Universidad Nacional Abierta y a Distancia

Academic and Research Vice-rector

Activities guide and evaluation rubric
Task 4. Speaking oral production.

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 900003
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 8
Moment of
Initial ☐ Intermediate ☒ Final ☐
evaluation:
Score of the activity (if Delivering environment: Collaborative
70
applicable): Learning
Starting date: June 21th 2019 Closing date: July 21th 2019
Competence to develop: Speaking
Topics to develop:

Should, simple past tense, modal verbs of advice: should, ought to,
had to, comparatives, go +ing
Recommendations, describing the weather, giving advice. Description of
price and length, past events, recreational activities.
Steps, phases of the learning strategy to develop:
 The student is going to do two videos, trying to improve from the first to
the second his/her fluency, pronunciation and sentences structures.

Activities to develop:

PHASE 1: VIDEO 1 “Describing my life”

 For this first video, you are going to introduce yourself with the following
information:
Full name.
Age.
Program
Place of work.
Place of living.
Personal description
Activities in your free time.

After that, you must record a video in which you are going to talk about
important aspects in your life, describe yourself, describe activities you love to
do

Ex: Hello, my name is _________, I am ___ years old, I am studying _____

I work in _______ and I live in _______ I live with_________. In my free
time I love to______________ I love to__________. I am (short), I
am______ I have ______ eyes. I have______ hair

Vocabulary and explanation to have in mind:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X9uatn1-EiE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XGdKDemKF30

Linking words that you can use in your video:

https://web2.uvcs.uvic.ca/elc/sample/ite/gs/gs_38.html

Practice your pronunciation with:

www.neospeech.com

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

  During the following week, your tutor is going to give you recommendations
and suggestions to improve for the second video.

PHASE 2: Video 2 “Choose a topic”

From the following topics, you have to choose one to develop your second video.

 In a touristic places in your city (showing places). The student has to record a
description of places and give us information about their importance in his
city.
Look this video as example: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IL9BXD110Mo

 Simulating a job (Choose the job that you like the most in your life), during
few minutes the student is going to simulate things she/he has to do that day
at work.

Look this video as example: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3FhzMYmY4YE

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

Practice your pronunciation with:

www.neospeech.com

To have in mind:

You have to upload the video in the corresponding week. You can’t upload the two
videos in the last week of the activity.

Environment
for the Collaborative Learning
development
Individual
Two Video recordings in the forum having in mind the following
Products to
schedule:
deliver by
student
Share the video 1 in the
June 21th – June 28th
forum.
 Retro alimentation and
July 2nd – July 07th
suggestions from the tutor.
Share the video 2 in the
July 08th –July 15th
forum.
Retro alimentation and
July 15th – July 19th
suggestions from the tutor.

General guidelines for the collaborative work

Planning of
activities for
The idea is that you present 2 videos in the forum having in mind
the
the schedule given then you update a pdf file in monitoring and
development of
evaluation environment.
collaborative
work
Roles to
perform by the
No roles
student in the
collaborative
group
Roles and
responsibility
for the delivery No roles
of products by
students
Use of
N/A
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
Plagiarism
implies the use of cites or lack of references, or includes cites
policy
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 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.php?option=c
om_content&view=article&id=138:normas-
apa&catid=45:referencias-bibliograficas&Itemid=
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 High score Media score Low score
The student records There is no
The student the video 1 but it does evidence of video
records the video not fully correspond to recording and
1 describing the parts allocated in forum participation.
his/her life, the guide.
Video 1 20
his/her favorites The video is not fully The student upload
activities. understandable or has the video out of the
some inaudible parts. schedule given.
(up to 20
(up to 12 points) (up to 0 points)
points)
The student
The student records
records the video There is no
the video 2 but it does
2 choosing one evidence of video
not fully correspond to
of the topics recording and
the parts allocated in
given and covers forum participation.
the guide.
all aspects
Video 2 25
allocated in the The student upload
The video is not fully
guide. The video the video out of the
understandable or has
is clear and schedule given.
some inaudible parts.
understandable.
(up to 25
(up to 15 points) (up to 0 points)
points)
The student
The students does
improves his/her
The student improves not improve his/her
oral skills having
Tutor’s his/her oral skills but oral skills according
in mind the 25
suggestions anyway needs more to the tutor’s
suggestions
practice. suggestions in the
given by the
video 1.
tutor.
(up to 25
(up to 15 points) (up to 0 points)
points)
Final score 70