UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL ABIERTA Y A DISTANCIA – UNAD
Instituto Virtual de Lenguas INVIL
Programa: UNAD English
Curso: English B1 Intermediate
Campo de formación: Formación para el Trabajo y Desarrollo Humano.
Tipo de curso: Metodológico.
Créditos: Tres (3)
WRITING 1
ENGLISH B1 INTERMEDIATE
GENERAL OBJECTIVE:
Review the writing skill by giving answer to a specific communicative situation.
SPECIFIC OBJECTIVES:
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Review general aspects about writing: vocabulary, grammar, punctuation, coherence and
cohesion.
Apply the concepts from unit 1 to face an specific situation.
TOPICS TO CHECK:
Grammar
simple present, modals, comparatives
Vocabulary
Adjectives, professions.
General aspects: In this forum, you will produce a short text giving your opinion about an article.
Learning strategy: task based learning.
Awaited product: PDF document.
Evaluative weight: 50 points
UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL ABIERTA Y A DISTANCIA – UNAD
Instituto Virtual de Lenguas INVIL
Programa: UNAD English
Curso: English B1 Intermediate
Campo de formación: Formación para el Trabajo y Desarrollo Humano.
Tipo de curso: Metodológico.
Créditos: Tres (3)
INSTRUCTIONS:
1.
2.
3.
4.
Read the guide.
Participated in the forum at least 3 times.
Participate in the forum without attaching documents.
Upload the final activity in a PDF file (individual).
ACTIVITIES
1st Part
Today, the mass media bring the information as fast as light. We can know events from other parts
of the world in a few minutes and many magazines, TV news and newspapers, give us the opportunity
to show our opinions through their websites.
In this activity you will read an article and then you must write an opinion expressing your point of
view about this particular phenomenon.
UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL ABIERTA Y A DISTANCIA – UNAD
Instituto Virtual de Lenguas INVIL
Programa: UNAD English
Curso: English B1 Intermediate
Campo de formación: Formación para el Trabajo y Desarrollo Humano.
Tipo de curso: Metodológico.
Créditos: Tres (3)
Massive Bronze-Age City Discovered Underwater in Greece
In 2014, archaeologists from the University of Geneva were conducting dive-training exercises off
Lambayanna Beach in Greece’s Kiladha Bay when they spotted some intriguing pottery fragments
submerged near the shore. When they looked closer, they spotted what appeared to be architectural
elements, suggesting the presence of an entire settlement underwater. Now, after conducting a full
investigation of the site over the past two months, the researchers have uncovered what appears to
be a sprawling, heavily defended city dating as far back as 2500 B.C.
Located south of Athens, on the Peloponnese Peninsula, the area around Kiladha Bay is home to
many ancient Greek artifacts and settlements. The Greek government strictly regulates diving to
prevent the looting of underwater archaeological sites, and the University of Geneva team was
training at Lambayanna Beach in 2014 while waiting for authorization to conduct underwater searches
nearby. At that time, they spotted the first pottery fragments now linked to a massive settlement
submerged beneath the Aegean Sea. In July 2015, the archaeologists returned to the site to conduct
a full investigation. Overseen by the Swiss School of Archaeology in Greece in collaboration with the
Greek Ministry of Culture, the researchers employed the world’s largest solar-powered boat, the
PlanetSolar, to aid in their search.
According to their findings, several buildings can be seen amid the expansive ruins, which stretch
over some 12 acres, or the equivalent of around 10 football fields. The buildings appear to be oval or
circular in shape, and built in the same style as those known to have been constructed by other
Bronze Age civilizations in Greece. More surprisingly, the ruins contain at least three horseshoeshaped foundations attached to the wall line, which are believed to be the remnants of massive
defensive towers of a type unknown elsewhere in Greece. As lead researcher Julien Beck, a
professor at the University of Geneva, told Spero News: “The importance of our discovery is partly
due to the large size….The chances of finding such walls under water are extremely low. The full size
of the facility is not yet known. We do not know why it is surrounded by fortifications.”
