Universidad Nacional Abierta y a Distancia

Academic and Research Vice-rector

Activities guide and evaluation rubric Task 4 – Speaking Section

1. General description of the course

Faculty or Vicerrectoría de Relaciones Internacionales

Academic Unit
Academic Level Undergraduate programs, Graduated programs
Academic Field Formación interdisciplinar básica común
Course Name English A2
Course Code 900002
Course Type Methodological - Can be yes ☐ No ☒
practical enabled
Number of Credits 3

2. Description of the activity

Number
Type of the
Individual ☒ Collaborative ☐ of 4
activity:
weeks
Unit
Moment of
☐ Intermediate: ☒
Initial Final ☐
evaluation:
2 and 3
Evaluative score of the Delivery Environment of the
activity: 70 points activity: Collaborative forum
Starting date of the activity: Deadline of the activity:
04th October, 2019 12th November, 2019
Competence to develop:

At the end of this task you will be able to:

 Describe everyday aspects of his/her environment.

 Give short, basic descriptions of events and activities.
 Describe plans and arrangements habit and personal
experiences.
 Use there is or there are to indicate that objects exist. Use time
markers to indicate actions happening now.
 Understand the use and differences of present simple and
progressive tense.
Topics to develop:
Describing routines, Present simple, There is /there are, Talking about
actions in progress, Greetings, Place descriptions.
Phases of the learning strategy to develop:
 You will develop the task in the Speaking forum.
 You will consolidate all phases into one document.

It is important to post all the activities in the forum to get feedback

from your classmates and tutor.

Estimado estudiante

En esta guía usted encontrará las pautas necesarias para realizar su

producto final, en el cual tiene dos opciones:

 Sesión de práctica con su tutor/a

 Video

Sesión de práctica: El/ La estudiante deberá compartir con su

tutor/a la postcard que realizó en la actividad de Writing. Es decir,
describirá de manera oral la situación hipotética acerca su visita a una
de las 7 maravillas del mundo, en ella, el/la tutor/a le realizará las
retroalimentaciones necesarias con el fin de mejorar y aclarar dudas
en cuanto a expresiones, vocabulario, gramática, pronunciación, etc.

Video: El/La estudiante deberá exponer; mediante un video a su

tutor/a y compañeros del grupo colaborativo, la postcard que realizó
en la actividad de Writing. Es decir, describirá de manera oral la
situación hipotética acerca su visita a una de las 7 maravillas del
mundo. ¡Recuerde! Como requisito usted debe compartir su postcard
y al mismo tiempo usted deberá ser visible en el video, de no
cumplirlo: el/la docente estará en la obligación de no subir la nota
para esa fase de la actividad.

Es necesario que usted desarrolle cada uno de los ejercicios

planteados en la guía, de acuerdo con los tiempos establecidos en
esta. La idea es que usted logre organizar sus ideas, practicar la
pronunciación y enriquecer el vocabulario para la actividad final.
Phase 1: Listen to your teacher and record your answers.
Phase 2: Listen to your teacher and record your answers.
Phase 3: Interaction practice on Skype with your tutor or Record the
video through Screencast-O-Matic and Youtube tools.
Phase 4: Submit the final document in the monitoring and evaluation
environment.

Activities to carry out:

Phase 1: listen to your teacher and record your answers
To do list October 04th to 11th

Listen to your teacher and complete the sentences with the –ing form
of the verbs you hear (Write your answers in the forum). After, you
must record your answers with your full name and upload the
recording in the forum.

1. Tania ____ just ____ some photos to Instagram.

2. I ____ ____ a message to my Mum.
3. Sandra and Marcos ____ ____ horses and the sun ____ ____.
4. What ____ ____ there?
5. At 10:00 I ____ ____ Marcos, just for a quick coffee.
6. She ____ ____ me.
7. I ____ ____ for my exam tomorrow.
8. We ____ ____ a great time in Taj Mahal.
9. I ____ ____ this shirt and pants.
10. Marcos ____ ___ photos of Machu Picchu.

