Universidad Nacional Abierta y a Distancia
Academic and Research Vice-Rector
Activity Guide and Evaluation Rubric – Task 2- Describing and
comparing your city.
1. General Description of the Course
Faculty or Escuela de Ciencias de la Educación
Academic Unit
Academic Level Professional
Academic Field Disciplinary formation.
Course Name Intermediate English II
Course Code 551012
Course Type Methodological Retake Yes ☐ No ☒
Exam
Number of Credits 3
2. Description of the Activity
Type of Number of
Individual ☒ Collaborative ☒ 4
Activity: Weeks
Evaluation Initial
☐ Intermediate ☒ Final ☐
Moment: Unit 1
Environment to Submit the
Total Score of the Activity:
Activity: Monitoring and Evaluation
90
Environment
Starting Date of the Deadline of the Activity:
Activity:
09 September 2020. 09 October 2020.
Competences to Develop:
The student is able to put into practice his/her language knowledge
and skills for communicative and social interaction in the English
language. This includes the use of appropriate form, structure and
meaning patterns.
Topics to Develop:
Unit 1: Talking about and comparing places.
Steps, Phase or Stage of the Learning Strategy to Develop
Intermediate Evaluation.
Activities to Develop
Task 1. Making comparisons.
Write a description of the city where you live.
The description must include the following elements:
1. City overview
• Basic city information: population, age, location
• Characteristics: community and cultural preferences,
development, economy, etc.
2. Infrastructure
• Types of infrastructure could include housing, transportation,
energy, pollution control, and others.
3. City services
• Types of city services could include education, healthcare, fire,
police, etc.
4. City places
Describe the best places of the city. Why are they attractive and
the activities to do in those places.
5. City key issues
Describe issues of the city related to health & safety concerns.
Environmental issues. Security issues.
6. Include images.
• Do not take them from the internet. Take the pictures yourself of
your favorite places and include them in your description.
7. Conclusions.
Make a conclusion inviting people to visit your city.
Do not copy and paste from the internet. Use your own
words. Avoid plagiarism.
The description must be two pages long minimum.
Post your description in the forum in a PDF file.
Invite your partners to read and comment or correct it.
Make any corrections or changes to your work according to
feedback and comments given by your partners.
Task 2. Make a YouTube video.
Make a video in YouTube, when you appear talking about the
description of your city.
Include creative elements like music and images and music;
remember you need to appear talking in the video. The video
should last at least 2 minutes.
Task 3: Designing a Prezi Presentation
Work together with your classmates in order to make
comparisons between the cities you have described.
Create a Prezi presentation that allows you to present your
comparison between cities and places.
Read your partners’ participations and comment their
contributions. You should consider possible corrections regarding
structure, vocabulary and content. Keep in mind your
suggestions or corrections have to be well based and show
respect for your partners’ ideas and intellectual work.
The Prezi should include the work of all classmates who
participated in the group discussion. Include pictures and
creative elements.
The group facilitator must promote participation in the forum.
Tarea 1. Hacer comparaciones.
- Escribe una descripción de la ciudad donde vives.
La descripción debe incluir los siguientes elementos:
1. Descripción de la ciudad
- Información básica de la ciudad: población, edad, ubicación
- Características: comunidad y preferencias culturales, desarrollo,
economía, etc.
2. Infraestructura
- Los tipos de infraestructura podrían incluir la vivienda, el transporte,
la energía, el control de la contaminación y otros.
3. Servicios de la ciudad
- Los tipos de servicios de la ciudad podrían incluir educación, salud,
bomberos, policía, etc.
4. Lugares de la ciudad
- Describa los mejores lugares de la ciudad. Por qué son atractivos y
las actividades que se pueden hacer en esos lugares.
5. Los temas clave de la ciudad
- Describa los asuntos de la ciudad relacionados con la salud y la
seguridad. Cuestiones ambientales. Cuestiones de seguridad.
