Universidad Nacional Abierta y a Distancia

Vicerrectoría Académica y de Investigación

Activity 5 – Speaking Task

1. General description of the course

Faculty or Academic Vicerrectoría de Relaciones Internacionales
Unit
Academic Level Professional, specialization, master
Academic Field Common basic interdisciplinary training
Course name English B1+
Course code 900004
Course type Methodological Can be re- Yes No ☒
opened
Number of credits 3

2. Description of the activity

Physical Remote
☐ ☐ Simulator ☐
laboratory laboratory
Type of
Specialized Professional
practice Field works ☐ ☐ ☐
software experiences
Other ☒ Which: Skype
Type of activity: Individual ☒ Collaborative ☐ Number of weeks 9
Moment of
Initial ☐ Intermediate ☒ Final ☐
evaluation:
Score of the activity (if Delivering environment: Collaborative
70
applicable): Learning
rd
Starting date: October 3 , 2017 Closing date: November 29th, 2017
Topics addressed in the practical component:
Present simple
Present progressive
Future Tense
Activities to carry out:
PHASE 1: VIDEO RECORDING “MY LIFE”

1. You have to make a video, in which you should introduce yourself with all the
information such as: FULL NAME, AGE, PROFESSION, STUDIES, WORK, ETC.
You should be recorded showing parts of your real life routine, you have to
 show your house and describe each part of it. The video should not be more
than 3:00 minutes long. Look at the video to copy the format
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RTZfnO743Ig
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jGeasFdAlGs

2. Share the recording or the link of the video in the forum.

3. Comment one video from other person in the forum

PHASE 2: SKYPE INTERVIEW

1. Your tutor will send you a link containing a time table for you to register in the
established days and hours.
2. Register on the schedule your ID number, full name, group number, email and
Skype username.
3. Login to the virtual tool at least 10 minutes before the interview.
4. Remember to have from 10 to 15 minutes and guarantee the headset,
microphone and camera work fine to carry out the interview.

The interview has two major parts:

 Self-introduction
Make sure you are prepared to answer one of the following questions:

HOW ARE YOU?

WHAT IS YOUR FULL NAME?
WHAT IS YOUR LAST NAME?
HOW OLD ARE YOU?
HOW OLD IS YOUR FATHER/MOTHER/SISTER/BROTHER?
DO YOU HAVE CHILDREN?
HOW MANY CHILDREN DO YOU HAVE?
ARE YOU MARRIED?
ARE YOU SINGLE?
WHAT DO YOU DO FOR A LIVING?
WHAT ARE YOU STUDYING?
WHAT DO YOU DO IN YOUR FREE TIME?
DO YOU LIKE SPORTS?
WHAT IS YOUR FAVORITE FOOD?
WHAT IS YOUR FAVORITE MUSIC?
WHERE DO YOU LIVE?
WHO DO YOU LIVE WITH?
DO YOU HAVE PETS?

 A conversation about two of the following topics:

 Talk about your future plans.
 Show a picture of your family and describe them
 Describe your house.
 Describe the following picture (at least 10 sentences)

Working
Collaborative Learning
environment:
 Products to
deliver by the Video recording
student:
Type of No product must be
Individual ☒ Collaborative ☐ ☐
product: delivered
Individual:
Upload the video in YouTube, Vimeo, Dropbox, Onedrive etc.

4. Evaluation rubric
Evaluation rubric
Activity type: Individual ☒ Collaborative ☐
Moment of
Initial ☐ Intermediate ☒ Final ☐
evaluation
Items to Levels of performance of individual activity
Score
evaluate Lowest score Medium score Highest score
The student
The student records records the video
the video but it does describing his/her
not fully correspond house and covers
to the parts allocated all aspects
There is no
Video in the guide. He/she allocated in the
evidence of video
recording may(not) have guide. The video is
recording and
and forum participated in the clear and 35
forum
participatio forum. The video is understandable.
participation
n not fully Also, he/she
understandable or participates in the
has some inaudible forum giving
parts feedback to one of
the forum mates
(up to 0 points) (up to18 points) (up to 35 points)
Skype The student has a The student can The student can fully 15
Interview: great deal of communicate in a understand and
Interaction problems simple fashion, using communicate all
communicating his/her ideas un
repetitive structures
his/her ideas in English about
English. Also, and fair vocabulary. himself. He/she can
he/she does not He/she understands interact with
understand simple some commands and minimum or /no
commands and questions and error in an English
 questions. He/she
needs first
language to
communicate or eventually needs some Speaking
confirm the repetition. There are environments. The
information during some mistakes in the pronunciation is
the interview. The pronunciation, but it fluent, with good
student makes doesn’t affect the intonation and
many understanding of the appropriate intervals
pronunciation between sentences.
message.
mistakes and the
message is not
clear.
(up to 0 points) (up to 7 points) (up to 15 points)
The student does There is a limited
not construct number of sentences The student can
complete The student construct sentences
sentences or sometimes constructs using a wide range
uses only a complete sentence of grammatical
isolated words. but the structure is structures. He/she
Skype He/she does not too repetitive and the is able con link
Interview: use structures range of vocabulary is them together
Structure studied in the limited. He using connectors. 15
and course. The sometimes combines The student uses a
vocabulary  student uses a Spanish and English vocabulary
vocabulary in an to construct suggested in the
incorrect way, sentences. The used units. The message
beside there is vocabulary is scarce is clear and
no cohesion in and not always understandable.
the speech. correct.
(up to 0 points) (up to 5 points) (up to 20 points)
Skype The student The students follow 5
Interview: presents the the plan of the
Preparation, interview but interview. He/she
Responsibili he/she changes programs the
ty and schedules, shows interview one time
punctuality  up late, in a and shows on time
different and ready
schedule or
alters the order
of the interview
(up to 2 points) (up to 0 points) (up to 10 points)
Final score 70