You will find the recording in the forum

Phase 2: Listen to your teacher, complete the chart and record

your answers.
To do list October 12th to 20th

Listen to your teacher and complete the chart. After, you must record
an audio with 4 sentences using the vocabulary in this phase. Upload
the recording in the forum with your full name.
 Weather Places in a Holidays Clothes
town

Phase 3: Interaction practice on Skype or YouTube Video.

To do list October 21st to November 09th

Use your postcard about one of the Seven Wonders of the

World (Writing Task) to prepare and do your presentation.

In this phase, you have two different options to participate:

Option 1 – Practice sessions: Participate in Practice sessions with
your tutor and improve your speaking skills.
Your tutor will send you by email a link to a Drive Document, you must
make an appointment on Skype with him/her.

In this part you must…

- Describe your visit to one of the Seven Wonders of the World
(Postcard - Wiring activity)
- Introduce the topic to the tutor.
- Keep in mind the main idea.
- Organize your ideas sequentially.

Remember:
- Show your postcard to your tutor.
- Use the camera, microphone and show your identification card to
your tutor.
- Take a screenshot of the practice with your tutor.
Book up date and time for the Practice sessions.
Option 2 – Record the video through Screencast-O-Matic:

Record yourself.
Use the postcard to do your presentation. It’s necessary that you use
the tool SCREENCAST O’MATIC. You have to record your screen and
your face at the same time.

Note: You can use another similar tool that allows recording the
screen and your face at the same time.

In this part you must…

- Describe your visit to one of the Seven Wonders of the World
(Postcard-Wiring activity)
- Introduce the topic to the tutor.
- Keep in mind the main idea.
- Organize your ideas sequentially.

Upload your video on YouTube. Then, share the link in the

forum.
Copy the link of your video in a Word document. The link can be
uploaded in YouTube or Google Drive.

Phase 4: Submit the final product in the Monitoring

environment.
To do list November 10th to 12th

The final product must be sent individually in the monitoring and

evaluation environment. You develop your final document according to
your process.
Checklist final document
Phase 1 Listen to your teacher and record your answers.
Phase 2 Listen to your teacher and record your answers.
Phase 3 Screenshots of the practice session or video link on
YouTube
Phase 4 Final document in the monitoring environment

End of the task!

Phase 5: Vocabulary, Accuracy, Fluency, Pronunciation.

Environment
for the Collaborative environment
development
Individual:
-Answer the activities, record the audios and post
Products to them in the forum (Phases 1 & 2).
deliver by - Take screenshots of the practice session or video link
student on YouTube (Phase 3).

General guidelines for the collaborative work

Planning of Students have to record two audios and post them in

activities for the forum. After that, they give feedback each other
the within the forum.
development Students have to participate in the practice session in
of Skype with their tutor or the student will be able to
collaborative record him/herself according to the indications given
work in the guide.
Roles to
perform by
the student
Each student is responsible for his/her own process.
in the
collaborative
group
Roles and
responsibilit
y for the Students upload the final product (link of a video in
delivery of YouTube) in the forum.
products by
students
Use of
Always cite the references
references
Plagiarism In the agreement 029 of December 13, 2013, article
policy 99, the mistakes that infringe upon the academic
order, among others, are the following: paragraph e)
“To plagiarize is to present as your own work the
 whole or part of a writing, report, task or document of
invention performed by another person. It also implies
the use of cites or lack of references, or includes cites
where there is no coincidence between them and the
reference” and paragraph f)”To reproduce, or copy for
profit, educational resources or results of research
products, which have intellectual rights reserved for
the University”.

The academic punishments that the student will face

are:
a) In case of academic fraud proved in the
academic work or evaluation, the score achieved will
be zero (0.0) without leading to disciplinary measures.
b) In case of plagiarism proved in the academic
work of any nature, the score achieved will be zero
(0.0), without leading to disciplinary measures.

