Universidad Nacional Abierta y a Distancia

Academic and Research Vice-rector

Activities guide and evaluation rubric - Cycle-task - task 1

1. General description of the course

Faculty or Escuela de Ciencias de la Educación

Academic Unit
Academic Level Profesional
Academic Field Formación disciplinar
Course Name English I
Course Code 518002
Course Type Metodológico Make-up exam Yes ☐ No ☒
Number of Credits 3

2. Description of the activity

Type of the Number of

Individual ☐ Collaborative ☒ 4
activity: weeks
Unit
Moment of
Initial ☐ Intermediate: ☒ Final ☐
evaluation:
1
Evaluative score of the Delivery Environment of the activity:
activity: 115 points Evaluation and Monitoring Environment
Starting date of the Deadline of the activity:
activity: April 11th, 2019 May 8th, 2019
Competences to develop:
Can recognise familiar words and very basic phrases concerning myself, my
family and immediate concrete surroundings when people speak slowly and
clearly.
Can interact in a simple way asking the other person to repeat or rephrase
things at a lower rate of speech and help formulate what is being said. Can
ask and answer simple questions in areas of immediate need or on very
familiar topics.
Can write short and simple texts and fill in forms with personal details.
Can use a variety of web tools in order to improve his learning strategies
and enhance autonomy.
Topics to develop:
Unit 1: Introduce yourself and your family, provide other’s personal
information, and talk about likes and activities.
 Steps, phases of the learning strategy to develop
 Cycle-task: students establish the framework required for the development
of their work: knowledge, strategies, and activities. Students perform the
task individually or in groups, giving everyone the chance to express
themselves and make proposals facing the development of it.
Activities to develop

A. Online speaking sessions: Registration:

Register in this form to participate in the speaking sessions.
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScPw6v_JWAAOkSc1IkSTdWa1
XCcKdDmKA61yCdZcnAq0xketg/viewform?usp=sf_link

In these sessions you will interact with a tutor. You will be asked to talk
about the different topics the tutor proposes. Take into account the day and
time of the session.
These Online Speaking Sessions will start on May 2nd, 2019.

B. E-book contents: Study the language, practice, and apply your

knowledge: 95 points
1. Contents Units 1 and 2
Go to the e-book, check the contents for units 1 and 2 and study the
communicational topics, grammar, vocabulary and pronunciation of the
different lessons. After that, develop all the exercises of the e-book in order
to practice.

1.2. Talk about your family.

As an application exercise, write a text where you introduce your family.
Choose a photography and present your relatives, give their personal
information and tell what they do in life. Share the document in the forum
to receive feedback.
After this, record a video where you show the family photo. First, introduce
yourself, then, give the information you wrote in the text about the family
picture. Upload your video to the net and share the link in the forum.

2. Contents Units 3 and 4

Go to the e-book, check the contents for units 3and 4 and study the
communicational topics, grammar, vocabulary and pronunciation of the
different lessons. After that, develop all the exercises of the e-book in order
to practice.
2.1. Ask about your mates’ likes.
As an application exercise, interview your mates about their likes and
dislikes. For this, write 10 questions (yes/no questions and information
questions) and ask them to 2 of your mates. Share the questions in the
forum. Likewise, answer the questions of 2 of your mates.

C. Knowledge test: 20 points

After studying and practicing the topics from the e-book, take the
Knowledge test 1 which is available in the Evaluation and Monitoring
Environment.
The activity will be developed in the Collaborative
Learning Environment.
Go to the forum Cycle-task, Task 1 and post your works
Environment
there. Take into account your tutor’s observations to
for the
improve your work.
development
Finally, when your work is done, organize it and upload it
to the Evaluation Environment.
Individual:
A word or pdf document containing the following
activities:
-written text about your family
-link with the video talking about your family
Products to
-the 10 questions you asked with the answers of 2 of
deliver by
your mates
student
-the 10 questions you answered of 2 of your mates
Collaborative:
The collaborative work corresponds to the interaction in
the forum with your mates. Answer to the questions they
ask and include the answers in the final work.

