Universidad Nacional Abierta y a Distancia

Vice President for Academic Issues and Research

Curse: English 2
Code: 90021
Activity guidelines and evaluation rubric – Task 4: Speaking
task forum and practice session.

1. Activity description
Type of the activity: Group - Collaborative
Evaluation moment : Intermediate at Unit 2
Activity higher score: 90 grades
Activity starting date: Activity deadline: lunes, 16 de
viernes, 23 de octubre de 2020 noviembre de 2020
In this activity, it is expected to achieve the following learning
results:
The student will be able to describe orally experiences and facts or
dreams, linking phrases with fluency, self-confidence, vocabulary, and
pronunciation in an interview developed with the tutor by skype.

The activity lies in:

Check out and study the online content of the module 5 and Module 6
which are located in the E-book of Learning Environment.
Stage 1:

Develop
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the activities of module 5:

Topic 3. Reviewing past participle form of irregular verbs
Topic 5. Comparing past simple and present perfect
Topic 6. Read the following information about these famous
people
Topic 7. Connecting the past and present using for and since

All the practices are to study the use of Present perfect.

and share the 4 screenshots of the activity of module 5 in the

Discussion Forum - Unit 2 - Task 4 - Speaking task forum and practice
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Send
session
Stage 2. Record a video.
Think and choose an unusual situation you have had in your life, it
can be good or bad, and talk about your experience using sentences in
the present perfect. (The situation can be to ride a horse, jump out
of a plane with a parachute, go to a foreign country, eat octopus or rat,
surf high waves, etc).

This situation has to be showed through a video, with the recommended

structure. Take into account that verbs must be in past participle.
You can record the video with the tool that you decide (cellphone,
camera, and computer) and to upload it to You tube, Vimeo, loom,
screencast or any tool that allows you to do it, with the purpose to
obtain a link.
You must share the link of your video in the forum.

Practice your pronunciation with the following link:

https://www.naturalreaders.com/online/

Stage 3: Post your video link in the forum.

Each student, individually must publish his/her link video in the forum.
You don´t have to upload files to the forum, you only send the link,
with a short explanation about what about is his/her experience. So
your teacher and partners can watch it and send to you the feedback.

Is necessary to use images as an illustration of what you explain.

To have in mind: If you upload your videos on time at least a week

before the activity closes, you will have the chance of the feedback from
your tutor and you can improve your video uploading it again to have a
better score.

Stage 4: feedback
Each student must send his/her feedback to his/her partner’s video in
the collaborative forum. It must help to improve the contributions and
help to correct the mistakes. Each student must send at least one
feedback.

Note: In case a student has sent his/her contribution on time but any
other one has sent his/her participation. This student must send a
message inviting the group member to participate and signing the due
dates of the activity, besides can send a motivational message as a
way to encourage the group member’s participation.

Stage 5: send your final task

The student must upload a word document with the two screenshots of
the activity of module 5 topic 1 and 2. Besides he/she must add the
link of the video. This word document must contain cover, name, link
of the video.

Stage 6: Interview
Each tutor will send a drive file to the students by internal mail of the
course, in which each student has to register previously to present an
interview with his/her tutor by skype. For this interview the student
has to register previously, choose a date and an hour in which he/she
will develop the interview.

Each student has to have skype count and write it in the drive file sent
by the tutor.

In the interview each student has talk about the experience he/she has
recorded and has sent by the forum, and he/she must answer
questions about the experience that the teacher will do to the student.

Take into account the following questions:

Has the experience been good or bad? why? Explain.

Where has the experience developed?
With what people have you been in the experience?
What has impacted you from the experience?
Would you like to repeat it?

Some possible questions to answer in the interview are:

1. How many countries or cities have you been to so far? Which ones?
2. Tell me about the most unusual food you have eaten in your life.
3. What’s the best movie you have seen so far?
4. What’s the worst movie you have seen to?
5. Have you met a famous person?
6. What’s the best concert you have been to?
7. Have you ever broken a part of your body?
8. What’s the most dangerous sport or activity you have done?

Note: Is necessary that the student publish his/her video and all the
practices before to the interview. It is the way the student prepares for
the interview. In the interview, the student has to use the present
perfect to answers the questions.

The student is responsible to register for the interview on time.

With a week to close the activity, the teacher will not answer for the
interview space. For that reason, register and keep a space previously.

To develop this activity, consider:

At initial information environment, you must check the agenda out
to verify the opening and closing of the task.
At evaluation environment, you must upload a word document with
the screenshots of the activities developed in module 5 and the link of
the video required in the guide.
At learning environment, you must check out and study the online
content.
Enter to the forum and participate with your screenshots and your
video in the development of the collaborative task.

Individual work evidences:

The individual evidences to submit are:
-Participation in the forum with the instructions given in the guide.
Practices of Module 5.

-Link of video in Present perfect.

-Participation in the interview with his/her tutor by skype.
-Final task sent by Evaluation environment in word document with
the screenshots of the activities developed in module 5, and the link of
the video required in the guide.
Group work evidences
The groupal work evidences to submit are:
The feedback sent to the partners according to his/her video in the
forum.
2. General guidelines for the development of the evidence to
submit

For evidence developed Individual, consider the following

guidelines

• Every member of the group must participate with academic’s

contributions in the activity development.

