Universidad Nacional Abierta y a Distancia

Vicerrectoría Académica y de Investigación

Course: English B1
Code: 900003
Activity Guide and Evaluation Rubric – Task 4 – Oral
production – Voices in Motion

1. Activity Description

Type of activity: Individual

Evaluation moment: Intermediate Unit 3
Highest score of the activity: 100 points
The activity starts on Tuesday, The activity ends on: Thursday, July
June 11th, 2024. 11th,2024.
With this activity, you are expected to achieve the following learning outcomes:
Communicate in an oral way personal experience and daily life situations, using appropriate
pronunciation, grammatical structures, and the vocabulary studied in the contents.

The activity consists of:

STEP 1 CONTENT REVIEW

1. Go to Learning / E-book /Online Content English B1.

1.1 Study the content of modules 3,4,5 & 6 in the

E-book and do all the activities in those Modules.

You should study:

Module 3
Module 4
Module 5
Module 6

1.3. Write a short description of an influential person in your region using the past simple,
present perfect, and adjectives. You can guide yourself by the examples in Module 5 -
Exercise 6 INFORMATION ABOUT FAMOUS PEOPLE.

1.4. Who is Greta Thunberg? She is a Swedish environmental activist on climate, who has
inspired many young people to pay attention to climate problems. Young men and women
worldwide have joined her in the “Fridays for Future” initiative, which consists of Friday
meetings to raise awareness about this global concern.
Watch the interview with Greta Thunberg in the TV program “Good Morning Britain”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-bu2136AJUg and answer the questions using Present
Perfect and Past Simple. Then post it in the forum. Comment on your partners’ answers.

LEARNING TIP: Use the present simple tense, p a s t simple tense, present Perfect
tense, and comparatives or Superlatives when writing your answers.
 QUESTIONS

1. Why did Greta Thunberg start to be concerned about climate change?

2. What have her parents changed to support her ideas?
3. Have you noticed any change in the environment of your region? Mention some of them.

LEARNING TIP
Post your answers to exercises 1.3 and 1.4 and make accurate comments
to yourclassmates about their posts, in the forum.

STEP 2. SPEAKING PRACTICE

Choose one option: Attendance at practical workshop STT or synchronous moment.

OPTION A. - ATTENDANCE TO PRACTICAL WORKSHOP

STT
(Students Talking Time)

During the academic process, it is important to participate in three (3) practical

workshops. In accordance with this, keep in mind:
i. The tutor will share the schedule of the workshops that will be programmed.
ii. The invitation will be sent by e-mail or other communication channels.
iii. During the practical workshops called STT it is important to participate actively with
your peers and tutor.
iv. Do not forget to turn on the camera during the session, take a screenshot which
should be posted in the forum, and fill the attendance form.
v. The final document must support evidence of participation in the three (3)
workshops.

LEARNING TIP
• Keep in mind the dates of the workshops programmed by the course tutors.
• Remember! You can participate in whatever Workshop given by tutors.
• Post the evidence of your participation in the Practical Workshops (STT) in the
forum and the final document.

OPTION B. SYNCHRONOUS MOMENT.

As a part of the pronunciation activity, you will have a synchronous moment with your tutor
and classmates to put into practice your Speaking competence, by exchanging information
about the Magazine you made in task 2. In this step, you will prepare a presentation of one
of the parts of your magazine (Be you, Be Green, or To be Like…) Choose one of the parts,
create some slides, and be prepared to share this information with your tutor and
classmates.

i. It is essential to contact your tutor to schedule your encounter, that way, you
won’t have any inconveniences to finish your activity successfully and get the score
needed.
ii. Remember that not only do you have to attend the session, but active participation
is also required to develop Speaking competence and to get the score needed.
iii. The tutor will also give you feedback, comment suggest, or congratulate
participants during the session.
iv. Post your screenshot of the meeting with your tutor in the forum.
 STEP 3- VIDEO ABOUT YOUR MAGAZINE
3.1 For the development of this step, you will prepare a presentation of one of the parts of
your magazine (Be You, Be Green, or To be Like…) Choose one of the parts, create some
slides, and make your video.

