Guidelines to Prepare a Homework or

Production
A Homework or Production is one of the evaluative tasks used as a summative
assessment instrument of the curso de Formacin en Lengua Extranjera Ingls
Modalidad Virtual. The aim of this evaluative task is to assess students oral or
written performance when facing different social situations in diverse contexts.
Teachers should design these tasks based on the linguistic objectives presented in
each level. Tasks can be oral, written or a combination of both abilities.
Structure of the task
The task should include the following information:
Part

Purpose

Statement of objective

Describe clearly and simply what you expect learners to

achieve.

Task

Design a task that provides elements of a real life situation

such as a context, a situation, a purpose and an audience.
Take into account the linguistic abilities, the communicative
competences and the knowledge of students, as well as the

Steps and processes

course content.
Explain the steps that learners should go through to develop

Resources

the task.
Provide a list of authentic online resources that learners can
use to achieve the objective, if necessary.

Evaluation

Use a rubric to show learners how to monitor their work

through clear and coherent objectives for the level.

Sources and Credits

Include the source in case you used information from other

texts and give credit to yourself if you designed the task or
adapted it. Write also the date (month and year) when you
prepared the task.

Example
Level 1
Homework Units 3 & 4
Email to a Foreigner Friend
Objective: At the end of this task, you should be able to write an email in which
you include the description of a picture.
Task: Imagine you are sending an email to a foreigner friend and you want to
include a picture of your family or your friends and a description of them.
Steps:
1. Please choose a picture of your family or friends.
2. Write your email including an introduction of the people in the picture and
description of what they do, what do they look like, what they are wearing
and what they are doing in the picture. (150 words min)
3. Download the file to do your homework HERE. (Check page 4)
4. Upload your file here. Please name your file, including your first name, last
name, and group number. Remember that only .doc files can be uploaded.

Evaluation:
Criteria to assess this task:
20% Use of accurate vocabulary
40% Description
20% Language structures
20% Use of capitalization and punctuation.

Credits:
Designed by Alejandra Jimnez Quintero (August, 2014)

UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE COLOMBIA - SEDE MEDELLN CENTRO DE IDIOMAS

Level ___I____ Units _4 & 5_ Topic: Description
Prepared by: English Tutors
Listening
Speaking
Reading Writing X
Vocabulary
Grammar
Metacognition Pronunciation
Game
Student: __________________________________

Email to a Foreigner Friend

Task: Imagine you are sending an email to a foreigner friend and you want to
include a picture of your family or your friends and a description of them. Use this
format to write the description of your picture. (150 words min)
New Message
Recipients:
Subject:

Dear friend,

Include your picture and its description here.

Love,
Include your name here.

Rubric to assess this task:

Students name:
%

20
40

20

Date:

Poor

Needs
improvem
ent

Use accurate vocabulary to

describe people.
Write a coherent description
about his/her family or friends and
what they are doing in a given
moment.

1-4

5-9

1-9

10-17

Produce some structures worked

in the course such as: (1) adjectivenoun word order, e.g. beautiful day;
(2) sentences in simple present

1-4

5-9

The student is able to:

Fair

Good

Outstandi
ng

1114
1824

15-17

18-20

25-32

33-40

1114

15-17

18-20

Total

continuous, e.g. He is smiling; (3)

third person e.g. He likes soda; (4)
possessive adjectives, e.g. His
name is

20

Use
capitalization
punctuation properly.
Comments:

and

1-4

5-9

1114

15-17

18-20

Final score:___________

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