Universidad Nacional Abierta y a Distancia

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Only guide to develop the practical component of English
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1. General information of the practical component.

Learning strategy: Task based learning

Course type: Methodological
Evaluation moment: Intermediate
Maximum score of the component: 90 points
Number of activities of the component in this guide: 1
With this component, it is expected to achieve the following
learning results:
The student will be able to introduce orally as part of the
communicative competence in English through making a video and
an interview with his tutor.

2. Activity general description of the practical component.

Stages of the practical component: With ICT support

Type of activity: Independent
Activity number: 4
Maximum score of the activity: 90 points
Activity starting date: Activity deadline: Sunday,
Monday, October 18th, 2021 November 28th, 2021
The resources you need to develop the activity are the
following:

Activity guide
Online dictionaries
Skype
WhatsApp
Zoom
Meet
Ebook

The activity lies in:

Stage 1 – Recording a video and pronunciation practices

1.1 Check and study the Ebook “Level A1” Module 7 to Module 12
(Learning Environment).
1.2 Record a video where you appear. The length of the video is up
to 90 seconds. Any software or app can be used to record the video.
It must include:

a. Personal Presentation: name, age, city where you live, program

you study, place where you work, and others information you want to
share.
b. Description of your house using There is and There are and
prepositions in, on, under, next to, behind.
Take into account that for no reason a video where the student
appears reading won’t be accepted because the aim of this task is to
speak in English.
c. The video link must be loaded in YouTube or Vimeo or any other
virtual storage device (OneDrive, Dropbox, Google Drive) and share
the link in the forum of this task making sure that the video can be
watched.

1.3 Develop the following Ebook exercises, take the screenshots

and share in the fórum directly and make a recoding Reading
the texts in MP3 or MP format:
• Module 8 – Exercise 16

• Module 9 – Exercise 12
Take screenshots of these practices and share them in the forum
directly. Recordings must be sent in MP3 or MP4.

1.4 Check in the forum your partners’ videos and audios and make 3
meaningful comments (appreciations, corrections, etc.) It is
important to send the video link in the forum before the oral interview.

Stage 2 – Oral synchronous interview in English

2.1 In order to develop the synchronous meeting, your tutor will offer
different schedules taking into account the dates established in the
Course Agenda sharing a drive that you will find in the fórum and
some of the tools available will be used: Skype, Meet, Zoom, etc.

Important: You must access and register timely in the drive choosing
one of the schedule according to your availability. Don’t forget that it
is very difficult to find free schedules in last days.

2.2 The topic of the interview is your personal presentation in English

(3 to 4 minutes). This information must include age, occupation, place
of birth, city where you live, hobbies, likes, marital status, habits,
routines and others.
Then a dialogue between tutor and student will be carried out where
questions and answers about your house decription. Here you can find
an example: http://bit.ly/2KOw1dr

2.3 Log in the tool selected the day you chose 15 minutes before the
time to develop the interview. To start you must greet the tutor by
chat saying you are ready. You must not call the tutor without tutor’s
authorization.
Here it is an example where you can see both stages of the:
http://bit.ly/2ILOm8x

Important: In case you have the chance to go to a CEAD, CCAV or

UDR where there is an INVIL tutor, you can perform the interview and
he will send a report via email to the course director. It consists of
your personal data (full name, number of group, tutor’s name), grade
and feedback.

Note: You can use the following websites in order to practice your
pronunciation:
https://www.readspeaker.com/
https://www.howtopronounce.com/
To develop this activity, consider:
At initial information environment, you must: Check the Course
Agenda.
At evaluation environment, you must: Share the link of the video and
screenshots of practices. Every student must make at least 2
comments about the videos of his partners’ recordings.

At learning environment, you must: Load individually the PDF format

paper including link of the video, screenshots of practices and
comments shared in the forum.

Take into account that the final task must be a product of your
ingenuity and creativity. For no reason tasks that are not original or
are taken from Internet will be accepted.
Individual work evidences:
The individual evidences to submit are:

In a PDF format each student must send the following:

- Front page with full name, code, program he/she studies and
group number, among others.

1. The link of the video describing the house according to the

guidelines and evidences of the post taken from the forum.
2. Screnshots of the practice exercises taken from the forum.
3. Evidence of meaningful comments abut the videos of your
partners (corrections, suggestions, etc).
4. Screnshot of the interview with your tutor.
5. If you cited, you must include Table of References.

This paper must be sent at the Evaluation Environment:

Group work evidences:

At this activity no evidences needed:

3. General guidelines for the development of the evidence to

submit

For evidence developed Individual, consider the following

guidelines:

1. Every member of the group must participate with academic

contributions in the activity development.
 2. Before delivering the requested product, all the requirements
indicated in this activity guide must be checked.

3. All tasks must take into account spelling rules and

requirements stated in the guide.

4. Every member must share meaningful contributions along the

activity.

5. Every member of the group are responsible for making

individual task requested.

