Universidad Nacional Abierta y a Distancia

Vicerrectoría Académica y de Investigación

Course: ENGLISH II
Code: 518007

Activity Guide and Evaluation Rubric – Task 6 Better times ahead

1. Activity Description
Type of activity: Collaborative
Evaluation moment: Intermediate Unit 3
Highest score of the activity: 90 points
The activity starts on: Wednesday, The activity ends on: Tuesday, November
October 25, 2023 21, 2023
With this activity, you are expected to achieve the following
learningoutcomes:
Learning Outcome 1: Apply basic and concrete vocabulary, that is a series of phrases
and sentences related to personal information, daily activities, and stories of life
events in written communication tasks.

Learning Outcome 2: Use the highest frequency vocabulary, common expressions,

and phrases, to handle very short social exchanges in synchronous encounters or
oralpresentations.

The activity consists of:

Individual activity

Step 1. Study the material related to comparatives and superlatives adjectives.

Step 2. Choose one member of your family or friend and fill in the information in the
chart below, using that information write a paragraph making some comparisons
using comparative and superlatives:

Friend Me
Age
Physical traits

Personality Traits

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Routine

Example: My best friend is Marie; she is 25 years old and I am 30, I am older than
her. We both are nurses, and we work in the same hospital. She is as intelligent and
hard-working as me, but I am more outgoing, she is the quietest person I know…

Step 3. Study the vocabulary to describe places in the following link:

https://quizlet.com/_1kg0vr?x=1jqt&i=1fcep9

Step 4. Describe the city or town where you live using the vocabulary from step 3
considering the following characteristics:

- Weather
- Living cost
- Night life and entertainment
- Best places to visit
- Food specials
- Population

Example: I live in Bogotá, it is the biggest city in Colombia, it is very cold and it rains
most of the time…

Step 5. Do some research about the best cities in the world to live and choose your
favorite one, write some sentences to describe the city using superlative adjectives.

Example: I chose Venice because it has a nice weather, and it is considered the most
beautiful city in the world…

Collaborative activity

Step 6. Study the future tenses in English. (will, going to and present continuous)

Step 7. Check the document annex 4. “Roles for collaborative task”, choose one
roleand inform your groupmates in the forum.

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Step 8. Each member of the group must choose one of the following categories and
create at least 10 predictions for each one. You must base your predictions on facts
or scientific evidence and share your predictions in the forum.

- Education and jobs

- Technology and transportation
- Relationships and social interaction
- Economy and politics
- Lifestyle and leisure time

Step 9. Get together and create a videocast called “what will be the future be like in
20 years?”, all members of the group must present their predictions in a clear way.
You can use a presentation, but it cannot have text, only images or short phrases to
guide your speech. To record your videocast, you can use a meeting tool such as
zoom, teams or any other you prefer as long as you can record the screen and
upload the recording to YouTube. All of you must appear on camera all the time and
interact with your groupmates. Bear in mind that it is not a presentation but a
videocast so you must consider:

- Greet and introduce the videocast with a catching and witty opening to the
topic
- Introduce the members
- Develop the ideas in order
- Present the predictions giving a context. Example: “According to scientist and
due to medical advances, people will live more than 100 years”, “Some
economists predict that people will have just one global currency and it will
probably be a crypto coin”
- Close the podcast with some comments, conclusions, or reflections on the topic
- Speak fluently and clear, so you must rehearse before starting and help each
other correct pronunciation or grammar mistakes.

Step 9. Do your part according to the collaborative role and collaboratively send the
template task 6 with the individual tasks and the link to the collaborative videocast.
Only one final document must be sent by the one with the deliveries role.

Note: Remember to use annex 3 – Template task 6 to deliver the document

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For the development of the activity consider that:
In the Initial Information Environment, you must:

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Check the agenda of the course and the synchronous encounters by web conference
and skype attention schedule.

In the Learning Environment, you must:

Participate in the forum by sharing the answers to the questions on time.

In the Evaluation Environment, you must:

Send the final pdf document collaboratively.

