Universidad Nacional Abierta y a Distancia

Vicerrectoría Académica y de Investigación

Course: English A2
Code: 900002

Activity guidelines and evaluation rubric – Task 4

- Oral production experience an activity.
1. Activity Description

Type of activity: Individual

Evaluation moment: Intermediate Unit 2
Highest score of the activity: 100 points
The activity starts on: Monday, October The activity ends on: Sunday, November
2, 2023 12, 2023
With this activity, you are expected to achieve the following learning
outcomes:

To express through a video, experiences in English using linguistic structures and

vocabulary according to the level, taking exercises and readings from the online
content as a reference.

The activity consists of:

Read all the directions in this guide and complete every activity directly in the
Discussion Forum - Unit 2 - Task 4 - Oral Production: experience an activity.

• Study the E-book Online content.

• Participate in the Student’s Talking Time (STT) or Schedule a practice meeting

with your tutor.

• Upload a video, share the link (Youtube, Vimeo, Google Drive, Onedrive) of
your video in the forum. Verify it belongs to a public category(no passwords
should be required to open it) Check that your link works perfectly.

For the development of the activity consider that:

Para su producción oral debe dedicar tiempo en la preparación de su exposición.

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La suplantación de su identidad y/o el uso de un software para la creación de una voz
automática (voz diferente a la suya), será considerado como plagio y su calificación será de
cero (0.0).

Steps:

Step 1: STT or Practice Meeting

Option A: STT
Participate actively in the STT programmed by your tutor. In the forum you can find
the schedule.

Participate in at least 2 Student’s Talking Time (STT). Take a screenshot of your

participation in the activity, your name and/or photograph must be in the evidence.

STT 1:
Tutor in the STT: Topic and What did I learn? Date:

STT 2:
Tutor in the STT: Topic and What did I learn? Date:

Option B: Schedule a practice meeting with your tutor.

In the practice meeting:

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Take advantage and practice the pronunciation with him or her of the topic that you
chose for your video.

Remember to take the screenshot of your meeting.

Step 2: The Video – Experience an activity.

Choose 1 topic – Just ONE

Topic 1: A story telling.

Making use of the grammatical structures used in the writing activity, you are going
to talk about a family, work or student anecdote that has happened to you or a
close person.

Topic: Simple past and past progressive.

Name of the video: A story telling by_(name)_.
Length of the video: 2 – 5 minutes max.

Topic 2: Interesting places in my city.

You are going to imagine you are a travel agent. You are going to record a video
showing at least 2 touristic places in your town or city.
You have to appear in the video all the time and show the places in real time.

You have to say and show:

Name of the place.
How can you get there?
What can you do there?
Can you find souvenirs there? Which ones?
What kind of food can you eat or drink there?
Which is a nice spot to take a picture there? why?

Topic: Simple present

Name of the video: Travel agent___(name)___for UNADNews.
Length of the video: 2 – 5 minutes max.

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Topic 3: Talking about a picture.

Having in mind the picture below, you are going to tell your tutor at least 10
sentences of what is happening there and describe in 5 sentences the picture.

Topics: Simple present, present progressive, there is, there are.

Name of the video: the picture_(your name) .
Length of the video: 2 – 5 minutes max.

Share the link (Youtube, Vimeo, Google Drive, Onedrive) of your video in the forum.
Verify it belongs to a public category (no passwords should be required to open it)
Check that your link works perfectly.

Video Conditions:
• Introduce yourself at the beginning.
• Record the video in a luminous place and with good sound.
• You have to appear in the video most of the time (depending the topic you
chose). You can use photos and support your speech with a presentation.

Step 3: Self-assessment: reflection and personal growth

Esta etapa está orientada a su reflexión y crecimiento personal donde usted como
estudiante debe realizar una autoevaluación en español:

Cada estudiante va a escribir un texto donde exprese:

¿Asistió al encuentro con su tutor o participó de los STT?

Si asistió al encuentro con el tutor, ¿cómo se sintió?
Si no asistió, ¿Cuál fue la razón?
¿Cómo se sintió con el desarrollo de la actividad?

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¿Qué cree usted que debe hacer para mejorar la pronunciación en inglés?
¿Cómo cree que esta actividad le aportó a su proceso académico?
¿Cómo cree usted que los estudiantes participarían más en este tipo de actividades?

