Universidad Nacional Abierta y a Distancia

Academic and Research Vice-rector

Activities guide and evaluation rubric

1. General description of the course

Faculty or Academic Vicerrectoría de Relaciones Internacionales

Unit
Academic Level Professional, specialization, Master
Academic Field Formación interdisciplinar básica común
Course Name English 2
Course Code 90021
Course Type Methodologic - Can be yes ☐ No ☒
practical enabled
Number of Credits 2

2. Description of the activity

Number
Type of the
Individual ☐ Collaborative ☒ of weeks 2
activity:
Moment of Unit
Initial ☒ ☐ Final ☐
evaluation: Intermediate:
Delivery Environment of the
Evaluative score of the
activity: Monitoring and evaluation
activity: 25 points
environment
Starting date of the activity: Deadline of the activity:
5th February 2018 18th February 2018
Competences to develop:
 Interchange personal information within the group.
 Describe the course activities through the creation of a crossword.
 Determine personal learning objectives through the Pre-knowledge
test in order to start being aware of the personal learning process
and performance.
 Design a personal portfolio.
Topics to develop:
 Expressions to introduce yourself.
 Greetings.
 Demonstrative determiners: This/Those - There/here.
 Steps, phases of the learning strategy to develop
Task-based learning. The student uses the foreign language in a
communicative context, in order to carry out a task: planning, describing,
inviting, summarizing, etc. The construction of this work, will count with
the orientation and accompaniment from the e-mediator.

3. Activities to develop
Dear student,
 You will develop this task in the Recognition task forum.
 At the end of this task, you will collect the evidence of the task in
your own Portfolio. This is a Power Point document that you will
upload in the platform Calaméo.
 Follow each step, post all the activities in the forum and get
feedback from your partners and tutor.
 The final product must be sent individually. You construct your
final portfolio through the process you develop collaboratively.

Stage 1: Introduce yourself and update your profile in campus.

 Upload a photograph on the profile (complete face).
 Write the list of interest of your own
At the forum:
 Write a short paragraph introducing yourself (in English). Give
information related to:

Name – Age – Marital status – Hobbies – Occupation – What you

study at UNAD – Family- Extra information you want to share.

Take a screenshot of your profile and post it in the Recognition

forum. Example:
 Use the following guide to introduce yourself. You can
change it according to your personal information.

Hello everyone/Hi. My name is/I am ____________________. I am ______ years

old. I was born in _____________. Now I am a student at the _______________
Program at UNAD. I am _____________ and I work at ________________. I like
____________, ___________, __________, _____________ and __________. I live
with ____________________. I am (single/married) and have ________ children.

You can say good bye with the following expressions:

 It’s is nice to start this course with all of you!
 I hope we can do a great team.
 Hope to hear from you soon!
 Best wishes for all of you!

Stage 2: Explore the course.

 Go to the environments of the course and check the activities, links,
resources and tasks.
 According to your exploration of the course, choose 8 words related
to the course activities. Example: writing, job, agenda,
collaborative, etc.
 Create a crossword with those words. Write 8 clues for each word.
Use this link: https://crosswordlabs.com/
 Then, post the link of your crossword in the forum. Example:
https://crosswordlabs.com/view/recognition-task2

 Choose one of your partners’ crosswords and complete it. Then,

post a screenshot with the answers. Example:

Write simple and short sentences for writing the clues

(no more than 13 words). Use the following guide:

 This is a __________________________
 You do this ________________________
 You can find this in __________________
 There, you can _____________________
 Stage 3: Pre-knowledge task.
Go to Evaluation environment and answer Task 2. Pre-knowledge
task, to test your English knowledge before starting the course. The
score does not affect the grade of the course.
After that, complete the following chart and post it in the forum (it can be
in Spanish):
Autoevaluación de Pre-saberes

A través de este ejercicio usted podrá identificar sus fortalezas y debilidades para el inicio del curso, con el fin de que
usted plantee estrategias de mejora en el proceso que va a iniciar en el curso de inglés 2.

 ¿Qué puntaje obtuvo en el Test de Pre-saberes?

De acuerdo con los resultados obtenidos en el test de Pre-saberes, evalúe Alto, ALTO MEDIO BAJO
Medio o Bajo su nivel de competencia en inglés.
 Soy capaz de comprender y utilizar expresiones cotidianas de uso muy frecuente, así
como frases sencillas destinadas a satisfacer necesidades de tipo inmediato.

 Puedo presentarme a mí mismo y a otros, pedir y dar información personal básica

sobre mi domicilio, mis pertenencias y las personas que conozco.

 Puedo relacionarme de forma elemental siempre que mi interlocutor hable despacio

y con claridad.

