Universidad Nacional Abierta y a Distancia

Academic and Research Vice-rector

Activities guide and evaluation rubric

1. General description of the course

Faculty or Academic Vicerrectoría de Relaciones Internacionales
Unit
Academic Level Professional, specialization, master
Academic Field Common basic interdisciplinary training
Course name English B1+
Course code 900004
Course type Methodological Can be re- Yes No ☒
opened
Number of credits 3

2. Description of the activity

Physical Remote
☐ ☐ Simulator ☐
laboratory laboratory
Type of
Specialized Professional
practice Field works ☐ ☐ ☐
software experiences
Other ☒ Which: Skype
Type of activity: Individual ☒ Collaborative ☐ Number of weeks 9
Moment of
Initial ☐ Intermediate ☒ Final ☐
evaluation:
Score of the activity (if Delivering environment: Collaborative
70
applicable): Learning
th
Starting date: March 20 , 2018 Closing date: May 11th, 2018
Competence to develop: Speaking
Topics to develop:
Present simple
Present progressive
Future Tense
Steps, phases of the learning strategy to develop:
Step 1: Present a video in the forum
Step 2: present an interview with your tutor.

Activities to develop:
 PHASE 1: VIDEO RECORDING “MY HOUSE”

1. You have to make a video, in which you should introduce yourself with all the
information such as:
Full name.
Age.
Profession.
Program
Place of work.

You have to record a video describing your house and each part of it.

Ex: This is my house, My house has 5 rooms. This is my living room, there is
a sofa, a coffee table, a lamp, two chairs.

These are some examples of videos:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RTZfnO743Ig
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jGeasFdAlGs

2. Share the recording or the link of the video in the forum.

3. Comment one video from other person in the forum

PHASE 2: SKYPE INTERVIEW

1. Your tutor will send you a link containing a time table for you to register in the
established days and hours.
2. Register on the schedule your ID number, full name, group number, email and
Skype username.
3. Login to the virtual tool at least 10 minutes before the interview.
4. Remember to have from 10 to 15 minutes and guarantee the headset,
microphone and camera work fine to carry out the interview.

The interview has two major parts:

 Self-introduction
Make sure you are prepared to answer one of the following questions:

WHAT IS YOUR FULL NAME?

HOW OLD ARE YOU?
WHERE DO YOU LIVE?
WHO DO YOU LIVE WITH?
DO YOU HAVE CHILDREN?
HOW MANY CHILDREN DO YOU HAVE?
ARE YOU MARRIED or SINGLE?
WHAT DO YOU DO FOR A LIVING?
WHAT ARE YOU STUDYING?
WHAT DO YOU DO IN YOUR FREE TIME?
DO YOU LIKE SPORTS?
WHAT IS YOUR FAVORITE FOOD?
WHAT IS YOUR FAVORITE MUSIC?
DO YOU HAVE PETS?

 A conversation about one of the following topics:

 Talk about your future plans. (1 year – 3 years – 5 years)
 Show a picture of your family and describe them (place in the photo, what
are they wearing, names, age, profession/studies)
 Describe the following picture using the present progressive (at least 10
sentences)
Environment
for the Collaborative Learning
development
Products to Individual
deliver by Video recording in the forum
student Present an interview through skype

General guidelines for the collaborative work

Planning of
activities for
the The idea is that your present a video in the forum in that way
development of you can practice in advance for the interview.
collaborative
work
Roles to
perform by the
No roles
student in the
collaborative
group
Roles and No roles
responsibility
for the delivery
of products by
students
Use of
N/A
references
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 are:

Plagiarism a) In case of academic fraud proved in the academic work or
policy 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 type: Individual ☒ Collaborative ☐
Moment of
Initial ☐ Intermediate ☒ Final ☐
evaluation
Items to Levels of performance of individual activity
Score
evaluate Lowest score Medium score Highest score
The student
The student records records the video
the video but it does describing his/her
not fully correspond house and covers
to the parts allocated all aspects
There is no
Video in the guide. He/she allocated in the
evidence of video
recording may(not) have guide. The video is
recording and
and forum participated in the clear and 40
forum
participatio forum. The video is understandable.
participation
n not fully Also, he/she
understandable or participates in the
has some inaudible forum giving
parts feedback to one of
the forum mates
(up to 0 points) (up to18 points) (up to 40 points)
Skype The student has a The student can The student can fully 15
Interview: great deal of communicate in a understand and
Interaction problems simple fashion, using communicate all
communicating his/her ideas in
repetitive structures
his/her ideas in English about
English. Also, and fair vocabulary. himself. He/she can
he/she does not He/she understands interact with
understand simple some commands and minimum or /no
commands and questions and error in an English
questions. He/she eventually needs some Speaking
needs first repetition. There are environments. The
language to some mistakes in the pronunciation is
communicate or fluent, with good
pronunciation, but it
confirm the intonation and
information during doesn’t affect the appropriate intervals
the interview. The understanding of the between sentences.
student makes message.
many
pronunciation
 mistakes and the
message is not
clear.
(up to 0 points) (up to 7 points) (up to 15 points)
The student does There is a limited
not construct number of sentences The student can
complete The student construct sentences
sentences or sometimes constructs using a wide range
uses only a complete sentence of grammatical
isolated words. but the structure is structures. He/she
Skype He/she does not too repetitive and the is able con link
Interview: use structures range of vocabulary is them together
Structure studied in the limited. He using connectors. 10
and course. The sometimes combines The student uses a
vocabulary  student uses a Spanish and English vocabulary
vocabulary in an to construct suggested in the
incorrect way, sentences. The used units. The message
beside there is vocabulary is scarce is clear and
no cohesion in and not always understandable.
the speech. correct.
(up to 0 points) (up to 5 points) (up to 10 points)
The student presents The students follow
Skype the interview but the plan of the
Interview: The student he/she changes interview. He/she
Preparation, didn’t present schedules, shows up programs the
5
Responsibili the interview. late, in a different interview one time
ty and schedule or alters the and shows on time
punctuality  order of the interview and ready
(up to 0 points) (up to 2 points) (up to 5 points)
Final score 70