BE YOU VOCABULARY ARTICLE

Mention the keywords you Describe what you were like in high school. What
P Paste 5 or 6 Pictures are going to use in the you liked, how you dressed, how you talked,
of you in high school. short article. how you behaved, what did you like to do and
(If you want to share what did you do. Remember to write two
your own you can do Example: paragraphs.
it, if you don´t, you Example:
can use pictures from High school When I was in high school, I was a little bit
the web, related with Uniforms shorter than I am now. In my school, the
your text) Wear students needed to wear uniforms, so when I
Oversize was at home, I used to wear black clothes,
Sneakers especially oversize,
caps T-shirts and jeans. I loved to wear my sneakers
and caps...
BE GREEN VOCABULARY ARTICLE

Mention the keywords Write 6 sentences about ECO actions to reduce

Paste 10 pictures of you are going to use in harmful effects on the environment using the
your eco actions to the short article. conditionals and phrasal verbs.
help and prevent the Example:
harmful effects on the Take care Example:
environment. (If you Ice caps
want to share your Melt
If we don't take care of our planet, the ice caps
own you can do it, if Cleaner
will melt.
you don´t, you can Public transport
use pictures from the
web, related with your If we use public transport more, our cities will
text) get cleaner.
TO BE LIKE... VOCABULARY ARTICLE

Choose a famous person Mention the keywords youCreate a script for your interview. You will be the
with whom you are going to use in the interviewer, and you can either write the
identify and who you INTERVIEW. celebrity's responses or imagine what their
believe is passionate responses might be based on your knowledge
about environmental of his/her beliefs and public statements. Be sure
conservation. (Paste 3 to use the grammatical structures mentioned
pictures) You will above.
pretend to interview Transcribe the interview in this place and ensure
this celebrity that you include the questions and responses,
regarding his/her and clearly label which grammatical structure is
environmental habits used in each question or answer.
and beliefs.
After completing the transcript, reflect on what
Prepare a list of questions you've learned from this activity about the
you want to ask the importance of environmental conservation and
celebrity about their how your chosen celebrity's habits and beliefs
environmental habits align with it.
and actions.
3.2 To practice your pronunciation, you can use https://www.naturalreaders.com/online/
3.3 To record your video you can use https://www.loom.com/
https://app.clipchamp.com/ https://vimeo.com/

Video instructions:
 For your speaking presentation via video, please, bear in mind:
● Make some slides about part of the magazine you choose.
● During the video recording you must show your face. Your video must have a maximum
duration of 3 minutes. You can see the following examples:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pC6_f2neO04, https://url.unad.edu.co/5Wro3,
https://youtu.be/sJ6npa5m9ik.
● Record your video in real-time showing your face, looking at the camera, and speaking
in English. Make sure you use the information you have in your magazine.
● Upload your video to YouTube, Google Drive or OneDrive. Make sure it has public
access and share the link in the forum.

STEP 4 – SELF ASSESSMENT

In this step, you are going to reflect on your performance in the course activities. To do
this:
4.1 Fill in the form “Self-assessment” you will find in the Annex 2.
4.2 Take a screenshot and share it in the forum.

STEP 5 - FINAL DOCUMENT

5.1 Consolidate all the activities done in this Task in a PDF document using Annex 2 and
uploadit individually to the Evaluation environment. Remember that the product of this
task must comply with the APA standards.

Regarding the development of the activity, consider that:

In the Initial Information Environment, you must: Check for the initial and closing
dates.
In the Learning Environment, you must:
Review and complete the exercises proposed in modules 1 and 2 from the
E-book/Online English contents. Review and complete the exercises proposed in 5 and
6 in the E-book/Online English content.
In the Evaluation Environment, you must:
Submit a PDF document containing the development of the individual activities. (Annex 1)
Evidence of individual work:
The individual evidence to be submitted is a PDF Final document containing:
• A cover
• Describe an influential person in your community and answer the questions about
Greta Thunberg's interview.
• The evidence of the attendances to the Practical Workshops or the evidence of the
meeting with the tutor.
• The video link.
• The completed “Self-assessment” chart.

Evidence of collaborative work:

No collaborative evidence is required in this activity
 2. General Guidelines for the Development of Evidence to
Submit
For Individual evidence, consider the following:
Before submitting the requested product, students should check that it meets all the
requirements mentioned in this activity guide.
Please keep in mind that all individual or collaborative written products must comply withthe
spelling rules and presentation conditions defined in this activity guide.
Regarding the use of references, consider that the product of this activity must complywith
APA style.

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. Italso 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.

