Universidad Nacional Abierta y a Distancia

Vicerrectoría Académica y de Investigación

Course: English III
Code: 518008

Activity Guide and Evaluation Rubric – Task 4 - TV News

1. Activity Description
Type of activity: In Collaborative Group
Evaluation moment: Intermediate Unit 2
Highest score of the activity: 85 points
The activity starts on: Monday, The activity ends on: Sunday, October
October 4, 2021 31, 2021
With this activity, you are expected to achieve the following learning
outcomes:

At the end of this activity the student will be able to understand the main points of
clear standard input on familiar matters regularly encountered in work, school, leisure,
etc.
The activity consists of:

News Program – Cities

For this activity, students are going to record a News TV Program. Each one of you will
record a video of you as anchor reporters (correspondents) describing your cities of
residence. Then you will send a poster with the five videos as a group.

Individually:

1. Decide in group what aspects of your cities you are going to talk about, so you avoid
repetition and have videos that connect. The topics are public transportation,
cultural events, economy, architecture, health.

2. Share the script of every video so you can give feedback to one another about
content and structure.

3. Then, record the individual videos and post them on the forum. Here an example of
how an anchor reporter video is. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p9_bI789Gog

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These are the indications to record your video:

• The video must be recorded outside. It can be in a terrace or a balcony.

• Each video must be of about 2 minutes. So prepare a script of at least 500
words.
• Make sure your video is set as 'Unlisted' or 'Public'. If you set it as 'Private',
only you will have access to it.
• Remember, you will speak about your cities of residence about some of the next
aspects: public transportation, cultural events, economy, architecture, or health.
• It is fundamental that the language here is focused on the passive voice forms.
• Then, you share your videos and give feedback to one another.

4. Speaking sessions
Register your data in the link that is going to be sent inbox and participate in the
speaking sessions on Skype.

Collaborative:

• Get into an agreement about the topics to talk about in each video to avoid
repetition.

• Give input on your partners scripts, so they can be improved.

• Create a power point presentation, as a group poster, with the links to the videos.

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For the development of the activity consider that:

In the Initial Information Environment, you must: check the agenda and interact in
the web conferences.

In the Learning Environment, you must: read the contents of the unit 2 and participate
actively in the forum.

In the Evaluation Environment, you must: Upload your final work Task 4: TV News.
Evidence of independent work:
The independent evidence to be submitted is: the script of the video and the video.
Post in the forum the following products: the script of the video.
Evidence of group work:
The group work evidence to be submitted is:
Just one member of the group must upload a PDF document, initially made on
a Power Point presentation, in the evaluative environment with the following
content:

1. Poster with the links to the videos.

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6. General Guidelines for the Development of Evidence to Submit

For Group Work evidence, consider the following:

• All members of the group must participate with their contributions in the
development of the activity.
• In each group a single member will be chosen to submit the requested product in
the environment indicated by the teacher.
• Before submitting the requested product, students should check that it meets all
the requirements mentioned in this activity guide.
• Only the members of the group that participated with contributions during the
time assigned for the activity should be included as authors of the submitted
product.
Please keep in mind that all individual or collaborative written products must comply
with the spelling rules and presentation conditions defined in this activity guide.
Regarding the use of references, consider that the product of this activity must
comply with APA style.
https://repository.unad.edu.co/static/pdf/Norma_APA_7_Edicion.pdf

In any case, make sure you comply with the rules and avoid academic plagiarism.
You can review your written products using the Turnitin tool found in the virtual
campus.

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 students 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.

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7. Evaluation Rubric Template

Type of activity: Group Work

Evaluation moment: Intermediate Unit 2
The highest score in this activity is 85 points
First evaluation High level: The student participated in the speaking sessions
criterion: with a high performance.
If your work is at this level, you can get between 21 points
Speaking sessions. and 30 points

Speaking skill Average level: The student partially participated in the

fluency, lexical speaking sessions.
resource, If your work is at this level, you can get between 11 points
grammatical and 20 points
accuracy, and
pronunciation. Low level: The student did not participate in the speaking
sessions, or his/her participation was minimum.
This criterion If your work is at this level, you can get between 0 points
represents 30 and 10 points
points of the total
of 85 points of
the activity.
Second evaluation High level: The student demonstrates ability to understand
criterion: and develop the script for the TV news using passive forms
and shares it in the forum.
Script for the video If your work is at this level, you can get between 15 points
and 20 points
Writing skill
fluency, lexical Average level: The student demonstrates fair ability to
resource, understand and develop the script for the TV news using
grammatical passive forms and shares it in the forum.
accuracy. If your work is at this level, you can get between 10 points
and 14 points
This criterion
represents 20 Low level: The student demonstrates many difficulties to
points of the total understand and develop the script for the TV news using passive
of 85 points of forms or does not share it in the forum.
the activity. If your work is at this level, you can get between 0 points
and 9 points

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Third evaluation High level: The student created and shared the script for the
criterion: video in the forum with accurate and clear contributions for the
TV news.
Video News If your work is at this level, you can get between 15 points
and 20 points
Speaking skill
fluency, lexical Average level: The student created and shared the script for
resource, the video in the forum with little difficulties regarding to accurate
grammatical and clear contributions for the TV news.
accuracy, and If your work is at this level, you can get between 10 points
pronunciation. and 14 points

This criterion Low level: The student created and shared the script for the
represents 20 video in the forum with many difficulties regarding to accurate
points of the total and clear contributions for the TV news. If your work is at
of 85 points of this level, you can get between 0 points and 9 points.
the activity.
Fourth High level: The student participated in the forum by giving
evaluation accurate and clear contributions to his/her classmates scripts.
criterion: If your work is at this level, you can get between 11 points
and 15 points
Group work.
Average level: The student participated in the forum by giving
Task achievement, little accurate and clear contributions to his/her classmates
task response, scripts.
coherence and If your work is at this level, you can get between 6 points
cohesion, lexical and10 points
resource, grammar
range and accuracy, Low level: The student did not participate in the forum or did it
creative elements. with many difficulties.
If your work is at this level, you can get between 0 points
This criterion and 5 points.
represents 15
points of the total
of 85 points of
the activity.