Universidad Nacional Abierta y a Distancia

Academic and Research Vice-rector

Activity 4 – Writing assignment

1. General description of the course

Faculty or Vicerrectoría de Relaciones Internacionales

Academic Unit
Academic Level Professional, specialization, master
Academic Field Common basic interdisciplinary training
Course Name English A2
Course Code 900002
Course Type Methodological Can be yes ☐ No ☒
re-
opened
Number of Credits 3

2. Description of the activity

Type of the Individu Collaborativ Number

☐ ☒ 4
activity: al e of weeks
Moment of Intermediat
Initial ☐ ☒ Final ☐
evaluation: e, unit 2
Delivery Environment: Monitoring
Evaluative score: 70 pts
and Evaluation
Starting date: June28 , 2018 Closing date: July 23th, 2018
th

Competence to develop:
Build a text that accounts for work produced with the support of the E-
Tutor and e-students. Through this exercise, the student will e-
recognition and ownership of the contents of the units, their
environment and the context to express themselves according to their
level.
Topics to develop:
Unit 1- TALKING ABOUT ROUTINES
Verb “TO BE”
Describing routines
Present simple
Unit 2 TALKING ABOUT RECREATIONAL ACTIVITIES
“WH” Questions
There is /there are
Talking about actions in progress

Greetings. Place descriptions. Routine descriptions

Phases of the learning strategy to develop:

Central task - Writing assignment - Production
Phase 1: Students work in collaborative groups to plan, prepare and
correct the text
Phase 2: Students present a written text.
Phase 3: Students give feedback and reflection on the task.
Activities to carry out:
I. PHASE ONE
A. Introduce yourself and select role: Each student will share IN
ENGLISH the following information on complete sentences (Name,
age, address, phone number and occupation). Also, he/she will
select a ROLE for the collaborative work

Ilustracion 1: Roles del trabajo colaborativo

II. PHASE TWO:

B. Check grammar structures/vocabulary: Each participant will
select ONE Grammar topic to COMPLETE the chart in the forum
with the explanations of such grammar topics

GRAMMAR TOPIC EXPLANATION/STRUCTURE/EXAMPLES

Present simple
Present progressive
There is/are
Frequency adverbs
 Connectors in
writing

C. Practice: Each participant will select ONE practical exercise that

is different from the topic he/she explained before in order to
develop the answers in the forum

Exercise 1. From the picture of the refrigerator. Write 5 complete

positive sentences, three negative sentences and two interrogative
sentences using THERE + BE

Ilustracion 2: Nevera con diferentes productos como frutas, jugos, hievos, leche, helado, agua en
botella, pizza

Example: There are three bottles of water next to the mil jar
Exercise 2: write corresponding sentences to the images in Present
simple tense. Use The subject according to the pictures

Ilustración 3: Hombre toma baño, hombre se viste, mujer se despierta, mujer

se levanta, muejr camina fuera de la casa, hombre desayuna, hombre cepilla
los dientes, , mujer lava platos, hombre ve television,
Example: The man takes a shower in the morning

Exercise 3: Describe ten actions of the people in the picture. Use

presente progressive in both positive and negative
Ilustración 4. Parque. Pareja comiendo, dos personas montando bicicleta, pareja tocando
instrumentos, mujer paseando al perro, hombre leyendo acostado, hombre tomando fotografia,
hombre sentado leyendo el periodico

Example: The man in the red shirt is skating. The man is not walking

Exercise 4: Answer five questions about you and five about one
member from your family. Use Adverbs of frequency

How often do you do these activities?

How often does your family member do these activities?

Ilustracion 5: Tabla de actividades diarias.

Example:

I NEVER play Basketball. My brother SELDOM reads a book

Exercise 5: Construct ten sentences using LINKING WORDS

Ilustración 6: Tabla con palabras de transición

 III. PHASE THREE

D. Planning the letter to your mother: You will write a letter to

your mother describing what your life is like after two months of
moving with your husband/wife/partner to a different country.
You will include description of the city, description of daily routine
and description of a picture you sent.

The group will fill in this planning CHART

COUNTRY/CITY YOU ARE MOVING TO: Colombia /Medellin

PICTURE A OF PEOPLE IN THE CITY/PARK/ STREETS TO DESCRIBE

I tell you that, Medellín city is a cozy place. It is named the mountain’s city, there are
enough trees. This city is developing a solid economy, There are a number of
companies there. The kids are playing in the parks every afternoon. People are working
and studying from Monday to Friday and are resting on weekends at home.
The buildings are very beautiful, there are in these much offices, where professional
people are working. In this city the climate is warm. People are transporting daily in the
city by bicycle, meter, car, bus and on foot, there are several options.