3.Evaluation Rubric Template

Type of activity: Individual

Evaluation moment: Intermediate Unit 3
Highest score of the activity: 100 points
First evaluation High level: The sentences in Step 1 are built using simple past,
criterion: present perfect, and comparatives and superlatives with a few or no
Procedure grammar and spelling mistakes. Punctuation marks and capital
assessment letters are correct, and the message can be clearly understood.
If your work is at this level, you can get between 13 points
to 20 points.
Completion of Step
1 Average level: The sentences in Step 1 are built using simple past,
present perfect, and comparatives and superlatives, with some
grammar or spelling mistakes. Punctuation marks and capital letters
This criterion
use is sometimes correct, but the message can be understood.
represents 20
points of the total If your work is at this level, you can get between 3 points to
of 100 points of the 12 points.
activity.
 Low level: The sentences used in Step 1 do not follow the
instructions given and the message is not understood. The student
doesn't participate in this task.
If your work is at this level, you can get between 0 points to
2 points.

High level: The student posts the evidence of his/her participationin

Second evaluation the 3 Practical Workshops programmed by tutors in the final
criterion: document. The student planned, prepared and actively
Content participated in the meeting with her/his tutor, and He / She madea
assessment few mistakes in pronunciation that did not interfere with the effective
communication of the speech.
Development of If your work is at this level, you can get between 20 points
Step 2. to 30 points.

Attendance to Average level: The student posts some evidence of his/her

Practical participation in the Practical Workshops programmed by tutors in the
Workshop STT final document. The student participated in the meeting but didn't
or Meeting prepare very well. He / She made some mistakes in pronunciation
with her/his that could occasionally interfere with the effective communication of
tutor the speech. His speech is slow and hesitant, except for some
(Students Talking memorized phrases.
Time) If your work is at this level, you can get between 10 points
to 19 points.
This criterion
represents 30
points of the Low level: The student does not post any evidence of his/her
total of 100 participation in the Practical Workshops nor in the meeting, with the
points of the classmates and tutor. The student doesn't participate in this task.
activity. If your work is at this level, you can get between 0 points to
9 points.
High level: The student makes the video using one of the parts
Third evaluation developed in Task 2. The student shows an accurate use of
criterion: Content descriptive language and vocabulary. The student has good
assessment pronunciation with smooth, natural, and fluid speech.
The student shares the link to the video directly in the forum (no
files attached).
If your work is at this level, you can get between 20 points
to 30 points.
 This criterion Average level: The student makes the video using some
represents 30 information developed in Task 2. The student shows a basic use of
points of the descriptive language and vocabulary. The student makes some
total of 100 pronunciation mistakes which somehow interfere with his/her speech
points of the fluency. The student shares the link to the video directly in the forum
activity. (no files attached).
If your work is at this level, you can get between 10 points to
19 points.

Low level: The student makes the video but does not use any of
theinformation proposed in Task 2. The student shows poor use of
descriptive language and vocabulary. The student makes many
pronunciation mistakes that interfere with his/her speech fluency.
The student does not share the link of the video directly in the
forum(no files attached). The student doesn't send the video.
If your work is at this level, you can get between 0 points to
9 points.
Fourth High level: The student fills completely the self-assessment format
evaluation inthe final document. It includes all the items established.
criterion:
If your work is at this level, you can get between 8 points
Participation
to10 points.
assessment
Average level: The student fills in some of the items established in
Self-assessment
the self-assessment format in the final document.
This criterion
represents 10 If your work is at this level, you can get between 3 points
points of the to7 points.
total of 100 Low level: The student does not post the self-assessment format
points of the inthe final document. The student doesn't participate in this task.
activity. If your work is at this level, you can get between 0 points
to2 points.

Fifth evaluation High level: The final document is consolidated individually in a PDF
criterion: format and uploaded in the Evaluation Environment according to
Formal the# of items requested in “Evidence of individual work”.
Assessment If your work is at this level, you can get between 8 points to
10 points.
 Average level: The final document is consolidated individually in a
Consolidation and PDF format and uploaded in the Evaluation Environment but does
submission not include all the items requested in the “Evidence of individual
work”. The final document is consolidated individually in a PDFformat
but is not uploaded in the Evaluation Environment. It includes all the
items requested in the “Evidence of individual work”.
If your work is at this level, you can get between 3 points to
7 points.
This criterion
represents 10points
of the total of 100 Low level: The final document is not uploaded in the Evaluation
points of the Environment. The student doesn't participate in this task.
activity. If your work is at this level, you can get between 0 points to
2 points.