Universidad Nacional Abierta y a Distancia

Academic and Research Vice-rector

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

Numbe
Type of the Individua Collaborati
☒ ☐ r of 4
activity: l ve
weeks
Moment of Intermedia
Initial ☐ ☒ Final ☐
evaluation: te, unit 1,2
Delivery Environment: Monitoring
Evaluative score: 90 pts
and Evaluation
Starting date: 06th
Closing date: 15th October, 2019
September, 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 consolidate all phases into one document.
 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 September 06th to 17th

 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 September 18th to October 03dr

 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 October 04th to 12th

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

postcard where you collect the task in a paragraph:
Example: http://bit.ly/2ZOxx3Y

Phase 4: Document submission in the Monitoring and

Evaluation environment.
To do list October 13th to 15th

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
Collaborative environment
for the
Monitoring and evaluation environment
development

Products to The final product must be sent individually in the

deliver by Evaluation and Monitoring Environment in a PDF
student document.

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 Each student must give feedback to one of his/her
perform by partners. Each student is responsible for his/her
the student process.
in the
collaborative
group
Roles and
responsibiliti Each student must give feedback to one of his/her
es for the partners.
delivery of Each student is responsible for his/her process.
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
forms grammatical shows only
the World
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)
Phase 2: - Can answer - Can answer - The student 30
Answer the the questions the questions does the activity
questions and respond to but still during the last
and simple systematically week of the task
complete statements. basic -The student
the chart. -Shows a good mistakes. does not answer
degree of - Shows the questions.
 sufficient - The student
control of control of does not describe
simple simple all the
grammatical grammatical information
forms forms required.
according to according to
online online - Shows only
contents. limited control of
contents.
a few
- Uses a range - Uses grammatical
of appropriate appropriate forms.
vocabulary vocabulary to
when talking talk about - Uses a
about everyday vocabulary of
everyday isolated words
situations.
situations. and phrases.
- Completes
-Completes all most of the -Completes some
chart chart of the chart
according to according to according to the
information information information
required. required.
required.

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

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