Universidad Nacional Abierta y a Distancia

Vicerrectoría Académica y de Investigación

Course: English 2
Code: 90021

Activity Guide and Evaluation Rubric – Task 2 Writing task.

1. Activity Description

Type of activity: Collaborative

Evaluation moment: Intermediate Unit 1
Highest score of the activity: 120 points
The activity starts on: Monday, February The activity ends on: Sunday, March 7,
15, 2021 2021
With this activity, you are expected to achieve the following learning
outcomes:

The student will develop a reading comprehension exercise and writing activity, with
the objective they can use strategies that help them understand different types of
text and write with coherence, using the structures learned in the course that allows
them better learning.
The activity consists of:
A reading comprehension exercise and writing activity, besides the students, must
develop different practice activities from the E-book, to apply the knowledge in the
exercises asked in the guide.
For this task, the students must apply the phrasal verbs in a text written for them.

Tenga en cuenta que todas las unidades del curso se estudian y trabajan
desde el E-book o libro electrónico que encuentra en el ONLINE CONTENT.
Módulos 1, 2 y 3, corresponden a la unidad 1
Módulos 4, 5 y 6, corresponde a la unidad 2
Para esta actividad, estaremos trabajando únicamente en el módulo 1 del E-
book.

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Stage 1: Enter to E-book/Online Content.

Go to the Learning Environment, and enter to E-book / Online Content

(Contenido en Linea) to develop the activities of the E-book.

Check the following tutorial that explains how to work in the E-book:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zqxlhEeJcvM&feature=youtu.be

Stage 2: Practice of Topic 2

-Go to Module 1 of the E-book.

-Study the content of this module, and develop the practice activity of Topic 2.
-Send the screenshot that evidence the development of this. You must post it in the
Writing collaborative forum.
-Only one screenshot.

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Stage 3: Practice of Topic 3

-Develop the practice activity of Topic 3.

-Send the screenshot that evidence the development of this. You must post it in the
Writing collaborative forum.
-Only one screenshot.

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Stage 4. Development of topics 5 and 7.

-Develop the activities of Topic 5 and 7

-Send the two screenshots that evidence the development of them. You must post
them in the Writing collaborative forum.
-Only two screenshoots.

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Stage 5: Apply the Future Factual Conditional

-Study the examples given in Topic 6, using the Future Factual Conditional or First
Conditional.

-Taking into account the examples given in the excercise, write 10 sentences using this
structure, then publish them in the Writing task forum. They must be written for you, not
copied from any web page.

This is an explanation of how to use the Future factual conditional:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xuUzXD1VTig

Stage 6: Pre-reading

-Quickly scan the text of Module 1, Topic 10; read the title, and identify the global
features that make it up. Then complete the following table:

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Write the meaning of the following 6 Phrasal
verbs found in the reading:
Come into:
Stand up:
Sit Down:
Take out:
Look up:
Hand out:

Stage 7: Reading

Read the text of Topic 10 carefully, underline or highlight the ideas that you consider
important. Use the Word tools (colors). Identify the main ideas, and answer the
following questions:

a. What activities the students had to develop in the Italian class?

b. What is the main idea of the text?

-Publish two screenshoots of the underlined main ideas in the text in the forum.

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Stage 8: Apply the phrasal verbs in a text.

Choose 7 phrasal verbs from the exercise of Topic 10 and Topic 11, and write a text
where you use them. You have to underline these phrasal verbs to distinguish them in
the text.

Example:
Two years ago my family and I were in Cartagena. We decided to go in my car because we wanted to
take advantage of it to visit many touristic places in that city. While we were in the car, we turned on
the radio and we were happy. I plugged in my cellphone in the car to take the pictures. We had three
hours traveling, suddenly our car broke down and we found down the motor was so hot.
I was worried but my husband calmed me down. We asked for a crane but they didn´t answer us. After
twenty minutes, they called back us and we explained our problem. When they got to the place, they

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helped us and we could arrive at Cartagena. We ate out in a typical Caribbean food restaurant. In the
end, our trip was excellent.

You must publish your text written with the phrasal verbs in the Writing task forum.

Stage 9: Send your feedback

Each student must give feedback to one of his/her partners. The feedback must help
to improve the text of your partners. You must tell if it has something to improve or if
it is perfect and explain why.

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 he/she can
send a motivational message as a way to encourage the group member’s participation.

Stage 10: Upload the final product

The final product must contain:

- Cover with your full name, course code, group number and name of the activity.
- The 4 screenshots of the E-book practice activity (Topics 2,3 5 y 7)
- 10 sentences in Future Factual Conditional (Stage 5)
- Chart of pre-reading (Stage 6)
- Answers of two questions (Stage7)
- Two screenshots of reading exercise (Stage 7)
- The text with 7 phrasal verbs.
- The screenshot of the feedback to your partner.
- This product must be sent by Evaluation environment, in Task 2 - Writing
task forum - submit activity Assignment

END OF THE TASK!

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For the development of the activity consider that:

In the Initial Information Environment, you must: review the course agenda to
work within the established dates.

In the Learning Environment, you must: Study all the English contents found in
the Online content - English level II, to develop each step that you find in the
guide. Besides, the students find the Activities guide and evaluation rubric with
all the instructions to develop, and the Writing task forum where the students must
socialize the development of each step indicated in the guide.

In the Evaluation Environment, you must: send the final Writing task, organized in
a PDF document, with all the steps required in the guide and with the cover page.

Evidences of individual work:

The individual evidence to be submitted is: Development of the activities from the
stages 2 to 8.