To know how the documents must be cited, check the

following document:
Centro de Escritura Javeriano ( ) Normas APA. Sexta
edición. Taken from
http://centrodeescritura.javerianacali.edu.co/index.ph
p?option=com_content&view=article&id=138:normas-
apa&catid=45:referencias-bibliograficas&Itemid=

4. Evaluation rubric
Evaluation rubric
Activity Individual Collaborative
☒ ☐
type: Activity Activity
Moment
of the
Initial ☐ Intermediate: ☒ Final ☐
evaluatio
n
Performance levels of the individual
Score
Assessed activity
Aspects Fair to poor/
Excellent Good
very poor
- The student
- The student
writes the
develops some
answers in the
Phase 1: of the activities - The student does
forum.
proposed in not upload the
listen to - The student
this phase. activity proposed.
your records his/her
- The student - The student does
teacher answers and
does not the activity during
and record upload the
recording in
include his/her the last week of the 10
your name. task.
answers the forum with
-His/her -Frequent problems
his/her name.
pronunciation with pronunciation.
-His/her
is clear with a
pronunciation
few problems.
is clear.
( Up to 10 (up to 6
(up to 3 points)
points ) points)

-The student - The student

writes the develops some
answers in the of the activities
Phase 2: forum. proposed in The student does
listen to - The student this phase. not upload the
your records his/her - The student activity proposed.
teacher answers and does not - The student does
and record upload the include his/her the activity during 10
your recording in name. the last week of the
answers the forum with -His/her task.
his/her name. pronunciation -Frequent problems
-His/her is clear with a with pronunciation.
pronunciation few problems.
is clear.
(up to 10 (up to 6
(up to 3 points)
points) points)
Phase 3: -The student -The student -The student does
Interaction greets and greets and not greet, the
25 points
 student does not
introduce the introduce the
introduce the topic
topic to the topic to the
to the tutor and the
tutor. tutor.
main idea is not
-The main idea -The main idea
repeated at the end
is repeated at is not repeated
of the sum up.
practice. the end to sum at the end to
The speech is not
up. sum up.
organized
-The speech is -The speech is
sequentially.
always not always
-The student does
organized organized,
not participate in the
sequentially. sequentially.
Practice sessions.
(up to 25 (up to 15
(up to 9 points)
points) points)
-The student does
not greet, the
student does not
introduce the topic
-The student to the tutor and
greets and -The student
classmates.
introduce the greets and
-The main idea is
topic to the introduce the
not repeated at the
tutor and topic to the
end of the sum up.
classmates. tutor and
Phase 3: -The speech is not
classmates.
Record the -The main idea organized
is repeated at -The main idea
video sequentially.
the end to sum is not repeated -The student does
through
at the end to 25 points
Screencast up. not record the video.
-The speech is sum up.
-O-Matic. -The student records
always -The speech is
the video during last
organized not always
week, for this reason
sequentially. organized,
he/she does not
sequentially.
show any process.
-The student does
not record the
screen and face at
the same time.
(up to 25 (up to 15
(up to 9 points)
points) points)
Submit the
final document
Phase 4: in the Submit the
The student does
Submit the monitoring and final document
not submit the
final evaluation in a different 5
document.
document environment. way: email.

(Up to 5 (Up to 3 (Up to 1 points)

 points) points)
-Uses a variety - Uses a
of vocabulary variety of
and vocabulary and
expressions. expressions,
-Uses a variety but makes
of grammatical some errors in
structures and word choice.
sentences - Uses a
- Uses only basic
patterns in variety of
vocabulary and
his/her level. grammatical
expressions.
-Speaks structures and
-Uses basic
smoothly, with sentence
structure, makes
little patterns in
Phase 5: frequent errors.
hesitation, his/her level,
Vocabulary Hesitates too of the
according to but make some
Accuracy when speaking,
Fluency
his/her level, errors.
which often
20
which does not -Speaks with
Pronunciat interferes with
interfere with some
ion communication.
communication hesitation,
- Frequent problems
- Pronunciation according to
with pronunciation
and intonation his/her level,
and intonation.
are almost but does not
always very interfere with
clear, communication
according to -Pronunciation
his/her level. and intonation
are usually
accurate with a
few problems.
(Up to 20 (Up to 15
(Up to 8 points)
points) points)
Final score 70 points