Universidad Nacional Abierta y a Distancia

Academic and Research Vice-Rector

Activity 4 : Speaking Assignment – Guide & Rubric

1. General description of the course

School or Vicerrectoría de Relaciones Internacionales

Academic unit
Level of Technical-Technological-Professional-Master
formation
Field of Common Basic Interdisciplinary formation
formation
Course name English III
Course code 90121
Type of course Methodological Can it be Ye ☐ N ☒
retaken? s o
Number of 2
credits

2. Description of the activity

Type of Number of
Individual ☒ Collaborative ☐ 6
activity: weeks
Moment of Intermedia,
Starting ☐ ☒ Final ☐
evaluation: unit:
Delivery environment:
Evaluative score: 90 points
Collaborative Learning
Starting date: October 19th,
Closing date: November 28th, 2019
2019
Competence to develop:
Speaking skill: The students speak in English appropriately in current
situtations at intermedia level.
Topics to develop:
Phrasal verbs, Prepositions, Future.
Phases, steps or stages of learning strategy to develop
Activity 4 : Speaking Assignment
Activities to develop
Part 1 (50 points)
1. Post a photograph of a traditional festivity in the city or
department where you live.
2. Record a video describing that festivity and telling everything
about it: name, importance, type of celebration, description, etc.
Finally, you must invite your partners to come and enjoy it.

Ilustración 1

Fuente: https://www.trickyways.com/2010/05/how-to-record-video-on-mac/

Imagen de un hombre haciendo la grabación de un vídeo en el computador.

3. Additionally, you will send two comments about two partners’

videos.

Part 2
Interview (40 points)
Ilustración 2

Fuente:
https://learn.org/articles/Distance_Learning_20_The_Skype_Interview.ht
ml
Imagen de dos personas realizando una entrevista vía Skype.

Step 1: Personal introduction. Introduce yourself (name, age, city

where you live, job, program you study, hobbies, and other
information you want to include: favorite drink, favorite food, etc.).

Step 2: Role-play. On the day of the interview, you will talk to your
tutor about the traditional festivity you chose; you will tell everything
about it and the tutor will ask you some questions about you and that
festivity.

Important:
In case you have the opportunity to go to a CEAD, CCAV or UDR
where there is an INVIL tutor, you can perform the interview with him
and he will send a report via email to the course director. It consists
of your personal data (full name, number of group, tutor’s name),
grade and feedback.

Besides, if you belong to a CIPA in your center, the tutor in charge will
send the report to the course director and some points will be added
to your Speaking grade according to your performance in this activity.

Note: In order to practice your pronunciation, you can use the

following websites:
https://www.readspeaker.com/
https://www.howtopronounce.com/

Environmen
Collaborative Learning
t to develop
Products to Individual:
submit by Part 1
the student
1. Upload the photograph in the forum.
2. Send the video or URL in the forum. This video
should be shared in the forum before presenting
the interview with your tutor.
The video can be made using any tool or software.
Guidelines for making a video:
 At the forefront of the video you must show up.
 At the backfront you can show the photograph
uploaded in the forum and/or the slides.
 The message of the video consists of three parts:
1. Greeting: You introduce yourself talking about:
name, age, place of residence, program you
study, among others. 2. You tell everything
related to the photograph sent in the forum. 3.
You finish your video saying goodbye and inviting
people to visit your city and the monument.
 Length of video is from 1:30 and 2:00 minutes.
 To avoid difficulties to upload your video in the
forum; you can upload it on Youtube and just
share the link.
Choose the proper place to record your video in order
to avoid pictures or sound unappropriate.

Part 2
Interview via Skype with your tutor. It is important to
upload the video/link before the interview.

Collaborative:

Send two comments about your partners’ videos.

 General guidelines of the collaborative work for developing
the activity

 Reading the unit contents with its references

Planning
because they support the activities.
activities to
 Active and thoughtful participation in the activities
develop the
by each student.
collaborative
 Sharing appropriate and useful contributions for
work
each activity.
Roles to
perform by
No role must be performed by the students in this
the student
activity.
in the
collaboative
group
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.

Reviewer: To verify that the final paper and process

meet all the requirements established by the teacher.

Roles and Evaluator: To verify that the final paper meets the
responsibilit criteria established by the rubric. The evaluator must
ies to inform the group about any corrections or
produce the adjustments regarding the quality of the document.
submitions
by the Submissions: To keep track and inform the group
students about the submission time, uploading the final paper
on time, using the link provided by the teacher or
established 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 mail
that the final paper was submitted.
 It is necessary to use the APA standards in order to
provide a bibliography of the sources cited in the
document.
Use of
references Use this link as reference:
http://normasapa.com/formato-apa-presentacion-
trabajos-escritos/

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:
Plagiarism a) In case of academic fraud proved in the
policy 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
Type of Individual Collaborativ
☒ ☐
activity: activity e activity
Moment of Intermedia,
Starting ☐ ☒ Final ☐
evaluation unit
Performance levels of the individual activity
Item Score
High score Media score Low score
The student
had some
the student’s
pronunciation
pronunciation
mistakes but
was clear, you
these ones were
had a
not decisive
pronunciation The student
because they
close the did not
Pronunciati did not interfere
standard one participate in 10
on to understand
with good the interview points
the speech. A
intonation and
better
appropriate
pronunciation
pauses among
could improve
sentences.
the
communication.
(Up to 10 (Up to 5
(0 points)
points) points)
Grammar The student’s The student did The student 5
speech showed not introduce did not points
a good handle of himself participate in
gramar appropriately. the interview
structures The student did
addressed in the not link simple
units for this questions and
activity. The answers related
student could to near
make some little environment
mistakes but the and the studens
message was was not able to
understandable. construct
language proper
 to the level and
related to the
context. The
student often
made mistakes
that interfere
the
communication.
(Up to 5 (Up to 3
(0 points)
points) points)
The student
The student misused some
used the words isolated,
vocabulary without
addresed in the cohesion in your The student
units. The speech. The did not
message was unappropriate participate in 8
Vocabulary
communicated chose of words the interview. points
clearly and and lack of
appropriately vocabulary
with cohesion. interfere the
communication.
(Up to 8 (Up to 4
(0 points)
points) points)
Listening The student The student did The student 10
answered the not understand did not points
questions questions nor participate in
properly: the follow the interview.
student instructions. The
recognize the stduent did not
sentences and recognize the
include them in sounds of
the speech. It elementary
was not English words
necessary to related to this
repeat activity.
questions. The
student
understand and
follow
 intructions
clearly.
(Up to 10 (Up to 5
(0 points)
points) points)
The student
made too much
The student’s effort to develop
fluency fluency the speech and
The student
made the make too long
did no
conversation pauses that
participate in 7
Fluency possible and affect the
the interview. points
easy without communication.
interruptions. The student
could have used
notes.
(Up to 7 (Up to 5
(0 points)
points) points)
The student
made the video
appropriately,
the The student’s
pronunciation video did not
and fluency meet the
The students
were quite well. requirements.
did not make
The message The 50
Video the video.
was clear, pronunciation points
relevant and and fluency
coherent. The were not well.
student used a
wide
vocabulary.
(Up to 55 (Up to 28
(0 points)
points) points)
90
Final score
points