Universidad Nacional Abierta y a Distancia

Academic and Research Vice-Rector

Activity 5 : Speaking Assignment – Guide & Rubric

1. General description of the course

School or Vicerrectoría de Relaciones Internacionales

Academic unit
Level of Technical-Technological-Professional-Master
formation
Field of Common Basic Interdisciplinary formation
formation
Course name English 3
Course code 90121
Type of course Methodological Can it be Yes ☐ No ☒
retaken?
Number of 2
credits

2. Description of the activity

Type of Number of
Individual ☒ Collaborative ☐ 6
activity: weeks
Moment of Intermedia,
Starting ☐ ☒ Final ☐
evaluation: unit:
Delivery environment:
Evaluative score: 95 score
Collaborative Learning
Starting date: April 3rd, 2018 Closing date: May 13th, 2018
Competence to develop:
Speaking skill: The students speak in English approriately in current
situtations at intermedia level.
Topics to develop:
Modal verbs, Phrasal verbs, Prepositions, Future.
Phases, steps or stages of learning strategy to develop
Activity 5 : Speaking Assignment
Activities to develop
Part 1
1. Post a photograph (where you appeared) of a traditional place in
the city where you live.
2. Record a video describing the place of the city where the
photograph was taken.

3. Additionally, you will send comments about two partners’ videos.

Part 2
Interview (40 points)

Step 1: Personal introduction. A short introduction about yourself

(name, age, place of birth, job, program you study, hobbies, and
other information you want to include).
Step 2: Role-play. On the day of the interview, you will talk with your
tutor about the story related to your photograph.
Environments
Collaborative Learning
to its develop
Individual:
Part 1
1. Upload the photograph in the forum.
2. Send the video or URL in the forum. This video
should be shared in the forum before presenting
the interview with your tutor.
The video can be made using any tool or software.

Guidelines for making a video:

 At the forefront of the video you must show up.
 At the backfront you can show the photograph
uploaded in the forum and/or the slides.
 The message of the video consists of three parts:
1. Greeting: You introduce yourself talking about:
name, age, place of residence, program you
study, among others. 2. You tell everything
Products to
related to the photograph sent in the forum. 3.
submit by the
You finish your video saying goodbye.
student
 Length of video is from 1:30 and 2:00 minutes.
 To avoid difficulties to upload your video in the
forum; you can upload it on Youtube and just
share the link.

Choose the proper place to record your video in order

to avoid pictures or sound unappropriate.
Part 2
Interview via Skype with your tutor. It is important to
upload the video/link before the interview.

Collaborative:

Send two comments about your partners’ videos.

 General guidelines of the collaborative work for developing
the activity

 Reading the unit contents with its references because

Planning
they support the activities.
activities to
 Participación activa y reflexiva de cada estudiante en
develop the
las actividades.
collaborative
 Socialización de aportes pertinentes y oportunos
work
para cada actividad.
Roles to
perform by
No role must be performed by the students in this
the student
activity.
in the
collaboative
group
Collector: Articulate the contributions of all the
participants of the collaborative group in order to
consolidate the final paper; including only those who
took part of the whole process.

Reviewer: To verify that the final paper and process

meet all the requirements established by the teacher.

Roles and Evaluator: To verify that the final paper meets the
responsibilit criteria established by the rubric. The evaluator must
ies to inform the group about any corrections or adjustments
produce the regarding the quality of the document.
submitions
by the Submissions: To keep track and inform the group
students about the submission time, uploading the final paper
on time, using the link provided by the teacher or
established 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 mail that the final
paper was submitted.
 It is necessary to use the APA standards in order to
provide a bibliography of the sources cited in the
document.
Use of
references Use this link as reference:
http://normasapa.com/formato-apa-presentacion-
trabajos-escritos/

According to Dictionary Real Academia Española

“Plagiarism is the action of substantially copying other
people's works, presenting them as own creation."
Therefore, plagiarism is a serious offense;
academically speaking it is 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. Using any portion of

another person's work, without acknowledging the
author or source is plagiarism. Now, it is evident that
we all take some ideas from others when it comes to
presenting ours, and that our knowledge is based on
Plagiarism someone else’s knowledge. But when we rely on the
policy work of others, academic honesty requires that we
explicitly announce the fact that we are using an
external source, either by citing or by paraphrasing
(these terms will be defined below). When we cite or
paraphrase, we clearly identify our source, not only to
give recognition to its author, but also to allow the
reader to look up in a reference text.

There are certain academic events in which it is not

acceptable to quote or paraphrase the work of others.
For instance, if a teacher assigns his or her students a
task in which they are clearly required to answer using
their own ideas and words, then the student should not
consider external sources regardless if they are
properly referenced.
 4. Evaluation Rubric

Evaluation Rubric
Individual Collaborative
Type of activity: ☒ ☐
activity activity
Moment of Intermedia,
Starting ☐ ☒ Final ☐
evaluation unit
Performance levels of the individual activity
Item Score
High score Media score Low score
The student had
some pronunciation
the student’s
mistakes but these
pronunciation was
ones were not
clear, you had a
decisive because
pronunciation close The student did
they did not
Pronunciation the standard one not participate in 10
interfere to
with good the interview points
understand the
intonation and
speech. A better
appropriate pauses
pronunciation could
among sentences.
improve the
communication.
(Up to 10 points) (Up to 5 points) (0 points)
The student did
not introduce
himself
The student’s
appropriately. The
speech showed a
student did not link
good handle of
simple questions
gramar structures
and answers
addressed in the
related to near The student did
units for this 5
Grammar environment and not participate in
activity. The points
the studens was the interview
student could make
not able to
some little mistakes
construct language
but the message
proper to the level
was
and related to the
understandable.
context. The
student often made
mistakes that
 interfere the
communication.
(Up to 5 points) (Up to 3 points) (0 points)
The student
The student used misused some
the vocabulary words isolated,
addresed in the without cohesion in
The student did
units. The message your speech. The
not participate in 8
Vocabulary was communicated unappropriate
the interview. points
clearly and chose of words and
appropriately with lack of vocabulary
cohesion. interfere the
communication.
(Up to 8 points) (Up to 4 points) (0 points)
The student
answered the
The student did
questions properly:
not understand
the student
questions nor follow
recognize the
instructions. The
sentences and The student did
stduent did not
include them in the not participate in 10
Listening recognize the
speech. It was not the interview. points
sounds of
necessary to repeat
elementary English
questions. The
words related to
student understand
this activity.
and follow
intructions clearly.
(Up to 10 points) (Up to 5 points) (0 points)
The student made
The student’s
too much effort to
fluency fluency
develop the speech
made the The student did
and make too long
conversation no participate in 7
Fluency pauses that affect
possible and easy the interview. points
the communication.
without
The student could
interruptions.
have used notes.
(Up to 7 points) (Up to 5 points) (0 points)
The student made The student’s The students did
55
Video the video video did not meet not make the
points
appropriately, the the requirements. video.
 pronunciation and The pronunciation
fluency were quite and fluency were
well. The message not well.
was clear, relevant
and coherent. The
student used a
wide vocabulary.
(Up to 55 points) (Up to 28 points) (0 points)
95
Final score
points