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Activities guide and evaluation rubric - Cycle-task - task 1

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 Metodológic Make-up exam Yes ☐ No ☒
o
Number of 3
Credits

2. Description of the activity

Type of the Individua Number of

☐ Collaborative ☒ 4
activity: l weeks
Unit
Moment of
Initial ☐ Intermediate: ☒ Final ☐
evaluation:
1
Delivery Environment of the
Evaluative score of the
activity: Evaluation and Monitoring
activity: 115 points
Environment
Starting date of the Deadline of the activity:
activity:
Friday, April 17th, 2020 Friday, May 15th, 2020
Competences to develop:
Can recognise familiar words and very basic phrases concerning
myself, my family and immediate concrete surroundings when people
speak slowly and clearly.
Can interact in a simple way asking the other person to repeat or
rephrase things at a lower rate of speech and help formulate what is
being said. Can ask and answer simple questions in areas of
immediate need or on very familiar topics.
Can write short and simple texts and fill in forms with personal details.
Can use a variety of web tools in order to improve his learning
 strategies and enhance autonomy.
Topics to develop:
Unit 1: Introduce yourself and your family, provide other’s personal
information, and talk about likes and activities.
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:

1. Contents Units 1 and 2

Go to the e-book, check the contents for units 1 and 2 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.

1.2. Talk about your family.

As an application exercise, write a text where you introduce your
family. Choose a photography and present your relatives, give their
personal information and tell what they do in life. Share the document
in the forum to receive feedback.
After this, record a video where you show the family photo. First,
introduce yourself, then, give the information you wrote in the text
about the family picture. Upload your video to the net and share the
link in the forum.

2. Contents Units 3 and 4

Go to the e-book, check the contents for units 3and 4 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. Ask about your mates’ likes.

As an application exercise, interview your mates about their likes and
dislikes. For this, write 10 questions (yes/no questions and information
questions) and ask them to 2 of your mates. Share the questions in
the forum. Likewise, answer the questions of 2 of your mates.

B. Knowledge test: 20 points

After studying and practicing the topics from the e-book, take the
Knowledge test 1 which is available in the Evaluation and Monitoring
Environment.
The activity will be developed in the Collaborative
Learning Environment.
Go to the forum Cycle-task, Task 1 and post your
Environment
works there. Take into account your tutor’s
for the
observations to improve your work.
development
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:
-written text about your family
-link with the video talking about your family
Products to -the 10 questions you asked with the answers of 2 of
deliver by your mates
student -the 10 questions you answered of 2 of your mates
Collaborative:
The collaborative work corresponds to the interaction
in the forum with your mates. Answer to the
questions they ask and include the answers in the
final work.

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
Planning of participate, this can affect the personal work of others
activities and have a negative impact on the process and
 products to be delivered.
Once the collaborative task is established, first a role
must be chosen (read below) and assume the
for the responsibility of fulfilling its own functions. Through
developme these roles, the development of the task is planned,
nt of the different contributions are made, the parties and
collaborativ contents of the activity are organized and the assigned
e work 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
Roles to all the information generated is relevant to the case
perform by and that efforts are not diverted.
the student • Tracker: He is in charge of maintaining the attention
in the of the team in solving the problem. It must make the
collaborativ team avoid the loss of time and the vagaries of ideas.
e group • Rapporteur: Is responsible for organizing the
information and documentation generated by the team
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:
responsibili • Compiler: consolidates the document that is
ty for the constituted as the final product of the debate, taking
delivery of into account that the contributions of all the
products by participants have been included and that only the
students 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
references cited using APA Style. http://normasapa.com/
Plagiarism In the agreement 029 of December 13, 2013, article
policy 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

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 Collaborative
☐ ☒
type: Activity Activity
Evaluatio
Unit
n Initial ☐ ☒ Final ☐
Intermediate 1:
moment:
Assessed Performance levels of the individual activity
Score
Aspects High score Media score Low score
The text The text does The text does
contains not contain not contain
detailed detailed detailed
information information information
(names, ages, about the about the
Talk about
occupations…) relatives. It is relatives. It is
your
about the 15
family: partially clear not clear and
relatives. It is point
written and contains contains
clear and does s
text with some important important
not contain
description language language
important
language mistakes. mistakes.
mistakes.
(up to 15 (up to 7 (up to 0
points) points) points)
Talk about In the video the Student Student does 15
your student presents partially not present a point
family: a picture of his describes the picture of his s
family family and picture. family and
video describes it. Pronunciation is describe it.
 not very Pronunciation
Pronunciation is intelligible. is not
intelligible. intelligible.
(up to 15 (up to 7 (up to 0
points) points) points)
The student The student
wrote some did not write
The student
questions about 10 questions
wrote 10
likes. They are about likes.
questions about
likes. They are partially well- They are not
Questions well-structured, structured, well- 20
to ask no language some language structured, point
about likes mistakes and mistakes and many language s
shared in the shared in the mistakes and
forum. forum. shared in the
forum.
(up to 20 (up to 10 (up to 1
points) points) points)
The student did The student
The student not enter the did not enter
entered the forum on time the forum on
Individual forum on time and partially time and did 20
participatio and participated participated not participate point
n in the frequently and frequently and frequently and s
forum meaningfully.
meaningfully. meaningfully.
(up to 20 (up to 10 (up to 0
points) points) points)
Performance levels of the collaborative
Assessed
activity Score
Aspect
High score Media score Low score
Answers to The student The student did 25
the mates’ The student partially not answer the point
questions answered the 10 answered the 10 questions of s
questions of 2 of 10 questions of 2 of his mates.
his mates. 2 of his mates.
(Up to 25 (Up to 10 (Up to 0
points) points) points)
95
Final score
points