Universidad Nacional Abierta y a Distancia

Academic and Research Vice-rector

Activity 3 – Writing Task

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 B1+
Course Code 900004
Course Type Methodological Can be yes ☐ No ☒
re-
opened
Number of Credits 3

2. Description of the activity

Type of the Individ Collabora Number

☐ ☒ 4
activity: ual tive of weeks
Moment of Intermed
Initial ☐ ☒ Final ☐
evaluation: iate:
Delivery Environment:
Evaluative score:
Monitoring and Evaluation
Starting date: February 27th,
Closing date: April 01st, 2018
2018
Competence to develop:
Build different sentences according to the topics seen, the student will
construct this with the support of the E-Tutor and e-students. Through
this exercise, the student will recognize and ownership the contents of
the units, their environment and the context to express themselves
according to their level.
Topics to develop:
Unit 1- Giving Reasons
Compound Adjectives
Present Progressive
Wh Questions Request
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 sentences / paragraph
Phase 2: Students present a document with their presentation and the
sentences.
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.
Program.
City.
Also, you have to 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.
La idea de esta fase, es que con sus propias palabras
explique el tema, no que busque en internet y copie la
información, no, esa no es la idea.

GRAMMAR EXPLANATION/STRUCTURE/EXAMPLES Responsible

TOPIC
Present
Progressive
Wh
Questions
Modal
Verbs
Present
Perfect
Tag
Questions

C. Practice: Each participant will select ONE practical exercise.

Responsible:
Exercise 1: Write 3 complete sentences in affirmative, 3 complete
sentences in negative and 3 complete questions, using the present
progressive.

Example: The girl in purple coat is ice skating

Responsible:
Exercise 2: Write a complete question with each “WH” word, with the
respective answer.
Example: Who is the man over there?
A/: The man over there is my uncle.

Responsible:
Exercise 3: Rewrite the sentences in the correct form and underline the
modal verb.

I – ask – may – her - ?

Doctor – go – they – the – should – to
Round – she – corner – be – the – must
Feel – it – can – they
Louise – not – Sophia – swim – and – must
Can – the – she – violin – play - ?
Laura - the - should –and - piano – play – Isabella
Dance -not – Juan – must – disco - in – the
Diego –in– attention – class – pay - had better – the
Opera – and - ? - can - Raul - sing - Raquel

Example:

We can jump on the bed.

Responsible:
Exercise 4: Write complete sentences in present perfect (noun +
auxiliary + verb + complement) with the following information

She – drive (affirmative)

They - eat (negative)
We – jump (question)
He - dance (affirmative)
It – bark (negative)
I – travel (question)
You – teach (affirmative)
She – write (negative)
We – drink (question)
It – feel (affirmative)

Responsible:
Exercise 5: Complete the following questions using the tag question.

She is a very god doctor, ________?

________________, do we?
He was the best in his class, _________?
________________, didn’t you?
They didn’t pay the bill, __________?
_______________, are they?
We can’t drink beer, _________?
________________, shouldn’t we?
I am really drunk, __________?
________________, is he?

Example:
Sophia is writing a poem, isn’t she?

III. PHASE THREE

D. Complete the story: In group, you are going to complete the
parts of the story:

Once upon a time, in a village far away, there lived six blind men. One
day the villagers were very excited, and when they asked what was
happening they told them,
_________________________________________________________
_______________________________________________________

And so they decided, "Even though we will not be able to see it, we can
feel it. Let's
go." _____________________________________________________
________________________________________, and each of them
touched it:

"Hey, ________________ is a pillar," said the first man, touching its

leg.

"Oh, no! it is like a rope," said the second man, who was touching the
____________.

"Oh, no! it is like the branch of a tree," said the third man, touching the
______________________.

"It is like a big hand fan" said the fourth man, who was touching
____________________.

"It is like a huge wall," said the fifth man, touching the
_________________________________.

"It is like a pipe," said the sixth man,

touching the____________________________.

They began to argue about what the ______________ was like, and
each of them insisted that he was right.

They were getting angry, and fists were about to fly, when a wise man,
who had come to see the _________________ asked what the matter
was.

They replied, "We cannot agree what this _____________ looks like,"
and each of them told the wise man what he thought the ____________
was like.

The wise man smiled and calmly explained to them, "You are all correct.
The reason that each of you experienced it differently is because you
touched a different part of _____________. Actually the ____________
has all these features: Its _________ are like pillars, its ________ is
like a rope, its __________ are like the branches of a tree, its
__________ are like a fan, and it has a ____________, that is just is
like a pipe.

"Oh!" the blind men said, and there was no more fighting. They felt
happy that they had all been right.

What is the moral of this story?

_________________________________________________________
_________________________________________________________
_________________________________________________________
_____________________________________________________

E. 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

Environment
for the Collaborative Learning
development
Collaborative:
In the Evaluation and monitoring environment, upload
the Final Document in PDF FORMAT with the following
Products to
information:
deliver by
1. First page: Cover (complete names, IDs and Date)
student
2. Chart with Grammar explanations
3. Answers of the practical exercises
4. Complete the story and answer the final question

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 completing
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 The comments should remark mistakes, aspects to
collaborative improve and contribute to the debate.
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 stipulated by the teacher.

Evaluator: To verify that the final paper meets the

criteria stipulated by the rubric. The evaluator must
Roles and
inform the group about any corrections or adjustments
responsibiliti
regarding the quality of the document.
es for the
delivery of
Submissions: To keep track and inform the group
products
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."
Plagiarism
Therefore, plagiarism is a serious offense; academically
policy
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
presenting ours, and that our knowledge is based on
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 5 (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
Coherence contains a inconsistencies written in the 15
proper in the document look
construction of organization and disorganized,
 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