Universidad Nacional Abierta y a Distancia
Academic and Research Vice-rector
Activity 2 – Writing Task

1. General description of the course

Faculty or Vicerrectoría de Relaciones Internacionales

Academic Unit
Academic Level Professional, specialization, master
Academic Field Common basic interdisciplinary training
Course Name English B1+
Course Code 900004
Course Type Methodological Can be yes ☐ No
re-
opened
Number of Credits 3

2. Description of the activity

Type of Number
the Individual Collaborative of 3
activity: weeks
Moment
of
Initial Intermediate: Final ☐
evaluati
on:
Delivery Environment: Monitoring
Evaluative score: 90 points
and Evaluation
Starting date: December 3rd,
Closing date: December 23rd, 2019
2019
Competence to develop:
Build different sentences according to the topics seen, the student will
construct this with the support of the E-Tutor and e-students. Through
this exercise, the student will recognize and ownership the contents of
the unit 1 in the online contents, their environment and the context to
express themselves according to their level.

 
  
 

Topics to develop:
Unit 1
Compound Adjectives.
Present Progressive.
Modal Verbs
Phases of the learning strategy to develop:
Central task - Writing assignment - Production
Phase 1: Students introduce themselves, check the online content –
unit 1 and select a role for the activity.
Phase 2: The group answer the questions and write about the picture
given.
Phase 3: The group members complete the chart about a movie.

 
  
 

Activities to carry out:

I. PHASE ONE - Individual
A. Introduce yourself.
B. Check the online content – Unit 1 (Knowledge environment).
C. Select a Role for the collaborative activity.

II. PHASE TWO - Collaborative

In groups, look at the following picture and write about it:

✔ Give a name to each person in the picture.
✔ Describe each one of them (personality, appearance, clothes…).
✔ Where is it? (Place, city…)
✔ What can you do there?
✔ What are they doing? (present progressive)
✔ What did they do yesterday?
✔ What are they planning to do tomorrow?

 
  
 

III. PHASE THREE - Collaborative

In groups choose a movie and complete the chart:

Movie
Director
Producers
Who is (are) the protagonist(s)?
Who is (are) the antagonist(s)?
Chronological time of the movie
Beginning:

Plot Knot:

Ending:
Link of a trailer
S1.
S2.
What did you learn about the
S3.
movie?
S4.
S5.
S1.
S2.
How did the film make you feel? S3.
S4.
S5.
S1.
How does the movie relate to the S2.
academic program you are S3.
studying? S4.
S5.
Another ending for the movie
could be…

 
  
 

Knowledge environment / Collaborative

Environment for the Learning environment / monitoring and
development Evaluation environment.

Collaborative:

In the Evaluation and monitoring

Products to deliver by environment, upload the Final Document
student in PDF FORMAT with the following
information:
1. First page: Cover (complete names,
IDs and Date)
2. Writing about the picture.
3. Complete chart about the movie.

General guidelines for the collaborative work

Planning of Each student has to contribute in the forum as

activities for the follows:
development of 1. Check the online content.
collaborative 2. Writing about the picture.
work 3. Complete chart about the movie.

Collector
Roles to perform
Reviewer
by the student in
Evaluator
the collaborative
Submissions
group
Alerts

 
  
 

Collector: To articulate the contributions of all

the participants of the collaborative group in
order to consolidate the final paper; including
only those who took part of the whole process.

Reviewer: To verify that the final paper and

process meet all the requirements established by
the teacher.

Evaluator: To verify that the final paper meets

the criteria established by the rubric. The
Roles and evaluator must inform the group about any
responsibilities corrections or adjustments regarding the quality
to produce the of the document.
submitions by
the students
Submissions: To keep track and inform the
group about the submission time, upload the
final paper on time, using the link provided by
the teacher or established by the activity guide.
To notify the group members the final paper was
submitted.

Alerts: To notify all the group members about

changes or news related to the submission or
elaboration of the final paper. To notify the
teacher through the collaborative forum and the
course mail that the final paper was submitted.
It is necessary to use the APA standards in order
to provide a bibliography of the sources cited in
the document
Use of
references Use this link as reference:
http://normasapa.com/formato-apa-
presentacion-trabajos-escritos/

 
  
 

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:
Plagiarism policy 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/ind
ex.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=1
38:normas-apa&catid=45:referencias-
bibliograficas&Itemid=

 
  
 

4. Evaluation rubric

Evaluation rubric
Individual Collaborative
Activity type: ☐
Activity Activity
Moment of
the Initial ☐ Intermediate Final ☐
evaluation
Performance levels of the collaborative
Assessed
activity Score
Aspect
High score Media score Low score
Participations
are relevant,
articulated and
contribute to
There is
the There is not
minimum
construction of forum
Participation participation in
the final participation
& the writing 20
document. The at all.
interaction forum.
contributions
are posted
according to
the schedule.
(Up to 20 (Up to 10 (Up to 0
points) points) points)

 
  
 

The group
answers
questions and
writes
The group sentences about
answers and the picture, but
writes about the sentences
the picture have some
The student
with no mistakes.
doesn’t
mistakes in
Development the sentences. answer or
The group
of the phase write about 30
answers and/or
II. the picture.
The group writes about the
doesn’t use picture, but it is
the online incomplete.
translator.
The group uses
the translator to
construct the
sentences.
(Up to 30 (Up to 10 (Up to 0
points) points) points)

 
  
 

The group
members
choose a movie, The group
The group
but the chart is doesn’t
members
incomplete. choose a
choose a
movie and not
movie and
The group complete the
complete the
chooses a chart.
chart. The
movie and
sentences are
Development complete the The student
well 30
of phase III. chart, but the doesn’t
structured.
sentences are choose a
The group
not well movie and
doesn’t use
structured. doesn´t not
the online
complete the
translator.
The group uses chart.
the online
translator.
(Up to 30 (Up to 15 (Up to 0
points) points) points)
The final
document is The final
delivered document is not
The student
though the through the
didn’t
established proper link or
Final PDF participate in
link and lacks some 10
delivery the activity.
contains all the information in
relevant the final version
topics.
(Up to 10 (Up to 5 (Up to 0
points) points) points)
Final score 90