Universidad Nacional Abierta y a Distancia

Vicerrectoría Académica y de Investigación

Course: Course: English IV
Code: 518009

Activity Guide and Evaluation Rubric – Task 4 - My past and my future

1. Activity Description

Type of activity: Collaborative

Evaluation moment: Intermediate Unit 2
Highest score of the activity: 100 points
The activity starts on: Saturday, October The activity ends on: Sunday, November
10, 2020 1, 2020
With this activity, you are expected to achieve the following learning
outcomes:

At the end of this activity the students will be able to produce simple connected text
on topics which are familiar or of personal interest and in standard language with
issues that are known to them by narrating their life experiences.

The activity consists of:

Individually:

1. Each student must create an animated story of his/her life with the “draw my
life” style.the video must be minimum 4 minutes long.
2. Create a storyboard with your story in a PDF file.
3. Create the video with a “draw my life” style
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6KVldLs8vFM
4. Tutorials: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ZJD3o0j3LA
https://es.wikihow.com/hacer-un-video-%22Draw-my-life%22
5. Post your video in the forum.

6. Speaking sessions: Continue with your active participation in the speaking

sessions by skype.

Collaborative:

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 7. Pick one of the stories your partners created. Complement the story with future
events and an end.
8. Group work: create a script for a radio soap opera, include the four stories,
relate them and the characters. Upload the storyboard of a chapter of the soap
opera in the forum.
This is the format:

Name of the soap opera:

Theme:
Context/locations:
Characters:
Audience: Children/ adolescents or adults
Dialogues:

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9. Record with the group the radio soap opera. Each student must have at least
one character.
For the development of the activity consider that:

In the Initial Information Environment, you must: check the agenda, interact in the
web conferences, and participate actively in the forum.

In the Learning Environment, you must: read the contents of the unit 2.

In the Evaluation Environment, you must: Upload your final work Task 4 My past and
my future.

Evidences of individual work:

The individual evidence to be submitted is:

Post in the forum the following products:

• The storyboard of your life story

• The link of the video “draw my life”

Evidences of collaborative work:

The collaborative evidence to be submitted is:

Just one member of the group must upload a PDF document in the evaluative
environment with the following content:

1. Cover page
2. The storyboard of the life story of each student
3. The links of the video “draw my life” of each student
4. The script of the soap opera made by the group
5. The recording of the soap opera made by the group
6. References

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2. General Guidelines for the Development of Evidences to Submit

For Collaborative evidences, consider the following:

• All members of the group must participate with their contributions in the
development of the activity.

• In each group a single member will be chosen to submit the requested product in
the environment indicated by the teacher.

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

• Only the members of the group that participated with contributions during the
time assigned for the activity should be included as authors of the submitted
product.

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: Collaborative

Evaluation moment: Intermediate Unit 2
The highest score in this activity is 100 points
First evaluation
criterion:
High level: The student made the story board of his/her life
with accuracy in grammar and spelling, cohesion, and
Story board of
coherence, including past tenses.
his/her life.
If your work is at this level, you can get between 18 points
and 20 points
Task achievement,
task response,
Average level: The student made the story board with some
coherence and
mistakes in grammar and spelling and shallow descriptions.
cohesion, lexical
If your work is at this level, you can get between 8 points
resource, grammar
and 10 points
range and accuracy
Low level: The student did not do the story board
This criterion
If your work is at this level, you can get between 1 point
represents 20
and 3 points
points of the total
of 100 points of
the activity.
Second evaluation High level: The student did a creative “Draw my life” video.
criterion: Speaking skill, fluency, lexical resource, grammatical accuracy,
and pronunciation are appropriate according to the level.
“Draw my life” If your work is at this level, you can get between 25 points
video. and 30 points

Creativity of the Average level: The student did “Draw my life” video.
elements and Nevertheless, speaking skill, fluency, lexical resource,
images included. grammatical accuracy, and pronunciation are not appropriate
according to the level.
Speaking skill If your work is at this level, you can get between 13 points
fluency, lexical and 15 points
resource,
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grammatical Low level: The student did not do the “Draw my life” video.
accuracy, and If your work is at this level, you can get between 1 point
pronunciation and 3 points

This criterion
represents 30
points of the total
of 100 points of
the activity.
Third evaluation
High level: The group did the script of the soap opera with the
criterion:
essential information of their individual stories, and the
suggested elements. The structure of the product is accurate.
Radio soap opera
If your work is at this level, you can get between 8 points
script.
and 10 points
Task achievement,
Average level: The group did the script of the soap opera with
task response,
some missing information of their individual stories, and some
coherence and
of the suggested elements. The structure of the product is not
cohesion, lexical
accurate.
resource, grammar
If your work is at this level, you can get between 5 points
range and accuracy,
and 7 points
creative elements.
Low level: The group did not do the script of the radio soup
This criterion
opera.
represents 10
If your work is at this level, you can get between 1 point
points of the total
and 3 points
of 100 points of
the activity.
Fourth evaluation
High level: The group did the audio of the radio soap opera
criterion:
with fluency, lexical resource, grammatical accuracy, and
pronunciation appropriate according to the level.
Radio soap opera
audio.
If your work is at this level, you can get between 8 points
and 10 points
Speaking skill
fluency, lexical
Average level: The group did the audio of the radio soap
resource,
opera with fluency, lexical resource, grammatical accuracy, and
grammatical
pronunciation not so appropriate according to the level.
accuracy, and
pronunciation

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 If your work is at this level, you can get between 5 points
This criterion and 7 points
represents 10
points of the total Low level: The group did not do the audio for the radio soup
of 100 points of opera.
the activity. If your work is at this level, you can get between 1 point
and 3 points

Fifth evaluation High level: The student participated actively in the speaking
criterion: sessions.
If your work is at this level, you can get between 25 points
Speaking sessions and 30 points

This criterion Average level: The student participated regularly in the

represents 30 speaking sessions.
points of the total If your work is at this level, you can get between 12 points
of 100 points of and 15 points
the activity.
Low level: The student did not participate in the speaking
sessions.
If your work is at this level, you can get between 1 point
and 3 points