Universidad Nacional Abierta y a Distancia

Academic and Research Vice-rector

Activity guide and evaluation rubric - Task 2 - Writing production

1. General description of the course

Faculty or Vicerrectoría de Relaciones Internacionales

Academic Unit
Academic Level Undergraduate programs, Graduate programs
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

Number
Type of the
Individual ☒ Collaborative ☒ of 4
activity:
weeks
Moment of Intermediate,
Initial ☐ ☒ Final ☐
evaluation: unit 1,2
Delivery Environment: Monitoring and
Evaluative score: 90 pts
Evaluation
Starting date: 03rd December,
Closing date: 12th January, 2020
2019
Competence to develop:
At the end of this task you will be able to:
 Describe everyday aspects of his/her environment.
 Give short, basic descriptions of events and activities.
 Describe plans and arrangements habit and personal experiences.
 Understand the use of present simple and present progressive tense.

Topics to develop:
Describing routines, Present simple, There is /there are, Talking about actions
in progress, Greetings, Place descriptions.
Phases of the learning strategy to develop:

 You will develop this task in the Writing forum.

 You will collect the evidence of the task in a postcard through Piktochart or
Canva tools.
 It is important to post all the activities in the forum in order to get feedback
from your classmates and tutor.

Estimado estudiante:

En esta guía usted encontrará las pautas necesarias para realizar su producto final, el cual será:
una postal en la que usted comunicará cuál de las siete maravillas del mundo es su preferida, y
así mismo, dentro de una situación hipotética describirá qué está haciendo allí.

Es necesario que usted desarrolle los ejercicios de los contenidos en línea (Entorno de
conocimiento), dado que cada uno de ellos está relacionado con cada aspecto planteado en esta
guía de trabajo.

Phase 1: Read the document about the New Seven Wonders of the World and
answer the questions.
Phase 2: Answer the questions and complete the chart.
Phase 3: Consolidate and design your postcard (Hypothetical situation).
Phase 4: Document submission in the Monitoring and Evaluation environment.
Activities to carry out:

Phase 1: Read the document about the New Seven Wonders of the World
and answer the questions.
To do list December 03rd to 16th

 Go to document The New Seven Wonders of the World and answer the
questions. You must upload the answers in the forum.

Read about the New Seven Wonders of the World and answer the questions below:

http://bit.ly/2OKLCy9

 Which of the New Seven Wonders of the World do you think is the most
amazing? Why?
 Where is it? Say which city it is in.
 What words could you use to describe it?
Phase 2: Answer the questions and complete the chart.
To do list December 17th to 31th

 Imagine that you are going on a trip around the world and you can visit one
of the Seven Wonders. You must describe the following information. Complete
the chart using Present simple, there is /there are, Talking about actions
in progress, Greetings, Place descriptions.

You must complete the chart in the forum.

Name of Wonder:
Picture

Where is it?

It is natural or man-made

Hypothetical situation: In this part, you will write a paragraph in a postcard to your mother,
father, friends, etc. Describing your visit in this Wonder. Answer the following questions in order
to organize your ideas and text.

Where are you? Country and city.

What are you doing there?
Where are you? Place description. Ex: In this photo I am in front of Taj Mahal… We are next to…
How does it make you feel?
What words could you use to describe it?
What do you like/dislike about it?
What are you wearing?

Phase 3: Consolidate and design your postcard

To do list January 01st to 10th

 According to the previous writing exercises, you will design a postcard

where you collect the evidence of the task in a paragraph:

Example: http://bit.ly/2ZOxx3Y
Phase 4: Document submission in the Monitoring and Evaluation
environment.
To do list January 11th to 12th

The final document (Postcard) must be sent individually in the monitoring and
evaluation environment.
Template Task 2 - Writing production.docx

End of the task!

Phase 5: Following Directions (look at the Evaluation rubric)

Environment for Collaborative environment

the development Monitoring and evaluation environment
Products to
The final product must be sent individually in the
deliver by
Evaluation and Monitoring Environment in a PDF document.
student

General guidelines for the collaborative work

Individual: Each student has to develop the steps of

Planning of
the task and post the evidence in the forum.
activities for
The final product must be sent in the Evaluation and
the
Monitoring Environment.
development
Collaborative: Each student must give feedback to
of
one of his/her partners.
collaborative
Each student is responsible for his/her process.
work
Roles to
perform by Each student must give feedback to one of his/her
the student partners. The comments should remark mistakes,
in the aspects to improve and contribute to the debate.
collaborative Each student is responsible for his/her process.
group
Roles and Each student must give feedback to one of his/her
responsibiliti partners.
es for the Each student is responsible for his/her process.
delivery of
products
It is necessary to use the APA standards in order to
Use of
provide a bibliography of the sources cited in the
references
document.
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
the use of cites or lack of references, or includes cites
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

Plagiarism
are:
policy
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 Individual Collaborative
☒ ☒
type: Activity Activity
Moment of
the Initial ☐ Intermediate ☒ Final ☐
evaluation
Performance levels of the collaborative
Assessed activity
Score
Aspect Fair to
Excellent Good
poor/very poor
-Can answer - Can answer
-The student
questions and the questions
does the activity
respond to but still
during the last
simple systematically
week of the task.
Phase 1: statements. basic
- The student
Read the -Shows a good mistakes.
does not answer
document degree of -Shows
the questions
about the control of sufficient
proposed.
New Seven simple control of
-The student 15
Wonders of grammatical simple
shows only
the World forms grammatical
and according to forms limited control of
answer the online according to a few
questions. contents. online grammatical
contents. forms.

(Up to 15 (Up to 10 (Up to 5

points) points) points)
- Can answer - Can answer - The student
the questions the questions does the activity
Phase 2: and respond to but still during the last
Answer the simple systematically week of the task
questions statements. basic -The student
30
and -Shows a good mistakes. does not answer
complete degree of - Shows the questions.
the chart. control of - The student
sufficient
simple does not
control of
grammatical describe all the
 forms simple information
according to grammatical required.
online forms
contents. according to - Shows only
online limited control of
- Uses a range contents. a few
of appropriate grammatical
vocabulary - Uses forms.
when talking appropriate
about vocabulary to - Uses a
everyday talk about vocabulary of
situations. everyday isolated words
and phrases.
situations.
-Completes all
chart - Completes -Completes some
according to most of the of the chart
information chart according to the
required. according to information
information required.
required.

(Up to 30 (Up to 25 (Up to 10

points) points) points)
-Consolidate
-Consolidate
some
her/his
contributions
contributions -The student
during the
during activity. does the activity
activity.
Phase 3: - Design a during the last
-Design a
Consolidat creative week of the task.
postcard but
e and postcard and -The final
does not 25
design shows process product has one
provide
your according to phase of the
images, colors.
postcard the activity; writing task.
-The final
uses colors
product has
and images.
some phases
-The final
of the writing
product has all
task.
 phases of the
writing task.

(Up to 25 (Up to 20 (Up to 10

points) points) points)
The student
Phase 4:
submits the The student
Document
final document submits the
submission The student does
in the final document
in the not submit the
Monitoring and in a different
Monitoring final document. 5
Evaluation way; email or
and
environment. forum.
Evaluation
environme
(Up to 5 (Up to 3 (Up to 1
nt
points) points) points)
Follows some of
Follows most the directions
Follows all
of the given by the
directions
Phase 5: directions teacher.
given by
Following given by the The student does 15
teacher.
Directions teacher. not participate in
the forum.
(Up to 15 (Up to 10 (Up to 5
points) points) points)
Final score 90