Universidad Nacional Abierta y a Distancia

Academic and Research Vice-rector

Activity 3 – 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

☐ ☒ 5
activity: al e of weeks
Moment of Intermediat
Initial ☐ ☒ Final ☐
evaluation: e:
Delivery Environment: Monitoring
Evaluative score: 70 pts
and Evaluation
Starting date: Oct 19 , 2017
th Closing date: Nov 19th, 2017
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

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
Example: There are three red tomatoes above the milk bottles

Exercise 2: write corresponding sentences to the images in Present

simple tense. Use The subject according to the pictures

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
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?

Example:

I NEVER play Basketball. My brother SELDOM reads a book

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

PICTURE A OF PEOPLE IN THE CITY/PARK/ STREETS TO DESCRIBE
PICTURE B OF PLACE OF YOUR HOUSE TO DESCRIBE
ACTIONS TO DESCRIBE DAILY ROUTINE

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
 Collaborative:
Upload the Final Document in PDF FORMAT t with
following information:
Products to
1. First page: complete names, IDs and Date
deliver by
2. Chart with Grammar explanations
student
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
responsibiliti Reviewer: To verify that the final paper and process
es for the meet all the requirements stipulated by the teacher.
delivery of
products Evaluator: To verify that the final paper meets the
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.
According to Diccionario de la Real Academia Española
“Plagiarism is the action of substantially copying other
people's works, presenting them as own creation."
Therefore, plagiarism is a serious offense; academically
speaking it is equivalent to theft. A student who
plagiarizes does not take his education seriously, and
does not respect the intellectual work of others.

There is no small plagiarism. Using any portion of

another person's work, without acknowledging the
author or source is plagiarism. Now, it is evident that
we all take some ideas from others when it comes to
Plagiarism
presenting ours, and that our knowledge is based on
policy
someone else’s knowledge. But when we rely on the
work of others, academic honesty requires that we
explicitly announce the fact that we are using an
external source, either by citing or by paraphrasing
(these terms will be defined below). When we cite or
paraphrase, we clearly identify our source, not only to
give recognition to its author, but also to allow the
reader to look up in a reference text.

There are certain academic events in which it is not

acceptable to quote or paraphrase the work of others.
For instance, if a teacher assigns his or her students a
task in which they are clearly required to answer using
 their own ideas and words, then the student should not
consider external sources regardless if they are
properly referenced.

4. Evaluation rubric

Evaluation rubric
Activity Individual Collaborative
☐ ☒
type: Activity Activity
Moment of
the Initial ☐ Intermediate ☒ Final ☐
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 written
outcome The grammatical
contains some structures used
The proper use
grammatical are simple, they
of grammar
inconsistencies do not match the
shows a good
Use of and the difficulty level
knowledge of 10
grammar simplicity of the according to the
the structures
sentences show contents of the
difficulties in the course
structures.
(Up to 10 (Up to 5 (Up to 0
points) points) points)
The written The document
The ideas and
final document shows
sentences
contains a inconsistencies
written in the
proper in the
document look
construction of organization and
Coherence disorganized, 15
sentences and construction of
they are not
paragraphs, ideas; however,
articulated, or do
making use of the objective or
not have a clear
logical main point of
objective.
connectors. view is
 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
document is
The final
delivered in
document is not
the Link
delivered in the The final
established for
proper link or document is not
Final PFD that purpose
lacks some delivered at all 10
delivery and contains
dispositions in
all the
the final version
dispositions for
that matter
(Up to 10 (Up to 5 (Up to 0
points) points) points)
Final score 70