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1. Activity Description
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.
Write about one member of your family. List three things he/she did last week
and 3 things he/she 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, My mother to my grandmother’s house.
• Last weekend, my mom didn’t buy new clothes.
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3. Reading
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- Disease
8- Year
4. Speaking
Record three questions in simple past, about the things your partners’ family
did or didn’t do last week (Writing section of this guide).
You can record directly on the forum or paste a link from a Vocaroo recording
(or other recording platform).
Answer the questions you received. Record your answers directly on the forum
or use a link from a recording website. Don’t write your answers.
5. Listening
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Listen to the audio below and complete the chart (table) proposed. The painters’
names are given. There are two missing pieces of information, you should search
them on the internet.
Audio: https://bit.ly/3HPCArN
Table:
Table 1 Listening
Name of
the
painting
Painter Pierre-Auguste Leonardo da Edgar Degas Frans Hals
Renoir Vinci
Year
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.
Check the Course Agenda to be sure about starting and closing dates.
Send the final PDF document to the corresponding link in Evaluation Environment.
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Evidences of individual work:
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.
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)
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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.
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
This criterion
represents 20 Average level: The student identifies some general ideas from
points of the total written texts but doesn’t propose information or the ideas are
of 85 points of not relevant logically.
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 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
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