Universidad Nacional Abierta y a Distancia

Academic and Research Vice-rector

Activities guide and evaluation rubric
Activity 4 – Speaking Task.

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 B1+
Course code 900004
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 5
Moment of
Initial ☐ Intermediate ☒ Final ☐
evaluation:
Score of the activity (if Delivering environment: Collaborative
70
applicable): Learning
Starting date: October 13 , 2019
th Closing date: November 13th, 2019
Competence to develop: Speaking skills
Topics to develop:
Phrasal Verbs
Modal Verbs
Present Perfect Vs. Simple Past.
Steps, phases of the learning strategy to develop:
The student is going to do two videos, in the first is going to practice with sounds
and sentences and in the second is going to answer some questions and talk about
some situations.
Activities to develop:

For this activity you as a student has to check the online content unit 2.

PHASE 1: VIDEO 1 “Practice your pronunciation”

From the following practices, you have to record a video pronouncing each word and
sentence. Do the practice several times first with the online content before you
upload your video.
You have to upload your video to youtube and then share the link in the forum, or
you can use Vimeo, or any tool you consider.

PHASE 2: Video 2 “The movie”

Having in mind the movie you wrote about in the activity 2, you are going to record
a video answering the following questions:
 Introduce yourself
 Movie’s name
 Synopsis.
 What did you learn about the movie?
 How did the film make you feel?
 How does the movie relate to the academic program you are studying?

The idea about this video is that you can tell with your own words the main idea of
the task and not an out loud reading.

You have to upload your video to youtube and then share the link in the forum, or
you can use Vimeo, or any tool you consider.

Practice your pronunciation with:

www.neospeech.com

To have in mind:
If you upload your videos on time, at least a week before the activity closes, you
will have the chance of the Retroalimentation from your tutor and can improve your
video uploading it again to have a better score.

Also, remember that you can practice the pronunciation with us (tutors and course
director) before doing the videos you can do it through skype.
Environment
for the Knowledge Environment / Collaborative Learning environment.
development
Products to
Individual
deliver by
Two Video recordings in the forum.
student
 General guidelines for the collaborative work

Planning of
activities for
the Presentation of 2 videos in the forum having in mind the
development of instruction given.
collaborative
work
Roles to
perform by the
student in the N/A
collaboative
group
Roles and
responsibilities
to produce the
N/A
submitions by
the students

It is necessary to use the APA standards in order to provide a

bibliography of the sources cited in the document
Use of
Use this link as reference:
references
http://normasapa.com/formato-apa-presentacion-trabajos-
escritos/

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
Plagiarism implies 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.php?option=c
om_content&view=article&id=138:normas-
apa&catid=45:referencias-bibliograficas&Itemid=
4. Evaluation rubric

Evaluation rubric
Activity type: Individual ☒ Collaborative ☐
Moment of
Initial ☐ Intermediate ☒ Final ☐
evaluation
Items to Levels of performance of individual activity
Score
evaluate High score Media score Low score
There are some
The student mistakes in the
records the video pronunciation, but it
taking into account doesn’t affect the
the information understanding of the
given. The audio is message. There is no evidence
Video 1 audible and of video recording. 15
understandable There are sentences or
with minimal or no words missing.
pronunciation
errors. The volume makes it
difficult to understand.
(up to 15 points) (up to 8 points) (up to 0 points)
The student records a
The student video with some of the
records a video parts.
with all the
contents from the The video has some
guide. The video is parts where it is hard to
There is no evidence
clear and presents understand or not very
Video 2 of video recording. 25
the answers to the clear.
questions. The
video is natural The video seems
and well unnatural or not
pronounced. fulfilling with the parts
mentioned in the guide.
(up to 25 points) (up to 15 points) (up to 0 points)
The student uses The student uploads the
Video 2 the grammar video 2, but it has
There is no evidence
Grammar structures properly many mistakes in the 25
of video recording.
construction and with good grammar construction
pronunciation. of the sentences.
 The student uploads the
video 2, with good
grammar construction
of the sentences, but it
has lack of good
pronunciation.
(up to 25 points) (up to 15 points) (up to 0 points)
The student takes
advantage of the
tutor support to
practice his/her
pronunciation
before recording
The student doesn’t
the videos using
take advantage of the
skype.
tutor support to
practice his/her
Skype Even though the There is no evidence
pronunciation before
support student doesn’t of video recording. 5
recording the videos
take advantage of
using skype and his/her
the tutor support
pronunciation is not the
to practice his/her
best.
pronunciation
before recording
the videos using
skype, he/she has
a good
pronunciation.
(up to 5 points) (up to 1 points) (up to 0 points)
Final score 70