Universidad Nacional Abierta y a Distancia

Vicerrectoría Académica y de Investigación

Course: English I
Code: 518002

Activity Guide and Evaluation Rubric – Task 9 - Final Activity

1. Activity Description

Type of activity: Individual

Evaluation moment: Final
Highest score of the activity: 75 points
The activity starts on: Monday, May 10, The activity ends on: Sunday, May 23,
2021 2021
With this activity, you are expected to achieve the following learning
outcomes:

Learning outcome 5: To demonstrate comprehension of very short and simple texts,

phrases, and the highest frequency vocabulary related to areas of most immediate
personal relevance when it comes to reading, listening, and the usage of simple
grammatical structures and sentence patterns.

The activity consists of:

Below, you will find some activities related to each one of the skills:

VOCABULARY AND GRAMMAR

Read the text A wildlife officer on Kangaroo Island, and follow these instructions:

1. Match these phrases with the adjectives from the text:

1.1 not interesting ____________
1.2 the opposite of sad ____________
1.3 many people like it ____________
1.4 a nice thing to do; makes you smile ____________
1.5 Nice to look at ____________
1.6 Very good ____________

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Taken from: Pearson (2014). New Language Leader. Elementary.

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READING
2. Read the following text and answer the questions.

Taken from: Pearson (2014). New Language Leader. Elementary.

2.1 What is the prize?

2.2 Is this competition open to everyone?
2.3 Do you think this is an interesting opportunity? Why?

3. Read the text A wildlife officer on Kangaroo Island again and answer the
questions below:

3.1 Where does she work?

3.2 What work with people does she do?
3.3 What work with animals does she do?
3.4 What things does she like doing?

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WRITING
1. Write an e-mail where you apply for the job in the advert Tourism Australia.
(150 words aprox.)
2. Write your own biography in no more than 10 important facts of your life.
Choose the 10 most important events in your life and write your biography with
them. (200 words aprox)

SPEAKING
Talk about a friend of you. Provide his/her personal information, describe him/her
and talk about his/her tastes. Say also what things you both have in common.
Additionally, describe a past experience you had with him/her.
Record this information in a video or audio and upload it. Paste the link in the final
document.

For the development of the activity consider that:

In the Initial Information Environment, you must:

Check the Course Agenda to be sure about starting and closing dates.

In the Evaluation Environment, you must:

Send the final PDF document to the corresponding link in Evaluation Environment

Evidences of individual work:

The individual evidence to be submitted is:

The worksheet developed and presented in PDF in the correct link in Evaluation
environment.
Evidences of collaborative work:
No collaborative evidence is required in this activity.

2. General Guidelines for the Development of Evidences to Submit

For Individual evidences, consider the following:

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Send your final PDF document with all the requirements, a cover page and a final
reference page to the correct link in Evaluation environment.

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: Collaborative

Evaluation moment: Intermediate Unit 2
The highest score in this activity is 80 points
First evaluation
High level: The answers provided are complete and accurate,
criterion:
the student shows good use of vocabulary and grammar rules.
If your work is at this level, you can get between 10 points
Vocabulary and
and 15 points
grammar

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This criterion Average level: The answers provided are partially complete
represents 15 and accurate; the student partially shows good use of vocabulary
points of the total and grammar rules.
of 75 points of If your work is at this level, you can get between 6 points
the activity. and 9 points

Low level: The answers provided are neither complete nor

accurate; the student does not show good use of vocabulary and
grammar rules.
If your work is at this level, you can get between 0 points
and 5 points
Second evaluation High level: The student read and understood the texts. The
criterion: answers to the questions are correct and fully respond them.
If your work is at this level, you can get between 15 points
Reading and 20 points

This criterion Average level: The student read but partially understood the
represents 20 texts. The answers to the questions are partially correct and
points of the total partially respond them.
of 75 points of If your work is at this level, you can get between 8 points
the activity. and 14 points

Low level: The student read but did not understand the texts.
The answers to the questions are not correct and do not respond
them.
If your work is at this level, you can get between 0
points and 7 points
Third evaluation High level: The written texts respond to the guidelines. The
criterion: language used is clear, has enough vocabulary, grammar
structures, connectors, and good use of punctuation.
Writing If your work is at this level, you can get between 15 points
and 20 points
This criterion
represents 20 Average level: The written texts partially respond to the
points of the total guidelines. The language used is partially clear, has enough
of 75 points of vocabulary, grammar structures, connectors, and good use of
the activity. punctuation.
If your work is at this level, you can get between 8 points
and 14 points

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 Low level: The written texts do not respond to the guidelines.
The language used is not clear, not enough vocabulary, grammar
structures, connectors, and bad use of punctuation.
If your work is at this level, you can get between 0
points and 7 points
Fourth evaluation High level: The video presented responds to the task asked.
criterion: Pronunciation is clear and the student is interested in speaking
rather than reading.
Speaking
If your work is at this level, you can get between 15 points
and 20 points
This criterion
represents 20 Average level: The video presented partially responds to the
points of the total task asked. Pronunciation is clear but the student is interested
of 75 points of in reading rather than speaking.
the activity. If your work is at this level, you can get between 6 points
and 14 points

Low level: The video presented does not respond to the task
asked. Pronunciation is not clear and the student is interested
in reading rather than speaking.
If your work is at this level, you can get between 0
points and 5 points