Universidad Nacional Abierta y a Distancia

Vicerrectoría Académica y de Investigación

Formato guía de actividades y rúbrica de evaluación

1. General Description of the course

School Escuela Ciencias de la Educación

Level Professional
Educational field Disciplinary formation
Name of the course Intermediate English I
Course code 551011
Course type Methodological Habilitable Si ☐ No ☒
N° of credits 3

2. Description of the activity

Type of Collaborati
Individual ☒ ☒ Weeks 4
activity: ve
Moment of Intermedia
Initial ☐ ☒ Final ☐
evaluation: te, unit:
Evaluative weight of the Activity delivery environment:
activity: 115 points Evaluation and Assessment
Starting date of the activity: 19
Deadline of the activity: 14 Mar 2018.
Feb 2018.
Competence to develop:
Identifies, organizes and interprets the ideas, data and explicit and implicit
concepts in a text, considering the context in which it was generated to define
the most appropriate linguistic structures and vocabulary for each specific
communicative situation.
Topics to develop:

 Important events and disasters: Time lines and time frames, all
tenses in conjunction to relate events. Clauses to express cause and
effect.
 Current affairs: Reported speech. Restrictive and non-restrictive
adjective clauses.
 Wishes and dreams: True and untrue conditionals.
 Personal interest: Definitions, descriptions. Reasons for liking or being
interested in something.
Steps or phases of the learning strategy to develop
Step 2 – Case study 1

Individual and Collaborative

Part 1. Go to Knowledge environment and study Unit 1 topics.

Part 2. Go to Collaborative Learning environment and enter Collaborative

Forum 1 Case study 1 forum.

Part 3. Go to Knowledge environment and open the Collaborative Forum 1

Activities Guides and the Course Assessment Rubrics.

Part 4. Do the task following, step by step, the instructions from the guide.

Part 5. Upload the final work in the forum.

Activities to develop:

Individual
1. Read the case study 1.
The student requires reading, several times; the submitted case for
understanding. Reading once is not enough.
2. Identify the elements of the case study.
To do this, the student requires familiarity with the facts, context, characters,
situations and possible solutions. Thus, the student must consolidate the items
in the table below for ease of understanding and upload his/her own task in
the forum:
Characters Facts Problem situation Alternative solution

Collaborative:
1. Discuss the case study as a group.
The student needs to understand he/she is part of a team and they must,
together, study the case, discuss the contributions of each member, exchange
ideas and debate on various aspects of the situation. His/her active
participation is essential to respond to the strategy. Students at this stage
need to reach facts that are meaningful to interpret the situation. The student
must access the forum at least three (3) times to read others´ tasks and
give an opinion about them. (This will be evaluated, check the Rubric).
 2. Collect.
After the group discussion and interaction, a team member makes a final
compilation of the proposed solutions by the group in order to reach
consensus on the final conclusions regarding the case study.
3. Record.
At the end of the activity, the student must record in an mp3 file his/her voice
telling everybody how he/she felt doing this exercise and upload it in the
forum. Use the vocaroo tutorial uploaded in Knowledge environment to
prepare it.
ONLINE SPEAKING SESSIONS THROUGH GOOGLE HANGOUTS
In order to reinforce your speaking skills, you will be participating in speaking
alive sessions through Google Hangouts twice a week. Your speaking tutor will
keep a record of your attendance, participation, and progress to assign a score
for one of the items to be evaluated in this collaborative activity.

Environme
nts to Collaborative learning environment and Evaluation and
develop Assessment environment.
the activity
Individual: 40 points.
 Table from item 3, fully completed and posted in the forum
with a motivation message inviting everybody to read and
comment it.
 Mp3 file from item 6.
Collaborative: 60 points.
Products to A team member must submit to the tutor, in a Word document,
deliver by the following information:
the student  Title page with the name of those students who worked.
 Table from item 2 of the individual activities, fully
completed.
 Summary including all the possible solutions proposed by
the group and duly justified.
 Final group conclusions regarding the case.
This document must have at least 4 pages.
Step 3 – Quiz Unit 1
Individual

Part 1. Do the Unit 1 quiz in the Evaluation and Assessment environment.

 Guidelines for the development of the collaborative activities

Reading of the theory resources.

Preparation of the individual contributions.

Planning of Interaction of the group based on the individual

activities for the contributions.
development of
the collaborative Preparation of the assignments.
work
Revision of the products.

Preparation of the assignments according to the

established rules.
The next aspects must be taken into account:

- Every group work starts with complete individual

contributions. That way, you must not wait for your
partners to begin or Split the job and then just put it
together at the end.
Roles to develop
by the student in -The group work nourishes from the interaction of all
the collaborative the members coming to participate in the forum.
group
- A group wok which contains several phases cannot be
done in one or two days.

- In the papers of the activities, you must only include

the names of the people who actually participated.

Roles and Compiler: Consolidate the file that is final product of

responsibilities the debate, having included the participations of all
for the production the group members who participated in the process.
of handing-in You must inform to the person in charge of the alerts
activities by the to speak to those who did not participate that they
students will not be included in the final paper.
 Reviser: Make sure that the writing fills the
requirements presented by the teacher.

