Universidad Nacional Abierta y a Distancia

Vice President for Academic Issues and Research

Course: English B1
Code: 900003
Activity guidelines and evaluation rubric – Task 2:Writing
Production

1. Activity description

Type of the activity: Group - Collaborative

Evaluation moment : Intermediate at Unit 1
Activity higher score: 90 points
Activity starting date:
Activity deadline: martes, 6 de
miércoles, 9 de septiembre de
octubre de 2020
2020
In this activity, it is expected to achieve the following learning
results:

The student writes a letter in English describing his/her occupation,

using the topics studied in Unit 1 (module 1 & 2) and Unit 2 (module 3
& 4) and following the given instructions.

The activity consists of:

Step 1 – Individual activity

1. Go to the E book /Online Content English B1

2. Study the content of modules 1, 2, 3 & 4 from the E-book and do
the activities proposed in it.

You should study

Module 1
Module 2
Module 3
Module 4

3. Post in the forum the screenshots of the following activities:

➢ Exercise 5. Home remedies

➢ Exercise 6. Reading e-mail messages
➢ Exercise 11. Understanding phrasal verbs in context.

➢ Exercise 9. Talking about actions that are not

necessary.
➢ Exercise 11 & 12. Understanding necessity and
obligation

➢ Exercise 3. Infinitive after certain verbs

➢ Exercise 7. Infinitives after adjectives
➢ Exercise 11. Understanding important decisions.
➢ Exercise 12. Understanding a text about study
abroad.

➢ Exercise 9. identifying verbs followed by gerund or

infinitive with a change in meaning.
➢ Exercise 11. Understanding qualities and skills
employers look for.
➢ Exercise 12. Understanding people’s
personality and skills.
4. Read the following questions and answer them in the forum:

Questions:
WORK:
• What is your job?
• Where do you work? Describe your place of work.
• What responsibilities do you have at work?
• Describe your activities at work. Do you like your
job? Yes, No. Why?
• Describe your skills and weaknesses for this job.
• What was your first day at work like?
• Do you have or know about any superstition in
your business/work/office?

STUDY:
• What do you study?
• Where do you study?
• What is your favorite subject?
• What are your responsibilities at University?
• Describe your activities at University. Do you like
your career? Yes, No. Why?
• Describe your skills and weaknesses for this job.
• What was your first day at University like?
• Do you have or know about any superstition in
your school/University?

5. Check your classmates’ answers and make 2 comments about their

work. Include information that needs to be considered, point out
mistakes.
A comment is not to write a compliment, not just saying “good
work”, this won’t be graded as a comment.
 Step 2 – Collaborative activity

2.1. Go to any job search webpage and each

student looks for one job advertisement
related to his/her field of interest and publish
them in the forum.

The job advertisement must include:

Position: Entry Level Sales
Salary: $ 23.0000
Responsibilities: - Expand business and establish new customers while
interacting with existing customers to increase sales of
our products and/or services.
- Call on and maintain relationships with established and
prospective commercial accounts.
- Keep customers informed about available services,
supplies, prices and new products.
- Provide information to customers on available utility
incentives and program details.
- Prepare and present proposals that recommend energy
conservation measures, provide customer costs and
incentives, and then sell the value proposition to the
customer.
- Maintain strong ongoing communications with
customers to assure customer satisfaction.
Qualifications/Skills - Excellent communication skills; both written and
needed: verbal; in person and on the phone.
- Working in a team environment to help motivate
others.
- A hungry desire to work in an Outside Sales position.
- Having a professionally strong presence to work with
key decisions makers (C-level corporate managers).
- Ready to invest time and hard work to be a part of a
leading energy efficiency company.
 - BS/BA in Business administration or related field
preferred.
- A valid driver's license.
Company Paradigm Partners (MA)
information: Industry: Energy
Size: 1 to 50 employees
Sector: Oil, Gas, Energy & Utilities
Location: 2 Richdale Ave. Somerville, MA, US, 02145

You can use any job search application you want. Here you find some
options: www.glassdoor.com https://www.glassdoor.com/index.htm or job listor
https://www.joblistor.com/, Career builder https://www.careerbuilder.com/

2.2. The group chooses only one of the job advertisements published.
2.3. The group writes a cover letter or an email job application for this
position. Each student must complete one paragraph.

FIRST SECTION:

Contact information, employer contact information, salutation.

BODY OF COVER LETTER

• Which job you're applying for (include the job title in your
opening paragraph)
• How you learned about the job (and a referral if you have one)
• Why you are qualified for the job (be specific)
• What you have to offer the employer, and why you want to
work at this specific company (match your skills to the job
description, and read up on the organization’s mission, values
and goals to mention in your letter)

FINAL SECTION

• Thank the employer for being considered for the job

• How you will follow up or how the recipient can get in touch with
you.
 Complimentary Close
Respectfully yours,

Signature

www.cover-letter-now.com, The balanced careers

2.4. Organize the activity in a PDF document with all the evidences
from individual and collaborative steps and upload it through the
Evaluation Environment.

To develop this activity, consider:

At Initial Information Environment, you must: Check the agenda

for the initial and final dates.
At Evaluation Environment, you must: Upload your final document.
At Learning Environment, you must: Enter to the E book/Online
English contents and study the topics for Unit 1 in Module 1 & 2 & Unit
2 in Module 3 & 4.

Individual work evidences:

The individual evidences to submit are:
• The screenshots from the Ebook
• The answers to the questions proposed in the forum.
Collaborative work evidences
The groupal work evidences to submit are: PDF document with all the
evidences from the individual and collaborative steps.
3. General guidelines for the development of the evidence to
submit

For evidence developed Group - Collaborative, consider the

following guidelines

• Every member of the group must participate with academic’s

contributions in the activity development.

