Universidad Nacional Abierta y a Distancia

Vicerrectoría Académica y de Investigación

Course: English III
Code: 90121

Activity Guide and Evaluation Rubric – Task 4: Oral production

1. Activity Description
Type of activity: Individual
Evaluation moment: Intermediate Unit 2
Highest score of the activity: 90 points
The activity starts on: Tuesday, 17th The activity ends on: Wednesday,
October, 2023 15th November, 2023

With this activity, you are expected to achieve the following learning
outcomes:

You will be able to talk about environmental issues by describing situations by

expressing your points of view about the related topic.

To develop this activity, you must follow these stages:

Step 1: Checking the eBook

Content

Check and develop all content related to eBook B1 level, Modules 9, 10, 11 and 12 as
a prior revision. Then, post your practice on the forum.

Step 2: Focus on vocabulary

According to the Environmental issues lexicon and vocabulary in use, match the
terms with their corresponding meanings. For that, you can check what you
developed in Task 2: written production for remembering some terminology that
helps you to complete this activity. When you finish this step, remember to share it
on the forum.

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Table 1. Environmental problems

1. Environment 2. Carbon dioxide 3. Flood 4. Natural resources

5. Global warming

6. Greenhouse effect 7. Deforestation 8. Oil slick 9. Endangered species

10. Pollution

11. Drought 12. Fumes 13. Waste 14. Carbon monoxide 15. Biodiversity

Birds/plants/species animals or plants which may soon not

exist because there are very few now alive.
Variety of plant and animal species that exist in a particular
environmental area.
The poisonous gas formed by the burning of carbon, especially in
theform of car fuel.
The cutting down of trees in a large area; the destruction of forests.
Air, water, and land in or on which people, animals and plants live.
Increase in world temperatures caused by polluting gases.
A layer of oil that is floating over a large area of the surface of the sea.
Damage caused to water, air... by harmful substances or waste.
The gas formed when carbon is burned, or when people or
animals breatheout.
A long period when there is little or no rain.
A large amount of water covering an area that is usually dry.
An increase in the amount of carbon dioxide and other gases in
the atmosphere.
Strong, unpleasant, and sometimes dangerous gas or smoke.
Things such as minerals, forests, coal, etc. which exist in a place and
can be used by people.
Unwanted matter or material of any type, often that which is left after
useful substances or parts have been removed.

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 Step 3: Listening practice

Now, listen to the audio about environmental issues by clicking here: environmental
issues. Then, according to what you listened to, complete the items with the words
in the box. When you solve it, share it on the forum.

Item a: There is a global water crisis and drought have left to 844
million people lacking access to clean water.
oil spill - poor air quality - extreme weather - water scarcity - sustainable
environment - Pollution - Flooding - Oil spills - carbon footprint - melting ice cap
Item b: Oil accidents at sea
- wind can -cause
power drought - Frackingwhich contaminate
- forest fires the ocean
water, resulting in the death of sea birds and other forms of marine life.

Item c: Growing trees, plants and your own vegetables help contribute to a
.

Item d: or drilling on the ground for oil and gas, often contaminates the
water supplies.

Item e: Increase is a consequence of deforestation which is the

cutting down of too many trees.

Item f: One of the most common forms of renewable energy is

which electricity generated by wind turbines.

Item g: Air pollution and is a problem in many cities around the world.

Item h: includes tornados, cyclones and extremely high or low

temperatures.

Item i: Cars and planes burn fuel, when you travel by plane or car, you contribute
to the burning of fuel; this is your .

Item j: Polar bears living in the artic are impacted by the .

Item k: seem to be hotter and worst every summer.

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 Step 4: Spoken interaction

In this step, you must attend and participate in one of the five synchronous meeting
(STT= Students’ Talking Time) for interacting with your tutor and e-mates, where you
will comment and explain the issues developed in the steps 2 and 3.

Some of the questions that may appear on the game are:

a. Tell me about yourself. (Personal information).

b. What do you do to help the environment?
c. What is R-R-R?
d. How can you lower your carbon footprint?
e. What is the difference between carbon monoxide and carbon dioxide?
f. What is the greenhouse effect?
g. What do you like to do?
h. Why fracking is so dangerous?
i. What is the global warming?
j. In your opinion, why is water shortage happening in some parts of
Colombia? How could it be solved?

NOTE: Before attending the workshop, you must have prepared and set the
stages 1, 2 and 3, if not you can not have a good performance.

Step 5: Let’s talk about keeping the environment (final

product)

In this step, you must record a tutorial video giving the steps (final product) of how to
help the environment, you can choose one of these options for your video:

a. Ways to save water.

b. How to reuse things in your house.
c. How to save energy.
d. Step by step of doing a compost.
e. How to transport ecologically.

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NOTE: If you have any other option to show in your video, you can present it.

IMPORTANT: To record your video, you must consider these aspects:

1. It is not allowed to read aloud on the video. It is a conscious speaking exercise.

2. The video must last from 1 to 2 minutes.

3. Introduce yourself (name, city, profession/ job, current studies or career).

4. Settle what is the tutorial about.

5. Describe the steps of your tutorial.

6. Conclude your tutorial showing the result of it.

7. You must show how to do it, your face must appear on the video, if not,
your video will not be taken for grading.

8. Upload your video on Youtube or Google Drive (set the link for viewing).

9. Add the link on a PDF or Word document and post it on the Evaluation
Environment.

Step 6: Self-evaluation

In this step, you must check your performance during the time this task is
developed. For that, you have to answer the following questions in a scale from 0
to
2. You can answer the questions within the chart is given. This step must appear in
the consolidation step. These are the questions:

1. Did I follow accurately the steps according to what the worksheet requires?
2. Did I attend and participate in the STT (synchronous meeting) that the task
required?
3. Did I take into account tutor’s recommendations on the forum?
4. Did I record the video according to all the indications in the worksheet?
5. Did I consolidate all the steps in the final document to be posted on the
Evaluation Environment?