6. 6. Incluir imágenes.
- No las tomes de Internet. Toma las fotos de tus lugares favoritos e
inclúyelas en tu descripción.
7. Conclusiones.
Haz una conclusión invitando a la gente a visitar tu ciudad.
No copie y pegue desde Internet. Usa tus propias palabras. Evita el
plagio.
La descripción debe tener un mínimo de dos páginas.
- Publica tu descripción en el foro en un archivo PDF.
- Invita a tus compañeros a leerla y comentarla o corregirla.
- Haga cualquier corrección o cambio en su trabajo de acuerdo con los
comentarios y opiniones de sus socios.
Tarea 2. Hacer un video de YouTube.
- Haz un vídeo en YouTube, cuando aparezcas hablando de la
descripción de tu ciudad.
- Incluye elementos creativos como música e imágenes y música;
recuerda que debes aparecer hablando en el vídeo. El vídeo debe
durar al menos 2 minutos.
Tarea 3: Diseñar una presentación Prezi
- Trabaja con tus compañeros para hacer comparaciones entre las
ciudades que has descrito.
- Crea una presentación Prezi que te permita presentar tu
comparación entre ciudades y lugares.
- Lee las participaciones de tus compañeros y comenta sus
aportaciones. Considera las posibles correcciones en cuanto a
estructura, vocabulario y contenido. Tenga en cuenta que sus
sugerencias o correcciones deben estar bien fundamentadas y mostrar
respeto por las ideas y el trabajo intelectual de sus socios.
- El Prezi debe incluir el trabajo de todos los compañeros que
participaron en el debate de grupo. Incluya imágenes y elementos
creativos.
El facilitador del grupo debe promover la participación en el foro.
Environmen
ts for the
Developme Collaborative and Evaluative.
nt of the
Activity
Products to Individual:
Every student is going to upload individually a PDF file
in the evaluative environment with the following
content:
- Cover page (name and last name, course info, tutor
name, date).
- The description of the city.
- The link of the YouTube video with the description of
your city.
be
Submitted
- The link of the Prezi presentation.
by Students
- References.
Name your file as follows:
Collaborative_Task1_Name of the [Link]
Total weighing: 90 points.
8. General Guidelines for the Collaborative Work
Planning of Collaborative learning is a strategy that allows
Activities for the students to work together in order to achieve a
Development of common goal. Accordingly, the collaborative
Collaborative work proposed for the course is based on a
Work structured and planned process that includes
individual and group activities, as well as
interaction and socialization in the virtual
classroom.
1. Explore the syllabus of the course.
2. Make several readings of the activity guide
and the evaluation rubric for each of the units of
individual and collaborative work.
3. All the activities that are carried out for the
development of the activity should be reflected
within the course through the different media
and especially in the forum of each activity,
since the interaction; if they work by Skype or
other means they should evidence it in the
forum with screenshots.
4. Be in constant communication with the
colleagues and tutor during the development of
activities.
5. In case of any concern, ask the tutor or the
colleagues with time, using the various
communication channels arranged in the course.
6. Enter the contributions with time for the
Timely feedback from peers and tutor.
7. Establish a schedule of activities within each
forum and a table of roles and functions for
meet during the development of each activity.
Roles to Be Different roles are proposed within the
Performed by the collaborative environment, which allow an
Student in the appropriate space for academic growth and
Collaborative effective interaction that promotes learning and
Group interpersonal relationships. Every student will
take up one of these roles for the development
of the course assignments and can only be
changed if decided by the group members.
Facilitator: Makes sure that every voice is
heard and focuses work around the learning
task. Provides leadership and direction for the
group and suggests solutions to team problems.
Recorder: Keeps a public record of the team's
ideas and progress. Checks to be sure that ideas
are clear and accurate.
Time keeper: Encourages the group to stay on
task. Announces when time is halfway through
and when time is nearly up.
