Universidad Nacional Abierta y a Distancia

Academic and Research Vice-Rector

Activity 4 : 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 III
Course code 90121
Type of course Methodological Can it be Yes ☐ No ☒
retaken?
Number of 2
credits

2. Description of the activity

Type of Collaborativ Number of

Individual ☒ ☐ 6
activity: e weeks
Moment of Intermedia,
Starting ☐ ☒ Final ☐
evaluation: unit:
Delivery environment: Collaborative
Evaluative score: 90 points
Learning
Starting date: May 24th, 2019 Closing date: July 3rd, 2019
Competence to develop:
Speaking skill: The students speak in English approriately in current
situtations at intermedia level.
Topics to develop:
Phrasal verbs, Prepositions, Future.
Phases, steps or stages of learning strategy to develop
Activity 4 : Speaking Assignment
Activities to develop
Part 1 (50 points)
1. Post a photograph of a well-known restaurant in the city where you
live.
2. Record a video describing the restaurant and telling everything
about it: name, location, what type of food it serves, the specialty of
the house, how the service is, etc. Finally, you must invite your
partners to visit it.

Ilustración 1

Fuente: https://www.trickyways.com/2010/05/how-to-record-video-on-mac/

Imagen de un hombre haciendo la grabación de un vídeo en el computador.

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

videos.

Part 2
Interview (40 points)
Ilustración 2

Fuente:
https://learn.org/articles/Distance_Learning_20_The_Skype_Interview.ht
ml
Imagen de dos personas realizando una entrevista vía Skype.

Step 1: Personal introduction. A short introduction about yourself

(name, age, city where you live, job, program you study, likes and
dislikes, and other information you want to include).

Step 2: Role-play. On the day of the interview, you will talk to your
tutor about the restaurant you chose; you will tell everything about it
and the tutor will ask you some questions about you and that place.
Environment
Collaborative Learning
to 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,
Products to among others. 2. You tell everything related to the
submit by photograph sent in the forum. 3. You finish your
the student video saying goodbye and inviting people to visit
your city.
 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
 Active and thoughtful participation in the activities by
develop the
each student.
collaborative
 Sharing appropriate and useful contributions for each
work
activity.
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
responsibiliti criteria established by the rubric. The evaluator must
es 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/

In the agreement 029 of December 13, 2013, article

99, the mistakes that infringe upon the academic
order, among others, are the following: paragraph e)
“To plagiarize is to present as your own work the whole
or part of a writing, report, task or document of
invention performed by another person. It also implies
the use of cites or lack of references, or includes cites
where there is no coincidence between them and the
reference” and paragraph f)”To reproduce, or copy for
profit, educational resources or results of research
products, which have intellectual rights reserved for the
University”.

The academic punishments that the student will face

Plagiarism are:
policy a) In case of academic fraud proved in the academic
work or evaluation, the score achieved will be zero
(0.0) without leading to disciplinary measures.
b) In case of plagiarism proved in the academic
work of any nature, the score achieved will be zero
(0.0), without leading to disciplinary measures.

To know how the documents must be cited, check the

following document:
Centro de Escritura Javeriano ( ) Normas APA. Sexta
edición. Taken from
http://centrodeescritura.javerianacali.edu.co/index.php
?option=com_content&view=article&id=138:normas-
apa&catid=45:referencias-bibliograficas&Itemid=
 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
appropriately. The
The student’s
student did not link
speech showed a
simple questions
good handle of
and answers related
gramar structures
to near
addressed in the
environment and The student did
units for this 5
Grammar the studens was not not participate in
activity. The points
able to construct the interview
student could make
language proper to
some little mistakes
the level and
but the message
related to the
was
context. The
understandable.
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 not
questions properly:
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 video The students did
50
Video the video did not meet the not make the
points
appropriately, the requirements. The video.
 pronunciation and pronunciation and
fluency were quite fluency were not
well. The message well.
was clear, relevant
and coherent. The
student used a wide
vocabulary.
(Up to 55 points) (Up to 28 points) (0 points)
90
Final score
points