Universidad Nacional Abierta y a Distancia

Vicerrectoría Académica y de Investigación

Course: English B1
Code: 900003

Activity Guide and Evaluation Rubric – Task 2 Writing production

1. Activity Description

Type of activity: Collaborative

Evaluation moment: Intermediate Unit 1
Highest score of the activity: 90 points
The activity starts on: Monday, The activity ends on: Saturday,
September 21, 2020 October 17, 2020
With this activity, you are expected to achieve the following learning
outcomes:

The student will be able to write a letter in English describing his/her occupation,
using the topics studied in Unit 1 (module 1 & 2) and Unit 2 (module 3 & 4) and
following the given instructions.

The activity consists of:

Step 1 – Individual activity

1. Go to Learning / E book /Online Content English B1

2. Study the content of modules 1, 2, 3 & 4 from the E-book and do the activities
proposed in it.

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 You should study Module 1
Module 2
Module 3
Module 4

3. Post in the forum the screenshots of the following activities:

➢ Exercise 5. Home remedies

➢ Exercise 6. Reading e-mail messages
➢ Exercise 11. Understanding phrasal verbs in
context.
➢ Exercise 9. Talking about actions that are not
necessary.
➢ Exercise 11 & 12. Understanding necessity
and obligation

➢ Exercise 3. Infinitive after certain verbs

➢ Exercise 7. Infinitives after adjectives
➢ Exercise 11. Understanding important
decisions.
➢ Exercise 12. Understanding a text about
study abroad.

➢ Exercise 9. identifying verbs followed by

gerund or infinitive with a change in
meaning.
➢ Exercise 11. Understanding qualities and
skills employers look for.
➢ Exercise 12. Understanding people’s
personality and skills.

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4. Read the following questions and answer them in the forum:

Questions:
WORK:
• What is your job?
• Where do you work? Describe your place of work.
• What responsibilities do you have at work?
• Describe your activities at work. Do you like your
job? Yes, No. Why?
• Describe your skills and weaknesses for this job.
• What was your first day at work like?
• Do you have or know about any superstition in
your business/work/office?

STUDY:
• What do you study?
• Where do you study?
• What is your favorite subject?
• What are your responsibilities at University?
• Describe your activities at University. Do you like
your career? Yes, No. Why?
• Describe your skills and weaknesses for this job.
• What was your first day at University like?
• Do you have or know about any superstition in
your school/University?

5. Check your classmates’ answers and make 2 comments about their work. Include
information that needs to be considered, point out mistakes.
A comment is not to write a compliment, not just saying “good work”, this won’t
be graded as a comment.

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 Step 2 – Collaborative activity

2.1. Go to any job search webpage and each student looks

for one job advertisement related to his/her field of
interest and publish them in the forum.

The job advertisement must include:

Position: Entry Level Sales
Salary: $ 23.0000
Responsibilities: - Expand business and establish new customers
while interacting with existing customers to increase
sales of our products and/or services.
- Call on and maintain relationships with established
and prospective commercial accounts.
- Keep customers informed about available services,
supplies, prices and new products.
- Provide information to customers on available
utility incentives and program details.
- Prepare and present proposals that recommend
energy conservation measures, provide customer
costs and incentives, and then sell the value
proposition to the customer.
- Maintain strong ongoing communications with
customers to assure customer satisfaction.
Qualifications/Skills - Excellent communication skills; both written and
needed: verbal; in person and on the phone.
- Working in a team environment to help motivate
others.
- A hungry desire to work in an Outside Sales
position.
- Having a professionally strong presence to work
with key decisions makers (C-level corporate
managers).

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 - Ready to invest time and hard work to be a part of
a leading energy efficiency company.
- BS/BA in Business administration or related field
preferred.
- A valid driver's license.
Company Paradigm Partners (MA)
information: Industry: Energy
Size: 1 to 50 employees
Sector: Oil, Gas, Energy & Utilities
Location: 2 Richdale Ave. Somerville, MA, US, 02145

You can use any job search application you want. Here you find some options:
www.glassdoor.com https://www.glassdoor.com/index.htm or job listor
https://www.joblistor.com/, Career builder https://www.careerbuilder.com/

2.2. The group chooses only one of the job advertisements published.
2.3. The group writes a cover letter or an email job application for this position. Each
student must complete one paragraph.

FIRST SECTION:

Contact information, employer contact information, salutation.

BODY OF COVER LETTER

• Which job you're applying for (include the job title in

your opening paragraph)
• How you learned about the job (and a referral if you
have one)
• Why you are qualified for the job (be specific)
• What you have to offer the employer, and why you want
to work at this specific company (match your skills to
the job description, and read up on the organization’s
mission, values and goals to mention in your letter)

FINAL SECTION

• Thank the employer for being considered for the job

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 • How you will follow up or how the recipient can get in touch
with you.

Complimentary Close
Respectfully yours,

Signature

www.cover-letter-now.com, The balanced careers

2.4. Organize the activity in a PDF document with all the evidences from individual
and collaborative steps and upload it through the Evaluation Environment.

