Universidad Nacional Abierta y a Distancia

Academic and Research Vice-rector
Activity guide and evaluation rubric - Task 2 - Writing production

1. General description of the course

Faculty or Vicerrectoría de Relaciones Internacionales

Academic Unit
Academic Level Undergraduate programs, Graduate programs
Academic Field Common basic interdisciplinary training
Course Name English A2
Course Code 900002
Course Type Methodological Can be yes ☐ No
reopened
Number of Credits 3

2. Description of the activity

Number
Type of the Collabora
Individual of 4
activity: tive
weeks
Intermed
Moment of
Initial iate, unit Final ☐
evaluation:
1,2
Delivery Environment: Monitoring and
Evaluative score: 90 pts
Evaluation
Starting date: 03rd December,
Closing date: 12th January, 2020
2019
Competence to develop:
At the end of this task you will be able to:
● Describe everyday aspects of his/her environment.
● Give short, basic descriptions of events and activities.
● Describe plans and arrangements habit and personal experiences.
● Understand the use of present simple and present progressive tense.

 
  

Topics to develop:
Describing routines, Present simple, There is /there are, Talking about actions in
progress, Greetings, Place descriptions.

Phases of the learning strategy to develop:

● You will develop this task in the Writing forum.

● You will collect the evidence of the task in a postcard through Piktochart or
Canva tools.
● It is important to post all the activities in the forum in order to get feedback
from your classmates and tutor.

Estimado estudiante:  
En esta guía usted encontrará las pautas necesarias para realizar su producto final, el cual
será: una postal en la que usted comunicará cuál de las siete maravillas del mundo es su
preferida, y así mismo, dentro de una situación hipotética describirá qué está haciendo allí.  

Es necesario que usted desarrolle los ejercicios de los contenidos en línea (Entorno de
conocimiento), dado que cada uno de ellos está relacionado con cada aspecto planteado en
esta guía de trabajo.  

Phase 1: Read the document about the New Seven Wonders of the World and
answer the questions.
Phase 2: Answer the questions and complete the chart.
Phase 3: Consolidate and design your postcard (Hypothetical situation).
Phase 4: Document submission in the Monitoring and Evaluation environment.

 
  

Activities to carry out:

Phase 1: Read the document about the New Seven Wonders of the World
and answer the questions.
To do list December 03rd to 16th

● Go to document The New Seven Wonders of the World and answer the
questions. You must upload the answers in the forum.

Read about the New Seven Wonders of the World and answer the questions
below:

http://bit.ly/2OKLCy9

● Which of the New Seven Wonders of the World do you think is the most
amazing? Why?
● Where is it? Say which city it is in.
● What words could you use to describe it?
Phase 2: Answer the questions and complete the chart.
To do list December 17th to 31th

● Imagine that you are going on a trip around the world and you can visit one
of the Seven Wonders. You must describe the following information.
Complete the chart using Present simple, there is /there are, Talking about
actions in progress, Greetings, Place descriptions.

You must complete the chart in the forum.

Name of Wonder:
Picture

Where is it?

Is it natural or man-made?

Hypothetical situation: Answer the following questions. You must write these answers using the

 
  

present tense.

Where are you? Country and city.

What are you doing there?
Where are you? Place description. Ex: In this photo I am in front of Taj Mahal… We are next to…
How does it make you feel?
What words could you use to describe it?
What do you like/dislike about it?
What are you wearing?

Phase 3: Consolidate and design your postcard

To do list January 01st to 10th

● According to the previous writing exercises, you will design a postcard to your
mother, father, friends, etc. where you collect the evidence of the task in a
paragraph.

Example: http://bit.ly/2ZOxx3Y  

Phase 4: Document submission in the Monitoring and Evaluation

environment.
To do list January 11th to 12th

The final document (Postcard) must be sent individually in the monitoring and
evaluation environment.
Template Task 2 - Writing production.docx
 
End of the task!

