UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL ABIERTA Y A DISTANCIA – UNAD Escuela de Ciencias de la Educación Licenciatura en Inglés como Lengua Extranjera Curso: Basic English II Tipo de curso: Teórico-práctico. Créditos: Tres (3) Diseñador: Edwin Londoño A. ACTIVITY GUIDE ACT. 14. Transferencia unidades 9, 10, 11 y 12. Collaborative Work. Goal This activity aims at understanding and using language in which people feel and express difficult situations. Competences Linguistic: using language in order to describe past events. TASK 1 Understanding accident causes. In this first activity, you are going to listen to the audio about Marc’s accidents. Listen as many times as you consider necessary in order to respond to the objective of this task. During and after listening the recording, answer the following questions: 1. According to Marc, what are the most terrible accidents? A- Car accidents B- Work accidents C- House accidents D- Street accidents 2. Find in the audio the comparative or superlative form of the following adjectives: A- Bad B- Late 3. Which of the following accidents Marc does not mention? A- Hitting a finger with a hammer. B- Hitting the head with something. C- Having a car accident. D- Slipping in a wet floor. 4. Say if the statements are true or false: A- Marc has never ended up in a hospital due to a serious accident. B- Marc has had some traffic accidents. UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL ABIERTA Y A DISTANCIA – UNAD Escuela de Ciencias de la Educación Licenciatura en Inglés como Lengua Extranjera Curso: Basic English II Tipo de curso: Teórico-práctico. Créditos: Tres (3) Diseñador: Edwin Londoño A. C- Marc’s accidents occur mostly in his house. D- Marc frequently hits his head with something when he stands up. E- Marc has a friend who suffers accidents all the time. 5. Give the definition of the following words and provide an example with each one of them: A- Painful B- Hammer C- Hit D- Thumb E- End up. TASK 2 Talking about accidents. In this activity, as Marc, you are going to talk about an accident you have suffered. To achieve this, you will record your voice using Vocaroo or Chirbit, which are online tools to record. In the recording you are going to tell an accident you had: when it happened, how it was, and what were the causes and the consequences. General guidelines -When developing task 1, be honest and conscious with your learning process since all of your partners are going to answer the same activity, so it is not about copying other’s responses, is about what you understood and what you learnt. -When developing task 2, if you are going to use Chirbit, make sure you sign up and look over it in order to check how it works. Check the following link to discover how Vocaroo works: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w2Jl3PYUvrg -Participation in the forum is imperative, so upload your contributions on time (do not wait until the last day. Works uploaded after the deadline will not be graded), check your partners’ contributions and give relevant feedback. -Contact you partners as well as you tutor in order to clarify doubts about this activity. UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL ABIERTA Y A DISTANCIA – UNAD Escuela de Ciencias de la Educación Licenciatura en Inglés como Lengua Extranjera Curso: Basic English II Tipo de curso: Teórico-práctico. Créditos: Tres (3) Diseñador: Edwin Londoño A. Expected products You must individually prepare a Word document with the following information: -The answers to the questions posed in task 1. -The link or the record attached in the document about your voice with the activity required in task 2. The name of the file must include your name, last name, and the group number. (Ex. Fulanito_Perez_17). UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL ABIERTA Y A DISTANCIA – UNAD Escuela de Ciencias de la Educación Licenciatura en Inglés como Lengua Extranjera Curso: Basic English II Tipo de curso: Teórico-práctico. Créditos: Tres (3) Diseñador: Edwin Londoño A. EVALUATION RUBRIC ITEM Understand ing accident causes LOW MEDIUM HIGH SCORE The student did not listen to the audio and did not answer the questions. The student listened to the audio and answered some of the questions, and the answers provided were not suitable. Punctuation: 5 The student listened to the audio and answered the questions. The answers provided were suitable. Punctuation: 9 9 The student recorded his/her voice and provided an answer but it was not suitable to the required task. Punctuation: 5 The student recorded his/her voice providing a past event about accidents. Good use of recording tools was evident. Punctuation: 10 10 The student’s pronunciation and fluency is good but there are some aspects that need to be worked. Punctuation: 5 The student’s pronunciation and fluency is understandable and agree with the level. The speech acts presented some considerable linguistic mistakes or the lexicon and organization of the task were not suitable to accomplish it. Punctuation: 5 The student made a good use of past simple, continuous past simple and other past tenses to tell an event. The lexicon about accidents and grammar were properly used. Punctuation: 10 10 The student participated but a few times, did not check all the partners’ works and the feedback given was not significant. The student participated in the forum several times by uploading his/her contributions on time, checking the partners’ works and giving significant feedback. Punctuation: 8 8 Punctuation: 0 Talking about accidents Pronunciati on and fluency. The student did not record his/her voice. Punctuation: 0 Considerable problems of pronunciation and fluency made incomprehensible the recording. 10 Punctuation: 10 Punctuation: 1 Use of language The use of language was very limited. Frequent mistakes made impossible the understanding of the description. Punctuation: 1 Participatio n and interaction with the partners The student did not frequently participate, he/she uploaded the work the last days and did not check the partners’ works and did not give any feedback. Punctuation: 1 Punctuation: 5 Total 47