A continuación, verá las competencias que usted desarrollará en este curso y que están alineadas con el
Marco Común de Referencia MCER para el nivel A2.
Léalas y busque un enlace de una página web que le servirá para potenciar esas habilidades. Copie el
enlace en la casilla derecha.
 Seré capaz de comprender frases y expresiones de uso frecuente relacionadas con  ENLACE:
áreas de experiencia que son especialmente relevantes para mí (información
básica sobre mí mismo y mi familia, compras, lugares de interés,
ocupaciones, etc.)
 Sabré comunicarme a la hora de llevar a cabo tareas simples y cotidianas que no  ENLACE:
requieran más que intercambios sencillos y directos de información sobre cuestiones
que son conocidas o habituales para mí.
 Sabré describir en términos sencillos aspectos de mi pasado y mi entorno, así como  ENLACE:
cuestiones relacionadas con mis necesidades inmediatas.

Estrategias de estudio y mejoramiento.

De acuerdo con el nivel actual de competencia con el cual usted inicia el curso y con las metas que éste
curso tiene, haga una búsqueda de recursos extra que le faciliten potenciar las habilidades en inglés para
el nivel 2.
¿Qué estrategia podría implementar en este curso para mejorar en los anteriores aspectos?

Busque una página web que le pueda servir para estudiar cada habilidad de inglés:

Reading:

Writing:

Listening:

Speaking:

 Busque un diccionario en línea con el que se pueda apoyar a lo largo del curso.  Enlace:
Stage 4: Consolidate your Portfolio.
In a Power Point document consolidate steps 1 to 3. Use the following
template and see the example given in this link:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1dZnzMZEkHteC2TbR3WiXz-41r_uuGBwd/view

 Complete the checklist at the end of the Power Point presentation.

YES NO
QUESTIONS
Did I upload a complete-face photograph in my profile?
Stage 1

Did I write a short paragraph introducing myself?

Did I post the screenshot of my profile in the forum?
Did I choose 8 words after checking the environments of the course?
Stage 2

Did I create the crossword?

Did I post the link of my crossword?
Did I complete the crossword of one of my partners? And posted in the forum?
Did I do the Pre-knowledge test?
Stage 3

Did I complete the self-evaluation chart?

Did I use the Power Point template?
Does the Power point presentation have 7 slides?
Don’t forget to add this chart at the end of the Power Point document and upload
it in Calaméo.

 Publish the Power Point document to Calaméo:

https://es.calameo.com/
EXAMPLE: http://es.calameo.com/read/000292572b565a6849f2a

Stage 5: Upload the final product

 Copy the link of your publication in a Word document and upload it in
the Evaluation and Monitoring Environment.
END OF THE TASK!

4. Evaluation rubric

Evaluation rubric
Performance levels
Assessed Aspects Score
High score Media score Low score
Uploads profile Uploads profile Doesn’t upload
Information 5
picture and and doesn’t the profile, do
update -Stage 1 points
interests, shares share the not share the
 the evidence in evidence in the screenshot, do
the forum as forum. The not write the
well as the introduction introduction
construction of paragraph lacks paragraph or
the paragraph. of some does the
information activity during
the last three
days of the
task.
(up to 5 (up to 3 (up to 1
points) points) points)
Doesn’t show
Creates the
the process of
crossword with
creation of the
the 8 words.
crossword.
The clues define Doesn’t
Doesn’t write 8
the words of the develop the
definitions for
crossword. They stage or does
creating the
don’t have more the activity
crossword.
than 13 words during the last
Don’t share the
Crossword and use the three days of
link of the
construction - pattern given in the task.
crossword in the
Stage 2 the guide.
forum.
Completes one Delivers the
Doesn’t’
of his/her task after the 8
complete one of
partners’ deadline. points
his/her partners’
crossword and
crossword and
posts it in the
posts it in the
forum.
forum.
(up to 8 (up to 5 (up to 2
points) points) points)
Doesn’t do some
of the following
tasks: Doesn’t do the
Complete the task, or does it
Completes the
Pre-knowledge during the last
Pre-knowledge
test. three days of
task.
Pre-knowledge Complete the the task.
Completes the 8
assessment - Stage self-assessment
self-assessment points
3 chart. Delivers the
chart.
Delivers the task after the
activity in a deadline.
different format
or way (mail).
(Up to 8 (Up to 5 (Up to 2
points) points) points)
 Doesn’t do some
of the following
tasks:
Consolidates the Doesn’t do the
Consolidate the
portfolio in a task, or does it
portfolio in a
Power Point during the last
Power Point
document that is three days of
document.
uploaded in the task.
Portfolio Upload the
Calaméo.
construction and document in 4
Shares the link Delivers the
delivery - Stage 4 Calaméo.
of the portfolio. task after the
Share the link of
Answers the deadline.
the portfolio.
checklist.
Answers the
checklist.

(Up to 4 (Up to 2 (Up to 1

points) points) points)
25
Final score
points