Universidad Nacional Abierta y a Distancia

Vicerrectoría Académica y de Investigación

Activity 5 – Speaking assignment-Synchronous meeting

1. General description of the course

Faculty or Academic Vicerrectoría de Relaciones Internacionales

Unit
Academic Level Professional, specialization, master
Academic Field Common basic interdisciplinary training
Course name English IV
Course code 90170
Course type Methodological Can be re- Yes No ☒
opened
Number of credits 2

2. Description of the activity

Physical Remote
☐ ☐ Simulator ☐
laboratory laboratory
Type of
Specialized Professional
practice Field works ☐ ☐ ☐
software experiences
Other ☒ Which: Skype
Type of activity: Individual ☒ Collaborative ☐ Number of weeks 5
Intermediate,
Moment of Unit: 2 -
Initial ☐ ☒ Final ☐
evaluation: Hypothetical
situations
Score of the activity (if Delivering environment: Collaborative
95
applicable): Learning
Starting date: June 28th, 2018 Closing date: August 8th, 2018
Topics addressed in the practical component:
The interview comprises two sections:
 Self-introduction
 A conversation about one of the following topics:
 Talk about a hypothetical situation in the present.
 Talk about activities you used to do when you were a child.
 Talk about an anecdote that just happened to a friend.
Activities to carry out:
 a. Video recording
 Each student has to make a video, in which he should introduce himself and
include one of the 3 topics mentioned above.
 Share the recording or the link of the video in the forum.

b. Interview
 Your tutor will send you a link containing a time table for you to register in the
established days and hours.
 Register on the schedule your ID number, full name, group number, email and
Skype username.
 Login to the virtual tool at least 10 minutes before the interview.
 Remember to have from 10 to 15 minutes and guarantee the headset, microphone
and camera work fine to carry out the interview.
Working
Collaborative Learning
environment:
Products to
deliver by the Video recording
student:
Type of No product must be
Individual ☒ Collaborative ☐ ☐
product: delivered
Individual:
Upload the video in YouTube, Vimeo, Dropbox, Onedrive etc.

3. Evaluation rubric

Evaluation rubric
Activity type: Individual ☒ Collaborative ☐
Intermediate,
Moment of Unit: 2 -
Initial ☐ ☒ Final ☐
evaluation Hypothetical
situations
Items to Levels of performance of individual activity
Score
evaluate Highest score Medium score Lowest score
The student records
The student
the video but There is no
Video records the video
doesn’t make any evidence of video 55
recording making reflection
reflection and recording.
and analysis.
analysis.
 (up to 55 points) (up to 25 points) (up to 0 points)
The pronunciation There are some
The student makes
is fluent, with good mistakes in the
many pronunciation
intonation and pronunciation, but it
Pronunciati mistakes and the
appropriate doesn’t affect the 10
on message is not
intervals between understanding of the
clear.
sentences. message.
(up to 10 points) (up to 5 points) (up to 0 points)
The student uses a The student uses a
vocabulary vocabulary in an
The used vocabulary
suggested in the incorrect way,
Vocabulary is scarce and not
units. The message beside there is no 15
always correct.
is clear and cohesion in the
understandable. speech.
(up to 15 points) (up to 10 points) (up to 0 points)
The student
The student
identifies the
answers to all the The student doesn’t
instructions in
questions and answer to the
Listening English and answers 15
recognize the questions.
to almost all the
instructions.
questions.
(up to 15 points) (up to 10 points) (up to 0 points)
Final score 95