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Activities guide and evaluation rubric - Cycle-task - task 2

1. General description of the course

Faculty or Escuela de Ciencias de la Educación

Academic Unit
Academic Level Profesional
Academic Field Formación disciplinar
Course Name English I
Course Code 518002
Course Type Metodológico Make-up exam Yes ☐ No ☒
Number of Credits 3

2. Description of the activity

Type of Number of
Individual ☐ Collaborative ☒ 4
activity: weeks
Moment of Unit
Initial ☐ ☒ Final ☐
evaluation: Intermediate: 2
Evaluative score of the Delivery Environment of the activity:
activity: 100 points Evaluation and Monitoring Environment
Starting date of the Deadline of the activity:
activity:
Friday, January 3rd 2019 Friday, January 31st, 2019
Competence to develop:
Shows only limited control of a few simple grammatical structures and
sentence patterns in a memorized repertoire.
Can ask and answer questions about personal details. Can interact in a
simple way but communication is totally dependent on repetition,
rephrasing and repair.
Can link words or groups of words with very basic linear connectors line
“and” or “but”.
Topics to develop:
Unit 2: give locations and directions, describe places and activities, and
talk about shopping.
Steps, phases of the learning strategy to develop
Cycle-task: students establish the framework required for the
development of their work: knowledge, strategies, and activities.
Students perform the task individually or in groups, giving everyone the
chance to express themselves and make proposals facing the
development of it.
Activities to develop

A. E-book contents: Study the language, practice, and apply

your knowledge: 75 points

1. Contents Unit 5
Go to the e-book, check the contents for unit 5 and study the
communicational topics, grammar, vocabulary and pronunciation of the
different lessons. After that, develop all the exercises of the e-book in
order to practice.

1.1. Look at this video and complete the worksheet posted in the
NewsForum and the forum of the activity.
Sitcom: You’re late:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PneG3MS7W8U

Worksheet Task 2

1.2. Answer the following questions:

-When’s your birthday?
-What do you like to do to celebrate your birthday?
-Where do you generally go when you go out with friends?
-What days is your favorite TV program and what time? Why do you like
that program?
-What do you do in your free time?
-what are you going to do next vacation?

2. Contents Unit 6
Go to the e-book, check the contents for unit 6 and study the
communicational topics, grammar, vocabulary and pronunciation of the
different lessons. After that, develop all the exercises of the e-book in
order to practice.

2.1. Create a brochure. In there, you are going to describe 3 stores.

Include pictures, and mention different items you can buy in
those stores. Describe prices, characteristics, and say if you
recommend them or not and why.
 3. Contents Units 7 and 8
Go to the e-book, check the contents for units 7 and 8 and study the
communicational topics, grammar, vocabulary and pronunciation of the
different lessons. After that, develop all the exercises of the e-book in
order to practice.

3.1. Invite your classmates to visit your city. For this, write a
document where you provide a thorough description of the city
where you live, including touristic places, means of
transportation to get there, locations, and other important
information to let your classmates know the characteristics of
your city (include pictures).

B. Knowledge test: 20 points

After studying and practicing the topics from the e-book, take the
Knowledge test 2 which is available in the Evaluation and Monitoring
Environment.

The activity will be developed in the Collaborative

Learning Environment.
Environment Go to the forum Cycle-task, Task 2 and post your works
for the there. Take into account your tutor’s observations to
development improve your work.
Finally, when your work is done, organize it and upload
it to the Evaluation Environment.
Individual:
A word or pdf document containing the following
activities:
-worksheet from the video with the answers
-answers of the 6 questions
Products to
-brochure with the stores descriptions
deliver by
-description of your city.
student
Collaborative:
The collaborative work corresponds to the interaction in
the forum with your mates. You are going to check your
mates’ works and give feedback in order to improve.