Evaluator: Make sure the file fills with the criteria in

the rubric. You must communicate to the person in
charge of the alerts to inform the other members of
the group in case there is any adjustment to do about
the topic.

Deliveries: Alert about the times to hand in the

products and send the final paper file in the stipulated
times, using the resources indicated for it, and let the
group members know about the delivering of the file.

Alerts: make sure to let the members of the group

know about the novelties of the work and inform the
teacher on the forum and course Messenger about the
handing in of the paper file.
Use of APA rules, version 3 in Spanish (Translated
from version 6 in English)

The APA Rules is a style of organization and presentation

of the most used information in the area of the social
sciences. These are published under a Manual that allows
the scope of the ways in which a scientific article must be
Use of references
presented. Here you can find the most relevant of the
Spanish edition of the Manual of the APA Rules, such as
references, quotations, elaboration and presentation of
tables and figures, headings and recordings, among
others. You can check how to implement them by going
in the next link http://normasapa.com/

What is Plagiarism for UNAD? Plagiarism is defined by

the dictionary of the Real Academia as the action of
"substantially copying other people's works, presenting
them as their own." Therefore plagiarism is a serious
Plagiarism Policy
offense: it is the academic 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. If a student makes use of
any portion of another person's work, and does not
document their source, they are committing an act of
plagiarism. Now, it is clear that we all have the ideas of
others when it comes to presenting ours, and that our
knowledge is based on the knowledge of others. 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 appointment or by
an annotated paraphrase (these terms will be defined
below). When we make an appointment or a
paraphrase, we clearly identify our source, not only to
give recognition to their author, but also to allow the
reader to refer to the original if they wish.

There are academic circumstances in which,

exceptionally, it is not acceptable to quote or
paraphrase the work of others. For example, if a teacher
assigns their students a task in which students are
clearly asked to respond using their ideas and words
exclusively, then the student should not appeal to
external sources even if they are properly referenced.
 Evaluation rubric format

Type of activity: Individual ☒ Collaborative ☒

Moment of
Initial ☐ Intermediate ☒ Final ☐
evaluation
Evaluated Criteria for performance of the individual activity
Score
item High Average Poor
The student The student The student
demonstrates demonstrates little demonstrates many
ability to identify ability to identify difficulties to identify
Development and understand and understand and understand the
of the fundamental the most fundamental ideas of
ideas of the case significant the topic. 15
interpretative
competence study. elements of the
topic.
(Up to 15
(Up to 10 points) (Up to 5 points)
points)
The student The student shows The student
demonstrates little ability to demonstrates many
ability to reason reason about the difficulties to reason
about the way the relationship about the
different aspects between the relationship between
Development
of the case study different elements different aspects of
of
are interrelated. of the case study the case study and 15
argumentative
Furthermore, and lacked a bit of did not argue or
competence
argues and argument and justify his/her
justifies his/her justification in the ideas.0ximum
ideas clearly. proposal.
(Up to 15
(Up to 10 points) (Up to 5 points)
points)
The student did
Participation in The student
not participate in The student did not
the speaking participated in the
the speaking participate in the
sessions by speaking sessions
sessions with a speaking 30
Google with the best
good attitude and sessions.
Hangouts attitude and
quality time.
quality time.
 (Up to 30
(Up to 15 points) (0 points)
points)
Evaluated Criteria for performance of the collaborative activity
Score
item High Average Poor
The student The student The student
demonstrates demonstrates little demonstrates many
ability to ability to difficulties to
synthesize and synthesize and synthesize and
Development propose, clearly, propose, clearly, propose, clearly,
of propositive elements which elements which elements which can 15
competence can generate a can generate a generate a solution
solution to the solution to the to the situation.
situation. situation.
(Up to 15
(Up to 10 points) (Up to 5 points)
points)
The student
demonstrates
The student
ability to identify
demonstrates little
the main
ability to identify The student didn´t
elements of the
the main elements upload the table
case study (facts,
of the case study completed.
Development context,
(facts, context, 15
of written part characters,
characters,
situations and
situations and
possible solutions)
possible solutions).
and registered it
in the table.
(Up to 15
(Up to 10 points) (Up to 5 points)
points)
Speech is Speech is slow and
effortless and often hesitant and
smooth with irregular.
The student didn´t
speed that comes Sentences may be
Development upload the audio.
close to that one left uncompleted, 15
of oral part of a native but the student is
speaker. able to continue.
(Up to 15
(Up to 10 points) (Up to 5 points)
points)
 The student
uploaded his/her
work and was very The student
active proposing, The student just
brought his/her
debating, work in the forum brought his/her work
Interaction commenting and but his/her and didn´t interact
with the group helping to decide, comments and with his/her group 10
as group, a way to inputs were not mates.
develop the case deep.
study and define a
solution for it.
(Up to 10
(Up to 5 points) (Up to 2 points)
points)
Final score 115