.
Phase 2: Students present a written text.
Phase 3: Students give feedback and reflection on the task.
Activities to carry out:
Step 1
Introduce yourself (Name, age, address, phone number and
occupation)

Step 2
Read carefully the following requests and select one job to develop, at
the end there will be each students developing a different job for the
final work. You cannot repeat jobs in the group.

a) You are writing a letter to your best friend to tell him/her about
your new job.
b) You must use all of the points below in your letter
1. Describe the job. (Use images for do it)
Example: I am a teacher now at the San Pablo’s school. I
have 26 children in my classroom. They are 8 years old. I
teach English and Spanish. I have to work form 6:00 a.m to
4:00 p.m. My classroom is big, the walls are white and we
have a decoration of the looney toons. Every day when I
leave class, I prepare what I will teach in the next class.
Sometimes I qualify worksheets or some evaluations that I
did in the classroom. I no longer use heels because they are
uncomfortable to play with children. Now I have a sweatshirt
as a uniform…..

2. Say why you like it

I love teaching children. I really enjoy playing with them. I
love sharing their experiences and I like seeing how they
enjoy learning new things. I like the way I have to dress at
work.
3. Say why you dislike it
I do not like getting up early. The working day seems long.
4. Say whether you think he/she would like it.
 I imagine that you think it is very stressful to work with
children…..
5. You should start your letter for instance: Dear Angela
6. You should end your letter with: your friend, Julian.

Step 3: Each student gives review and feedback the participation of at

least two classmates.
Environment
for the Collaborative Learning
development
Collaborative:
Upload the Final Document in PDF or Word format
with following information:
Products to
deliver by
1. First page: complete name, CEAD and academic
student
program.
2. Include the contributions from all the students who
participated in the discussion with all the questions.

General guidelines for the collaborative work

Planning of
activities for
the
Each student has to write at least 3 interventions in
development
order to accomplish the selected role.
of
collaborative
work
Roles to Each student has to write at least two significant and
perform by objective comments regarding the opinions of other
the student members of the group.
in the
collaborative The comments should remark mistakes, aspects to
group improve and contribute to the debate.
Roles and Collector: Articulate the contributions of all the
responsibiliti participants of the collaborative group in order to
es for the consolidate the final paper; including only those who
delivery of took part of the whole process.
products
 Reviewer: To verify that the final paper and process
meet all the requirements stipulated by the teacher.

Evaluator: To verify that the final paper meets the

criteria stipulated by the rubric. The evaluator must
inform the group about any corrections or
adjustments regarding the quality of the document.

Submissions: To keep track and inform the group

about the submission time, upload the final paper on
time, using the link provided by the teacher or
stipulated by the activity guide. To notify the group
members the final paper was submitted.

Alerts: To notify all the group members about

changes or news related to the submission or
elaboration of the final paper. To notify the teacher
through the collaborative forum and the course
messaging that the final paper was submitted.
It is necessary to use the APA standards in order to
Use of
provide a bibliography of the sources cited in the
references
document.
According to Dictionaries de la Real Academia
Española “Plagiarism is the action of substantially
copying other people's works, presenting them as own
creation." Therefore, plagiarism is a serious offense;
academically speaking it is equivalent to theft. A
student who plagiarizes does not take his education
seriously, and does not respect the intellectual work of
others.
Plagiarism
policy
There is no small plagiarism. Using any portion of
another person's work, without acknowledging the
author or source is plagiarism. Now, it is evident that
we all take some ideas from others when it comes to
presenting ours, and that our knowledge is based on
someone else’s knowledge. But when we rely on the
work of others, academic honesty requires that we
explicitly announce the fact that we are using an
external source, either by citing or by paraphrasing
 (these terms will be defined below). When we cite or
paraphrase, we clearly identify our source, not only to
give recognition to its author, but also to allow the
reader to look up in a reference text.

There are certain academic events in which it is not

acceptable to quote or paraphrase the work of others.
For instance, if a teacher assigns his or her students a
task in which they are clearly required to answer
using their own ideas and words, then the student
should not consider external sources regardless if they
are properly referenced.

4. Evaluation rubric

Evaluation rubric
Activity Individual Collaborative
☐ ☒
type: Activity Activity
Moment of
the Initial ☐ Intermediate ☒ Final ☐
evaluation
Performance levels of the collaborative
Assessed Scor
activity
Aspect e
High score Media score Low score
There is The
minimum participations
Participatio There is not participation in are relevant,
n forum the writing articulated and
20
& participation forum, besides it contribute to the
interaction at all. neither meets construction of
the the final
requirements of document. The
 the guide and contributions are
schedule nor the posted
netiquette according to the
standards. schedule.
(Up to 0 (Up to 15 (Up to 20
points) points) points)
The
The written
grammatical
outcome
structures
contains some
used are The proper use
grammatical
simple, they of grammar
inconsistencies
do not match shows a good
Use of and the
the difficulty knowledge of 20
grammar simplicity of the
level the structures.
sentences show
according to
difficulties in the
the contents
structures.
of the course.
(Up to 0 (Up to 5 (Up to 20
points) points) points)
The document
The ideas and The written final
shows
sentences document
inconsistencies
written in the contains a
in the
document look proper
organization and
disorganized, construction of
construction of
they are not sentences and
Coherence ideas; however, 15
articulated, or paragraphs,
the objective or
do not have a making use of
main point of
clear logical
view is
objective. connectors.
understandable.
(Up to 0 (Up to 10 (Up to 15
points) points) points)
Although the The final
The
vocabulary used document
vocabulary is
in the final contains wide
very limited
document variety of words
and does not 15
Vocabulary matches the which are used
match the
difficulty level coherently, with
difficulty level
according to the appropriate
according to
contents of the spelling.
 the contents course, it is
of the course. limited and has
some spelling
mistakes.
(Up to 0 (Up to 10 (Up to 15
points) points) points)
Final score 70