3. General guidelines for the collaborative work

 Collaborative work is essential in the development of the
activities of the course since through it, learning is
organized, the development of tasks is planned,
communication is developed, strategies are established
and knowledge is finally constructed.
Keep in mind that your individual work is imperative
because if there is no interest on your part to participate,
Planning of
this can affect the personal work of others and have a
activities for
negative impact on the process and products to be
the
delivered.
development
Once the collaborative task is established, first a role
of
must be chosen (read below) and assume the
collaborative
responsibility of fulfilling its own functions. Through
work
these roles, the development of the task is planned, the
different contributions are made, the parties and
contents of the activity are organized and the assigned
task is delivered.
As you can see, if one of the roles is missing,
communication and procedures may be affected, since
there is no collaborative work.
The proposed roles are:
• Leader: He is in charge of coordinating and organizing
the team's efforts, as well as communication. Seeks to
develop a good work process.
• Producer: It is the person who critically questions the
work of the team, with the purpose of ensuring that all
the information generated is relevant to the case and
that efforts are not diverted.
Roles to
• Tracker: He is in charge of maintaining the attention
perform by
of the team in solving the problem. It must make the
the student
team avoid the loss of time and the vagaries of ideas.
in the
• Rapporteur: Is responsible for organizing the
collaborative
information and documentation generated by the team
group
and keeping it up to date when it is needed. He is also
responsible for delivering the final version of the written
report.
• Timekeeper: The person responsible for taking note of
the activities of each of the team members.
Roles and
The proposed roles are:
responsibility
for the • Compiler: consolidates the document that is
delivery of constituted as the final product of the debate, taking into
products by account that the contributions of all the participants have
students been included and that only the participants who
participated in the process are included. He must inform
the person in charge of the alerts to notify those who did
not participate, that they will not be included in the
product to be delivered.
• Reviser: ensures that the writing complies with the
rules for submission of work required by the teacher.
• Evaluator: ensures that the document contains the
criteria present in the rubric. He must inform the person
in charge of the alerts so that he informs the other
members of the team in case there is an adjustment to
be made on the subject.
• Deliveries: alerts about the delivery times of the
products and sends the document in the stipulated
times, using the resources destined for the shipment,
and indicates to the other colleagues that the delivery
has been made.
• Alerts: ensures that the members of the group are
notified of the novelties at work and informs the teacher
through the work forum and the course's messaging,
that the document has been sent.
Use of All references considered for this activity have to be cited
references using APA Style. http://normasapa.com/
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,
Plagiarism educational resources or results of research products,
policy 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=com_content&view=article&id=138:normas-
apa&catid=45:referencias-bibliograficas&Itemid=
 4. Evaluation rubric

Evaluation rubric
Activity
Individual Activity ☐ Collaborative Activity ☒
type:
Evaluation
Initial ☐ Unit Intermediate 2: ☒ Final ☐
moment:
Performance levels of the individual activity
Assessed
High score Media score Low score Score
Aspects
(up to 25 points) (up to 12 points) (up to 1 points)
The student The student did not
The student partially completed complete the
completed the
the worksheet. He worksheet. He did
worksheet from the
partially answered not answer the 6
video he watched.
He also answered the 6 questions. questions. Answers
Contents Answers are are not complete. 20
the 6 questions.
unit 5 partially complete Important points
Answers are
complete with no with some language mistakes.
important language important language
mistakes. mistakes.

(up to 20 points) (up to 10 points) (up to 0 points)

It partially includes It does not include
It includes vocabulary, vocabulary,
vocabulary,
pictures, and pictures, and
pictures, and
description of descriptions …The
Brochure description of
with the prices, qualities… prices, qualities… document is not
The document is creative, well- 20
description The document is
of different creative, well- partially creative, presented and has points
stores presented and with well-presented and important language
no important some important mistakes.
language mistakes. language mistakes.

(up to 20 points) (up to 10 points) (up to 0 points)

Text with The text contains The text partially The text does not
the information about contains contain much 20
description places, locations, information about information about points
of the city directions, places, locations, places, locations,
 transportation... directions, directions,
The text is well- transportation... transportation...
presented with no The text is well- The text is not
important language presented with well-presented
mistakes. some important important language
language mistakes. mistakes.

(up to 20 points) (up to 10 points) (up to 0 points)

The student did not The student did not
The student
enter the forum on enter the forum on
entered the forum
Individual on time and time and partially time and did not
participated participate 20
participation participated
frequently and frequently and points
in the forum frequently and
meaningfully. meaningfully. meaningfully.

(up to 20 points) (up to 10 points) (up to 0 points)

Assessed Performance levels of the collaborative activity
Score
Aspect High score Media score Low score
The student The student did not
The student partially participate in the
participated in the participated in the forum by checking
forum by checking forum by checking his mates’ works
Forum his mates’ works his mates’ works and giving 20
interaction and giving and giving important feedback points
important feedback important feedback to improve.
to improve.
to improve.

(Up to 20 points) (Up to 10 points) (Up to 0 points)

Final score 100 points