Universidad Nacional Abierta y a Distancia

Vicerrectoría Académica y de Investigación

Course: English 2
Code: 90021

Activity Guide and Evaluation Rubric – Task 2 Writing task.

1. Activity Description
Type of activity: Collaborative
Evaluation moment: Intermediate Unit 1
Highest score of the activity: 120 points
The activity starts on: The activity ends on: Sunday,
Monday, September 6, 2021 September 26, 2021
With this activity, you are expected to achieve the following
learning outcomes:

The student will develop a reading comprehension exercise and writing activity,
with the objective they can use strategies that help them understand different
types of text and write with coherence, using the structures learned in the course
that allows
them better learning.
The activity consists of:
A reading comprehension exercise and writing activity, besides the students must
develop different practice activities from the E-book, to apply the knowledge in the
exercises asked in the guide.
For this task, the students must apply the phrasal verbs in a text written for them.

Tenga en cuenta que todas las unidades del curso se estudian y trabajan
desde el E-book o libro electrónico que encuentra en el ONLINE
CONTENT.
Módulos 1, 2 y 3, corresponden a la unidad 1
Módulos 4, 5 y 6, corresponde a la unidad 2
Para esta actividad, estaremos trabajando únicamente en el módulo 1 del E-
book.

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 Stage 1: Enter to E-book/Online Content.

Go to the Learning Environment, and enter to E-book / (Contenido en Linea) to develop the activitiesOnline
of the E-boo
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CheckthefollowingtutorialthatexplainshowtoworkintheE-book:

Stage 2: Practice of Topic 2

-Go to Module 1 of the E-book.

-Study the content of this module, and develop the practice activity of Topic 2.
-Send the screenshot that evidence the development of this. You must post it in the
Writing collaborative forum.
-Only one screenshot.
You can find the explanation of conditionals in the icon “Grammar” in the E-book.

Stage 3: Practice of Topic 3

-Develop the practice activity of Topic 3.

-Send the screenshot that evidence the development of this. You must post it in the
Writing collaborative forum.
-Only one screenshot.
Stage 4. Development of topics 5 and 7.

-Develop the activity of Topic 7.

-Send the screenshot that evidence the development of this. You must post it in the
Writing collaborative forum.
Then, go to the Icon “TEST” in the E-book, develop the test #1 of Module 1, and
take the screenshot when all the asnwers are correct. You must post it in the
Writing collaborative forum.

Stage 5: Apply the Future Factual Conditional

-Study the examples given in the icon “GRAMMAR”, using the Future Factual
Conditional or First Conditional.
-Taking into account the structure of Future factual conditional, write 10
sentences using the verbs you find in the box found below, choose ten of these
verbs; then publish the sentences in the Writing task forum. They must be
written for you, not copied from any web page.

This is an explanation of how to use the Future factual conditional:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xuUzXD1VTig

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Stage 6: Pre-reading

-Quickly scan the text of Module 1, Topic 10; read the title, and identify the
global features that make it up. Then complete the following chart:

Write in english the meaning of the

following
6 Phrasal verbs found in the heredar
reading: Come into:
Think Piensa en
back: Levantarse
Stand Sacar
up: Take Buscar
out: Look Repartir
up:
Hand out:

Underline these phrasal verbs in the text, take a screenshot and send this in
the Collaborative forum.

Stage 7: Reading

Read the text of Topic 10, underline the main idea of the reading (you can use
Word or any other tool), take a screenshot of this and publish this in the forum;
then answer the following questions:

1. What activities the students had to develop in the Italian class?

2. What is the main idea of the text, write with your word? Explain with your
own words.

Stage 8: Apply the phrasal verbs in a text.

Choose 7 phrasal verbs from the exercise of Topic 10 and Topic 11, and write a
text where you use them. You have to underline these phrasal verbs to distinguish
them in the text.
Example:
Two years ago my family and I were in Cartagena. We decided to go in my car because we wanted to
take advantage of it to visit many touristic places in that city. While we were in the car, we turned on
the radio and we were happy. I plugged in my cellphone in the car to take the pictures. We had three
hours traveling, suddenly our car broke down and we found down the motor was so hot.
I was worried but my husband calmed me down. We asked for a crane but they didn´t answer us.
After twenty minutes, they called back us and we explained our problem. When they got to the place,
they helped us and we could arrive at Cartagena. We ate out in a typical Caribbean food restaurant. In
the end, our trip was excellent.

You must publish your text written with the phrasal verbs in the Writing task forum.

Stage 9: Send your feedback

Each student must give feedback to one of his/her partners. The feedback must help
to improve the text of your partners. You must tell if it has something to improve or if
it is perfect and explain why.
Note: In case a student has sent his/her contribution on time but any other one
has sent his/her participation. This student must send a message inviting the group
member to participate and signing the due dates of the activity, besides he/she can
send a motivational message as a way to encourage the group member’s
participation.

Stage 10: Upload the final product

The final product must contain:

- Cover with your full name, course code, group number and name of the activity.
- The 4 screenshots of the E-book (Topics 2,3 7 and the test)
- 10 sentences in Future Factual Conditional (Stage 5)
- Chart of pre-reading (Stage 6)
- Answers of two questions (Stage7)
- Screenshot of the main idea
- The text with 7 phrasal verbs.
- The screenshot of the feedback to your partner.
- This product must be sent by Evaluation environment, in Task 2 -
Writing task forum - submit activity Assignment

END OF THE TASK!

For the development of the activity consider that:

In the Initial Information Environment, you must: review the course agenda
to work within the established dates.

In the Learning Environment, you must: Study all the English contents found in
the Online content - English level II, to develop each step that you find in the
guide. Besides, the students find the Activities guide and evaluation rubric with
all the instructions to develop, and the Writing task forum where the students
must socialize the development of each step indicated in the guide.

