Universidad Nacional Abierta y a Distancia

Vice President for Academic Issues and Research

Only guide to develop the practical component of English
0 course - 90030

1. General information of the practical component.

Learning strategy: Task based learning

Course type: Methodological
Evaluation moment: Intermediate
Maximum score of the component: 120 points
Number of activities of the component in this guide: 1
With this component, it is expected to achieve the following
learning results:
The student will be able to write a text using vocabulary and daily
expressions in postcards as part of the communicative competence
in English.

2. Activity general description of the practical component.

Stages of the practical component: With ICT support

Type of activity: Independent
Activity number: 2
Maximum score of the activity: 120 points
Activity starting date:
Activity deadline: Sunday, October
Monday, September 6th,
17th, 2021
2021
The resources you need to develop the activity are the
following:

Activity guide
Online dictionaries
Ebook

The activity lies in:

Stage 1- Access the Ebook “Level A1” (Learning Environment) and

study Modules 1 to 6 (Unit 1).

Stage 2 – Do exercises of modules you can look below; take

screenshots of your answers and submit in the forum of this activity,
that you can find at Learning Environment:
 • Module 6 – 12 Module 2 - 16

• Module 1 – 12 Module 4 - 7

• Module 5 -3

Stage 3- Do 3 postcards including a picture with the following

information:

Postcard 1: Describe a member of your family with complete

sentences including personal information like: name, age, occupation,
nacionality. A physical description must also be included: weight,
height, hair, eyes, etc.

- Postcard 2: Describe five actions the member of your family is doing

right now:
- Postcard 3: Write 5 sentences about activities you do daily:

Note: Each postcard must have complete sentences

(noun+verb+complement). Then access Learning Environment and
send 3 postcards in the forum (files cannot be attached).

Stage 4 - Check your partners’ postcards in the forum and make 2

meaningful comments (appreciations, corrections, etc.) that helps his
partners to find out their mistakes and then strengthen their learning
and improve their writing.

Stage 5 – Make corrections in your postcards taking into account

comments and suggestions made by tutor and partners.

To develop this activity, consider:

At initial information environment, you must: Check the Course
Agenda.

At evaluation environment, you must: Send screenshots with

exercises and 3 postcards in the forum. Each student must make at
least 2 comments about other partners’ postcards.

At learning environment, you must: Load individual task in PDF format

including corrections suggested by partners.

Take into account that the final task must be a product of your
ingenuity and creativity. For no reason tasks that are not original or
are taken from Internet will be accepted.
Individual work evidences:
The individual evidences to submit are:

In a PDF format each student must conoslidate the following

evidences of his participation in the forum:

- Front page with full name, code, program he/she studies and
group number, among others.

1. Screenshots of practice exercises taken from the forum.

2. 3 postcards done (if you use a software or an app, you must
share the link of that software).
3. Evidence of meaningful comments about other group partners’
postcards (corrections, suggestions, etc.)
4. If you cited, you must include Table of References.

This paper must be sent at the Evaluation Environment:

This is how you must sent the final task:

Group work evidences:

En esta actividad no se requieren evidencias de trabajo grupal son:

3. General guidelines for the development of the evidence to

submit

For evidence developed Individual, consider the following

guidelines:

1. Every member of the group must participate with academic

contributions in the activity development.

2. Before delivering the requested product, all the requirements

indicated in this activity guide must be checked.

3. All tasks must take into account spelling rules and

requirements stated in the guide.

4. Every member must share meaningful contributions along the

activity.
 5. Every member of the group are responsible for making
individual task requested.

Take into account that all individual or group written work must
fulfil with the orthographic rules and presentation conditions that
have been defined.
Concerning the use of references, consider that the requested work
in this activity must fulfil with the standards Elija un elemento.
In any case, the standards of reference must be complied.
Academic plagiarism must be avoided. Students can support the
written products by using the Turnitin tool found on the virtual
campus.

Consider that In the agreement 029 of December 13, 2013, article

99, it is considered as offenses that undermine the academic order,
among others, the following: literal e) “Plagiarism, that is,
submitting as of its own authorship the all or part of a work,
document or invention made by another person.

It also implies the use of quotes or false references, or proposing

quotes where there is no match between it and the reference ”and
literal f) “Reproducing or copying for profit, educational materials or
results of research products, which have intellectual rights reserved
for the University.