Take into account that all individual or group written work must
fulfil with the orthographic rules and presentation conditions that
have been defined.
Concerning the use of references, consider that the requested work
in this activity must fulfil with the standards Elija un elemento.
In any case, the standards of reference must be complied.
Academic plagiarism must be avoided. Students can support the
written products by using the Turnitin tool found on the virtual
campus.

Consider that In the agreement 029 of December 13, 2013, article

99, it is considered as offenses that undermine the academic order,
among others, the following: literal e) “Plagiarism, that is,
submitting as of its own authorship the all or part of a work,
document or invention made by another person.

It also implies the use of quotes or false references, or proposing

quotes where there is no match between it and the reference ”and
literal f) “Reproducing or copying for profit, educational materials or
results of research products, which have intellectual rights reserved
for the University.

The academic sanctions the student will face are the following:

a) In cases of academic fraud demonstrated in the respective

academic work or evaluation, the grade that will be imposed will
be zero points without prejudice to the corresponding disciplinary
sanction.

b) In cases related to plagiarism demonstrated in the academic

work whatever its nature, the qualification that will be imposed will
be zero points, without prejudice to the corresponding disciplinary
sanction.
4. Evaluation rubric format

Type of activity: Independent

Activity number: 4

Moment of evaluation: Intermediate

Maximum score is 90 points
Items Performances
High level: The student posts the link of the video.
First
The recording is understandable and pronunciation
evaluation
is fluent with natural intonation.
standard:
If your work is at this level, you will get from
Formal and
11 points to 15 points
procedure
Medium level: The student posts the link of the
Stage 1
video but the recording is not understandable. The
Recording the
student reads the text instead of speaking naturally.
video
If your work is at this level, you will get from
5 points to 10 points

Low level: The student doesn’t record the video or

This standard
it is not according to the guidelines.
represents 15
If your work is at this level, you will get from
score of the
0 points to 5 points
activity
High level: The student makes his speech taking
Second
into account the grammar and vocabulary issues
evaluation
according to the level. There can be some tiny
standard:
mistakes that don’t influence on the
Content
comprehension.
If your work is at this level, you will get from
Stage 1
13 points to 20 points
Coherent
Medium level: The student makes his speech
construction of
taking into account the grammar issues according
sentences in the
to the level; however there are some grammar
video
mistakes that affect the correct comprehension
and/or Spanish influences too much on his speech.
If your work is at this level, you will get from
This standard
7 points to 12 points
represents 20
score of the Low level: The student doesn’t participate nor
activity present the interview. The student present the
interview but he is not well-prepared.
If your work is at this level, you will get from
0 points to 6 points
High level: The student participates in the forum
Third and contributes to improve his partners’ oral
evaluation performance. The student does and shares
standard: evidences of Ebook practices in the forum
Participation according to the guidelines.
and procedure If your work is at this level, you will get from
8 points to 10 points
Stage 1
Medium level: The student participates in the
Participation in forum but his comments don’t contribute to
the forum and improve his partner’s performance. The students
practices of does some Ebook practices and shares the
pronunciation evidence in the forum.
If your work is at this level, you will get from
5 points to 7 points

This standard Low level: The students doesn’t do nor share

represents 10 evidences in the forum the development of Ebook
score of the exercises.
activity If your work is at this level, you will get from
0 points to 4 points
High level: The student plans, prepares and
Fourth
participates appropriately in the synchronous
evaluation meeting. The student knows and uses the topics of
standard:
the interview.
Content and If your work is at this level, you will get from
procedure
11 points to 15 points
Stage 2
Medium level: The student schedules the interview
in different dates without any excuse and/or the
Responsibility
student doesn’t know the topics of the interview.
and preparation
The speech is read or said by heart.
for interview If your work is at this level, you will get from
4 points to 10 points

Low level: The student doesn’t schedule the

This standard interview. The student schedules the interview but
represents 15
he doesn’t attend.
score of the
If your work is at this level, you will get from
activity
0 points to 3 points
 High level: The student pronounces and articulates
fluently and appropriately the words and
expressions used in the dialogue. The student has
intonation and emphasis on words to get a better
comprehension of his speech. The student
understands and answers the questions properly
Fifth
without repetition. The student understands the
evaluation
instructions during the interview and answers
standard:
fluently.
Content
If your work is at this level, you will get from
20 points to 25 points
Stage 2
Pronunciation,
Medium level: There are pronunciation mistakes
listening and
that affect the comprehension of the speech. The
interaction in
pronunciation is influenced by Spanish. The
the interview
student’s fluency and pronunciation is not well. The
student doesn’t answer appropriately the questions
in English and/or has some difficulties to
understand. The student needs continuous
This standard
repetitions and/or doesn’t understand all the
represents 25
instructions. The student uses online translators.
score of the
If your work is at this level, you will get from
activity
6 points to 19 points

Low level: The student doesn’t participate nor

presents the interview.
If your work is at this level, you will get from
0 points to 6 points