Planner: States an action for the completion of
the task at hand according to the instructions
and course agenda.
Task monitor: Looks for supplies or requests
help from the teacher when group members
agree that they do not have the resources to
solve the problem.
Compiler: Puts together the final product and
includes the work done only by those who
participated on time. Informs the student in
charge of alerts about people who did not
participate and will not be included in the final
product.
Reviser/Editor: Makes sure the written work
follows all the criteria established in the activity
guide.
Roles and Duties
Evaluator: Evaluates the final document to
for the
ensure it follows the evaluation criteria of the
Submission of
rubric and informs the student in charge of
Products by
alerts about any changes that need to be made
Students
before delivering the product.
Deliveries: Student in charge of informing
about the dates set for presenting each task and
delivering the final product according to the
course agenda. Also informs other students that
the final product has been sent.
Alerts: Informs group participants about any
news in the work being done and reports the
delivery of the final product to the course tutor.
All references considered for this activity have to
References
be cited using APA Style
Plagiarism Policy Students must be aware of the risks and
penalties in case of plagiarism.
Under the Academic Code of Conduct, the
actions that infringe the academic order, among
others, are the following: paragraph e)
"Plagiarism is to present as your own work all or
part of a written report, task or document of
invention carried out by another person. It also
implies the use of citations or lack of references,
or it includes citations where there is no match
between these and the reference" and
paragraph f) " To reproduce, or copy for profit,
educational resources or results of research
products, which have rights reserved for the
University ". (Acuerdo 029 - 13 De Diciembre de
2013, Artículo 99)
The academic penalties that the student will face
are:
a) In case of academic fraud demonstrated in
the academic work or evaluation, the score
obtained will be zero (0.0) without any
disciplinary measures being derived.
b) In case of proven plagiarism in academic
work of any nature, the score obtained will be
zero (0.0), without any disciplinary measures
being derived.
To learn how to properly cite all your tasks, see
the following:
BibMe. (n.d.). APA Citation Guide. Retrieved
from [Link]
9. Evaluation Rubric
Evaluation Rubric
Step 2- Describing and comparing your city
Activity Collaborative
Individual Activity ☒ ☒
Type: Activity
Evaluation Intermediate
Initial ☐ ☒ Final ☐
Moment Unit 1
Evaluated Performance Levels of the Individual Activity
Score
Items High Score Average Score Low Score
Individual The student The student The student did 10
and timely participated in the participated in the not participate in points
participation forum on time and forum once or twice the forum.
gave meaningful
and the
feedback about
in the forum contributions were
their partners’
not meaningful.
work.
(Up to 10 points) (Up to 5 points) (Up to 0 points)
The development
The writing
of the writing
assignment is well
assignment shows
developed and
some degree of
evidences proper No writing
Developing reflection but lacks
writing and assignment is
the writing
coherent ideas with
coherence and
presented.
30 points
assignment cohesion or the
minor problems in
structures and
language
language are
structures.
somewhat poor.
(Up to 30 points) (Up to 15 points) (Up to 0 points)
Student was able Student was
Student was able to express his/her difficult to
to express his/her ideas adequately understand and
Video oral
ideas with ease in but often-displayed had a hard time
performance 30
proper sentence inconsistencies with communicating
structure and points
structure and their sentence his/her ideas
vocabulary
tenses. structure and because of
tenses. grammar mistakes.
(Up to 30 points) (Up to 15 points) (Up to 0 points)
Evaluated Performance Levels of the Collaborative Activity
Score
Items High Score Average Score Low Score
The group created The group created
a well-organized the prezi
prezi presentation presentation but
that includes all not all participants’ The group did not
Prezi participants’ comparisons were create the prezi
comparisons and included, or it does presentation.
20 points
presentation
the general not contain the
comparison of general comparison
cities. of cities.
(Up to 20 points) (Up to 10 points) (Up to 0 points)
Final Score 90 points
