Universidad Nacional Abierta y a Distancia

Vicerrectoría Académica y de Investigación

Course: English IV
Code: 518009

Activity Guide and Evaluation Rubric – Task 4 - My past and my future

1. Activity Description

Type of activity: Independent

Evaluation moment: Initial
Highest score of the activity: 25 points
The activity starts on: Thursday, October The activity ends on: Sunday, November 7,
7, 2021 2021
With this activity, you are expected to achieve the following learning outcome(s):

Produce simple connected text on topics, which are familiar, or of personal interest and in
standard language with issues that are known to them by narrating their life experiences.

The activity consists of:

Individually:

1. Each student must write a brief summary of his/her own story life. Include
minimum five meaningful experiences you have had with deep descriptions.
Use the platform my access. Look at the tutorials:

a. https://resources.vantage.com/wp-content/uploads/1-What-is-MY-
Access.mp4
b. https://resources.vantage.com/wp-content/uploads/Touring-the-MA-
Tools.mp4
c. https://resources.vantage.com/wp-content/uploads/Student-
Portfolio.mp4
d. https://resources.vantage.com/wp-content/uploads/Revision-Plan.mp4
e. MY Access! Student Resources:
https://resource.vantage.com/display/MA2/MY+Access%21+Student+Res
ources

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 Note: The username and password is your ID number.

When the feedback of the platform my access reports no error of your writing
composition, you can proceed to use this composition to create a storyboard. This will
be the script for a “draw my life” video: you will create for the next step:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6KVldLs8vFM.
Download the storyboard template here:
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1Zd7nRLo3UehY9g7UwlEtnMjAhgV0Cx05?usp=sharing

2. With your storyboard, create an animated story your life with the “draw my life”
style. The video must be minimum 4 minutes long.
Tutorials:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ZJD3o0j3LA
https://es.wikihow.com/hacer-un-video-%22Draw-my-life%22

3. Post your video in the forum. Make meaningful comments about your partners´ work.

4. Speaking sessions: Continue with your active participation in the speaking

sessions by skype.

Collaborative:

5. Group work: create a script for a radio soap opera, include parts of the five stories
posted in the forum, and describe the situations and the characters. Upload the

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 script of a chapter of the soap opera in the forum.

Name of the soap opera:

Theme:
Context/locations:
Characters (include descriptions):
Audience: Children/ adolescents or adults
Dialogues:

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6. Record with the group the radio soap opera. Each student must have at least one
character.
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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 2.

In the Evaluation Environment, you must: Upload your final work Task 4 My past and my
future.
Evidence of independent work:

The individual evidence to be submitted is:

Post in the forum the following products:

The screenshot with “My access” results.

The storyboard of your life story
The link of the video “draw my life”

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 storyboard of the life story of each student
3. The links of the video “draw my life” of each student
4. The script of the soap opera made by the group
5. The recording of the soap opera made by the group
6. References

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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
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.
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3. Evaluation Rubric Template

Type of activity: In Collaborative Group

Evaluation moment: Intermediate Unit 2
The highest score in this activity is 100 points
First evaluation
criterion:

Essay and
High level: The student made the essay of his/her life in the
story board
platform my access and the storyboard with accuracy in
of his/her
grammar and spelling, cohesion, and coherence, including past
life.
tenses.
If your work is at this level, you can get between 18 points
Task achievement,
and 20 points
task response,
coherence and
Average level: The student made the essay the platform my
cohesion, lexical
access and the storyboard with some mistakes in grammar and
resource,
spelling and shallow descriptions.
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 story board
represents 20
If your work is at this level, you can get between 1 point
points of the
and 3 points
total
of 100 points of
the activity.
Second High level: The student did a creative “Draw my life” video.
evaluation Speaking skill, fluency, lexical resource, grammatical
criterion: accuracy, and pronunciation are appropriate according to the
level.
“Draw my life” If your work is at this level, you can get between 25
video. points and 30 points

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Creativity of the Average level: The student did “Draw my life” video.
elements and Nevertheless, speaking skill, fluency, lexical resource,
images grammatical accuracy, and pronunciation are not appropriate
included. according to the level.
If your work is at this level, you can get between 13 points
Speaking skill and 15 points
fluency, lexical
resource, Low level: The student did not do the “Draw my life” video. If
grammatical your work is at this level, you can get between 1 point
accuracy, and and 3 points
pronunciation

This criterion
represents 30
points of the total
of 100 points of
the activity.
Third evaluation
criterion: High level: The group did the script of the soap opera with the
essential information of their individual stories, and the
Radio soap suggested elements. The structure of the product is accurate.
opera script. If your work is at this level, you can get between 8 points
and 10 points
Task achievement,
task response, Average level: The group did the script of the soap opera with
coherence and some missing information of their individual stories, and some
cohesion, lexical of the suggested elements. The structure of the product is not
resource, grammar accurate.
range and If your work is at this level, you can get between 5 points
accuracy, creative and 7 points
elements.
Low level: The group did not do the script of the radio soup
This criterion opera.
represents 10 If your work is at this level, you can get between 1 point
points of the and 3 points
total

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of 100 points of
the activity.
Fourth High level: The group did the audio of the radio soap opera
evaluation with fluency, lexical resource, grammatical accuracy, and
criterion: pronunciation appropriate according to the level.

Radio soap If your work is at this level, you can get between 8
opera audio. points and 10 points

Speaking skill Average level: The group did the audio of the radio soap
fluency, lexical opera with fluency, lexical resource, grammatical accuracy,
resource, and pronunciation not so appropriate according to the level.
grammatical
accuracy, and If your work is at this level, you can get between 5
pronunciation points and 7 points

This criterion Low level: The group did not do the audio for the radio soup
represents 10 opera.
points of the total
of 100 points of If your work is at this level, you can get between 1 point
the activity. and 3 points
Fifth evaluation
High level: The student participated actively in the speaking
criterion:
sessions.
If your work is at this level, you can get between 25
Speaking sessions
points and 30 points
This criterion
Average level: The student participated regularly in the
represents 30
speaking sessions.
points of the total
If your work is at this level, you can get between 12
of 100 points of
points and 15 points
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