Universidad Nacional Abierta y a Distancia

Academica and Research Vice-Rector

Activity 3 : Writing Assignment – Guide & Rubric

1. General description of the course

School or Vicerrectoría de Relaciones Internacionales

Academic Unit
Level of Technical-Technological-Professional-Master
formation
Field of Common Basic Interdisciplinary formation
Formation
Course name English III
Course code 90121
Type of course Methodological Can it be Yes ☐ No ☒
retaken?
Number of 2
credits

2. Description of the activity

Type of Collaborativ Number

Individual ☒ ☐ 6
activity: e of weeks
Moment of Intermedia,
Starting ☐ ☒ Final ☐
evaluation: unidad:
Delivery environment:
Evaluative score: 95 points
Monitoring and evaluation
Starting date: October 17th, Closing date: November 21st,
2018 2018
Competence to develop:
Writing skill: The students write short texts coherently about
academic topics related to their discipline and use the semantics
appropriately.
Topics to develop:
Compound adjectives, Modal verbs, Past Progressive, Time and
enough clauses, Uses fo –ING forms, Future.
Phases, steps or stages of the learning strategy to develop
Act. 3 : Writing Assignment
Activities to develop
Part 1: After checking the Unit 1 Topic 2: Modal Verbs, write 1
sentence using each one of the following modal verbs regarding
your role as students at UNAD: can – could – may - must - should
- ought to – have to – need to- had better - would.

Example:
 I must check the online contents before presenting the quiz.

Part 2: According to the topic Past Progressive (Unit 1: Topic 3),

each student must write 5 things you were doing yesterday and 5
things you were not:

Example: I was reading the newspaper at home.

I was not walking my dog in the park.

Part 3: Write a text about the activities you will do next weekend.
Use at least two pictures related to your weekend. You should
write three paragraphs:

Example: I will go to the movies with my son on Sunday

afternoon.

 Paragraph 1: On Saturday
 Paragraph 2: On Sunday
 Paragraph 3: On Monday (Holiday)

Each paragraph must have minimum four (4) sentences and

maximum six (6) sentences. It must have a title, from 220 words
to 250 and it is necessary to use and highlight the following
topics:

 Modal verbs
 Future

Part 4 : Students must comment about the partners’contributions

and make corrections if necessary.

Remember: All the participations must be written directly in the

forum. Please do not attach any files because they won’t be taken
into account!
Environme
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developme Collaborative Learning – Monitoring and Evaluation
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Individual:
Part 1: Send 10 sentences using the modal verbs
of obligation and advice.

Part 2: Send 10 sentences using past progressive

taking into account what you were doing
yesterday.

Part 3: Write a text about the activities you will do

next weekend. Use at least two pictures related to
your weekend. You should write three paragraphs
and send it in the forum.

Products to
submit by
the
students

Collaborative:
Part 4: Send in the forum your comments about
the partners’ contributions.

Submit the final product taking into account this:

Consolidate activities and the texts (Step 1 to 4).
PDF file which will be sent at Monitoring and
Evaluation Environment.
File Name: Final_Writing_Group---
Example: Final_Writing_Group110