To have in mind:

You can practice with the tutor before uploading your video.
Participate in the STT
Also, you can practice the pronunciation with:
Natural readers: www.naturalreaders.com
Readloud: https://readloud.net/

In the Initial Information Environment, you must:

Check your agenda.

In the Learning Environment, you must:

Study the online content / E-book.
Check carefully the forum and the provide information.

In the Evaluation Environment, you must:

Upload the final document.

Evidences of individual work:

The individual evidence to be submitted is:

The student will upload a document in the evaluation environment with:

• Front page
• The screenshots of your participation in the STT or Screenshot of the speaking
practice with your tutor.
• Link of the video.
• Answer the questions of reflection and personal growth.

Evidences of collaborative work:

No collaborative evidence is required in this activity.

2. General Guidelines for the Development of Evidences to Submit

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For Individual evidence, consider the following:
• Every member of the group must participate with academic contributions in
the activity development.
• Before submitting the requested product, students should check that it meets
all the requirements mentioned in this activity guide.
• Each student must develop the steps of the task and post the evidence in the
forum.
• The final product must be sent in the Evaluation Environment.
Each student is responsible for his/her process.
Consider that all individual or group written work must fulfill with the orthographic
rules and presentation conditions that have been defined.

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.

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3. Evaluation Rubric Template

Type of activity: Individual

Evaluation moment: Intermediate Unit 2
The highest score in this activity is 100 points
High level: The student participates in at least 2 STT and take
advantage of the practice to develop the different activities in
the workshops.

The student attends the synchronous meeting with the tutor at

the established times and has material prepared to work actively
in the academic practice.

If your work is at this level, you can get between 30 points

First evaluation and 40 points.
criterion:
Average level: The student participates in less than 2 STT.
Participation in the
STT or Practice The student upload the evidence of participation in the STT, but
Session it doesn’t have his/her photo or name.

The student schedules the practice session but does notprepare

This criterion the material of the activity to show to the tutor.
represents 40
points of the total If your work is at this level, you can get between 15 points
of 100 points of and 29 points.
the activity.
Low level: The student does not participate in the STT.

The student does not makepart of a practice meeting with the

tutor.

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

Second evaluation High level: The video proposal is innovative and meets the
criterion: theme and the criteria described in the guide.

The video. If your work is at this level, you can get between 15 points
and 20 points

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This criterion
represents 20 Average level: The student records and upload the video but
points of the total theproposal is plane and is not innovative.
of 100 points of
the activity. If your work is at this level, you can get between 8 points
and 14 points

Low level: The student does not record the video.

If your work is at this level, you will get 0 points
Third evaluation High level: The student records the video applying the topics
criterion: given in the guide.
The student speaks softly, with little hesitation, according to
Vocabulary, her/his level, which does not interfere with the communication.
Fluency, The pronunciation and intonation are almost always very clear,
Pronunciation according to his/her level.

This criterion If your work is at this level, you can get between 25 points
represents 30 and 30 points.
points of the total
of 100 points of Average level: The student uses a variety of vocabulary and
the activity. expressions but makes some mistakes in the choice of words.

The student speaks with some hesitation which interferes with

communication.

Pronunciation and intonation are usually accurate with

someproblems.

If your work is at this level, you can get between 15 points

and 24 points.

Low level: The student presents the video, but it is not

understandable. The student must improve a lot his/her
pronunciation and fluency.

The student does not present the video.

If your work is at this level, you can get between 0 and

14 points.

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Fourth evaluation High level: The student demonstrates reflective thinking in all
criterion: ofthe questions included in this task, (step 3). The student self-
assess critically his/her score for this criterion.
Reflection and
personal growth. If your work is at this level, you can get between 7 points
and 10 points.
This criterion
represents 10 Average level: The student shares the answers to some
points of the total questions of his reflection and personal growth in relation to his
of 100 points of performance, (step 3). The student self-critically assigns her
the activity. scorefor this criterion.

If your work is at this level, you can get between 4 points

and 6 points.

Low level: The student does not share the answers to the
questions of his reflection and personal growth; and / or does
notself-assess or share her score.

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