Universidad Nacional Abierta y a Distancia

Vicerrectoría Académica y de Investigación

Course: English B1
Code: 900003

Activity Guide and Evaluation Rubric – Task 4 Speaking Production

1. Activity Description

Type of activity: Individual

Evaluation moment: Intermediate Unit 2
Highest score of the activity: 70 points
The activity starts on: Monday, March The activity ends on: Sunday, April 18,
8, 2021 2021
With this activity, you are expected to achieve the following learning
outcomes:

To express in an oral way the students’ personal, educational, and professional

information using appropriate pronunciation, grammatical structures and the
vocabulary studied in the contents.
The activity consists of:

Individual activity
Step 1 – Speaking practice meeting
From: March 8th to April 4th

OBJECTIVE: The practice meeting with the tutor will help you to prepare your video
simulating a job interview. In this space you can ask your tutor about the questions
and answers you are preparing for the video and you can practice your pronunciation
before you record the video.

INSTRUCTIONS

1.1. Create an account in Skype and send a message to your tutor. (Find your tutor’s
skype account in the forum). Each student must add his tutor as a contact in
Skype with the user provided in the forum.

Tutorial how to create a Skype account:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5USYdtF8Pls

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1.2. Check the content of Units 1 (module 1 & 2) & Unit 2 (Module 3 & 4) from the E-
book.

1.3. Enter to the forum and check your tutor’s agenda. Each tutor will open an agenda
with different schedules for the student to set a date and hour to do the speaking
practice. Each student will get the link for the agenda in the forum and
through the email.

ATTENTION: This activity will be available until April 4th, so you can practice
and prepare to make a good video in the 2 weeks left.
It is the student’s responsibility to check the teacher’s agenda and to register to
practice. Please register yourself on time and do not leave for the last days
of the activity so you can do a good speaking production exercise.

1.4. Write a prompt with the questions and answers for the video simulating a job
interview. You should include Personal information (name, age, hometown,
marital status, occupation), hobbies, academic background, working experience,
personal qualities, skills and weaknesses related to your job. (Use the
vocabulary studied in Task 2 – Writing production).

1.5. Copy your text in this webpage https://www.naturalreaders.com/online/ and

listen to the pronunciation and repeat it as many times as you need to get the
correct pronunciation.

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1.6. Log into your Skype account the day chosen for the practice meeting 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.

Individual activity
Step 2 – Making a video
From: April 5th to April 18th

PERSONAL INFORMATION:
What is your name?
How old are you? 2.1. With a partner make a video where
Where do you live? both simulate a job interview. (Your partner
Are you single or married? can be a classmate, a friend, or a family
Do you have children? member).
Who do you live with?
What are you studying?
What are your hobbies? Here you can see an example made by the
Where do you work? tutors of the course:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9fUzrASf-zU

JOB INTERVIEW:
The interviewer must make questions
Can you tell me about yourself?
related to Personal information like name,
What are your strengths?
age, hometown, marital status, occupation,
What are your weaknesses?
academic background, hobbies, working
What is your biggest achievement in
experience, personal qualities, skills, and
life?
weaknesses related to a job. (Use the
Where do you see yourself in five
questions posted here).
years?
Why do you want to leave your job?
Why do you want to work for us?
What are your salary expectations?

2.2 The video must be uploaded to YouTube or Vimeo or any cloud storage
(OneDrive, Dropbox, Google Drive)

2.3 Publish the link for the video in the forum so your tutor and your classmates can
give you feedback.

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Check your classmates’ videos and make 2 comments about the activity. Include
information that needs to be considered and point out mistakes. Write about your
experience in the meeting and with the program natural readers.

A comment is not to write a compliment, not just saying “good work”, this will not be
graded as a comment.

ATTENTION: The student must participate in the practice meeting before uploading
the video.

For the development of the activity consider that:

In the Initial Information Environment, you must: Check for the initial and closing
dates.

In the Learning Environment, you must: Enter to the E book/Online English contents
and study the topics from Module 1 to Module 4. Participate and upload the video in
the forum of the activity.

In the Evaluation Environment, you must: Upload the final document with the
evidence from the speaking practice meeting and the video link.

Evidence of individual work:

The individual evidence to be submitted is:
• A video in English uploaded in the forum.
• Speaking practice meeting with the tutor through Skype.

Evidence of collaborative work:

No collaborative evidence is required in this activity.

2. General Guidelines for the Development of Evidences to Submit

For Individual evidence, consider the following:

• Before delivering the requested product, all the requirements indicated in
this activity guide must be checked.
• Before uploading the video, the students must attend the speaking practice
meeting with the tutor.