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Step 7: Consolidation

After doing the possible corrections and receiving the positive feedback form your tutor
about the steps you developed. You must consolidate the following items in a .doc or
.PDF file:

- Step 1: Checking the eBook content (screenshots)

- Step 2: Focus on vocabulary (matching the terms with definitions).
- Step 3: Listening practice (completing the items according to the audio).
- Step 4: Spoken interaction (screenshot from your participation).
- Step 5: Let’s talk about keeping the environment (link of your video).
- Step 6: Self-evaluation (answering chart).

For the development of the activity consider that:

In the Initial Information Environment, you must:

- Revise the course agenda to be informed about the initial and closing dates of
this task.

In the Learning Environment, you must:

- Look at the grammar topics and activities in modules 9 to 12 from the eBook.

- Participate in the collaborative forum of this task by posting your contribution in

every single step on time.

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In the Evaluation Environment, you must:

- Consolidate and submit your final document to the Evaluation Environment.

Evidence of individual work:

The individual evidence to be submitted is:

A document with the following information:

- Cover
- Step 1: Checking the eBook content (screenshots)
- Step 2: Focus on vocabulary (matching the terms with definitions).
- Step 3: Listening practice (completing the items according to the audio).
- Step 4: Spoken interaction (screenshot from your participation).
- Step 5: Let’s talk about keeping the environment (link of your video).
- Step 6: Self-evaluation (answering chart).

Evidence of collaborative work:

There is not collaborative work in this task.

1. General Guidelines for the Development of Evidences to Submit

For Individual evidence, consider the following:

- You must take part in the forum within the dates stablished in the
course agenda.

- Before submitting the final paper, you must check that it carries out all
the requirements related on this activity worksheet.

- You must feedback or comment to any of your e-classmates’ contributions

to improve and enrich as your contributions as theirs.

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 - You must submit your own final product document in a .DOC or .PDF file on
the 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
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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 2. Evaluation Rubric

Type of activity: Individual

Evaluation moment: Intermediate Unit 2
The highest score in this activity is 90 points

High level: all the practice activities (steps 1 to 4) are carried

out on the forum and also, submitted correctly according to the
guidelines.

First evaluation If your work is at this level, you can get between 11
criterion: points and 20 points.

Practice activities Average level: some of the practice activities are developed
on the forum and submitted according to the guidelines. The
steps of the practice are developed with some grammar and
This criterion pronunciation mistakes.
represents 20
points of the total If your work is at this level, you can get between 5
of 90 points of points and 10 points.
the activity.
Low level: The steps of practice activity are not carried out.
The steps of the practice activities are developed incorrectly.
The activity is not carried out.

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

points and 4 points.

Second High level: the final product (the video) carries out with the
evaluation full characteristics listed in the task’s worksheet.
criterion:
If your work is at this level, you can get between 11
Video set up points and 20 points.

Average level: the final product (the video) carries out

This criterion partially with the characteristics it must have.
represents 20
points of the If your work is at this level, you can get between 5
total of 90 points and 10 points.

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 points of
the Low level: the final product (the video) does not have any of
activity. the characteristics listed in the worksheet. There is no evidence
of the final product (the video).

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

points and 4 points.

Third High level: The speech is carried out with normal pauses and
evaluation few hesitations. The ideas convey clearly the target topic.
criterion:
If your work is at this level, you can get between 11
Fluency and points and 20 points.
coherence
Average level: The speech is developed with frequent pauses
and some hesitation, for that, the ideas are unclearly
This criterion understood.
represents
20 points of If your work is at this level, you can get between 5
the total of points and 10 points.
90 points of
the activity. Low level: The ideas are not expressed in a logical order. The
speech is unclear which makes the message confusing. Itis
evident the reading aloud, instead of a speaking conscious
activity. The activity is not carried out.

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

points and 4 points.

Fourth evaluation High level: the pronunciation and intonation make the
criterion: message’s speech natural and understandable.

If your work is at this level, you can get between 11

Pronunciation points and 20 points.

This criterion Average level: the pronunciation and intonation present some
represents 20 misunderstandings at the time of expressing the message
points of the total which do not interfere with its comprehension.
of 90 points of
the activity.
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 If your work is at this level, you can get between 5
points and 10 points.

Low level: there are frequent pronunciation and intonation

errors which do not allow the message be clear, which affect
the communication. The activity is not carried out.

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

points and 4 points.

High level: all the activities and steps in the task are done
successfully and during the time the activity was set.
Fifth evaluation
criterion: If your work is at this level, you can get between 7
points and 10 points.
Self-evaluation
Average level: some activities and steps are done at the last
week of the task. The steps partially carry out the purpose of
This criterion the task.
represents 10
points of the total If your work is at this level, you can get between 3
of 90 points of points and 6 points.
the activity.
Low level: the activities and steps in the task are developed in
a misunderstanding way. There is not evidence of developing
the whole task.

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

points and 2 points.

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