Besides each student must publish the final task in a PDF document by the
Evaluation Environment.

Evidences of collaborative work:

The collaborative evidence to be submitted is:
Each student must give feedback to one of his/her partners in such a way that
contributes to improve the partners contribution, saying what to improve or if the task
is perfect or presents mistakes and explaining why.

2. General Guidelines for the Development of Evidences to Submit

For Individual evidences, consider the following:

- The 4 screenshots of the E-book practice activity (Topics 2,3 5 y 7)

- 10 sentences in Future Factual Conditional (Stage 5)
- Chart of pre-reading (Stage 6)
- Answers of two questions (Stage7)
- Two screenshots of reading exercise (Stage 7)

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 - The text with 7 phrasal verbs.
- Feedback made in the forum.

For collaborative evidence, each student must give feedback to one of his/her
partners. This feedback must help to improve the contributions.

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 120 points
First evaluation High level: Develops the activity of stages 2, 3 and 4 according
standard to the instructions given in the guide, and posts the 4
(Criterion): screenshots, corresponding to each stage in the Writing
Development of collaborative forum.
the Stages 2,3
and 4 If your work is at this level, you will get from 13 points
to 15 points

Medium level: Develops a part of the activities of stages 2, 3

and 4 according to the instructions given in the guide, and posts
five or fewer screenshots, corresponding to each stage in the
Writing collaborative forum.
This standard
represents 15 If your work is at this level, you will get from 7 points to
scores of the 12 points
activity.
Low level: Doesn’t develop any of the activities required in the
guide and doesn´t post any screenshot, corresponding to each
stage in the Writing collaborative forum.

If your work is at this level, you will get from 0 points to

6 points

Second evaluation High level: Writes 10 sentences using the Future Factual
standard Conditional, taking into account the explanation of Topic 6.
(Criterion): Reading e-mail messages. They present correct grammatical
Development of structure. Besides, he/she publishes them in the Writing task
the Stage 5 forum.
If your work is at this level, you will get from 23 points
to 25 points

Medium level: Writes only 8 or fewer sentences using the

Future Factual Conditional, taking into account the explanation
of Topic 6. Reading e-mail messages. The written sentences
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This standard present some grammatical mistakes in the structure. Besides,
represents 25 he/she only publishes part of the sentences.
scores of the If your work is at this level, you will get from 12 points
activity to 22 points

Low level: Doesn´t write any sentence using the Future Factual
Conditional, or the sentences that were developed presented
mistakes in grammatical structure. Besides, he/she doesn´t
publish them in the Writing task forum.

If your work is at this level, you will get from 0 points to

11 points

Third evaluation High level: Develops the activities of stages 6 and 7 according
standard to the instructions given in the guide, and posts 2 screenshots,
(Criterion): corresponding to each stage in the Writing collaborative forum.
Development of  Writes a text applying the phrasal verbs chosen from the
the stages 6, 7 exercise of Topic 10 and Topic 11. with coherence and
and 8 cohesion, correct grammatical structure and the
recommended vocabulary.
 Publishes the written text with ten phrasal verbs in the
Writing collaborative forum.
This standard
represents 40 If your work is at this level, you will get from 38 points
scores of the to 40 points
activity
Medium level: Develops partially the activities of stages 6 and
7 according to the instructions given in the guide, and posts only
one screenshot, corresponding to only one stage in the Writing
collaborative forum.
 Writes a text applying the phrasal verbs chosen from the
exercise of Topic 10 and Topic 11. but it presents mistakes
in the grammatical structure, the ideas are not clear
applying only a part of the recommended vocabulary.
 Publishes the written text with mistakes in the Writing
collaborative forum.

If your work is at this level, you will get from 19 points

to 37 points

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 Low level: Doesn´t develop the activities of stages 6 and 7
according to the instructions given in the guide, and didn´t post
the screenshots, corresponding to each stage in the Writing
collaborative forum.
 Doesn´t write the text applying the phrasal verbs chosen
from the exercise of Topic 10 and Topic 11.
 Doesn´t publish the written text with ten phrasal verbs in
the Writing collaborative forum.

If your work is at this level, you will get from 0 points to

18 points

High level: Gives feedback to one of his/her partners. The

feedback helps to improve the text of his/her partners, saying
what to improve or if the task is perfect or presents mistakes
and explains why.
If your work is at this level, you will get from 17 points
Fourth evaluation to 20 points
standard
(Criterion): Medium level: Gives feedback to one of his/her partners, but it
Development of doesn´t help to improve the text of his/her partners, it doesn´t
the stage 9 say what to improve or if the task is perfect or presents
mistakes.

If your work is at this level, you will get from 8 points to

This standard 16 points
represents 20
scores of the Low level: Doesn´t give feedback to one of his/her partners.
activity He/she doesn´t say what to improve or if the task is perfect or
presents mistakes and explains why.

If your work is at this level, you will get from 0 points to

7 points

Fifth evaluation High level: Uploads the final task by the Evaluation
standard environment with all the steps requires in the guide and in each
(Criterion): stage.
Development of
the Stage 10 If your work is at this level, you will get from 17 points
to 20 points

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 Medium level: Uploads the final task by the Evaluation
This standard environment with only some of the steps requires in the guide
represents 20 and in each stage.
scores of the If your work is at this level, you will get from 8 points to
activity 16 points

Low level: Doesn´t upload the final task by the Evaluation

environment with any of the steps requires in the guide and in
each stage.
If your work is at this level, you will get from 0 points to
7 points

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