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Activities guide and evaluation rubric - Cycle-task - task 2

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 Metodológic Make-up exam Ye ☐ No ☒
o s
Number of 3
Credits

2. Description of the activity

Type of Number
Individual ☐ Collaborative ☒ 4
activity: of weeks
Unit
Moment of
Initial ☐ Intermediate: ☒ Final ☐
evaluation:
2
Delivery Environment of the
Evaluative score of the
activity: Evaluation and Monitoring
activity: 100 points
Environment
Starting date of the Deadline of the activity:
activity:
Monday, March 16th 2020 Thursday, April 9th, 2020
Competence to develop:
Shows only limited control of a few simple grammatical structures and
sentence patterns in a memorized repertoire.
Can ask and answer questions about personal details. Can interact in a
simple way but communication is totally dependent on repetition,
rephrasing and repair.
Can link words or groups of words with very basic linear connectors
line “and” or “but”.
Topics to develop:
Unit 2: give locations and directions, describe places and activities,
and talk about shopping.
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. E-book contents: Study the language, practice, and apply

your knowledge: 75 points

1. Contents Unit 5
Go to the e-book, check the contents for unit 5 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.

1.1. Look at this video and complete the worksheet posted in the
NewsForum and the forum of the activity.
Sitcom: You’re late:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PneG3MS7W8U

Worksheet Task 2

1.2. Answer the following questions:

-When’s your birthday?
-What do you like to do to celebrate your birthday?
-Where do you generally go when you go out with friends?
-What days is your favorite TV program and what time? Why do you
like that program?
-What do you do in your free time?
-what are you going to do next vacation?

2. Contents Unit 6
Go to the e-book, check the contents for unit 6 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. Create a brochure. In there, you are going to describe 3
stores. Include pictures, and mention different items you can
buy in those stores. Describe prices, characteristics, and say
if you recommend them or not and why.

3. Contents Units 7 and 8

Go to the e-book, check the contents for units 7 and 8 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.

3.1. Invite your classmates to visit your city. For this, write a
document where you provide a thorough description of the
city where you live, including touristic places, means of
transportation to get there, locations, and other important
information to let your classmates know the characteristics of
your city (include pictures).

B. Knowledge test: 20 points

After studying and practicing the topics from the e-book, take the
Knowledge test 2 which is available in the Evaluation and Monitoring
Environment.

The activity will be developed in the Collaborative

Learning Environment.
Environment Go to the forum Cycle-task, Task 2 and post your
for the works there. Take into account your tutor’s
development observations to improve your work.
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:
-worksheet from the video with the answers
Products to -answers of the 6 questions
deliver by -brochure with the stores descriptions
student -description of your city.

Collaborative:
The collaborative work corresponds to the interaction
 in the forum with your mates. You are going to check
your mates’ works and give feedback in order to
improve.

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
Planning of
participate, this can affect the personal work of others
activities for
and have a negative impact on the process and
the
products to be delivered.
developmen
Once the collaborative task is established, first a role
t of
must be chosen (read below) and assume the
collaborativ
responsibility of fulfilling its own functions. Through
e work
these roles, the development of the task is planned,
the different 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
Roles to communication. Seeks to develop a good work
perform by process.
the student • Producer: It is the person who critically questions
in the the work of the team, with the purpose of ensuring
collaborativ that all the information generated is relevant to the
e group case and that efforts are not diverted.
• Tracker: He is in charge of maintaining the
attention of the team in solving the problem. It must
make the team avoid the loss of time and the vagaries
of ideas.
• 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 the contributions of all the
participants have been included and that only the
participants who participated in the process are
included. He must inform the person in charge of the
alerts to notify those who did not participate, that they
will not be included in the product to be delivered.
• Reviser: ensures that the writing complies with the
Roles and
rules for submission of work required by the teacher.
responsibilit
• Evaluator: ensures that the document contains the
y for the
criteria present in the rubric. He must inform the
delivery of
person in charge of the alerts so that he informs the
products by
other members of the team in case there is an
students
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
references cited 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”.

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
Plagiarism be zero (0.0) without leading to disciplinary measures.
policy 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
Evaluatio
Unit Intermediate
n Initial ☐ ☒ Final ☐
2:
moment:
Performance levels of the individual activity
Assessed High score Media score Low score Scor
Aspects (up to 25 (up to 12 (up to 1 e
points) points) points)
The student The student did
The student partially not complete
completed the completed the the worksheet.
worksheet from worksheet. He He did not
the video he partially answer the 6
watched. He answered the 6 questions.
also answered questions. Answers are not 20
Contents the 6 questions. Answers are complete. point
unit 5 Answers are partially Important s
complete with
complete with language
no important
some important mistakes.
language
mistakes. language
mistakes.
(up to 20 (up to 10 (up to 0
points) points) points)
Brochure It includes It partially It does not 20
with the vocabulary, includes include point
descriptio pictures, and vocabulary, vocabulary, s
n of description of pictures, and pictures, and
 description of descriptions …
prices, prices, The document is
qualities… The qualities… The not creative,
document is document is well-presented
creative, well- partially and has
presented and creative, well- important
different
with no presented and language
stores
important
some important mistakes.
language
language
mistakes.
mistakes.
(up to 20 (up to 10 (up to 0
points) points) points)
The text The text does
The text partially not contain
contains contains much
information information information
about places, about places, about places,
locations, locations, locations,
Text with
directions, directions, directions,
the 20
transportation... transportation... transportation...
descriptio point
The text is well- The text is well- The text is not
n of the s
presented with
city presented with well-presented
no important
some important important
language
mistakes. language language
mistakes. mistakes.
(up to 20 (up to 10 (up to 0
points) points) points)
The student did The student did
The student not enter the not enter the
entered the forum on time forum on time
Individual forum on time and partially and did not 20
participati and participated participated participate point
on in the frequently and frequently and frequently and s
forum meaningfully.
meaningfully. meaningfully.
(up to 20 (up to 10 (up to 0
points) points) points)
Assessed Performance levels of the collaborative activity Scor
Aspect High score Media score Low score e
The student The student did
The student partially not participate
participated in participated in in the forum by
the forum by the forum by checking his
checking his checking his mates’ works 20
Forum
mates’ works mates’ works and giving point
interaction
and giving and giving important s
important
important feedback to
feedback to
feedback to improve.
improve.
improve.
(Up to 20 (Up to 10 (Up to 0
points) points) points)
100
Final score
points