3. General guidelines for the collaborative work

Collaborative work is essential in the development of the

activities of the course since through it, learning is
organized, the development of tasks is planned,
communication is developed, strategies are established and
knowledge is finally constructed.
Keep in mind that your individual work is imperative
because if there is no interest on your part to participate,
this can affect the personal work of others and have a
Planning of negative impact on the process and products to be
activities fordelivered.
the Once the collaborative task is established, first a role must
development be chosen (read below) and assume the responsibility of
of fulfilling its own functions. Through these roles, the
collaborative development of the task is planned, the different
work contributions are made, the parties and contents of the
activity are organized and the assigned task is delivered.
As you can see, if one of the roles is missing,
communication and procedures may be affected, since
there is no collaborative work.
The proposed roles are:
• Leader: He is in charge of coordinating and organizing
the team's efforts, as well as communication. Seeks to
develop a good work process.
• Producer: It is the person who critically questions the
work of the team, with the purpose of ensuring that all the
Roles to
information generated is relevant to the case and that
perform by
efforts are not diverted.
the student
• Tracker: He is in charge of maintaining the attention of
in the
the team in solving the problem. It must make the team
collaborative
avoid the loss of time and the vagaries of ideas.
group
• Rapporteur: Is responsible for organizing the information
and documentation generated by the team and keeping it
up to date when it is needed. He is also responsible for
delivering the final version of the written report.
• Timekeeper: The person responsible for taking note of
the activities of each of the team members.
The proposed roles are:
• Compiler: consolidates the document that is constituted
as the final product of the debate, taking into account that
Roles and the contributions of all the participants have been included
responsibilit and that only the participants who participated in the
y for the process are included. He must inform the person in charge
delivery of of the alerts to notify those who did not participate, that
products by they will not be included in the product to be delivered.
students • Reviser: ensures that the writing complies with the rules
for submission of work required by the teacher.
• Evaluator: ensures that the document contains the
criteria present in the rubric. He must inform the person in
 charge of the alerts so that he informs the other members
of the team in case there is an adjustment to be made on
the subject.
• Deliveries: alerts about the delivery times of the
products and sends the document in the stipulated times,
using the resources destined for the shipment, and
indicates to the other colleagues that the delivery has been
made.
• Alerts: ensures that the members of the group are
notified of the novelties at work and informs the teacher
through the work forum and the course's messaging, that
the document has been sent.
Use of All references considered for this activity have to be cited
references using APA Style. http://normasapa.com/
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?opt
 ion=com_content&view=article&id=138:normas-
apa&catid=45:referencias-bibliograficas&Itemid=

4. Evaluation rubric

Evaluation rubric
Activity Individual Collaborative
☐ ☒
type: Activity Activity
Evaluation Unit Intermediate
Initial ☐ ☒ Final ☐
moment: 1:
Assessed Performance levels of the individual activity
Score
Aspects High score Media score Low score
The text does not The text does
The text contains contain detailed not contain
detailed
information about detailed
information
the relatives. It is information
(names, ages,
occupations…) partially clear and about the
Talk about
your family: about the contains some relatives. It is
important not clear and 25
written text relatives. It is
language contains points
with clear and does not
description contain important mistakes. important
language language
mistakes. mistakes.

(up to 25 (up to 12 (up to 1

points) points) points)
In the video the Student partially Student does not
student presents a describes the present a picture
Talk about picture of his picture. of his family and 20
your family: family and Pronunciation is describe it. points
family video describes it. not very Pronunciation is
Pronunciation is intelligible. not intelligible.
intelligible.
 (up to 20 (up to 10 (up to 1
points) points) points)
The student wrote The student did
The student some questions not write 10
wrote 10 about likes. They questions about
questions about are partially well- likes. They are
likes. They are structured, some not well-
Questions to well-structured, language structured, many 20
ask about no language mistakes and language points
likes mistakes and shared in the mistakes and
shared in the
forum. shared in the
forum.
forum.

(up to 20 (up to 10 (up to 1

points) points) points)
The student did The student did
The student not enter the not enter the
entered the forum forum on time forum on time
on time and and partially and did not
Individual
participated participated participate 10
participation
frequently and frequently and frequently and points
in the forum
meaningfully. meaningfully. meaningfully.

(up to 10 (up to 1
(up to 5 points)
points) points)
Assessed Performance levels of the collaborative activity
Score
Aspect High score Media score Low score
The student The student did
The student partially not answer the
answered the 10 answered the 10 10 questions of 2
Answers to
questions of 2 of questions of 2 of of his mates. 20
the mates’
his mates. his mates. points
questions
(Up to 20 (Up to 10
(Up to 1 points)
points) points)
95
Final score
points