For the development of the activity consider that:

In the Initial Information Environment, you must: check the agenda for the initial and
final dates.

In the Learning Environment, you must: upload your final document.

In the Evaluation Environment, you must: Enter to the E book/Online English

contents and study the topics for Unit 1 in Module 1 & 2 & Unit 2 in Module 3 & 4.

Evidences of individual work:

The individual evidence to be submitted is:

• The screenshots from the Ebook

• The answers to the questions proposed in the forum.
Evidences of collaborative work:
The collaborative evidence to be submitted is: a PDF document with all the evidences
from the individual and collaborative steps.

2. General Guidelines for the Development of Evidences to Submit

For Collaborative evidences, consider the following:

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• 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 1
The highest score in this activity is 90 points
First evaluation High level: The final document contains the cover letter
criterion: organized in paragraphs following the order given and with a
coherent structure.
Formal assessment If your work is at this level, you can get between 10
points and 15 points
Paragraphs in the
cover letter follow Average level: The cover letter doesn’t have the paragraphs
the order given and suggested and/or doesn’t follow the order given and the writing
the text is written doesn’t have a coherent structure.
following a coherent
structure. If your work is at this level, you can get between 5 points
and 10 points
This criterion
represents 15 Low level: The student did not participate in the activity/ The
points of the total student did not send the cover letter.
of 90 points of If your work is at this level, you can get between 0
the activity. points and 4 points
Second evaluation High level: The sentences and statements answer properly
criterion: and coherently the questions given. The number of answers
correspond to the number of questions proposed.
Formal assessment If your work is at this level, you can get between 10 points
and 15 points
Statements answer
the proposed Average level: The sentences do not answer the questions
questions using the given and/or do not have the appropriate structure. The
appropriate number of answers do not correspond to the number of
structure of the questions proposed.
language. If your work is at this level, you can get between 5 points
and 10 points
This criterion
represents 15 Low level: The student did not participate in the activity/ The
points of the total student did not send the answers to the questions.
of 90 points of If your work is at this level, you can get between 0
the activity. points and 4 points
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Third evaluation
High level: Participations are relevant, articulated and
criterion:
contribute to the construction of the cover letter. The
contributions are posted according to the schedule.
Participation
Assessment
If your work is at this level, you can get between 10 points
and 15 points
The student
provides clear and
Average level: There is minimum participation in the writing
useful input for the
forum and/or the comments made do not help in the
group to structure
construction of the cover letter.
the text.
If your work is at this level, you can get between 5 points
and 10 points
This criterion
represents 15
Low level: The student didn’t participate at all in the forum.
points of the total
If your work is at this level, you can get between 0points
of 90 points of
and 4 points
the activity.
Fourth evaluation
High level: The student sends all the answers in the forum
criterion:
and the comments made to the classmates are clear, articulated
and contribute to the improvement of them. The contributions
Participation
are posted according to the schedule.
Assessment
If your work is at this level, you can get between 10 points
and 15 points
The student
answers the given
Average level: There is minimum participation in the forum.
questions in the
The student didn’t answer the questions and/or the comments
forum and
made do not help the classmates to improve their work.
comments on
If your work is at this level, you can get between 5 points
his/her partner's
and 10 points
ideas.
Low level: The student didn’t send the answers to the
This criterion
questions in the forum and didn’t comment on the classmates’
represents 15
work.
points of the total
If your work is at this level, you can get between 0
of 90 points of
points and 4 points
the activity.
Fifth evaluation
High level: The sentences follow the grammatical rules and
criterion:
the structure of the language, with little or no error spelling
mistakes and the message is clearly understood.
Content assessment

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 If your work is at this level, you can get between 10 points
and 15 points
The student makes
no errors in spelling Average level: Some of the sentences do not have the
that distract the appropriate structure and do not follow the grammatical rules.
reader from the There are some error spelling mistakes but they do not distract
content. the reader from the content.
If your work is at this level, you can get between 5 points
This criterion and 10 points
represents 15
points of the total Low level: The student does not answer the questions. The
of 90 points of answers do not have the appropriate structure and do not
the activity. follow the grammatical rules. There are many error spelling
mistakes making the message difficult to understand.
If your work is at this level, you can get between 0
points and 4 points
Sixth evaluation High level:
standard The student uses the grammatical topics and follows the
Content Assessment adequate structure and vocabulary proposed in the units of the
course.
The student uses If your work is at this level, you will get from 10 points to 15
grammar structures points
and vocabulary
appropriate for the Medium level:
units. The student uses the appropriate grammatical topics but with
some mistakes in structure. The vocabulary is poor or do not
This criterion use the vocabulary proposed in the unit.
represents 15 If your work is at this level, you will get from 5 points to 10
points of the total points
of 90 points of
the activity. Low level
The student did not participate of the activity.
If your work is at this level, you will get 0 points.

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