Universidad Nacional Abierta y a Distancia

Academic and Research Vice-rector

Activity 4 – Writing assignment

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 A2
Course Code 900002
Course Type Methodological Can be yes ☐ No ☒
re-
opened
Number of Credits 3

2. Description of the activity

Type of the Individu Collaborativ Number

☐ ☒ 6
activity: al e of weeks
Moment of Intermediat
Initial ☐ ☒ Final ☐
evaluation: e, unit 2
Delivery Environment: Monitoring
Evaluative score: 70 pts
and Evaluation
Starting date: September 6 , th
Closing date: October 11th, 2018
2018
Competence to develop:
Build a text that accounts for work produced with the support of the E-
Tutor and e-students. Through this exercise, the student will e-
recognition and ownership of the contents of the units, their
environment and the context to express themselves according to their
level.
Topics to develop:
Unit 1- TALKING ABOUT ROUTINES
Verb “TO BE”
Describing routines
Present simple
Unit 2 TALKING ABOUT RECREATIONAL ACTIVITIES
“WH” Questions
There is /there are
Talking about actions in progress

Greetings. Place descriptions. Routine descriptions

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 text
Phase 2: Students present a written text.
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, address, phone number and occupation). Also,
he/she will select a ROLE for the collaborative work

Ilustracion 1: Roles del trabajo colaborativo

II. PHASE TWO:

B. Check exercises on the KNOWLEDGE ENVIRONMENT: The
group has to develop the exercises on the KNOWLEDGE
ENVIRONMENT and save screenshots of such exercises inside
the red square. Each student will select TWO LINKS to develop:

Student 1
Student 2
Student 3

Student 4
 Student 5

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

is different from the topic he/she explained before in order to
develop the answers in the forum

Exercise 1. From the picture of the house, construct 10 positive

sentences, 5 negative and 5 interrogative using THERE + BE in a
paragraph
Ilustracion 2: Vista de casa abierta con habitación con espejo, 2 ventanas, dos mesas de noche,
tres cuadros: Tomada de https://fr.123rf.com/photo_66887860_appartement-conception-
isom%C3%A9trique-avec-cuisine-salle-de-bain-chambre-%C3%A0-coucher-et-salon-vecteur-
illustr.html

Example: In the house, there is one bedroom, one kitchen, one bathroom
and a living room. There is no garden. Is there a garden? No, there is not a
garden

Exercise 2: Write sentences in present SIMPLE tense using the hours

and the image below
Ilustración 3 Niño con las diferentes acciones de un día normal,

Example: The boy wakes up at 7:00 A.M. Then he…

Exercise 3: Describe ten actions of the people in the picture. Use

presente progressive in both positive and negative
Ilustración 4. Piscina

Example: The man in the green short is laying on a big book. He is not wearing
shirt

Exercise 4: Answer 10 questions about your daily activities and 10

about one person in the family using Adverbs of Frequency
 Ilustración 5: Tabla de actividades diarias.
Example:

How often do you watch a movie? I USUALLY watch a movie. My mother

never watches movies

Exercise 5: Select 15 sentences and complete them using Connectors and

linking words and expressions
 Ilustración 6: Imágenes con

Example:

1. __DESPITE___ their parents’ opposition, Tom and Ann decide to get

married

III. PHASE THREE

D. Planning the letter to your mother: You will PLAN a letter to

your mother describing what your life is like after two months of
moving with your husband/wife/partner to a different country.

The group will fill in this planning CHART

COUNTRY/CITY YOU ARE MOVING TO

PICTURE A OF PEOPLE IN THE CITY/PARK/ STREETS TO DESCRIBE

PICTURE B OF PLACE OF YOUR HOUSE TO DESCRIBE

ACTIONS TO DESCRIBE DAILY ROUTINE

E. Drafting: After having decided about the city, the pictures and
the actions, the group will start writing the letter that will be
divided into paragraphs:

Note: Utilize the colors to identify the different grammar

structures used in each paragraph
 F. 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

Environme
nt for the
Collaborative Learning
developme
nt
Collaborative:
Upload the Final Document in PDF FORMAT t with
following information:
Products to
1. First page: complete names, IDs and Date
deliver by
2. Screenshots
student
3. Chart with answers to practical exercises
4. Letter with pictures and the paragraphs with
different colors

General guidelines for the collaborative work

Each student has to contribute in the forum as

Planning of
follows:
activities for
1. Salutation and role selection
the
2. Contribution for grammar
development
3. Contribution for practice
of
4. Contribution for planning
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
collaborative The comments should remark mistakes, aspects to
group improve and contribute to the debate.
Roles and Collector: Articulate the contributions of all the
responsibiliti participants of the collaborative group in order to
es for the consolidate the final paper; including only those who
delivery of took part of the whole process.
products
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
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
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.
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
Plagiarism 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.ph
p?option=com_content&view=article&id=138:normas-
apa&catid=45:referencias-bibliograficas&Itemid=

4. Evaluation rubric

Evaluation rubric
Activity Individual Collaborative
☐ ☒
type: Activity Activity
Moment of
Intermediate
the Initial ☐ ☒ Final ☐
, Unit 2
evaluation
Performance levels of the collaborative
Assessed Scor
activity
Aspect e
High score Media score Low score
The There is
participations minimum
Participatio are relevant, participation in There is not
n articulated the writing forum
20
& and contribute forum, besides it participation at
interaction to the neither meets all.
construction of the
the final requirements of
 document. the guide and
The schedule nor the
contributions netiquette
are posted standards.
according to
the schedule.
(Up to 20 (Up to 10 (Up to 0
points) points) points)
The written
The proper
outcome The grammatical
use of
contains some structures used
grammar
grammatical are simple, they
shows a good
inconsistencies do not match
Use of knowledge of
and the the difficulty
grammar the structures 10
simplicity of the level according
links in the
sentences show to the contents
development
difficulties in the of the course
of contents
structures.
(Up to 10 (Up to 5 (Up to 0
points) points) points)
The document
The written
shows The ideas and
final document
inconsistencies sentences
contains a
in the written in the
proper
organization and document look
construction of
construction of disorganized,
sentences and
Coherence ideas; however, they are not 15
paragraphs,
the objective or articulated, or
making use of
main point of do not have a
logical
view is clear objective.
connectors.
understandable.
(Up to 15 (Up to 10 (Up to 0
points) points) points)
The final Although the
The vocabulary
document vocabulary used
is very limited
contains wide in the final
and does not
Vocabulary variety of document 15
match the
words which matches the
difficulty level
are used difficulty level
according to the
coherently, according to the
 with contents of the contents of the
appropriate course, it is course
spelling. limited and has
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