In the Evaluation Environment, you must: send the final Writing task, organized
in a PDF document, with all the steps required in the guide and with the cover
page.
Evidences of individual work:
The individual evidence to be submitted is: Development of the activities from the
stages 2 to 8.

Besides each student must publish the final task in a PDF document by
the Evaluation Environment.

Evidences of collaborative work:

The collaborative evidence to be submitted is:
Each student must give feedback to one of his/her partners in such a way that
contributes to improve the partners contribution, saying what to improve or if the
task is perfect or presents mistakes and explaining why.

2. General Guidelines for the Development of Evidences to Submit

For Individual evidences, consider the following:

- The 4 screenshots of the E-book practice activity (Topics 2,3 5 y 7)

- 10 sentences in Future Factual Conditional (Stage 5)
- Chart of pre-reading (Stage 6)
- Answers of two questions (Stage7)
- The text with 7 phrasal verbs.
- Feedback made in the forum.

For collaborative evidence, each student must give feedback to one of

his/her partners. This feedback must help to improve the contributions.

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 1
The highest score in this activity is 120 points
First High level: Develops the activity of stages 2, 3 and 4
evaluation according to the instructions given in the guide, and posts the
standard 4 screenshots, corresponding to each stage in the Writing
(Criterion): collaborative forum.
Development
of the Stages If your work is at this level, you will get from 13
2,3 points to 15 points
and 4
Medium level: Develops a part of the activities of stages 2,
3 and 4 according to the instructions given in the guide, and
posts five or fewer screenshots, corresponding to each
stage in the
Writing collaborative forum.
This
standard If your work is at this level, you will get from 7 points
represents to 12 points
15 scores of
the activity. Low level: Doesn’t develop any of the activities required in
the guide and doesn´t post any screenshot, corresponding to
each stage in the Writing collaborative forum.

If your work is at this level, you will get from 0 points

to 6 points

Second High level: Writes 10 sentences using the Future Factual

evaluation Conditional, taking into account the explanation of Topic 6.
standard Reading e-mail messages. They present correct grammatical
(Criterion): structure. Besides, he/she publishes them in the Writing task
Development of forum.
the Stage 5 If your work is at this level, you will get from 23
points to 25 points

Medium level: Writes only 8 or fewer sentences using

the
Future Factual Conditional, taking into account the
explanation of Topic 6. Reading e-mail messages. The
written sentences
This present some grammatical mistakes in the structure.
standard Besides, he/she only publishes part of the sentences.
represents If your work is at this level, you will get from 12
25 scores of points to 22 points
the activity
Low level: Doesn´t write any sentence using the Future
Factual Conditional, or the sentences that were developed
presented mistakes in grammatical structure. Besides, he/she
doesn´t publish them in the Writing task forum.

If your work is at this level, you will get from 0 points

to 11 points

Third High level: Develops the activities of stages 6 and 7

evaluation according to the instructions given in the guide, and posts 2
standard screenshots, corresponding to each stage in the Writing
(Criterion): collaborative forum.
Development  Writes a text applying the phrasal verbs chosen from
of the stages the exercise of Topic 10 and Topic 11. with coherence
6, 7 and cohesion, correct grammatical structure and the
and 8 recommended vocabulary.
 Publishes the written text with ten phrasal verbs in the
Writing collaborative forum.

This If your work is at this level, you will get from 38

standard points to 40 points
represents
40 scores of Medium level: Develops partially the activities of stages 6
the activity and 7 according to the instructions given in the guide, and
posts only one screenshot, corresponding to only one stage in
the Writing collaborative forum.
 Writes a text applying the phrasal verbs chosen from
the exercise of Topic 10 and Topic 11. but it presents
mistakes in the grammatical structure, the ideas
are not clear applying only a part of the recommended
vocabulary.
 Publishes the written text with mistakes in the Writing
collaborative forum.

If your work is at this level, you will get from 19

points to 37 points
 Low level: Doesn´t develop the activities of stages 6 and 7
according to the instructions given in the guide, and didn´t
post the screenshots, corresponding to each stage in the
Writing collaborative forum.
 Doesn´t write the text applying the phrasal verbs
chosen from the exercise of Topic 10 and Topic 11.
 Doesn´t publish the written text with ten phrasal verbs
in the Writing collaborative forum.

If your work is at this level, you will get from 0 points

to 18 points

High level: Gives feedback to one of his/her partners. The

feedback helps to improve the text of his/her partners, saying
what to improve or if the task is perfect or presents mistakes
and explains why.
If your work is at this level, you will get from 17
Fourth points to 20 points
evaluation
standard Medium level: Gives feedback to one of his/her partners,
(Criterion): but it doesn´t help to improve the text of his/her partners, it
Development of doesn´t say what to improve or if the task is perfect or
the stage 9 presents mistakes.

If your work is at this level, you will get from 8 points

to 16 points
This
standard Low level: Doesn´t give feedback to one of his/her partners.
represents He/she doesn´t say what to improve or if the task is perfect
20 scores of or presents mistakes and explains why.
the activity
If your work is at this level, you will get from 0 points
to 7 points

Fifth High level: Uploads the final task by the Evaluation

evaluation environment with all the steps requires in the guide and in
standard each stage.
(Criterion):
Development If your work is at this level, you will get from 17
of the Stage points to 20 points
10
 Medium level: Uploads the final task by the Evaluation
This environment with only some of the steps requires in the
standard guide and in each stage.
represents If your work is at this level, you will get from 8 points
20 scores of to 16 points
the activity
Low level: Doesn´t upload the final task by the Evaluation
environment with any of the steps requires in the guide and
in each stage.
If your work is at this level, you will get from 0 points
to 7 points