UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL ABIERTA Y A DISTANCIA – UNAD

Instituto Virtual de Lenguas INVIL

Programa: UNAD English
Curso: English B1 Intermediate
Campo de formación: Formación para el Trabajo y Desarrollo Humano.
Tipo de curso: Metodológico.
Créditos: Tres (3)

WRITING 2
ENGLISH B1 INTERMEDIATE

GENERAL OBJECTIVE:

Review the writing skill by creating a tale.

SPECIFIC OBJECTIVES:

 Review general aspects about writing: vocabulary, grammar, punctuation, coherence

and cohesion.
 Apply the concepts from units 1-2-3 to create literature.

TOPICS TO CHECK:

simple present, modals, comparatives, adverbs, present perfect,

Grammar indirect speech.

Vocabulary Adjectives, places, professions, weather.

General aspects: In this forum you will create a short tale, attending different criterias to do the
creative exercise.

Learning strategy: task based learning.

Awaited product: PDF file by group (5 tales, 5 pages).

Evaluative weight: 75 points

 UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL ABIERTA Y A DISTANCIA – UNAD
Instituto Virtual de Lenguas INVIL
Programa: UNAD English
Curso: English B1 Intermediate
Campo de formación: Formación para el Trabajo y Desarrollo Humano.
Tipo de curso: Metodológico.
Créditos: Tres (3)

INSTRUCTIONS:

1. Read the guide.

2. Participated in the forum at least 3 times.
3. Participate in the forum without attaching documents.
4. Upload the final activity in a PDF file by group.

ACTIVITIES

1st Part

In this first stage, you will read an article with some suggestions to create a story as base to do your
own creation.

5 Steps to Write a Short Story

by Joe Bunting
How do you write a short story? How is writing a short story different than writing a
novel?
These are tough questions to answer because there are as many types of short
stories as there are types of novels. There are long short stories, short short stories,
simple short stories, and complex short stories.
Still, if you want to write a short story, here are five steps to help you get started:
1. Read Short Stories
Real writers read, and as Stephen King said, “If you don’t have time to read, you
don’t have time to write.”
If you’ve never read a short story, you’re going to have a difficult time writing one.
Even if you’ve read hundreds of stories, studying one or two closely will help improve
your understanding of the short story form.
“If you’ve never read a short story, you’re going to have a difficult time writing one.
2. Summarize Your Short Story
Before you begin writing, try a screenwriting trick known as loglines. A logline is a
one sentence summary of your short story, its core, its essence. For example, here’s
a logline for “A Rose For Emily” by William Faulkner: Logline: A lonely, Southern
woman is found dead and decaying in her home after being abandoned by her lover.
 UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL ABIERTA Y A DISTANCIA – UNAD
Instituto Virtual de Lenguas INVIL
Programa: UNAD English
Curso: English B1 Intermediate
Campo de formación: Formación para el Trabajo y Desarrollo Humano.
Tipo de curso: Metodológico.
Créditos: Tres (3)

The formula is your character + a descriptor (e.g. lonely, Southern woman) followed
by an event (e.g. found dead) followed by a conflict (abandoned by her lover).This
will help you understand what your story is about.
3. Write Your Short Story
Some guides suggest focussing on writing a catchy first paragraph first, but while
that’s important, it puts a lot of pressure on you when you’re first getting started
writing your short story.
Instead, just write. Just put pen to paper. Don’t worry about what comes out. It’s not
important. You just need to get your short story started.
You will need to write 50 to 100 percent more words than will end up in the final draft
of your short story. That means if you’re trying to write a 5,000 word short story, you
might need to write 10,000 words total in your first draft. Why?
Your job is less to write words than to pick the best words. To get a good short story,
you will have to cut out a lot of mediocre writing.
4. Rewrite and Edit
All good writing is rewriting.
After you write your first draft, you need to start cutting, rewriting, and editing your
short story. This is the hardest part of writing a short story, and can feel like wading
through a swamp or climbing through a very tight cave. However, don’t give up now.
You’re almost there.
5. Submit!
Before you submit your short story, make sure you’ve read it aloud several times to
find typos and grammatical errors and that you’ve formatted it according to standard
manuscript format.

Review: http://xroads.virginia.edu/~hyper/POE/telltale.html

2nd Part

In this stage, the student should write a short tale. Each student is going to share the tale in the forum
and finally the group will consolidate just one file with the 5 tales to upload in the monitoring and
Evaluation environment.
 UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL ABIERTA Y A DISTANCIA – UNAD
Instituto Virtual de Lenguas INVIL
Programa: UNAD English
Curso: English B1 Intermediate
Campo de formación: Formación para el Trabajo y Desarrollo Humano.
Tipo de curso: Metodológico.
Créditos: Tres (3)

RÚBRICA DE EVALUACIÓN

ITEM A Máximo
VALORACIÓN BAJA VALORACIÓN MEDIA VALORACIÓN ALTA
EVALUAR Puntaje
El estudiante produjo el texto El estudiante produjo el
base para el desarrollo de la texto base para el desarrollo
actividad, pero presenta de la actividad con un buen
evidentes errores en la nivel den la construcción
El estudiante no produjo el
construcción gramatical. La gramatical. El texto se
texto base para el
Producción organización de las ideas no es presenta como una
desarrollo de la actividad. 40
escrita lógica, se presentan secuencia lógica y
incoherencias y/o Se evidencia coherente que atiende el
(0 puntos)
un vocabulario reducido según manejo del vocabulario
lo propuesto en las unidades. visto.

(10 puntos) (20 puntos)

La producción escrita da
Su producción escrita da cuenta cuanta de una excelente
No se evidencia lectura
de una comprensión y análisis, comprensión y análisis del
Comprensión del texto base. 10
muy básicos, del texto base. texto propuesto como base
(0 puntos)
(5 puntos) para la creación.
(10 puntos)
Realizó un excelente trabajo
Se realizó el ejercicio de análisis analizando y realimentando
El estudiante no analizo ni
y realimentación del trabajo de el trabajo de alguno de sus
realimentó el trabajo de
algún compañero, sin embargo, compañeros, sus
alguno de sus
Realimentación los comentarios carecen de comentarios son de calidad 10
compañeros.
calidad y profundidad. en forma y fondo.
(0 puntos)
(5 puntos) (10 puntos)

La producción escrita
Se realizó una propuesta muy
evidencia un trabajo
No hubo entrega del superficial que no da cuenta de
comprometido que se refleja
Propuesta. trabajo. las características estéticas del 15
en una creación estética
(0 puntos) cuento.
interesante.
(5 puntos)
(15 puntos)
TOTAL 75