Universidad Nacional Abierta y a Distancia

Vicerrectoría Académica y de Investigación

Course: English B1
Code: 900003

Activity Guide and Evaluation Rubric – Task 4 Speaking Production

1. Activity Description

Type of activity: Individual

Evaluation moment: Intermediate Unit 2
Highest score of the activity: 70 points
The activity starts on: Saturday, The activity ends on: Friday, October
October 2, 2021 29, 2021
With this activity, you are expected to achieve the following learning
outcomes:

To express in an oral way the students’ personal, educational, and professional

information using appropriate pronunciation, grammatical structures and the
vocabulary studied in the contents.
The activity consists of:

Individual activity
Step 1 – Speaking practice meeting.

We invite you to join your tutor and classmates in this meeting where you will practice
your communicative abilities in English simulating a job interview. In this space you
can ask your tutor about your sentences and your pronunciation as a preparation
before you record the video.

INSTRUCTIONS

1.1. Check the content of Units 1 (module 1 & 2) & Unit 2 (Module 3 & 4) from the E-
book.

1.2. Enter to the forum and check your tutor’s agenda. Each tutor will open an agenda
with different schedules for the student to set a date and hour to do the speaking
practice. Each student will get the link for the agenda in the forum and
through the email.

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 ATTENTION: It is the student’s responsibility to check the teacher’s agenda and
to register for the practice. Please register yourself on time and do not leave
for the last days of the activity so you can do a good speaking production
exercise.

1.3. Write a prompt with the questions and answers for the video simulating a job
interview. You should include Personal information (name, age, hometown,
marital status, occupation), hobbies, academic background, working
experience, personal qualities, skills, and weaknesses related to your job. (Use
the vocabulary studied in Task 2 – Writing production and the information shared
by your tutor in the forum).

JOB INTERVIEW PROMPT

• What is your name? My name is / I am…

• How old are you? I am ___ years old
• What is your hometown? I grew up in … (city).
• Where do you live? I live in…
• What is your marital status? I am…(married/single/divorced/widowed)
• What is your hobby? I enjoy …
• What is your profession / occupation? • I am a/an…
• Where do you live? I live in …
• Talk about your working experience. I have worked in…
• What is your academic background? I studied… / I am studying…
• What are your personal qualities? My personal qualities are…
• What are your skills and weaknesses? My skills are… / My weaknesses
are…
• What makes you the best candidate for this position/this job? I am a
good candidate because…
• What will we get if we hire you? If you hire me you will get/find/have…

1.4. Copy your text in this webpage https://www.naturalreaders.com/online/ and

listen to the pronunciation and repeat it as many times as you need to get the
correct pronunciation.

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 Watch this video about Natural readers: here

1.5. Meet your tutor through the link given on the schedule date and hour.
1.6. Take evidence from your practice meeting.

Individual activity
Step 2 – Making a video

2.1. With a partner make a video where both simulate a job interview. You must be
the person being interviewed. (Your partner can be a classmate, a friend, or a
family member). The duration of the video must approximately 2 minutes.

Here you can see an example made by the tutors of the course:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9fUzrASf-zU

The interviewer must make questions related to Personal information like name,
age, hometown, marital status, occupation, academic background, hobbies, working
experience, personal qualities, skills, and weaknesses related to a job. (Use the
questions posted for the Speaking practice meeting -Job interview prompt-).

2.2. The video must be uploaded to YouTube or Vimeo or any cloud storage
(OneDrive, Dropbox, Google Drive).

2.3. Publish the link for the video in the forum so your tutor and your classmates can
give you feedback.

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2.4. Check your classmates’ videos and make 2 comments about the activity. Include
information that needs to be considered and point out mistakes. Write about your
experience in the meeting and with the program natural readers.

TIPS FOR YOUR COMMENTS:

Your comments to your classmates are important for this task. They will be
evaluated on the second criterion of this task. Keep in mind that you can get 10
points:
Here are some tips to get the highest score on your comments.
Do not write “good job” “excellent”, etc…
Write instead:

• Your video is very complete….

• I recommend you to practice…
• Check this sentence “ “ because there is a grammar mistake;
remember that….
• Check the pronunciation of the word “ “

A comment is not to write a compliment, not just saying “good work”, this will not be
graded as a comment.

ATTENTION: The student must participate in the practice meeting before uploading
the video.

For the development of the activity consider that:

In Initial Information Environment, you must: Check for the initial and closing
dates.

In Learning Environment, you must: Enter to the E book/Online English contents

and study the topics from Module 1 to Module 4. Participate and upload the video in
the forum of the activity.

In Evaluation Environment, you must: Upload the final document with the
evidence from the speaking practice meeting and the video link. Remember the
product of this activity must comply with APA style for references.

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Evidence of individual work:
The individual evidence to be submitted is:
Final document in PDF containing:
• A video in English simulating an interview uploaded in the forum.
• Picture from the speaking practice meeting with the tutor.

Evidence of collaborative work:

No collaborative evidence is required in this activity.

