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: In Collaborative Group

Evaluation moment: Intermediate Unit 1
Highest score of the activity: 100 points
The activity starts on: Monday, The activity ends on: Wednesday,
September 6, 2021 October 6, 2021
With this activity, you are expected to achieve the following learning
outcome(s):

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:

1. Individually, pick one of the following places, each member of the group must
have a different place. Do not pick the same place 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,
and 2000s. Point out differences and similarities. Compare them with the
current times. Eg.

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

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, anecdotes, anecdotes, anecdotes, anecdotes,

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 anecdotes, etc. events, etc. events, etc. events, etc. events, etc. events, 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 those 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.

Evidence of independent work:

The independent evidence to be submitted is:

Post in the forum the following products:

 The description of the place through the decades.

 The TV advertisement video.

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Evidence of group work:
The group work 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.

2. General Guidelines for the Development of Evidence to Submit

For Group Work evidence, 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.

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

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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: In Collaborative Group

Evaluation moment: Intermediate Unit 1
The highest score in this activity is 100 points
First evaluation
criterion:

Description of a High level: The student described the selected place with
famous place. accuracy in grammar and spelling, cohesion, and coherence,
including comparisons and superlative adjectives.
Task If your work is at this level, you can get between 18 points
achievement, task and 20 points
response,
coherence and Average level: The descriptions of the students are not
cohesion, lexical accurate and/or shallow; there are some mistakes in grammar
resource, and spelling.
grammar range If your work is at this level, you can get between 8 points
and accuracy. and 10 points

This criterion Low level: The student did not do the descriptions.
represents 20 If your work is at this level, you can get between 1 point
points of the total and 3 points
of 100 points of
the activity

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Second evaluation
criterion:
High level: The student did a creative and a good TV
TV advertising. advertising video to promote the selected place. Speaking skill
fluency, lexical resource, grammatical accuracy, and
Creativity of the pronunciation are appropriate according to the level.
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 promote
fluency, lexical the selected place with lack of creativity and quality. Speaking
resource, skill fluency, lexical resource, grammatical accuracy, and
grammatical pronunciation are not appropriate according to the level.
accuracy, and If your work is at this level, you can get between 12 points
pronunciation. and 15 points

This criterion Low level: The student did not do the TV advertising video.
represents 30 If your work is at this level, you can get between 1 point
points of the total and 3 points
of 100 points of
the activity.
Third evaluation
criterion:
High level: The group did a brochure with the essential
Brochure information to promote the selected places. The images and the
structure of the product are accurate.
Task If your work is at this level, you can get between 18 points
achievement, task and 20 points
response,
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

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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

Average level: The student participated regularly in the

This criterion speaking sessions.
represents 30 If your work is at this level, you can get between 12 points
points of the total and 15 points
of 100 points of
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