Universidad Nacional Abierta y a Distancia

Vicerrectoría Académica y de Investigación

Course: English II
Code: 518007

Activity Guide and Evaluation Rubric – Task 7 Create a Prezi presentation

about comparatives and superlatives.
1. Activity Description

Type of activity: Collaborative

Evaluation moment: Intermediate Unit 3
Highest score of the activity: 75 points
The activity starts on: Tuesday, The activity ends on: Monday, November
November 3, 2020 30, 2020
With this activity, you are expected to achieve the following
learning outcomes:

Learning outcome 3: Demonstrate comprehension of shorts audios or

videos related to areas of most immediate personal relevance when basic
everyday vocabulary and expressions are used.
Learning outcome 4: Identify specific and explicit information from short
and simple written texts on familiar matters through various reading tasks.
The activity consists of:

Part 1 Individual activity

-Study the contents in the E-Book:
  Unit 10 - It was an accident
  Unit 11 – Sports
 Unit 12 - International Travel

Now, go to the collaborative forum

1. Choose one of the topics proposed in the document: “Annex Task 7 - Topics
for comparisons”. Write a post in the forum to present the chosen topic to your
partners, so that they have to choose a different one.

2. Write a short paragraph to describe the chosen topic. After, write at least 5
comparative sentences, 3 comparisons of equality and 3 superlative sentences
about it. Post this description in the forum. Don’t attach any file, write the
texts directly in the forum.

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3. Check your partners’ descriptions and make comments about them in order
to improve their descriptions.

4. After your partners’ revision and comments, edit your text (if necessary) and
copy your description and the sentences about comparisons in a power point file
and post it in the forum. Use photos to show the items you describe

Part 2 Collaborative activity

1. The group design a power point presentation in which you all include each
participant’s descriptions and comparisons with photos (from 10 to 15 slides).
Post this presentation in the forum for final group revision.

2. Explore the Prezi presentation website at www.prezi.com . Create a free account

in https://prezi.com/pricing/ . Look for the free accounts on the basic label on
top and start creating the group presentation.

3. All the forum participants need to design, as the group’s product, a Prezi
presentation to include the descriptions and comparisons made about each one
of the proposed topics.

4. Talk to your partners in the collaborative group and decide who is going to be
the submitter.

5. After creating the presentation, the group’s submitter must post it in the forum.

6. The final group’s document will be the group’s power point presentation in which
you include at the end of it the link of the Prezi presentation. The submitter student
sends this document to the evaluation environment. He or she must take a
screenshot and post it in the forum to prove that the task has been submitted.

Part 3: Speaking Encounters*

Continue participating in 2 English Speaking Sessions per week via skype or

hangouts (Use of video camera and microphone is mandatory).
- Talk and participate actively during your session. Your grade will depend on
your participation.
*Note: You don’t need to send evidence for this part because your tutor will
report your participation in the encounters.
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 For the development of the activity consider that:
In the Initial Information Environment, you must:
Check the date for the web conference related to unit 3.

In the Learning Environment, you must:

-Study the suggested content from the E-book
-Share in the forum the descriptions and comparison you wrote.
-Check your partners’ written texts and make comments about them in order
to improve their texts.
-Contribute with the creation of the prezi presentation of the group.

In the Evaluation Environment, you must:

The submitter must send the finally document that is the group’s power point
presentation in which you include at the end of it the link of the Prezi presentation

Evidences of individual work:

No individual evidence is required in this activity.

Evidences of collaborative work:

The collaborative evidence to be submitted is:

The group’s power point presentation in which you include at the end of it the link
of the Prezi presentation.

2. General Guidelines for the Development of Evidences to Submit

For Collaborative evidences, consider the following:

 All members of the group must participate with their contributions in the
development of the activity.
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 In each group a single member will be chosen to submit the requested product in
the environment indicated by the teacher.
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 Before submitting the requested product, students should check that it meets
all the requirements mentioned in this activity guide.
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 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.

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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: Collaborative Evaluation

moment: Intermediate Unit 3 The highest
score in this activity is 75 points
First evaluation High level: The Prezi presentation compiles the stories of the
criterion: Form collaborative group members who participated in the activity.
criteria The presentation is organized. Font color and type allow the
easy reading of the content and the images are related to the
-The Prezi ideas in the text.
presentation If your work is at this level, you can get between 9 points
and 15 points

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 Average level: The Prezi presentation compiles the stories of
This criterion the collaborative group; however, it is sometimes difficult to
represents 15 read the content because of the font color or type and some of
points of the total the images are not related to the ideas in the text.
of 75 points of If your work is at this level, you can get between 4 points
the activity. and 8 points

Low level: The group didn't send the final document.

If your work is at this level, you can get between 0
points and 3 points
Second evaluation High level: The description is related to the audio and image
criterion: of the selected topic. The superlative and comparative forms of
Content criteria the adjectives are correctly used in the sentences. There are no
spelling mistakes.
-Use of superlative If your work is at this level, you can get between 17 points
and comparative and 20 points
adjectives to
compare the Average level: The description is related to the audio and
characteristics of image of the selected topic. Some of the superlative or
comparative forms of the adjectives are not correctly used in the
objects, animals,
sentences. There are some spelling mistakes.
and people.
If your work is at this level, you can get between 11 points
This criterion and 16 points
represents 20
points of the total Low level: The description isn't related to the audio and image
of 75 points of of the selected topic. The superlative and comparative forms of
the adjectives are not used in the sentences. There are many
the activity.
spelling mistakes. .
If your work is at this level, you can get between 0
points and 10 points
Third evaluation High level: The student interacts on the forum by posting the
criterion: story and sharing feedback messages about the texts of the
Participation group members. He or she contributes to the design of the Prezi
criteria presentation.
If your work is at this level, you can get between 8 points
-Interaction on the and 10 points
forum and
contribution to the Average level: The student interacts on the forum by posting
the story but he or she doesn't give feedback about the texts of

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design of the Prezi the group members. He or she doesn't contribute to the design
presentation of the Prezi presentation.
If your work is at this level, you can get between 3 points
This criterion and 7 points
represents 10
points of the total Low level: The student doesn’t interact on the forum although
of 75 points of his or her story appears in the Prezi presentation. Or the student
the activity. doesn’t interact at all.
If your work is at this level, you can get between 0
points and 2 points
Fourth evaluation High level: The student has participated in at least 7 or 8
criterion: speaking encounters.
If your work is at this level, you can get between 25 points
Speaking and 30 points
encounters
participation Average level: The student has participated in at least 4 or 6
speaking encounters.
If your work is at this level, you can get between 15 points
This criterion and 24 points
represents 30
points of the total Low level: The student has participated in 3 or less speaking
of 75 points of encounters. Or the student has not participated in any
the activity. encounter.
If your work is at this level, you can get between 0
points and 14 points