Phase 5: Following Directions (look at the Evaluation rubric)

Collaborative environment
Environment for the development Monitoring and evaluation
environment

 
  

T The final product must be sent

individually in the Evaluation
Products to deliver by student
and Monitoring Environment in
a PDF document.

General guidelines for the collaborative work

Individual: Each student has to develop the steps of

Planning of the task and post the evidence in the forum.
The
activities for final product must be sent in the Evaluation and
the Monitoring Environment.
development
Collaborative: Each student must give feedback to
of
one of his/her partners.
collaborative
Each student is responsible for his/her process.
work

Roles to
perform by Each student must give feedback to one of his/her
the student partners. The comments should remark mistakes,
in the aspects to improve and contribute to the debate.
collaborative Each student is responsible for his/her process.
group
Roles and
responsibiliti Each student must give feedback to one of his/her
es for the partners.
delivery of Each student is responsible for his/her process.
products
It is necessary to use the APA standards in order to
Use of
provide a bibliography of the sources cited in the
references
document.

 
  

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

Plagiarism
are:
policy
a) In case of academic fraud proved in the
academic work or 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.ph
p?option=com_content&view=article&id=138:normas-
apa&catid=45:referencias-bibliograficas&Itemid=

 
  

4. Evaluation rubric
Evaluation rubric
Activity Individual Collaborative
type: Activity Activity
Moment of
the Initial ☐ Intermediate Final ☐
evaluation
Performance levels of the collaborative
Assessed activity
Score
Aspect Fair to
Excellent Good
poor/very poor
-Can answer - Can answer
-The student
questions and the questions
does the activity
respond to but still
during the last
simple systematically
week of the task.
Phase 1: statements. basic
- The student
Read the -Shows a good mistakes.
does not answer
document degree of -Shows
the questions
about the control of sufficient
proposed.
New Seven simple control of
-The student 15
Wonders of grammatical simple
shows only
the World forms grammatical
and according to forms limited control of
answer the online according to a few
questions. contents. online grammatical
contents. forms.

(Up to 15 (Up to 10 (Up to 5

points) points) points)

 
  

- Can answer - The student

- Can answer the questions does the activity
the questions but still during the last
and respond to systematically week of the task
simple basic -The student
statements. mistakes. does not answer
-Shows a good - Shows the questions.
degree of sufficient - The student
control of control of does not
simple simple describe all the
grammatical grammatical information
forms forms required.
according to according to
online online - Shows only
Phase 2: contents. limited control of
contents.
Answer the a few
questions - Uses a range - Uses grammatical
30
and of appropriate appropriate forms.
complete vocabulary vocabulary to
the chart. when talking talk about - Uses a
about vocabulary of
everyday
everyday isolated words
situations.
situations. and phrases.
- Completes
-Completes all most of the -Completes some
chart chart of the chart
according to according to according to the
information information
information
required. required.
required.

(Up to 30 (Up to 25 (Up to 10

points) points) points)

 
  

-Consolidate -Consolidate
her/his some
contributions contributions
during activity. during the -The student
- Design a activity. does the activity
creative -Design a during the last
Phase 3: postcard and postcard but week of the task.
Consolidat shows process does not -The final
e and according to provide product has one
25
design the activity; images, colors. phase of the
your uses colors -The final writing task.
postcard and images. product has
-The final some phases
product has all of the writing
phases of the task.
writing task.
(Up to 25 (Up to 20 (Up to 10
points) points) points)
The student
Phase 4:
submits the The student
Document
final document submits the
submission The student does
in the final document
in the not submit the
Monitoring and in a different
Monitoring final document. 5
Evaluation way; email or
and
environment. forum.
Evaluation
environme
(Up to 5 (Up to 3 (Up to 1
nt
points) points) points)
Follows some of
Follows most the directions
Follows all
of the given by the
directions
Phase 5: directions teacher.
given by
Following given by the The student does 15
teacher.
Directions teacher. not participate in
the forum.
(Up to 15 (Up to 10 (Up to 5
points) points) points)
Final score 90