Universidad Nacional Abierta y a Distancia

Vicerrectoría Académica y de Investigación

Activity 6 – 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 A2
Course code 900002
Course type Methodological Can be re- Yes No ☒
opened
Number of credits 3

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
Moment of
Initial ☐ Intermediate ☒ Final ☐
evaluation:
Score of the activity (if Delivering environment: Collaborative
70
applicable): Learning
th
Starting date: October 9 , 2017 Closing date: November 25th, 2017
Topics addressed in the practical component:
Present simple
Present progressive
There is are
Prepositions of place
Adverbs of frequency

Activities to carry out:

 PHASE 1: VIDEO RECORDING “MY LIFE”

1. Each student has to make a video, in which he should introduce himself with
all the information such as: FULL NAME, AGE, PROFESSION, STUDIES, WORK,
ETC. The student should be recorded showing parts of his/her real life routine,
his/her real job and his/her real house. The video should not be more than
2:00 minutes long. Look at the video to copy the format
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RTZfnO743Ig
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jGeasFdAlGs

2. Share the recording or the link of the video in the forum.

3. Comment one video from other person in the forum

PHASE 2: SKYPE INTERVIEW

1. Your tutor will send you a link containing a time table for you to register in the
established days and hours.
2. Register on the schedule your ID number, full name, group number, email and
Skype username.
3. Login to the virtual tool at least 10 minutes before the interview.
4. Remember to have from 10 to 15 minutes and guarantee the headset,
microphone and camera work fine to carry out the interview.

The interview has two major parts:

 Self-introduction
Make sure you are prepared to answer one of the following questions:

HOW ARE YOU?

WHAT IS YOUR FULL NAME?

WHAT IS YOUR LAST NAME?

WHAT IS YOUR FIRST NAME?

HOW OLD ARE YOU?

HOW OLD IS YOUR FATHER/MOTHER/SISTER/BROTHER?

DO YOU HAVE CHILDREN?

HOW MANY CHILDREN DO YOU HAVE?

ARE YOU MARRIED?

ARE YOU SINGLE?

WHAT IS YOUR MARITAL STATUS?

WHAT DO YOU DO FOR A LIVING?

WHAT IS YOUR PROFESSION?

WHAT DO YOU DO IN YOUR FREE TIME?

DO YOU LIKE SPORTS?

DO YOU LIKE TO READ/TO EXERCISE/TO JOG/ TO PLAY CHESS?

WHAT IS YOUR FAVORITE FOOD?

WHAT IS YOUR FAVORITE MUSIC?

DO YOU LIKE TO DANCE?

WHERE ARE YU FROM?

WHERE WERE YOU BORN?

WHERE DO YOU LIVE?

WHO DO YOU LIVE WITH?

DO YOU HAVE PETS?

WHAT ARE YOU STUDYING?

 A conversation about one of the following topics:

 Talk about your daily routine
 Talk about your house
 Talk about your family
 Describe the following picture
 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.

4. Evaluation rubric
 Evaluation rubric
Activity type: Individual ☒ Collaborative ☐
Moment of
Initial ☐ Intermediate ☒ Final ☐
evaluation
Items to Levels of performance of individual activity
Score
evaluate Lowest score Medium score Highest score
The student records
The student records
the video
the video but it does
describing his/her
not fully correspond
life and covers all
to the parts allocated
There is no aspects allocated in
Video in the guide. He/she
evidence of video the guide. The
recording may(not) have
recording and video is clear and
and forum participated in the 35
forum understandable.
participatio forum. The video is
participation Also, he/she
n not fully
participates in the
understandable or
forum giving
has some inaudible
feedback to one of
parts
the forum mates
(up to 0 points) (up to18 points) (up to 35 points)
The student has a
great deal of
problems
communicating The student can The student can fully
his/her ideas in communicate in a understand and
English. Also, simple fashion, using communicate all
he/she does not repetitive structures his/her ideas un
understand simple and fair vocabulary. English about
commands and He/she understands himself. He/she can
questions. He/she interact with
some commands and
Skype needs first minimum or /no
questions and
Interview: language to error in an English 15
communicate or eventually needs some Speaking
Interaction
confirm the repetition. There are environments. The
information during some mistakes in the pronunciation is
the interview. The pronunciation, but it fluent, with good
student makes doesn’t affect the intonation and
many understanding of the appropriate intervals
pronunciation between sentences.
message.
mistakes and the
message is not
clear.
(up to 0 points) (up to 7 points) (up to 15 points)
The student does There is a limited
not construct number of sentences The student can
complete The student construct sentences
sentences or sometimes constructs using a wide range
uses only a complete sentence of grammatical
isolated words. but the structure is structures. He/she
Skype He/she does not too repetitive and the is able con link
Interview: use structures range of vocabulary is them together
Structure studied in the limited. He using connectors. 15
and course. The sometimes combines The student uses a
vocabulary student uses a Spanish and English vocabulary
vocabulary in an to construct suggested in the