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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.

3. Evaluation Rubric Template

Type of activity: Individual

Evaluation moment: Intermediate Unit 2
The highest score in this activity is 70 points
First evaluation High level: The video recording is understandable and well-
criterion: presented. It has a good quality in sound and images.
If your work is at this level, you can get between 6 points
Formal assessment and 10 points

The video is well Average level: The video has sound or image problems but
structured, with do not interfere with the message.
good quality, nice If your work is at this level, you can get between 3 points
and 6 points

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images, and good
sound. Low level: The quality of the video is not good, and the
message is difficult to understand. The student did not send the
This criterion video.
represents 10
points of the total If your work is at this level, you can get between 0
of 70 points of points and 2 points
the activity.
Second
evaluation High level: Participations are relevant, articulated and
criterion: contribute to the improvement of the classmates’ videos. The
Participation contributions are posted according to the schedule.
Assessment If your work is at this level, you can get between 6 points
and 10 points
The student
provides clear and Average level: There is minimum participation in the writing
useful input for the forum and/or the comments made do not help in the
classmates to improvement of the videos.
improve their If your work is at this level, you can get between 3 points
videos. and 6 points

This criterion Low level: The student did not participate at all in the
represents 10 forum.
points of the total If your work is at this level, you can get between 0
of 70 points of points and 2 points
the activity.
Third evaluation
High level: The student publishes the video in the forum in the
criterion:
time stipulated.
If your work is at this level, you can get between 6 points
Participation
and 10 points
Assessment
Average level: The student publishes the video in the last 3
The student
days of the activity.
publishes the video
If your work is at this level, you can get between 3 points
in the time
and 6 points
stipulated.
Low level: The student did not send the video.
This criterion
If your work is at this level, you can get between 0
represents 10
points and 2 points
points of the total

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of 70 points of
the activity.
Fourth evaluation High level: The student plans, prepares and participates
criterion: actively in the synchronous Skype meeting. He knows and
handles the topic to be discussed in the interview.
Participation If your work is at this level, you can get between 6 points
Assessment and 10 points

The student Average level: The student schedules the interview off dates
participates in the without justification and/or does not know the elements of
interview. practice and the topic to be discussed in the interview. The
speech is completely memorized or read.
If your work is at this level, you can get between 3 points
This criterion and 6 points
represents 10
points of the total Low level: The student did not participate in the interview
of 70 points of with the tutor.
the activity. If your work is at this level, you can get between 0 points
and 2 points
Fifth evaluation High level: The student pronounces and articulates the words
criterion: used in the dialogue fluently and correctly. He has intonation
and accentuates the words and prayers that achieve the full
Content assessment understanding of the answers he is giving. The pronunciation is
smooth with natural intonation.
The student speaks If your work is at this level, you can get between 6 points
fluently and and 10 points
correctly.
Average level: The student has errors of pronunciation that
greatly hinder the understanding of the discourse.
The pronunciation is influenced by Spanish. It presents little
fluency, lack of intonation and accentuation in its responses.
This criterion If your work is at this level, you can get between 3 points
represents 10 and 6 points
points of the total
of 70 points of Low level:
the activity. The student did not participate in the interview.
If your work is at this level, you can get between 0
points and 2 points
Sixth evaluation High level: The student gives his speech considering the
criterion: elements such as grammatical structures and vocabulary of

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Content assessment the level.
May present minimal errors that do not affect understanding
The student uses If your work is at this level, you can get between 6 points
the grammatical and 10 points
structures and
vocabulary Average level: The student gives his speech with some
proposed. grammatical and syntactic aspects of the level; however, it
presents some grammatical errors that affect the
understanding and/or evidence influence of the Spanish
This criterion language in its orality.
represents 10 If your work is at this level, you can get between 3 points
points of the total and 6 points
of 70 points of
the activity. Low level: The student did not participate in the activity.
If your work is at this level, you can get between 0
points and 2 points
Seventh High level: The student understands and answers questions
evaluation properly and incorporates them naturally without the need for
standard repetition. Recognizes the instructions during the dialogue and
Content assessment responds fluently.
If your work is at this level, you can get between 6
The student points to 10 points
understands and
answers the Medium level:
questions made by The student does not answer the questions in English and/or
the tutor using an presents difficulties in understanding them. Requires constant
adequate structure repetition and/or does not understand all the instructions.
of the language. Needs translation to understand the dialogue.
(Interview) If your work is at this level, you can get between 3
points to 6 points
This criterion
represents 10 Low level
points of the total The student did not participate in the activity.
of 70 points of the If your work is at this level, you can get between 0
activity. points to 2 points