In addition to these structures, the archaeologists found paved surfaces that appear to be streets, as
well as a wide array of pottery and stone tools. These include obsidian blades that the researchers
say date to the Helladic period (3200 to 2050 B.C.), which archaeologists have divided into three
phases. In all, the team has found more than 6,000 objects connected with the underwater settlement
along the shoreline, making the site, in Beck’s words, “an archaeologist’s paradise.”
According to experts, while the Bronze Age economy in Greece was primarily agrarian, there is some
evidence of technological advances related to metallurgy and mining. It also appears that a kind of
market economy emerged along the Peloponnese coast, and the newly found site may have been
heavily fortified because it served as a storage area for trade goods. Other civilizations existed around
the same time, including the ancient Egyptians and the early inhabitants of what are now the Greek
islands of Crete and Santorini. The submerged structures found by the researchers date to around
the same time as the pyramids of Giza (built between 2600-2500 B.C.) and the early Minoan
settlements on Crete (2700-1200 B.C.), but predate the first great Greek civilization, the Mycenaean
(1650-1100 BC), by some 1,000 years. (Taken from: http://www.history.com/news/massive-bronzeage-city-discovered-underwater-in-greece)
UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL ABIERTA Y A DISTANCIA – UNAD
Instituto Virtual de Lenguas INVIL
Programa: UNAD English
Curso: English B1 Intermediate
Campo de formación: Formación para el Trabajo y Desarrollo Humano.
Tipo de curso: Metodológico.
Créditos: Tres (3)
2nd Part
In this stage, the student should write an opinion (1 page) about: "Massive Bronze-Age City
Discovered Underwater in Greece" and post it in the forum. Each student must read another article
and do the feedback.
Finally, the student has to upload the article in a pdf file in the Evaluation and Monitoring Environment
applying the suggestions done in the forum.
RÚBRICA DE EVALUACIÓN
ITEM A
EVALUAR
Producción
escrita
VALORACIÓN BAJA
VALORACIÓN MEDIA
VALORACIÓN ALTA
El estudiante no produjo el
texto
base
para
el
desarrollo de la actividad.
El estudiante produjo el texto
base para el desarrollo de la
actividad,
pero
presenta
evidentes
errores
en
la
construcción gramatical. La
organización de las ideas no es
lógica,
se
presentan
incoherencias y/o Se evidencia
un vocabulario reducido según
lo propuesto en las unidades.
El estudiante produjo el
texto base para el desarrollo
de la actividad con un buen
nivel den la construcción
gramatical. El texto se
presenta
como
una
secuencia
lógica
y
coherente que atiende el
manejo del vocabulario
visto.
(10 puntos)
(0 puntos)
Comprensión
Realimentación
El estudiante no leyó el
texto propuesto para el
análisis o lo comprendió
adecuadamente.
(0 puntos)
Su producción escrita da cuenta
de una comprensión básica del
texto propuesto para el análisis.
(5 puntos)
El estudiante no analizo ni
realimentó el trabajo de
alguno
de
sus
compañeros.
Se realizó el ejercicio de análisis
y realimentación del trabajo de
algún compañero, sin embargo,
los comentarios carecen de
calidad y profundidad.
(20 puntos)
La producción escrita da
cuanta de una excelente
comprensión y análisis del
texto propuesto.
(10 puntos)
Realizó un excelente trabajo
analizando y realimentando
el trabajo de alguno de sus
compañeros,
sus
comentarios son de calidad
en forma y fondo.
(5 puntos)
(10 puntos)
No se entregó el trabajo a través
del link indicado, pero hay
evidencia de su trabajo en el
foro.
(5 puntos)
Realizó la entrega a través
del link indicado y se
evidencia su trabajo en el
foro colaborativo.
(0 puntos)
Entrega del
trabajo.
No hubo
trabajo.
(0 puntos)
entrega
del
TOTAL
Máximo
Puntaje
20
10
10
10
50