CA5.2 What Does the Future Hold?

: Visions of the future

Pre-tasks

1. Start by doing the self-correcting exercises which you can find in the classroom in the
Resources section: What does the future hold?: Visions of the Future. As you are
working through the exercises, take note of any new language you learn. You will need this to
prepare the Tasks below.

When you have finished, share one thing that you have learnt from these resources (e.g.
vocabulary, expressions or grammar) to the I have learnt something today folder in the
Forum.

2. Prepare for Task 1: writing a section of a campaign website in groups.

In this task, you and your group will work together to produce part of a campaign website for
a candidate in an upcoming election. As part of a campaign, you will need to persuade the
reader/voter that your candidate is the most suitable candidate for the job!

In the classroom, go to the Discussion area in the Work group space. As a group, please
do the following:

1. Choose a spokesperson for your group. The spokesperson should organize the
group’s work in the following stages:

Group work document

● Go into the Classroom Drive Folder and create a folder named Group
Name_20222, e.g., Sherlock_20222.
● Create a Google doc inside the group folder named Group
Name_20222_Campaign and copy/paste a link in your Work Group area.

2. Decide which one of the following campaigns you will do:

a. candidate for the class representative (in a school, this UOC class, etc.)
b. candidate for the presidency of a (local or national) sports club
c. candidate for king or queen of carnival
3. Choose a candidate. The candidate can be real or fictional.
4. Decide which four areas will be covered on the campaign website. For example, if
the campaign is for the carnival king, you could talk about the theme (including the
costumes and the decoration of the float), the people who will be in the king’s
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entourage, the dancing and performances and the different events the king will
attend.
5. Make proposals for each of the four areas covered on the website, explaining what
you will do, how it will be different to previous years and what the expected impact
will be.
6. Organize your campaign website by assigning one area to each group member.
7. Tell the teacher when the first draft of your campaign is finished and wait for your
teacher to give you feedback.
8. As a group, incorporate your teacher’s feedback into your group writing until you’re
satisfied with the final result.
9. After having incorporated feedback from your teacher on your google doc, create a
website using Google Sites in your group folder. This will be the final version of
your group’s campaign. What you need to do is explained in
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1sFQ5QQ0HNsfbnfhG4lrA2LJq907n4j2x/view?usp=sh
aring

NOTE: If you receive an email alert saying that you cannot share documents with everyone
at the @uoc.edu domain, you should just ignore this. Your classmates will still be able to
view the site.

10. If you like, you can make your website more attractive by adding media, such as
images, videos, audios, or links to external sites. If you need help, see
https://bit.ly/3cLnqUj. Please note that you will be assessed on your writing and not on
the attractiveness of your website.

11. Publish the link to the final campaign website in the CA5 Visions folder in the
Forum.

You may find the following Organisational Chart useful for organizing yourselves.

ORGANISATIONAL CHART

Name Area to be covered Ideas Finish date

on the website Class rep. candidate: Bart Simpson

1 Short semester, holidays, ..

2 Exams, homework, ..

3 Class rules, punctuality bonus, ..

4 Perks: free parking,discount card, ..

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Task 1

Overview
Task type To do Where Length % CA mark
Group Campaign Google 800 words (20+10)=30*
website doc/ Forum (total website)

*There are two marks for this task. Group writing mark (20%) and an individual editing participation
mark (10%). For more information on this, see CA MARKS below.

Remember that your writing must be 100% original and that you should not receive external
help when preparing your text. Your work will be run through the plagiarism detection
software used by the UOC. If your writing is found not to be 100% original, you will
automatically fail the subject.

In this task, your group will work together to write part of a campaign website, making use of
the required language focus.

Here is a reminder of the key points for this task:

1. Each group member should write their individual part of the campaign website in the
Google Document. Please indicate which part is yours by writing your name above your
paragraph! Each person needs to write approximately 200 words.
2. Your teacher will give feedback on some of the text in the Google document.
3. Look at your teacher's comments and work together to edit the campaign
website. Give suggestions and discuss possible changes. Look at the whole text,
not just your personal written contribution. Do not delete or make changes to other
students’ work! Use the “Insert comment” or “Suggesting” function.
4. The chart below contains some of the key points to check. Decide in your group who
will review which point.

Name Grammar point Points to pay attention to:

Have the right verb tenses been used (e.g.

Verbs to express the future)? Are they consistent
with their singular or plural subjects?

Do all the verbs have a subject? Are the

pronouns consistent with the nouns (i.e.
Subjects and singular/plural; masculine/feminine/neutral)?
pronouns Do any of the verbs have a “double subject”
(e.g. “this it is good” should be either “this is
good” or “it is good”)?

Are the sentences complete, i.e. do they

Sentence have a subject and verb (and object if

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structure required)? Do they need to be split into

smaller units?

Is the subject before the verb? Is the object

Word order after the verb? Do you need to change the
word order for questions?

You should all also look at other areas such as articles, prepositions, vocabulary (e.g.
avoiding repetition and false friends).

LANGUAGE FOCUS

For this task you will need to use the following structures in the CA5 self-study resources:
Visions of the future: describing the future. When you write your campaign website, pay
special attention to your use of future structures.

ASSESSMENT CRITERIA
Please see Assessment and Feedback in the classroom.

5.2 CA MARKS

There are two marks for this task:

1.A group writing mark where all group members who actively participate in creating the
campaign website receive the same mark (20%)

2. An individual editing participation mark (10%)

NOTE
You do not qualify for a group writing mark (20%) by simply belonging to a group, you must
submit your part of the writing to get a mark. If you fail to submit your part of the campaign
website, your mark will be 0. Similarly, you do not qualify for the individual editing mark (10%)
if you do not help throughout the editing process. If you fail to help in the editing process,
your mark will be 0.

Task 2

Q & A (FORUM)

Read at least two of your classmates’ group campaign websites and think about them
carefully as you read. Think of a question to ask them about what you’ve read. Then, post
your responses to the Forum.

You can ask questions about the content of their websites or ask them to clarify something
you didn’t understand.

Feel free to continue responding to your classmates in a dialogue!