Universidad Nacional Abierta y a Distancia

Vicerrectoría Académica y de Investigación

Course: English I
Code: 518002

Activity Guide and Evaluation Rubric – Task 6 My experiences

1. Activity Description

Type of activity: Collaborative

Evaluation moment: Intermediate Unit 3
Highest score of the activity: 75 points
The activity starts on: Monday, October The activity ends on: Sunday, November
31, 2022 27, 2022
With this activity, you are expected to achieve the following learning
outcomes:

Learning outcome 1: To use a basic repertoire of simple words and phrases related to
your personal data and specific situations through short written communicative acts.

Learning outcome 3: To comprehend basic familiar names, words, and simple

sentences from written sources such as posters, catalogues, and basic written news.

The activity consists of:

1. Go to the E-book and study the Unit 3. Develop the exercises there. These
exercises are just for practice, so you don’t need to send them or add
screenshots to the final document of the task.

2. Writing – From 31st October to 12th November

Write a short list of five you did last week and 3 things you didn’t do last week.
remember to use the verbs in past and to use a time expression: last week,
last Monday, last weekend, etc. Post your list in the Discussion Forum timely.

Example:
Last week, I went to my grandmother’s house.
Last weekend, I didn’t buy new clothes.

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3. Reading

Marie Sklodowska (Marie Curie) was a famous scientist. She was

born in (1) _______ in (2) _______.
She studied Physics and mathematics at the Sorbonne University in
Paris. She married Pierre Curie in (3) _______. Together the y
discovered (4) ________ and (5) _________ in 1898.
In 1903, the Curies received the Nobel Prize for Physics. Pierre died
in a car accident in (6) ________. Maire continued their work on
radium.
In 1911, she received the Nobel Prize for Chemistry.
She died of leukaemia in (7)________.

Taken from: Evans, V; Dooley, J. (2006) Enterprise 1. Express Publishing.

Read the text about Marie Curie. Complete the missing data looking for
information on the internet. Follow the next clues:
1- City, Country
2- Year
3- Year
4- Chemical element
5- Chemical element
6- Year
7- Year

4. Speaking

Record three questions in simple past, about the things your partners did or
didn’t last week (Speaking section of this guide).

You can record directly on the forum or paste a link from a Vocaroo recording
(or other recording platform).

Don’t write your questions on the forum.

Answer the questions you received. Record your answers directly on the forum
or use a link from a recording website.

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 5. Listening
Listen to the audio below and complete the chart (table) proposed. The painters’
names are given.

Audio: https://bit.ly/3HPCArN

Chart (Table):

Name of
the
painting
Painter Pierre-Auguste Leonardo da Edgar Degas Frans Hals
Renoir Vinci
Year
Painting

6. Create a final PDF document where there is the written paragraph, the answers
from the reading exercise, the link or links of your questions and answers (or
screenshot if possible), and the paintings table.

Use a cover page. Name the PDF file as: Task 6 Student’s name.

For the development of the activity consider that:

In the Initial Information Environment, you must:

Check the Course Agenda to be sure about starting and closing dates.

In the Learning Environment, you must:

Study the Unit 3 in the Booklet Guide to start learning English.

Post your written paragraph about your last week experiences.
Post your link or links of oral questions and answers.

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In the Evaluation Environment, you must:

Send the final PDF document to the corresponding link in Evaluation Environment.

Evidences of individual work:

The individual evidence to be submitted is:

A final PDF document where there is the written paragraph, the answers from the
reading exercise, the link or links of your questions and answers (or screenshot if
possible), and the paintings table.

Evidences of collaborative work:

The collaborative evidence to be submitted is:

The interaction with your partners in the forum.

2. General Guidelines for the Development of Evidences to Submit

For Individual evidences, consider the following:

Participate actively and timely on the forum.

Send your final PDF document with all the requirements, a cover page and a final
reference page to the correct link in Evaluation environment.

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

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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 85 points
First evaluation High level: The student proposes written texts regarding
criterion: simple past structures and logical relationships between events.
If your work is at this level, you can get between 15 points
Writing Exercise and 20 points

This criterion Average level: The text proposed by the student presents
represents 20 partial fulfillment of grammar structures in simple past and
points of the total coherence.
of 85 points of If your work is at this level, you can get between 9 points
the activity. and 14 points

Low level: The student doesn’t propose written text with total
coherence or grammar. The events are not related to the
requirements
If your work is at this level, you can get between 0 points
and 8 points
Second evaluation High level: The student identifies the contextual elements from
criterion: a written text and proposes information to complete the general
o complementary ideas.
Reading If your work is at this level, you can get between 15 points
and 20 points

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This criterion Average level: The student identifies some general ideas from
represents 20 written texts but doesn’t propose information or the ideas are
points of the total not relevant logically.
of 85 points of If your work is at this level, you can get between 9 points
the activity. and 14 points

Low level: The student doesn’t identify the elements from a

written texts and doesn’t propose new ideas or elements related
to those texts.
If your work is at this level, you can get between 0 points
and 8 points
Third evaluation High level: The student interprets and propose oral texts
criterion: through short questions and answers, regarding the simple past
structures and phonetic issues.
Speaking If your work is at this level, you can get between 18 points
and 25 points
This criterion
represents 25 Average level: The student partially interprets oral texts but
points of the total doesn’t propose his/her own oral production texts through short
of 85 points of sentences.
the activity. If your work is at this level, you can get between 10 points
and 17 points

Low level: The student doesn’t interpret oral texts, regarding

the pronunciation issues and is unable to produce oral
production sentences to interact with his/her partners.
If your work is at this level, you can get between 0
points and 9 points
Fourth evaluation High level: The student interprets oral production through
criterion: different recordings from authentic to learning material. The
student recognizes intention, variations, and can identify new
Listening words by the context.
If your work is at this level, you can get between 15 points
This criterion and 20 points
represents 20
points of the total Average level: The student partially interprets oral texts and
of 85 points of partially recognizes intention, variations, and new words.
the activity. If your work is at this level, you can get between 9 points
and 14 points

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Low level: The student poorly interprets oral texts, can’t
identify main elements and ideas, and there is no real
comprehension of pronunciation issues.
If your work is at this level, you can get between 0 points
and 8 points