Universidad Nacional Abierta y a Distancia

Academic and Research Vice-rector

Activities guide and evaluation rubric

1. General description of the course

Faculty or Vicerrectoría Académica y de Investigación

Academic Unit VIACI
Academic Level Educación Continuada
Academic Field Formación complementaria

Course Name Inglés B1+ UPPER INTERMEDIATE

Course Code 901004A
Course Type Metodológico Can be yes ☐ No ☒
enabled
Number of Credits 3

2. Description of the activity

Number
Type of the
Individual ☐ Collaborative ☒ of 3
activity:
weeks
Moment of Unit
Initial ☒ ☐ Final ☐
evaluation: Intermediate:
Delivery Environment of the
Evaluative score of the
activity: Practical Learning and
activity: 75 points
evaluation
Starting date of the Deadline of the activity: March
activity: February 19th,2021 12th,2021

Competence to develop:

As a student you are going to be able to write a short text in which

you show you are able to write clearly and detailed about a wide range
of subjects, taking as a beginning an imaginary situation about a
funny weekend.

Topics to develop:

 Relative clauses
 Past perfect tense
  who/that/which
 Each /every

Steps, phases of the learning strategy to develop

 Group intervention (First week)

 Individual intervention (Second and third week)
 Consolidation of final work per group (Fourth week)

Activities to develop

In the forum, the students have to create a funny story about

"A Funny weekend". After reading the beginning of the story, students
can try to continue it, taking into account the information related to
the final delivery.

Environment
for the Practical –learning and Evaluation Environment
development
Products to Collaborative:
deliver by
student Each group have to design a presentation about your
story using the application PowToon
(www.powtoon.com) or as an alternative you can use
a Power Point Presentation. In the final version of your
group, you must take into account the requirements
mentioned per paragraph.

1. First paragraph: what did their mom find in her

bag?
2. Second paragraph: doing shopping
3. Third paragraph: a big surprise
4. Fourth paragraph: thieves VS heros
5. Final paragraph: watching news at home

This is the beginning of your funny story:

“Last weekend something really funny

happened. It was Saturday morning, and my
 sister and I were getting ready to go to the
grocery store with my mother. When we
were almost ready, my mother suddenly
stopped……”

General guidelines for the collaborative work

Planning of Individual intervention (First week): In the

activities for forum, the students must share opinions
the and comments about a funny weekend and including
development the answers for each question:
of
collaborative 1. First paragraph: what did their mom find in her
work bag?
2. Second paragraph: doing shopping
3. Third paragraph: a big surprise
4. Fourth paragraph: thieves VS heros
5. Final paragraph: watching news at home

Every member must participate at least 3 times,

posting his/her own contributions: his/her points of
view and also his/her opinions about his/her partners’
contributions.

Spanish contributions are not going to be

taken into account.

Individual intervention (Second and third week):

To develop this activity, students are going to write a

short text about their points of view and some
 opinions about their partners’ work by participating in
the Forum in a period no later than 3 days before the
final duedate

(based on University regulations and

academic policies, see academic resolution 006808).

Group intervention (Fourth week): Is a

consolidation of the final work. Each E student will
contribute to get a final version of a short text, using
either yumpu magazine, or power point presentation.
Each student must upload his/her own final product. If
the student choose Yumpu must check the link works
plublishing his/ her finished task.
Each group must send only 1 final work to the writing
forum.

Use of
http://normasapa.net/normas-apa-2016/
references
Plagiarism
policy 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

are:
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

Collabora
Activity Individual
☐ tive ☒
type: Activity
Activity
Moment
Unit
of the
Initial ☒ Intermed ☐ Final ☐
evaluati
iate:
on
Assesse Performance levels of the individual
d activity Score
Aspects High score Media score Low score
Collabo Participate Participates Participates 15 points
rative at least 3 partially in offering
work times, the forum, short
posting and response responses
his/her own to his/her without new
contribution partners’ ideas to
s in the work giving his/her
forum, some partners’
showing opinions to contribution
positive their or The
response to contributions student
his/her does not
 partners’
work and
participate
giving
in the forum
his/her point
of this
of view
writing
concerning
activity.
partners’
contribution
(up to 15 (up to 10 (up to 5
points) points) points)
The text
The text has has
some important
The text
grammar mistakes in
shows a
structures use of
correct use
related to grammar. It
Gramm of grammar
the level and affects its
ar structures 15 points
some specific comprehens
Aspects and huge of
vocabulary ion or The
vocabulary
according to text was
the topic done with a
translator.
(up to 15 (up to 10 (up to 5
points) points) points)
The text
The ideas in does not
The text has
the text are have a main
organized
clear and idea. The
and
organized supporting
understanda
Cohesi keeping ideas are
ble ideas. It
on and attention of confused.
shows some 15 points
coheren the reading. This text
guide’s
ce It keeps all does not
instructions
the guide’s follow the
indeed.
instructions guide’s
instructions
(up to 15 (up to 10 (up to 5
points) points) points)
Text The text The text has The text
15 points
present shows the has not
 presentation
creativity guide’s
required with
and original requirement
simple and
ideas. It s: It does
common
answers not answer
ideas: It
each each
answers
question: question:
partially the
1. First 1. First
questions:
paragraph: paragraph:
1. First
what did what did
paragraph:
their mom their mom
what did
find in her find in her
their mom
bag? bag?
find in her
2. Second 2. Second
bag?
paragraph: paragraph:
2. Second
doing doing
paragraph:
ation shopping shopping
doing
3. Third 3. Third
shopping
paragraph: paragraph:
3. Third
a big a big
paragraph: a
surprise surprise
big surprise
4. Fourth 4. Fourth
4. Fourth
paragraph: paragraph:
paragraph:
thieves VS thieves VS
thieves VS
heros heros
heros
5. Final 5. Final
5. Final
paragraph: paragraph:
paragraph:
watching watching
watching
news at news at
news at
home. home.
home. .
(up to 15 (up to 10 (up to 5
points) points) points)
Story The text The text The text 15 points
shows an shows does not
appropriated partially the show the
use of grammar use of
grammar content grammar
studied in studied in content
the E book the E book studied in
online on line the E book
 on line
content content
content
(Up to 15 (Up to 10 (Up to 5
points) points) points)
75 points
Final score
Total score