Universidad Nacional Abierta y a Distancia

Vicerrectoría Académica y de Investigación

Course: English IV
Code: 518009

Activity Guide and Evaluation Rubric – Task 2 Comparing cultures and places.

1. Activity Description

Type of activity: Collaborative

Evaluation moment: Intermediate Unit 1
Highest score of the activity: 100 points
The activity starts on: Monday, February The activity ends on: Wednesday, March
15, 2021 17, 2021
With this activity, you are expected to achieve the following learning
outcomes:

At the end of this activity the student will be able to deal with most situations that
may arise while traveling in contexts where the language is spoken, by describing a
famous place.

The activity consists of:

Individually:

1. Individually, pick one of the following places, each member of the group must
have a different place, so don´t pick the same you partner already posted in
the forum:

• Eiffel Tower
• The Colosseum, Rome
• Pyramids of Giza, Egypt.
• Great Wall of China.
• Statue of Liberty, New York City.

2. Describe the place you selected in the following decades: 60s, 70s, 80s, 90s,
2000s. Point out differences and similarities. Compare them with the current
times. Eg.

Place 60s 70s 80s 90s 2000s 2020

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Eiffel History of the Changes, Changes, Changes, Changes, Changes,
Tower place, date of experiences, experiences, experiences, experiences, experiences,
creation, characteristics, characteristics, characteristics, characteristics, characteristics,
characteristics, anecdotes, events, anecdotes, anecdotes, anecdotes, anecdotes, events,
anecdotes, etc. events, etc. events, etc. events, etc. etc.
etc. Pictures Pictures Pictures Pictures Pictures Pictures
Your opinion of the place (Minimum 250 words).

• Include superlatives and comparatives to describe the changes for each

decade.
• Include pictures for each decade where we can see the changes.

3. Make a small television advertisement, where a travel agency promotes the

place you picked. You need to appear talking in the video. Include images,
music, attractive and creative elements. The video must be minimum three
minutes long.
4. Speaking sessions.

Register your data in the link that is going to be sent inbox and posted in the
forum participate in the speaking sessions by skype.

Collaborative:

5. As a group create a brochure with the places and only the descriptions of the
year 2020, include comparisons and highlight the best elements of each place.

https://smallbusiness.chron.com/make-tourist-brochure-55407.html

For the development of the activity consider that:

In the Initial Information Environment, you must: check the agenda, interact in the
web conferences, and participate actively in the forum.

In the Learning Environment, you must: read the contents of the unit 1.

In the Evaluation Environment, you must: Upload your final work Task 2: Comparing
cultures and places.

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Evidences of individual work:
The individual evidence to be submitted is:

Post in the forum the following products:

- The description of the place through the decades.

- The TV advertisement video.

Evidences of collaborative work:

The collaborative evidence to be submitted is:

Just one member of the group must upload a PDF document in the evaluative
environment with the following content:

1. Cover page
2. The description of the place through the decades of each student.
3. The links with the TV advertisement video of each student.
4. The brochure made by the group.
5. References.

6. General Guidelines for the Development of Evidences to Submit

For Collaborative evidences, consider the following:

• 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.

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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.

7. Evaluation Rubric Template

Type of activity: Collaborative

Evaluation moment: Intermediate Unit 1
The highest score in this activity is 100 points
First evaluation High level: The student described the selected place with
criterion: accuracy in grammar and spelling, cohesion, and coherence,
including comparisons and superlative adjectives.
Description of a If your work is at this level, you can get between 18 points
famous place. and 20 points

Task Average level: The descriptions of the students are not

achievement, task accurate and/or shallow, there are some mistakes in grammar
response, and spelling.

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coherence and If your work is at this level, you can get between 8 points
cohesion, lexical and 10 points
resource,
grammar range Low level: The student did not do the descriptions.
and accuracy. If your work is at this level, you can get between 1 point
and 3 points
This criterion
represents 20
points of the total
of 100 points of
the activity.
Second evaluation
criterion: High level: The student did a creative and a good TV
advertising video to promote the selected place. Speaking skill
TV advertising. fluency, lexical resource, grammatical accuracy, and
pronunciation are appropriate according to the level.
Creativity of the
elements and If your work is at this level, you can get between 25 points
images included. and 30 points

Speaking skill Average level: The student did TV advertising video to

fluency, lexical promote the selected place with lack of creativity and quality.
resource, Speaking skill fluency, lexical resource, grammatical accuracy,
grammatical and pronunciation are not appropriate according to the level.
accuracy, and
pronunciation. If your work is at this level, you can get between 12 points
and 15 points
This criterion
represents 30 Low level: The student did not do the TV advertising video.
points of the total If your work is at this level, you can get between 1 point
of 100 points of and 3 points
the activity.
Third evaluation
criterion: High level: The group did a brochure with the essential
information to promote the selected places. The images and the
Brochure structure of the product are accurate.
If your work is at this level, you can get between 18 points
Task and 20 points
achievement, task
response,

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coherence and Average level: The group did a brochure with some missing
cohesion, lexical information about the selected places. Images are missing and
resource, some information is not accurate.
grammar range If your work is at this level, you can get between 8 points
and accuracy, and 12 points
creative
elements. Low level: The group did not do the brochure
If your work is at this level, you can get between 1 point
This criterion and 3 points
represents 20
points of the total
of 100 points of
the activity.
Fourth evaluation High level: The student participated actively in the speaking
criterion: sessions.
If your work is at this level, you can get between 25 points
Speaking sessions and 30 points

This criterion Average level: The student participated regularly in the

represents 30 speaking sessions.
points of the total If your work is at this level, you can get between 12 points
of 100 points of and 15 points
the activity.
Low level: The student did not participate in the speaking
sessions.
If your work is at this level, you can get between 1 point
and 3 points