Universidad Nacional Abierta y a Distancia

Academic and Research Vice-rector

Activities guide and evaluation rubric
Task 4 - Speaking Assignment oral production.

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 900003
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 8
Moment of
Initial ☐ Intermediate ☒ Final ☐
evaluation:
Score of the activity (if Delivering environment: Collaborative
70
applicable): Learning
Starting date: January, 20 2020
th Closing date: February, 20th 2020
Competence to develop: Speaking
Topics to develop:

Simple past tense, modal verbs of advice: should, ought to, had to,
comparatives, go +ing
Recommendations, describing the weather, giving advice. Description of
price and length, past events, recreational activities.
Steps, phases of the learning strategy to develop:
The student is going to do two activities: 1) Design an infographic
answering questions about personal presentation given in this guide; 2)
Record two videos talking about his or her family using comparatives and
a video talking about the best holidays you have lived. These activities let
the students the opportunity to try to improve from the first to the last
activity his/her fluency, pronunciation and sentences structures.

Activities to develop:

PHASE 1: Infographic:

Go to https://www.postermywall.com and register yourself for creating a

new account. After, select a design to include this information.

Full name.
Skype
Cellphone
Program
Place of work.
Place of living.
Personal description
Activities in your free time.
 Note: This activity must be shared into the forum take into account
our schedule.

VIDEO 1 “Comparing my family”

 For this first video, you are going to choose two different pictures from your
family memories, and you are going to record yourself introducing and
comparing minimum 4 different members. (The video must be record
minimum in 2 minutes).

Ex: Hi everybody, Now, I am going to talk about my family. This is my

mother, she is Myriam Poveda, she is 47 years old and she is very beautiful.
As you can see in this picture, she is taller than my sister Katherine. She is
fatter than my nephew Santiago but, she is shorter than my father and
slimmer than my brother Danny.
 Note: This activity must be shared into the forum during three to five
first weeks.

VIDEO 2 “MY BEST HOLIDAYS IN…”

For the second video, you are going to choose the best holidays you have
lived in all your whole life. You are going to select some pictures from that
experience, and you are going to record a video explaining why these holidays
are the best you have lived. (The video must be record minimum in 3
minutes).

Ex: Hi guys! How are you doing? Well, in this video, I want to talk to you
about my best holidays in San Andrés. The traveling was the last year and I
was exciting because I had heard a lot of people talking about the beautiful
place that San Andrés is.

I travelled from El Dorado International Airport and the flight was for around
two hours…

Vocabulary and explanation to have in mind:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9KIiaLupHuA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2fQb7_KUs3A
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wLuNOWXw96c
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2p-0u2IbXME

Linking words that you can use in your video:

https://web2.uvcs.uvic.ca/elc/sample/ite/gs/gs_38.html

Practice your pronunciation with:

www.neospeech.com

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

 During the following week, your tutor is going to give you recommendations
and suggestions to improve grammar, vocabulary and advices for getting a
better English level.
To have in mind:

You have to upload the video in the corresponding date given in this guide. You
can’t upload the two videos in the last week of the activity.

I Collaborative Learning
Individual
Two Video recordings in the forum having in mind the following
schedule:

Weeks 1: January 20th – Share the poster’s infographic

January26th and publish two videos.
Week 2 : January 27th – Retro alimentation and
February 3rd suggestions from the tutor
Share the video 1 and 2
Weeks 3: February 4th –
taking into account tutor’s
February 10th
suggestion.
Week 4: February 11th – Last Retro alimentation and
Products to
February 17th suggestions from the tutor.
deliver by
Update your poster’s
student
Weeks 5: Final work infographic and two videos in
February 18th – February 20th monitoring and evaluation
environment.
NOTA: Los videos que se
encuentren en el foro
desde el día 19 de octubre,
no tendrán
retroalimentación por
parte del tutor. Sin
embargo, se tendrán en
cuenta para la
retroalimentaciòn.

General guidelines for the collaborative work

Planning of The idea is that you present a infographic and 2 videos in the
activities for forum having in mind the schedule given.
the
development of
collaborative
work
Roles to
perform by the
No roles
student in the
collaborative
group
Roles and
responsibility
for the delivery No roles
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 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”.
Plagiarism
policy 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
The student
presents a
correct The student presents
The student does
infographic about a regular infographic
Infographic not present any 15
personal with not all personal
kind of infographic
her/himself information
considering the
questions given
The student records There is no
The student the video 1 but it does evidence of video
records the video not fully correspond to recording and
1 describing the parts allocated in forum participation.
his/her life, the guide.
Video 1 15
his/her favorites The video is not fully The student upload
activities. understandable or has the video out of the
some inaudible parts. schedule given.
(up to 20
(up to 12 points) (up to 0 points)
points)
The student
The student records
records the video There is no
the video 2 but it does
2 choosing one evidence of video
not fully correspond to
Video 2 of the topics recording and 25
the parts allocated in
given and covers forum participation.
the guide.
all aspects
allocated in the
 guide. The video The video is not fully The student upload
is clear and understandable or has the video out of the
understandable. some inaudible parts. schedule given.
(up to 25
(up to 15 points) (up to 0 points)
points)
The student
The students does
improves his/her
The student improves not improve his/her
oral skills having
his/her oral skills but oral skills according
in mind the
Tutor’s anyway needs more to the tutor’s
suggestions 15
suggestions practice. suggestions in the
given by the
video 1.
tutor.
(up to 25
(up to 15 points) (up to 0 points)
points)
Final score 70