• Before delivering the requested product, all the requirements

indicated in this activity guide must be checked.

Take into account that all individual or group written work must fulfil
with the orthographic rules and presentation conditions that have been
defined.
Concerning the use of references, consider that the requested work in
this activity must fulfil with the standards APA
In any case, the standards of reference must be complied. Academic
plagiarism must be avoided. Students can support the written
products by using the Turnitin tool found on the virtual campus.

Consider that In the agreement 029 of December 13, 2013, article 99,
it is considered as offenses that undermine the academic order,
among others, the following: literal e) “Plagiarism, that is, submitting
as of its own authorship the all or part of a work, document or
invention made by another person.

It also implies the use of quotes or false references, or proposing

quotes where there is no match between it and the reference ”and
literal f) “Reproducing or copying for profit, educational materials or
results of research products, which have intellectual rights reserved for
the University.

The academic sanctions the student will face are the following:

a) In cases of academic fraud demonstrated in the respective

academic work or evaluation, the grade that will be imposed will be
zero points without prejudice to the corresponding disciplinary
sanction.

b) In cases related to plagiarism demonstrated in the academic work

whatever its nature, the qualification that will be imposed will be zero
points, without prejudice to the corresponding disciplinary sanction.
 b) Evaluation rubric Format

Type of the activity: Group - Collaborative

Evaluation moment: Intermediate at Unit 2
Activity higher score: 90 grades
High level: The student records the video talking about his/her
unusual experience using the Present perfect tense. The
video is clear, with good sound and understandable with
minimal or no pronunciation errors. He/she develops the
activities of module 5 and send the screenshots required in the
guide, besides he/she talks with the tutor considering the
information given in the guide in the interview by skype.
If your work is at this level, you will get from 25 points to
30 points
First evaluation
Medium level: The student records the video talking about
standard
his/her unusual experience but in it doesn´t use the Present
(Criterion):
perfect tense. The video is not so clear, with some problems
Content Assessment
sound and pronunciation errors. He/she develops the activities
of module 5 but send only a part of the screenshots required in
the guide, besides he/she talks with the tutor considering the
This standard information given in the guide in the interview by skype.
represents 30
If your work is at this level, you will get from 24 points to
score of the
13 points
activity
Low level: The student doesn´t record the video talking about
his/her unusual experience and doesn´t use the Present perfect
tense. The video is not sent, or presents many problems sound
and pronunciation errors. He/she doesn´t develop the activities
of module 5 and didn´t send the screenshots required in the
guide, besides he/she doesn´t present the interview by skype.
If your work is at this level, you will get from 12 points to
0 points

Second evaluation High level: The student participates in the collaborative forum,
standard sending the screenshots about the activities of module 5,
(Criterion): applying the contents of the unit, besides the student send the
Participation & feedback to his/her partners. The student participates in the
interaction interview with good preparation.
If your work is at this level, you will get from 25 points to
30 points

This standard Medium level: The student participates in the collaborative

represents 30 forum, but doesn´t send the screenshots about the activities of
score of the module 5, besides the students send the feedback to his/her
activity partners, but it doesn´t contribute to improve the partner’s
contribution. The student participates in the interview with
regular preparation.

If your work is at this level, you will get from 24 points to

13 points

Low level: The student doesn´t participate in the collaborative

forum, sending the screenshots about the activities of module
5, doesn´t apply the contents of the unit, besides the student
didn´t send the feedback to his/her partners. The student
doesn´t participate in the interview with good preparation. If
your work is at this level, you will get from 12 points to 0
points

High level: The student sends the screenshot to the forum,

according to the activities of module 5; records the video talking
about an unusual experience, and send the link of it by
Third evaluation
collaborative forum, besides he/she presents the interview by
standard
skype with the tutor and send the final word document by
(Criterion):
evaluation environment.
Process Assessment
If your work is at this level, you will get from 15 points to
20 points

Medium level: The student sends parts of the screenshot to

This standard
the forum, according to the activities of module 5; records the
represents 20
video but in some parts it doesn´t correspond to the instruction
score of the
given in the guide, and he/she doesn´t send the link of it by
activity
collaborative forum, besides he/she presents the interview by
skype with the tutor but the final word document sent by
evaluation environment is not complete.
 If your work is at this level, you will get from 14 points to
8 points

Low level
The student doesn´t send any of the screenshots to the forum,
according to the activities of module 5; he/she doesn´t record
the video or it doesn´t correspond to the instruction given in the
guide, and he/she doesn´t send the link of it by the
collaborative forum. Besides he/she doesn´t present the
interview by skype with the tutor likewise the final word
document by the evaluation environment is not complete.

If your work is at this level, you will get from 7 points to

0 points

High level: The final document is delivered in the Link

established for that purpose.
If your work is at this level, you will get from 8 points to
Fourth evaluation
10 points
standard
(Criterion): Medium level: The final document is delivered in the Link
Formal Assessment established for that purpose, but it is incomplete or presents
Final word delivery. problems to be downloaded.
If your work is at this level, you will get from 7 points to
4 points
This standard
Low level The final document is not delivered in the Link
represents 10
established for that purpose, or presents problems to be
score of the
downloaded.
activity
If your work is at this level, you will get from 3 points to
0 points