Universidad Nacional Abierta y a Distancia

Vice President for Academic Issues and Research

Course: English B1
Code: 900003
Activity guidelines and evaluation rubric
Task 4 Speaking Production

1. Activity description

Type of the activity: Individual

Evaluation moment : Intermediate at Unit 2
Activity higher score: 70 points
Activity starting date:
Activity deadline: martes, 3 de
miércoles, 7 de octubre de
noviembre de 2020
2020
In this activity, it is expected to achieve the following learning
results:
• The student creates a video asking and answering questions in
English related to his/her personal information and occupation.

• The student participates in an interview in English talking about

his/her personal life and answering questions related to his skills
at work.

The activity consists of:

Step 1 – Making a video

Individual activity

1.1 Check the content of Units 1 (module 1 & 2) & Unit 2 (Module 3&4)
from the E-book.
1.2 With a partner make a video where both simulate a job interview.
(Your partner can be a classmate, a friend or a family member)
 The interviewer must make questions
related to Personal information like
name, age, hometown, marital status,
occupation, academic background,
hobbies, working experience, personal
qualities, skills and weaknesses related to
a job.

1.3 The video must be uploaded to YouTube or Vimeo or any cloud

storage (OneDrive, Dropbox, Google Drive)
1.4 Publish the link for the video in the forum so your tutor and your
classmates can give you feedback.

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

NOTE: The student must upload the video to the forum before the
Synchronous meeting through Skype.

Step 2 – Synchronous meeting

Individual activity

2.1. Create an account in Skype, where you will have your interview.
Tutorial how to create a Skype account:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5USYdtF8Pls

2.2. Make an appointment for the Synchronous meeting. Each tutor will
open an agenda with different schedules for the student to set a
 date and hour for the meeting. Each student will get the
instructions in the forum and through the email.

ATTENTION: It is the student’s responsibility to check the teacher’s

agenda and to register to take the interview. Please register yourself on
time and do not leave for the last days of the activity.

2.3. Each student must add his tutor as a contact in Skype with the
user provided in the forum and the activity instructions.

2.4. The interview with the tutor will simulate a job interview where the
teacher will ask the questions practiced in the video made for step
1, including Personal information as name, age, hometown,
marital status, occupation, academic background, hobbies,
working experience, personal qualities, skills and weaknesses
related to your job.

2.5. Log into your Skype account the day chosen for the interview and
15 minutes before the hour write to the teacher and wait for the
teacher to call.

You must not call the teacher unless he tells you to do it.

To develop this activity, consider:

At Initial information environment, you must: Check for the initial

and closing dates.
At Evaluation environment, you must not upload any document.
At Learning environment, you must study the topics related to the
units.

Individual work evidences:

The individual evidences to submit are:
• A video in English uploaded in the forum.
• An interview with the tutor through Skype.

Group work evidences

At this activity no evidences needed
2. General guidelines for the development of the evidence to
submit

For evidence developed Individual, consider the following

• 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.
 Evaluation rubric Format

Type of the activity: Individual

Evaluation moment: Intermediate at Unit 2
Activity higher score: 70 points
High level:
First evaluation The video recording is understandable and well-presented. It
standard has a good quality in sound and images.
Formal assessment If your work is at this level, you will get from 6 points to 11
points
The video is well
structured, with Medium level:
good quality, nice The video has sound or image problems but do not interfere with
images and good the message.
sound. If your work is at this level, you will get from 3 points to 6
points
This standard
represents 11 Low level
points of the The quality of the video is not good and the message is difficult
activity to understand. The student didn’t send the video.
If your work is at this level, you will get 0 points
High level:
Second evaluation
Participations are relevant, articulated and contribute to the
standard
improvement of the classmates’ videos. The contributions are
Participation
posted according to the schedule.
Assessment
If your work is at this level, you will get from 6 points to 11
points
The student
provides clear and
Medium level:
useful input for the
There is minimum participation in the writing forum and/or the
classmates to
comments made do not help in the improvement of the videos.
improve their
If your work is at this level, you will get from 3 points to 6
videos.
points
This standard
Low level
represents 11
The student didn’t participation at all in the forum.
points of the
If your work is at this level, you will get 0 points
activity
 High level:
The student plans, prepares and participates actively in the
Third evaluation synchronous Skype meeting. He knows and handles the topic to
standard be discussed in the interview.
Participation If your work is at this level, you will get from 6 points to 11
Assessment points

The student Medium level:

participates in the The student schedules the interview off dates without justification
interview with the and/or does not know the elements of practice and the topic to
tutor. be discussed in the interview. The speech is completely
memorized or read.
This standard If your work is at this level, you will get from 3 points to 6
represents 11 points
points of the
activity Low level
The student didn’t participate in the interview with the tutor.
If your work is at this level, you will get 0 points
High level:

The student pronounces and articulates the words used in the

dialogue fluently and correctly. He has intonation and
Fourth evaluation accentuates the words and prayers that achieve the full
standard understanding of the answers he is giving. The pronunciation is
Content assessment smooth with natural intonation.
If your work is at this level, you will get from 6 points to 11
The student makes points
and answers the
questions in a fluent Medium level:
and coherent way. The student has errors of pronunciation that greatly hinder the
(Video) understanding of the discourse.
The pronunciation is influenced by Spanish. It presents little
This standard fluency, lack of intonation and accentuation in its responses.
represents 11 If your work is at this level, you will get from 3 points to 6
points of the points
activity
Low level
The student didn’t participate in the activity.
If your work is at this level, you will get from 0 points
 High level:
The student gives his speech taking into account the elements
such as grammatical structures and vocabulary of the level.
Fifth evaluation
May present minimal errors that do not affect understanding
standard
If your work is at this level, you will get from 6 points to 11
Content assessment
points
The questions and
Medium level:
answers provided in
The student gives his speech with some grammatical and
the video follow an
syntactic aspects of the level; however, it presents some
adequate structure
grammatical errors that affect the understanding and/or
of the language.
evidence influence of the Spanish language in its orality.
If your work is at this level, you will get from 3 points to 6
This standard
points
represents 11
points of the
Low level
activity
The student didn’t participate in the activity.
If your work is at this level, you will get from 0 points
High level:
Sixth evaluation The student understands and answers questions properly and
standard incorporates them naturally without the need for repetition.
Content assessment Recognizes the instructions during the dialogue and responds
fluently.
The student If your work is at this level, you will get from 8 points to 12
understands and points
answers the
questions made by Medium level:
the tutor using an The student does not answer the questions in English and/or
adequate structure presents difficulties in understanding them. Requires constant
of the language. repetition and/or does not understand all the instructions. Needs
(Interview) translation to understand the dialogue.
If your work is at this level, you will get from 3 points to 8
This standard points
represents 12
points of the Low level
activity The student didn’t participate in the activity.
If your work is at this level, you will get 0 points