Evidences of individual work:

No individual evidence is required in this activity.

Evidences of collaborative work:

The collaborative evidence to be submitted is:

The final document is the template task 6 in pdf format where you add:
- The individual answers to the reading
- The individual paragraphs comparing two people
- The individual paragraphs describing cities
- The link to your collaborative videocast
- Bibliography

2. General Guidelines for the Development of Evidences to Submit

For Collaborative evidences, consider the following:

 All members of the group must participate with their contributions in the
development of the activity.

 In each group a single member will be chosen to submit the requested product in
the environment indicated by the teacher.

 Before submitting the requested product, students should check that it meets all
the requirements mentioned in this activity guide.

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  Only the members of the group that participated with contributions during the
time assigned for the activity should be included as authors of the submitted
product.

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.

3. Evaluation Rubric Template

Type of activity: Collaborative

Evaluation moment: Intermediate Unit 3
The highest score in this activity is 90 points
First evaluation High level: The student finds specific, predictable information
criterion: in the text and answers all the questions correctly.
If your work is at this level, you can get between 4 points
The student and 5 points
develops the

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reading Average level:
comprehension The student finds specific, predictable information in the text and
exercises. answers some of the questions correctly.

This criterion If your work is at this level, you can get between 2 points
represents 5 and 3 points
points of the total
of 90 points of Low level:
the activity. The student does not find specific, predictable information in the
text since most of the answers to the questions are wrong. Or
the student does not answer any questions.

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

points and 1 point
Second evaluation High level: The student successfully completes the written
criterion: exercises showing whole understanding of how to make
comparisons and uses comparatives and superlatives correctly
The student writes and organically, it means without using translator tools.
paragraphs to If your work is at this level, you can get between 17 points
describe people and and 20 points
places.
Average level: The student partially completes the written
This criterion exercises and/or the comparatives and superlatives are not used
represents 20 correctly and organically, it means without using translator tools.
points of the total If your work is at this level, you can get between 12 points
of 90 points of and 16 points
the activity.
Low level: The student does not complete the written exercises,
or he/she does but there are many mistakes and theuse of
translator is evident.
If your work is at this level, you can get between 0 points
and 11 points

Third evaluation High level: The student participates actively in the videocast
criterion: and his/her speech is clear, fluent and coherent with the topic.
She/he uses the target language and interacts with the
The student groupmates making the videocast enjoyable and interesting.
participates in the If your work is at this level, you can get between 20 points
and 30 points

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creation of a
videocast. Average level: The student participates in the videocast , but
his/her speech is somewhat unclear, and not coherent with the
This criterion topic. She/he does not use the target language correctly and
represents 30 his/her intervention is not easy to follow.
points of the total If your work is at this level, you can get between 11 points
of 90 points of and 19 points
the activity.
Low level: The student participates in the videocast but his/her
speech is difficult to follow due to pronunciation and grammar
mistakes and his/her intervention is monotonous or the student
does not participate in the podcast.
If your work is at this level, you can get between 0 points
and 10 points

Fourth evaluation High level:

criterion: The student interacts on time in the forum by sharing the
answers to all the questions proposed.
If your work is at this level, you can get between 4 points
The student and 5 points
participates in the
forum on time. Average level
The student posts answers to some of the questions proposed
This criterion and or their answers are not meaningful.
represents 5 If your work is at this level, you can get between 2 points
points of the total and 3 points
of 90 points of
the activity. Low level:
The student doesn't interact in the forum, or he/she does but
out of the given date.
If your work is at this level, you can get between 0
points and 1 point
Fifth evaluation High level: The student has participated in at least 6 or 7
criterion: speaking encounters.
If your work is at this level, you can get between 25
The student points and 30 points.
participates in the Average level: The student has participated in at least 4 or 5
speaking encounter. speaking encounters.
If your work is at this level, you can get between 15
points and 24 points.

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This criterion Low level: The student has participated in 3 or less speaking
represents 30 encounters. Or the student has not participated in any
points of the total encounter.
of 90 points of If your work is at this level, you can get between 0
the activity. points and 14 points