• Every group must choose a member (just one) who is the one in
charge to submit the required paperwork in the space assigned
by the teacher in charge.

• Before delivering the requested product, all the requirements

indicated in this activity guide must be checked.

• Only the members of the group that have participated with

contributions during the time earmarked for the activity must be
included as authors of the submitted work.

Take into account that all individual or group written work must fulfill
with the orthographic rules and presentation conditions that have been
defined.
Concerning the use of references, consider that the requested work in
this activity must fulfil with the standards APA

In any case, the standards of reference must be complied. Academic

plagiarism must be avoided. Students can support the written
products by using the Turnitin tool found on the virtual campus.

Consider that in the agreement 029 of December 13, 2013, article 99,
it is considered as offenses that undermine the academic order,
among others, the following: literal e) “Plagiarism, that is, submitting
as of its own authorship the all or part of a work, document or
invention made by another person.
It also implies the use of quotes or false references, or proposing
quotes where there is no match between it and the reference and
literal f: “Reproducing or copying for profit, educational materials or
results of research products, which have intellectual rights reserved
for the University”.

The academic sanctions the student will face are the following:

a) In cases of academic fraud demonstrated in the respective

academic work or evaluation, the grade that will be imposed will be
zero points without prejudice to the corresponding disciplinary
sanction.
b) In cases related to plagiarism demonstrated in the academic work
whatever its nature, the qualification that will be imposed will be
zero points, without prejudice to the corresponding disciplinary
sanction.
 c) Evaluation rubric Format

Type of the activity: Group - Collaborative

Evaluation moment: Intermediate at Unit 1
Activity higher score: 90 points
High level:
The final document contains the cover letter organized in
First evaluation paragraphs following the order given and with a coherent
standard structure.
Formal assessment If your work is at this level, you will get from 10 points to 15
points
Paragraphs in the
cover letter follow Medium level:
the order given and The cover letter doesn’t have the paragraphs suggested and/or
the text is written doesn’t follow the order given and the writing doesn’t have a
following a coherent coherent structure.
structure. If your work is at this level, you will get from 5 points to 10
points
This standard
represents 15% Low level
score of the The student did not participate in the activity/ The student did
activity not send the cover letter.
If your work is at this level, you will get 0 points.

Second evaluation High level:

standard The sentences and statements answer properly and coherently
Formal assessment the questions given. The number of answers correspond to the
number of questions proposed.
Statements answer If your work is at this level, you will get from 10 points to 15
the proposed points
questions using the
appropriate Medium level:
structure of the The sentences do not answer the questions given and/or do not
language. have the appropriate structure. The number of answers do not
correspond to the number of questions proposed.
This standard If your work is at this level, you will get from 5 points to 10
represents 15% points
score of the
activity Low level
 The student did not participate in the activity/ The student did
not send the answers to the questions.
If your work is at this level, you will get 0 points.
High level:
Participations are relevant, articulated and contribute to the
Third evaluation
construction of the cover letter. The contributions are posted
standard
according to the schedule.
Participation
If your work is at this level, you will get from 10 points to 15
Assessment
points
The student
Medium level:
provides clear and
There is minimum participation in the writing forum and/or the
useful input for the
comments made do not help in the construction of the cover
group to structure
letter.
the text.
If your work is at this level, you will get from 5 points to 10
points
This standard
represents 15%
Low level
score of the
The student didn’t participate at all in the forum.
activity
If your work is at this level, you will get 0 points.

High level:
The student sends all the answers in the forum and the comments
Fourth evaluation
made to the classmates are clear, articulated and contribute to
standard
the improvement of them. The contributions are posted according
Participation
to the schedule.
Assessment
If your work is at this level, you will get from 10 points to 15
points
The student answers
the given questions
Medium level:
in the forum and
There is minimum participation in the forum. The student didn’t
comments on
answer the questions and/or the comments made do not help the
his/her partner's
classmates to improve their work.
ideas.
If your work is at this level, you will get from 5 points to 10
points
This standard
represents 15%
Low level
score of the
The student didn’t send the answers to the questions in the
activity
forum and didn’t comment on the classmates’ work.
If your work is at this level, you will get 0 points.
 High level:
The sentences follow the grammatical rules and the structure of
the language, with little or no error spelling mistakes and the
Fifth evaluation message is clearly understood.
standard If your work is at this level, you will get from 10 points to 15
Content assessment points

Medium level:
The student makes Some of the sentences do not have the appropriate structure
no errors in spelling and do not follow the grammatical rules. There are some error
that distract the spelling mistakes but they do not distract the reader from the
reader from the content.
content. If your work is at this level, you will get from 5 points to 10
points
This standard
represents 15% Low level
score of the The student does not answer the questions. The answers do not
activity have the appropriate structure and do not follow the
grammatical rules. There are many error spelling mistakes
making the message difficult to understand.
If your work is at this level, you will get 0 points.
High level:
The student uses the grammatical topics and follows the
Sixth evaluation adequate structure and vocabulary proposed in the units of the
standard course.
Content Assessment If your work is at this level, you will get from 10 points to 15
points
The student uses
grammar structures Medium level:
and vocabulary The student uses the appropriate grammatical topics but with
appropriate for the some mistakes in structure. The vocabulary is poor or do not
units. use the vocabulary proposed in the unit.
If your work is at this level, you will get from 5 points to 10
This standard points
represents 15%
score of the Low level
activity The student didn’t participate of the activity.
If your work is at this level, you will get 0 points.