PICTURE B OF PLACE OF YOUR HOUSE TO DESCRIBE

The apartment where we live is a very beautiful and cozy duplex, the second level there are
two large rooms and there are two large beds, the main room has a private bathroom and
outside the rooms there is another bathroom. On the first level there is a beautiful kitchen, in
which there is a small refrigerator and a kitchen with an oven, there is an open concept dining
room, in the there is a jug and many lamps, a laundry room and a bay window, as you can see
in the image.
ACTIONS TO DESCRIBE DAILY ROUTINE
On weekdays we always get up at 5:00 am in the morning, because we usually go to do some
exercise in the park before taking breakfast. At 6:00 am we take breakfast and then we take a
shower, my partner goes to work at 7:30 in the morning, he often goes in his car, but
sometimes he has to go on bus. I go to work at 8:00 am because I work in a place that is close
to my house. We work all morning, but I work until 1:00 pm and my partner works until 12:30.
He likes cooking lunch for both of us, we have lunch at about 1:10 pm, then we brush our
teeth and my partner goes to work again, in the afternoon I work at home. At night, I prepare
dinner, we have dinner at about 7.30 pm and we usually watch TV at nights. On weekends we
don't work, so we take care of our house, like doing the laundry, and cleaning the house. On
sundays we like going out or traveling to near places to visit.

E. Drafting: After having decided about the city, the pictures and
the actions, the group will start writing the letter that will be
divided into paragraphs:
 Note: Utilize the colors to identify the different grammar
structures used in each paragraph

F. Correcting, feedback and publishing: Each participant will

write, correct and feedback the different parts of the final text,
along with the help of the tutor

Environmen
t for the
Collaborative Learning
developmen
t
Products to Collaborative:
deliver by Upload the Final Document in PDF FORMAT t with
student following information:

1. First page: complete names, IDs and Date

2. Chart with Grammar explanations
3. Chart with answers to practical exercises
4. Letter with pictures and the paragraphs with different
colors

General guidelines for the collaborative work

Planning of Each student has to contribute in the forum as follows:

activities for 1. Salutation and role selection
the 2. Contribution for grammar
development 3. Contribution for practice
of 4. Contribution for planning
collaborative 5. Contribution for writing the text
work 6. Contribution to turn in the final PDF document
Roles to Each student has to write at least two significant and
perform by objective comments regarding the opinions of other
the student members of the group.
in the
collaborative The comments should remark mistakes, aspects to
group improve and contribute to the debate.
Collector: Articulate the contributions of all the
participants of the collaborative group in order to
consolidate the final paper; including only those who
took part of the whole process.
Roles and
Reviewer: To verify that the final paper and process
responsibiliti
meet all the requirements stipulated by the teacher.
es for the
delivery of
Evaluator: To verify that the final paper meets the
products
criteria stipulated by the rubric. The evaluator must
inform the group about any corrections or adjustments
regarding the quality of the document.

Submissions: To keep track and inform the group

 about the submission time, upload the final paper on
time, using the link provided by the teacher or
stipulated by the activity guide. To notify the group
members the final paper was submitted.

Alerts: To notify all the group members about changes

or news related to the submission or elaboration of the
final paper. To notify the teacher through the
collaborative forum and the course messaging that the
final paper was submitted.
It is necessary to use the APA standards in order to
Use of
provide a bibliography of the sources cited in the
references
document.
In the agreement 029 of December 13, 2013, article
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”.
Plagiarism
policy 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.php
 ?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
Intermediate
the Initial ☐ ☒ Final ☐
, Unit 2
evaluation
Performance levels of the collaborative
Assessed Scor
activity
Aspect e
High score Media score Low score
The
participations There is
are relevant, minimum
articulated and participation in
contribute to the writing
There is not
the forum, besides it
Participatio forum
construction of neither meets
n participation at
the final the requirements 20
& all.
document. The of the guide and
interaction
contributions schedule nor the
are posted netiquette
according to standards.
the schedule.
(Up to 20 (Up to 10 (Up to 0
points) points) points)
The proper use The written The grammatical
Use of of grammar outcome structures used
10
grammar shows a good contains some are simple, they
knowledge of grammatical do not match the
 the structuresinconsistencies difficulty level
and the according to the
simplicity of the contents of the
sentences show course
difficulties in the
structures.
(Up to 10 (Up to 5 (Up to 0
points) points) points)
The document
The written
shows The ideas and
final document
inconsistencies sentences
contains a
in the written in the
proper
organization and document look
construction of
construction of disorganized,
sentences and
Coherence ideas; however, they are not 15
paragraphs,
the objective or articulated, or do
making use of
main point of not have a clear
logical
view is objective.
connectors.
understandable.
(Up to 15 (Up to 10 (Up to 0
points) points) points)
Although the
The final vocabulary used
document in the final The vocabulary
contains wide document is very limited
variety of matches the and does not
words which difficulty level match the
are used according to the difficulty level
Vocabulary coherently, contents of the according to the 15
with course, it is contents of the
appropriate limited and has course
spelling. some spelling
mistakes.
(Up to 15 (Up to 10 (Up to 0
points) points) points)
The final The final
The final
Final PFD document is document is not
document is not 10
delivery delivered in delivered in the
delivered at all
the Link proper link or
established for lacks some
that purpose dispositions in
and contains the final version
all the
dispositions for
that matter
(Up to 10 (Up to 5 (Up to 0
points) points) points)
Final score 70