Universidad Nacional Abierta y a Distancia

Vicerrectoría Académica y de Investigación

Course: English II
Code: 518007

Activity Guide and Evaluation Rubric – Task 1 Course Recognition

1. Activity Description

Type of activity: Individual

Evaluation moment: Initial
Highest score of the activity: 25 points
The activity starts on: Wednesday, The activity ends on: Tuesday,
August 26, 2020 September 8, 2020
With this activity, you are expected to achieve the following learning
outcomes:

Learning outcome 1: Apply basic and concrete vocabulary, that is a series of

phrases and sentences related to personal information, daily activities, and stories of
life events in written communication tasks.

Learning outcome 2: Use the highest frequency vocabulary, common expressions,

and phrases, to handle very short social exchanges in synchronous encounters or oral
presentations.

The activity consists of:

The task 1: Course recognition will be solved by creating a video answering 11

questions related to basic personal information and course’s contents.
Explore the contents, agenda and syllabus you will have to complete during the
semester in the course. Follow the next steps:

a. Answer the following questions in the available forum in the collaborative

environment. Every answer must be a complete sentence or complete set of
sentences. Don’t attach any file, write the texts directly in the forum.

1. What is your full name?

2. How do you spell your full name?
3. What is your email address?
4. Talk about your likes and dislikes. (4 complete sentences)

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 5. Describe the city you live currently. (4 complete sentences)
6. What do you like doing in your free time? (5 sentences)
7. Talk about your favorite holiday. (4 complete sentences)
8. Talk about your favorite food. (4 complete sentences)
9. Talk about what you did yesterday. (4 complete sentences)
10. Talk about what extra activities you usually do to improve your English skills
in your daily life (For example: "I read short stories in English"; "I sing my
favorite songs in English" or " I write my diary in English"...)
11. How many English-Speaking Sessions must you complete during the
semester?

b. Record a video in which you answer the previous questions. Try to do it

spontaneously, it means, avoid reading the answers (you need to appear in the
video, talking in front of the camera)

c. Upload your video on YouTube (if you don’t have an account, you must register first
or use your Gmail account) or any other site to post videos publically.

For the development of the activity consider that:

In the Learning Environment, you must:

Read the syllabus of the course
Participate in the forum by sharing the answers to the questions and posting the link
to your video.

In the Evaluation Environment, you must:

Submit the final individual product. It must be a word document in which you add a
screenshot of your answers posted in the forum and the link of the video.

Evidences of individual work:

The individual evidence to be submitted is:

A word document in which you add a screenshot of your answers posted in the forum
and the link of the video.

Evidences of collaborative work:

No collaborative evidence is required in this activity.

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2. General Guidelines for the Development of Evidences to Submit

For Individual evidences, consider the following:

 Remember you need to participate in the forum on time, take screenshots that
evidence your participation and paste them in the final document.

 The document must have a front page including information such as: title or
name of the activity, student’s name, student’s code, tutor’s name, university,
school, program, course and date. (Remember to check the APA style)

 Before submitting the requested product, student should check that it meets all
the requirements mentioned in this activity guide.

Please keep in mind that all individual or collaborative written products must comply
with the spelling rules and presentation conditions defined in this activity guide.
Regarding the use of references, consider that the product of this activity must
comply with APA style.
In any case, make sure you comply with the rules and avoid academic plagiarism.
You can review your written products using the Turnitin tool found in the virtual
campus.

Under the Academic Code of Conduct, the actions that infringe the academic order,
among others, are the following: paragraph e) Plagiarism is to present as your own
work all or part of a written report, task or document of invention carried out by
another person. It also implies the use of citations or lack of references, or it
includes citations where there is no match between these and the reference and
paragraph f) To reproduce, or copy for profit, educational resources or results of
research products, which have rights reserved for the University. (Acuerdo 029 - 13
de diciembre de 2013, artículo 99)

The academic penalties students will face are:

a) In case of academic fraud demonstrated in the academic work or evaluation, the
score obtained will be zero (0.0) without any disciplinary measures being derived.
b) In case of proven plagiarism in academic work of any nature, the score obtained
will be zero (0.0), without any disciplinary measures being derived.

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3. Evaluation Rubric Template

Type of activity: Individual

Evaluation moment: Initial
The highest score in this activity is 25 points
First evaluation High level: The audio of the video is clear and the student
criterion: appears in the video.
If your work is at this level, you can get 5 points
Form criteria-
Video quality Average level: The video doesn't have audio or barely audible
and/or the student doesn't appear in the video
This criterion If your work is at this level, you can get between 3 points
represents 5 and 4 points
points of the total
of 25 points of Low level: The video doesn’t have audio.
the activity. If your work is at this level, you can get between 0
points and 2 points
Second evaluation High level: Ideas are expressed with ease in complete and
criterion: proper sentence structure and tenses. Pronunciation is very
clear and easy to understand. There is a variety of vocabulary
Content criteria - and expressions.
Coherence, If your work is at this level, you can get between 9 points
pronunciation, and 10 points
vocabulary and
expressions. Average level: Ideas are expressed adequately but
inconsistencies are often displayed with sentence structure and
This criterion tenses. It is slightly unclear with pronunciation at times but
represents 10 generally is fair. Uses limited vocabulary and expressions or
points of the total makes some errors in word choice.
of 25 points of If your work is at this level, you can get between 5 points
the activity. and 8 points

Low level: Ideas are incomplete and grammatically incoherent.

Pronunciation mistakes don't allow the listener to understand the
message. There isn't a variety of vocabulary and expressions.
If your work is at this level, you can get between 0
points and 4 points
Third evaluation High level: The student interacts on time in the forum by
criterion: sharing the answers to all the questions proposed.
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Participation If your work is at this level, you can get 5 points
criteria -
Participation in the Average level: The student posts answers to some of the
forum questions proposed.
If your work is at this level, you can get between 3 points
This criterion and 4 points
represents 5
points of the total Low level: The student doesn't interact in the forum.
of 25 points of If your work is at this level, you can get between 0
the activity. points and 2 points
Fourth evaluation High level: The student answers orally and spontaneously
criterion: (without reading) all the questions proposed.
If your work is at this level, you can get 5 points
Procedural
criteria Average level: The student answers orally all the questions
Answer the proposed but spontaneously since he/she reads most of the
questions orally time.
(without reading). If your work is at this level, you can get between 3 points
and 4 points
This criterion
represents 5 Low level: The student doesn't answer orally the questions
points of the total proposed.
of 25 points of If your work is at this level, you can get between 0
the activity. points and 2 points