The academic sanctions the student will face are the following:

a) In cases of academic fraud demonstrated in the respective

academic work or evaluation, the grade that will be imposed will
be zero points without prejudice to the corresponding disciplinary
sanction.

b) In cases related to plagiarism demonstrated in the academic

work whatever its nature, the qualification that will be imposed will
be zero points, without prejudice to the corresponding disciplinary
sanction.
4. Evaluation rubric format

Type of activity: Independent

Activity number: 2

Moment of evaluation: Intermediate

Maximum score is 120 points
Items Performances
High level: The student develops online content
practices requested, where shows a good use of
gramar and topic. Practice exercises are sent in
the forum on time, more than 3 days before
First deadline.
evaluation If your work is at this level, you will get from
standard: 15 points to 20 points
Procedure and
participation Medium level: Some practice exercises are sent
in the forum on time. Some execises show you
Stage 1 and 2 understand properly the topics.
If your work is at this level, you will get from
9 points to 14 points

This standard Low level: The student doesn’t load the practices
represents 20 in the forum. The contributions are not meaningful
score of the and were shared just at the end of the activity. The
activity studens doesn’t use appropriately the topics in the
pactices.
If your work is at this level, you will get from
0 points to 8 points

High level: The sentences in the postcards have

the correct structure and follow the tutor’s
Second
guidelines. The sentences uses the punctuation
evaluation
properly.
standard:
If your work is at this level, you will get from
Content
20 points to 30 points
Stage 3
Medium level: The postcards have a structure but
the student doesn’t follow all the guidelines. There
are some spelling mistakes, words in Spanish and
connectors that changes the text coherence.
This standard
If your work is at this level, you will get from
represents 30
10 points to 19 points
score of the
activity
Low level: The student doesn’t do the postdards
and/or the length of the text is not the
 appropriate. The content is not according to the
requested. The text is not coherent in its content
and its porcedure int he forum
If your work is at this level, you will get from
0 points to 9 points

High level: The postcards meet the gramar and

Third vocabulary issues appropriatlely according to the
evaluation guide. The text uses a proper vocabulary.
standard: If your work is at this level, you will get from
Content 20 points to 30 points

Stage 3 Medium level: The postcards have only some

gramar and vocabulary issues established in the
Grammar issues guide. The text shows mistakes regarding
grammar.
If your work is at this level, you will get from
10 points to 19 points
This standard
represents 30 Low level: The students doesn’t do the postcards.
score of the The text doesn’t meet the gramar issues requested.
activity If your work is at this level, you will get from
0 points to 9 points
High level: The student shares meaningful and
Fourth timely contributions to other partners’ postcards.
evaluation The students makes corrections suggested in the
standard: forum by tutor and partners.
Participation If your work is at this level, you will get from
and procedure 14 points to 20 points

Stage 4 and 5 Medium level: The students makes comments in

the forum but they are not meaninful contributions.
Contributions to The students doesn’t make corrections on time
partners’ according to the suggestios in the forum.
postcards. If your work is at this level, you will get from
7 points to 13 points

Low level: The students doesn’t share

This standard contributions in the forum. The student doesn’t
represents xx make corrections or he doesn’t participate in this
score of the activity.
activity If your work is at this level, you will get from
0 points to 7 points
Nivel alto: Se evidencia la realización de los pasos
Fifth
sugeridos en la guía. Las postales cumplen
evaluation
satisfactoriamente los requisitos especificados en la
standard:
guía. Se hace entrega en el Entorno de Evaluación
Formal and del documento en PDF nombrando el archivo acorde
procedure con el ejemplo. Emplea referencias normas APA.
Si su trabajo se encuentra en este nivel puede
Organization of obtener entre 14 puntos y 20 puntos.
delivery of final
task Nivel Medio: No se evidencia en el producto final
la realización de todos los pasos expuestos en la
guía. No hace entrega del producto final en el
formato PDF. No entrega el documento en el
This standard espacio correspondiente y no emplea referencias
represents 20 actualizadas.
score of the Si su trabajo se encuentra en este nivel puede
activity obtener entre 7 puntos y 13 puntos.

Nivel bajo: Envía un producto final que no

corresponde a lo solicitado. Sube un documento
con escasos aportes desarrollados o no envía
producto final dentro del Entorno correspondiente.
Si su trabajo se encuentra en este nivel
puede obtener entre 6 puntos y 0 puntos.