Universidad Nacional Abierta y a Distancia

Academic and Research Vice-rector

Task 2 – Writing Section

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 re- yes ☐ No ☒
opened
Number of Credits 3

2. Description of the activity

Number
Type of the
Individual ☒ Collaborative ☒ of 4
activity:
weeks
Moment of Intermediate,
Initial ☐ ☒ Final ☐
evaluation: unit 1,2
Delivery Environment: Monitoring and
Evaluative score: 90 pts
Evaluation
Starting date: June 21th, 2019 Closing date: July 19th, 2019
Competence to develop:
At the end of this task you will be able to:
 Make questions about locations.
 Use demonstrative adjectives to indicate existence and location.
 Use expressions related to furniture and household fittings.
 Use there is or there are to indicate that objects exist. Use time markers
to indicate actions happening now.
 Understand the use of present simple and present progressive tense.

Topics to develop:
Describing routines, Present simple, There is /there are, Talking about actions
in progress, Greetings, Place descriptions.
Phases of the learning strategy to develop:

 You will develop this task in the Writing forum.

 You will collect the evidence of the task in an infographic through the tools
Piktochart or Canva.
 It is important to post all the activities in the forum in order to get feedback
from your classmates and tutor.

Estimado estudiante:

En esta guía usted encontrará las pautas necesarias para realizar su producto final, el cual será:
una infografía en la que usted argumentará cuál de las siete maravillas del mundo es su
preferida, y así mismo, dentro de una situación hipotética comunicará qué está haciendo allí.

Es necesario que usted desarrolle los ejercicios de los contenidos en línea, dado que cada uno
de ellos está relacionado con cada aspecto planteado en esta guía de trabajo. Tenga presente
que usted deberá publicar en el foro únicamente los ejercicios mencionados en esta guía.

Phase 1: Explore into the knowledge environment and answer the question.
Phase 2: Explore into the knowledge environment and complete the chart.
Phase 3: Consolidate the infographic.
Phase 4: Upload the final product in the Monitoring and Evaluation environment.

Activities to carry out:

Phase 1: Unit 2.1 Wh Questions

Week from 21th to 27th June

a. Go to unit 2.1 Wh-Questions- Week 5 in the Knowledge environment and

develop all the activities. You just have to upload the practice 4 in the
forum. (post the screenshot in the forum)
 b. Answer the following question in the forum.

Which of the new seven Wonders of the World do you think is the most
amazing? Why? You should provide reasons for your opinion. https://youtu.be/PeIQI7jdM2k
Phase 2: Unit 2.3: Talking about actions in Progress-Present Progressive
Week from 28th June to 4th July

a. Go to unit 2.3 Talking about actions in Progress-present progressive

in the Knowledge environment and develop and develop all the activities.
After, you just have to upload the practices 2 and 3 in the forum.
(post the screenshots in the forum)

b. Imagine that you are going on a trip around the world and you can visit one
of the seven Wonders. You must describe the following information. Complete
the chart using Present simple, there is /there are, Talking about actions
in progress, Greetings, Place descriptions.
Phase 3: Consolidate and design your infographic
Week from 05th to 15th July

According to the previous writing exercises, you will design an infographic where
you collect the evidence of the task in two different paragraphs:

First paragraph: Answers b - Phase 1 and Interesting facts.

Second paragraph: What are you doing there?

Example: https://goo.gl/YAjwFY

Phase 4: Upload the final product in the Monitoring environment.

Days from 16th to 19th July
The final product must be sent individually in the monitoring and evaluation
environment. You construct your final infographic through the process you
develop collaboratively.

Environment for Collaborative environment

the development Monitoring and evaluation environment

Products to The final product must be sent individually in the

deliver by Evaluation and Monitoring Environment in a PDF or Word
student document.

General guidelines for the collaborative work

Individual: Each student has to develop the steps of

Planning of
the task and post the evidence in the forum.
activities for
The final product must be sent in the Evaluation and
the
Monitoring Environment.
development
Collaborative: Each student must give feedback to
of
one of his/her partners.
collaborative
Each student is responsible for his/her process.
work
Roles to
perform by Each student must give feedback to one of his/her
the student partners. The comments should remark mistakes,
in the aspects to improve and contribute to the debate.
collaborative Each student is responsible for his/her process.
group
Roles and
responsibiliti Each student must give feedback to one of his/her
es for the partners.
delivery of Each student is responsible for his/her process.
products
It is necessary to use the APA standards in order to
Use of
provide a bibliography of the sources cited in the
references
document.
Plagiarism In the agreement 029 of December 13, 2013, article
policy 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
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
activity Score
Aspect
High score Media score Low score
-Post the
practice 4 in the
-Does not
forum and -Post the practice
upload the
check her/his 4 in the forum but
practice 4 in
answers. does not check
the forum.
-Answer the her/his answers.
-Does the
question and -Answer the
activity
provide reasons question but does
during the
for her/his not provide
last week of
opinion. reasons for
the task.
Phase 1: -Writes her/his her/his opinion.
-Does not
Wh- answers and -Writes her/his 25
answer the
Questions opinion using answers and
question
grammar opinion with some
proposed.
structures, mistakes in
logical grammar
connectors and structures, logical
lexical connectors and
resources, lexical resources,
according of according of
contents contents.
course.
 (Up to 25 (Up to 15 (Up to 9
points) points) points)
-Post the
practices 2 and
3 in the forum
and check
her/his -Post the practices
-Does not
answers. 2 and 3 in the
upload the
-Describes the forum but does
practices in
information and not check her/his
the forum.
completes the answers.
-Does not
Phase 2: chart. -Describes the
describe all
Talking -Completes the information but
the
about chart and the does not develop
information
actions in information all questions
required. 25
Progress- giving contains proposed in the
- Does the
Present grammar chart.
activity
Progressiv structures, -The information
during the
e logical giving contains
last week of
connectors and some grammar
the task.
lexical mistakes.
resources,
according of
contents.

(Up to 25 (Up to 15 (Up to 9

points) points) points)
-Consolidates -Does not
-Consolidates
some upload the
her/his
contributions practices in
contributions
Phase 3: during the the forum.
during activity.
Consolidat activity. -Does the
-Designs a
e and -Designs an activity
creative 25
design infographic but during the
infographic
your does not provide last week of
according to the
infographic images, colors. the task.
activity, uses
-The final product -The final
colors and
has two phases of product has
images.
the writing task. one phase of
 -The final the writing
product has the task.
three phases of
the writing task.
(Up to 25 (Up to 15 (Up to 9
points) points) points)
Phase 4: -Upload the
-Does not
Upload the final product in -Upload the final
upload the
final the monitoring product in the
final
product in and evaluation forum or mail.
product. 15
the environment
Monitoring
(Up to 15 (Up to 10 (Up to 5
environme
points) points) points)
nt.
Final score 90