Universidad Nacional Abierta y a Distancia

Academic and Research Vice-rector

Activities guide and evaluation rubric

1. General description of the course

Faculty or Vicerrectoría de Relaciones Internacionales

Academic Unit VIREL
Academic Level Educación Continuada
Academic Field Formación complementaria
Course Name Inglés B1+ UPPER INTERMEDIATE
Course Code 901003A
Course Type Metodológico Can be yes ☐ No ☒
enabled
Number of Credits 3

2. Description of the activity

Number
Type of the
Individual ☐ Collaborative ☒ of 3
activity:
weeks
Moment of Unit
Initial ☒ ☐ Final ☐
evaluation: Intermediate:
Delivery Environment of the
Evaluative score of the
activity: Practical Learning and
activity: 75 points
evaluation
Starting date of the Deadline of the activity: May 6th
activity: April 16th 2019 2019

Competence to develop:

As a student you are going to be able to write a short text in which

you show you are able to write clearly and detailed about a wide range
of subjects, taking as a beginning an imaginary situation about a
funny weekend.

Topics to develop:

 Relative clauses
 Past perfect tense
  who/that/which
 Each /every

Steps, phases of the learning strategy to develop

 Group intervention (First week)

 Individual intervention (Second and third week)
 Consolidation of final work per group (Fourth week)

Activities to develop

In the forum, the students have to create a funny story about

"A Funny weekend". After reading the beginning of the story, students
can try to continue it, taking into account the information related to
the final delivery.

Environment
for the Practical –learning and Evaluation Environment
development
Collaborative:

Each group have to design a presentation about your

story using the application PowToon
(www.powtoon.com) or as an alternative you can use
a Power Point Presentation. In the final version of your
group, you must take into account the requirements
mentioned per paragraph.
Products to
1. First paragraph: what did their mom find in her
deliver by
bag?
student
2. Second paragraph: doing shopping
3. Third paragraph: a big surprise
4. Fourth paragraph: thieves VS heros
5. Final paragraph: watching news at home

This is the beginning of your funny story:

“Last weekend something really funny happened.

It was Saturday morning, and my
 sister and I were getting ready to go to the
grocery store with my mother. When we
were almost ready, my mother suddenly
stopped……”

General guidelines for the collaborative work

Individual intervention (First week): In the forum,

the students must share opinions
and comments about a funny weekend and including
the answers for each question:

1. First paragraph: what did their mom find in her bag?

2. Second paragraph: doing shopping
3. Third paragraph: a big surprise
4. Fourth paragraph: thieves VS heros
Planning of 5. Final paragraph: watching news at home
activities for
the Every member must participate at least 3 times,
development posting his/her own contributions: his/her points of
of view and also his/her opinions about his/her partners’
collaborative contributions.
work
Spanish contributions are not going to be
taken into account.

Individual intervention (Second and third week):

To develop this activity, students are going to write a

short text about their points of view and some opinions
about their partners’ work by participating in the Forum
in a period no later than 3 days before the final duedate
 (based on University regulations and
academic policies, see academic resolution 006808).

Group intervention (Fourth week): Is a

consolidation of the final work. Each E student will
contribute to get a final version of a short text, using
either yumpu magazine, or power point presentation.
Each student must upload his/her own final product. If
the student choose Yumpu must check the link works
plublishing his/ her finished task.
Each group must send only 1 final work to the writing
forum.

Use of
http://normasapa.net/normas-apa-2016/
references

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)
Plagiarism
policy ”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

Collabora
Activity Individual
☐ tive ☒
type: Activity
Activity
Moment
Unit
of the
Initial ☒ Intermed ☐ Final ☐
evaluati
iate:
on
Assesse Performance levels of the individual
d activity Score
Aspects High score Media score Low score
Participate Participates
at least 3 offering
Participates
times, short
partially in
posting responses
the forum,
his/her own without new
and response
contribution ideas to
Collabor to his/her
s in the his/her
ative partners’ 15 points
forum, partners’
work work giving
showing contribution
some
positive or The
opinions to
response to student
their
his/her does not
contributions
partners’ participate
work and in the forum
 giving of this
his/her point writing
of view activity.
concerning
partners’
contribution
(up to 15 (up to 10 (up to 5
points) points) points)
The text
The text has has
some important
The text
grammar mistakes in
shows a
structures use of
correct use
related to grammar. It
of grammar
Gramma the level and affects its
structures 15 points
r some specific comprehens
and huge of
Aspects vocabulary ion or The
vocabulary
according to text was
the topic done with a
translator.
(up to 15 (up to 10 (up to 5
points) points) points)
The text
The ideas in does not
The text has
the text are have a main
organized
clear and idea. The
and
organized supporting
understanda
keeping ideas are
Cohesio ble ideas. It
attention of confused.
n and shows some 15 points
the reading. This text
coheren guide’s
It keeps all does not
ce instructions
the guide’s follow the
indeed.
instructions guide’s
instructions
(up to 15 (up to 10 (up to 5
points) points) points)
The text The text has The text
Text
shows the has not
present 15 points
creativity presentation guide’s
ation
and original required with requirement
 ideas. It simple and s: It does
answers common not answer
each ideas: It each
question: answers question:
1. First partially the 1. First
paragraph: questions: paragraph:
what did 1. First what did
their mom paragraph: their mom
find in her what did find in her
bag? their mom bag?
2. Second find in her 2. Second
paragraph: bag? paragraph:
doing 2. Second doing
shopping paragraph: shopping
3. Third doing 3. Third
paragraph: shopping paragraph:
a big 3. Third a big
surprise paragraph: a surprise
4. Fourth big surprise 4. Fourth
paragraph: 4. Fourth paragraph:
thieves VS paragraph: thieves VS
heros thieves VS heros
5. Final heros 5. Final
paragraph: 5. Final paragraph:
watching paragraph: watching
news at watching news at
home. news at home.
home. .
(up to 15 (up to 10 (up to 5
points) points) points)
The text
The text The text
does not
shows an shows
show the
appropriated partially the
use of
use of grammar
grammar
Story grammar content 15 points
content
studied in studied in
studied in
the E book the E book
the E book
online on line
on line
content content
content
(Up to 15 (Up to 10 (Up to 5
points) points) points)
75 points
Final score
Total score