Universidad Nacional Abierta y a Distancia

Vicerrectoría Académica y de Investigación

Course: English A2
Code: 900002

Activity Guide 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, March The activity ends on: Sunday, May 5,
25, 2024 2024
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)
• Upload a video, share the link (Youtube, 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.
• If you consider it is necesary, schedule a practice meeting with your tutor
before recording your video. (Optional)

For the development of the activity consider that:

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

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).

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Step 1 – Student’s talking Time (STT)

Participate in at least two (2) STT (Ver cronograma en el foro de la actividad).

Durante cada STT el tutor encargado tomará un momento donde le indicará la

evidencia que debe poner en su trabajo como asistencia al STT. (Sea una imagen,
respuesta a algunas preguntas, completar un texto de acuerdo a lo realizado, etc).
Por lo tanto, debe estar atento durante todo el taller para cuando el tutor le de esa
instrucción.

STT 1 Date:
Topic:
Tutor:
Evidence asked in the STT:

STT 2 Date:
Topic:
Tutor:
Evidence asked in the STT:

Step 2 - The Video – Experience an activity.

Choose 1 topic – Just ONE

Topic 1: Biography.

Having in mind the biographies of the Task 2, choose one of them and then, record a video
telling us in your own voice the selected biography.

Topic: The Biography.

Name of the video: The biography_(name)_.
Length of the video: 2 – 5 minutes max.

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.
• Use photos to support your speech in the presentation.

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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?
• What kind of food can you eat or drink there?
• What kind of place is it? (Familiar, Romantic, to go with friends). Why?

Topic: Simple present, There is, there are.

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

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.
• Use photos to support your speech in the presentation.

Topic 3 - The Recipe.

Record a video showing a free recipe of more than 4 ingredients, in the video you
have to present the ingredients and the steps of the process.

Topics: Simple present, present progressive, this, that, these, those.

Name of the video: My Recipe_(your name)__For UNADChef.
Length of the video: 2 – 5 minutes max.

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).

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Optional:
You can practice the pronunciation of your speech with your tutor before recording
the video. By the internal mail every week, your tutor is going to share with you the
day and hour he or she Will be connected in teams to do it.

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:

• ¿Participó de los STT?

• Si participó de estos espacios, ¿cómo se sintió?
• Si no asistió, ¿Cuál fue la razón?
• ¿Cómo se sintió con el desarrollo de la actividad?
• ¿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:

• Participate in the STT

• You can practice with your tutor or with one of the students from the
pedagogical practice in our course before uploading your video.
• Check the annex with the explanation of the topics of the guide.
• Also, you can practice the pronunciation with:
Natural readers: www.naturalreaders.com
Readloud: https://readloud.net/

For the development of the activity consider that:

In the Initial Information Environment, you must:

• Check your agenda.

In the Learning Environment, you must:

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 • Study the online content / E-book.
• Check carefully the forum and the provided information
In the Evaluation Environment, you must:
• Upload the final document.

Evidences of individual work:

The individual evidence to be submitted is:
• Front page.
• Participation in the STT.
• 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

For Individual evidences, consider the following:

• Submit the requested product in the environment indicated by the teacher.

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

• Check you final video carefully.

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

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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: Individual

Evaluation moment: Intermediate Unit 2
The highest score in this activity is XX points
First evaluation High level: The student presents the evidence asked by the
criterion: tutor of at least 2 STT.

Participation in If your work is at this level, you can get between 25 points
the STT. and 30 points.

This criterion Average level: The student presents the evidence of at least 2
represents 30 STT.
points of the total
of 100 points of If your work is at this level, you can get between 20 points
the activity. and 24 points.

Low level: The student does not present evidence of his/her

participation in any STT.

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

and 19 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 Average level: The student records and upload the video but
represents 20 the proposal is plane and is not innovative.
points of the total If your work is at this level, you can get between 8 points
of 100 points of and 14 points.
the activity.
Low level: The student does not record the video.

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

points and 7 points.
Third evaluation High level: The student records the video applying the topics
criterion: given in the guide.

Vocabulary, The student speaks softly, with little hesitation, according to

Fluency, her/his level, which does not interfere watt the communication.
Pronunciation The pronunciation and intonation are almost always very clear,
according to his/her level.
This criterion
represents 40
points of the total If your work is at this level, you can get between 35 points
of 100 points of and 40 points.
the activity.
Average level: The student uses a variety of vocabulary and
expressions but makes some mistakes in the choice of words.
The student speaks with some hesitation which interferes the
communication.
Pronunciation and intonation are usually accurate with some
problems.
If your work is at this level, you can get between 25 points
and 34 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.

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 If your work is at this level, you can get between 0
points and 24 points
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 can get between 0

points and 3 points.