Universidad Nacional Abierta y a Distancia

Academic and Research Vice-rector

Activity 2 – 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

Number
Type of the
Individual ☐ Collaborative ☒ of 3
activity:
weeks
Moment of
Initial ☐ Intermediate: ☒ Final ☐
evaluation:
Delivery Environment: Monitoring
Evaluative score: 90 points
and Evaluation
Starting date: September 6th,
Closing date: September 27th, 2019
2019
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 unit 1 in the online contents, their environment and the context to
express themselves according to their level.
Topics to develop:
Unit 1
Compound Adjectives.
Present Progressive.
Modal Verbs
Phases of the learning strategy to develop:
Central task - Writing assignment - Production
Phase 1: Students introduce themselves, check the online content –
unit 1 and select a role for the activity.
Phase 2: The group answer the questions and write about the picture
given.
Phase 3: The group complete the chart about a movie.
Activities to carry out:
I. PHASE ONE - Individual
A. Introduce yourself.
B. Check the online content – Unit 1 (Knowledge environment).
C. Select a Role for the collaborative activity.

II. PHASE TWO - Collaborative

In group, look at the following picture and write about it.

 Where is it? (Place, city…) (include in the sentences the
compound adjectives)
 What can you do there? (include in the sentences the present
progressive)
 Who are they?
 What are they doing? (present progressive)
 What did they do yesterday?
 What are they planning to do tomorrow?
Give a name to each person in the picture.
Describe each one of them (personality and appearance).
 III. PHASE THREE - Collaborative
In group choose a movie and complete the chart:

Movie
Director
Producers
Who is (are) the protagonist(s)?
Who is (are) the antagonist(s)?
Chronological time of the movie
What is the genre?
(Is it fantasy, biography, drama,
comedy, science fiction, historical
drama, horror, romance, war,
western, romantic comedy, film
noir, documentary, etc.?)
Synopsis (400 words)
Link of a trailer
S1.
S2.
What did you learn about the
S3.
movie?
S4.
S5.
S1.
S2.
How did the film make you feel? S3.
S4.
S5.
S1.
How does the movie relate to the S2.
academic program you are S3.
studying? S4.
S5.

Sypnosis: The typical synopsis consists of a plot summary of the

screenplay on one side of a sheet of paper and usually contains no
more than 400 words. It highlights your main characters and what
they go through during your story. A good synopsis makes the person
who reads it want to see the movie.
Environment Knowledge environment / Collaborative Learning
for the environment / monitoring and Evaluation
development environment.
Collaborative:
In the Evaluation and monitoring environment, upload
Products to the Final Document in PDF FORMAT with the following
deliver by information:
student 1. First page: Cover (complete names, IDs and Date)
2. Writing about the picture.
3. Complete chart about the movie.

General guidelines for the collaborative work

Planning of
activities for Each student has to contribute in the forum as
the follows:
development 1. Check the online content.
of 2. Writing about the picture.
collaborative 3. Complete chart about the movie.
work
Roles to
Collector
perform by
Reviewer
the student
Evaluator
in the
Submissions
collaboative
Alerts
group
Collector: Articulate the contributions of all the
participants of the collaborative group in order to
consolidate the final paper; including only those who
Roles and took part of the whole process.
responsibiliti
es to Reviewer: To verify that the final paper and process
produce the meet all the requirements established by the teacher.
submitions
by the Evaluator: To verify that the final paper meets the
students criteria established by the rubric. The evaluator must
inform the group about any corrections or adjustments
regarding the quality of the document.
 Submissions: To keep track and inform the group
about the submission time, upload 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
Plagiarism
products, which have intellectual rights reserved for
policy
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.ph
p?option=com_content&view=article&id=138:normas-
apa&catid=45:referencias-bibliograficas&Itemid=
4. Evaluation rubric

Evaluation rubric
Individual Collaborative
Activity 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
participations
are relevant,
articulated and
contribute to
There is
the There is not
minimum
construction of forum
Participation participation in
the final participation
& the writing 20
document. The at all.
interaction forum.
contributions
are posted
according to
the schedule.
(Up to 20 (Up to 10 (Up to 0
points) points) points)
The group
answers and
The group writes about the
answers and picture, but
writes about they have some
the picture mistakes in the The student
Development with no sentences. doesn’t
of the phase mistakes in answer or 30
II. the sentences. The group write about
The group answers and/or the picture.
doesn’t use writes about the
the online picture, but it is
translator. incomplete.
The group uses
the translator to
 construct the
sentences.

(Up to 30 (Up to 10 (Up to 0

points) points) points)
The group
choose a movie,
The group
The group but the chart is
doesn’t
choose a incomplete.
choose a
movie and
movie and not
complete the The group
complete the
chart. The choose a movie
chart.
sentences are and complete
Development well the chart, but
The student 30
of phase III. structured. the sentences
doesn’t
The group are not well
choose a
doesn’t use structured.
movie and not
the online
complete the
translator. The group uses
chart.
the online
translator.
(Up to 30 (Up to 15 (Up to 0
points) points) points)
The final
document is
The final
delivered in
document is not
the Link The student
delivered in the
established for didn’t
proper link or
Final PFD that purpose participate in
lacks some 10
delivery and contains the activity.
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 90