2. General Guidelines for the Development of Evidence to Submit

For Individual evidence, consider the following:

• Before delivering the requested product, all the requirements indicated in
this activity guide must be checked.
• Before uploading the video, the students must attend the speaking practice
meeting with the tutor.

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.

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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: Individual

Evaluation moment: Intermediate Unit 2
The highest score in this activity is 70 points
First evaluation High level: The video recording is understandable and well-
criterion: presented. It has a good quality in sound and images.
If your work is at this level, you can get between 6 points
Formal assessment and 10 points.

The video is well Average level: The video has sound or image problems but
structured, with do not interfere with the message.
good quality, nice If your work is at this level, you can get between 3 points
images, and good and 6 points.
sound.
Low level: The quality of the video is not good, and the
This criterion message is difficult to understand. The student did not send the
represents 10 video.
points of the total
of 70 points of If your work is at this level, you can get between 0
the activity. points and 2 points
Second
High level: Participations are relevant, articulated and
evaluation
contribute to the improvement of the classmates’ videos. The
criterion:
contributions are posted according to the schedule.
Participation
If your work is at this level, you can get between 6 points
Assessment
and 10 points.
The student
Average level: There is minimum participation in the writing
provides clear and
forum and/or the comments made do not help in the
useful input for the
improvement of the videos.
classmates to
If your work is at this level, you can get between 3 points
improve their
and 6 points.
videos.

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This criterion Low level: The student did not participate at all in the
represents 10 forum.
points of the total If your work is at this level, you can get between 0
of 70 points of points and 2 points
the activity.
Third evaluation
criterion:
High level: The student publishes the video in the forum in the
time stipulated.
Participation
If your work is at this level, you can get between 6 points
Assessment
and 10 points.
The student
Average level: The student publishes the video in the last 3
publishes the video
days of the activity.
in the time
If your work is at this level, you can get between 3 points
stipulated.
and 6 points.
This criterion
Low level: The student did not send the video.
represents 10
If your work is at this level, you can get between 0
points of the total
points and 2 points
of 70 points of
the activity.
Fourth evaluation High level: The student plans, prepares and participates
criterion: actively in the synchronous Skype meeting. He knows and
handles the topic to be discussed in the interview.
Participation If your work is at this level, you can get between 6 points
Assessment and 10 points.

The student Average level: The student schedules the interview off dates
participates in the without justification and/or does not know the elements of
interview. practice and the topic to be discussed in the interview. The
(Speaking practice speech is completely memorized or read.
meeting) If your work is at this level, you can get between 3 points
and 6 points.
This criterion
represents 10 Low level: The student did not participate in the interview
points of the total with the tutor.
of 70 points of If your work is at this level, you can get between 0 points
the activity. and 2 points
Fifth evaluation High level: The student pronounces and articulates the words
criterion: used in the dialogue fluently and correctly. He has intonation

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 and accentuates the words and prayers that achieve the full
Content assessment understanding of the answers he is giving. The pronunciation is
smooth with natural intonation.
The student speaks If your work is at this level, you can get between 6 points
fluently and and 10 points.
correctly.
(Video &/or Average level: The student has errors of pronunciation that
speaking practice greatly hinder the understanding of the discourse.
meeting) The pronunciation is influenced by Spanish. It presents little
fluency, lack of intonation and accentuation in its responses.
If your work is at this level, you can get between 3 points
and 6 points.
This criterion
represents 10 Low level:
points of the total The student did not participate in the interview.
of 70 points of If your work is at this level, you can get between 0
the activity. points and 2 points
Sixth evaluation High level: The student gives his speech considering the
criterion: elements such as grammatical structures and vocabulary of
Content assessment the level. May present minimal errors that do not affect
understanding.
The student uses If your work is at this level, you can get between 6 points
the grammatical and 10 points.
structures and
vocabulary Average level: The student gives his speech with some
proposed. grammatical and syntactic aspects of the level; however, it
(Video &/or presents some grammatical errors that affect the
speaking practice understanding and/or evidence influence of the Spanish
meeting) language in its orality.
If your work is at this level, you can get between 3 points
This criterion and 6 points.
represents 10
points of the total Low level: The student did not participate in the activity.
of 70 points of If your work is at this level, you can get between 0
the activity. points and 2 points
Seventh
High level: The student understands and answers questions
evaluation
properly and incorporates them naturally without the need for
standard
repetition. Recognizes the instructions during the dialogue and
Content assessment
responds fluently.

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The student If your work is at this level, you can get between 6
understands and points to 10 points.
answers the
questions made by Medium level:
the tutor using an The student does not answer the questions in English and/or
adequate structure presents difficulties in understanding them. Requires constant
of the language. repetition and/or does not understand all the instructions.
(Video &/or Needs translation to understand the dialogue.
speaking practice If your work is at this level, you can get between 3
meeting) points to 6 points.

This criterion Low level

represents 10 The student did not participate in the activity.
points of the total If your work is at this level, you can get between 0
of 70 points of the points to 2 points
activity.