UNIVERSIDAD SURCOLOMBIANA

ENGLISH 1 INTERLINGUA
AUTONOMOUS LEARNING ACTIVITIES
LILIAN PAOLA TORRENTE PATERNINA
UNIT
1. WHATS YOUR

AUTONOMOUS LEARNING ACTIVITY

UNIT 1 - Social Networks:

NAME?

Creating a profile in Facebook, Twitter, Google Buzz

Students post a personal presentation (name, age, hometown, job)
Students must provide feedback about possible spelling mistakes from their classmates.
Netiquette must be applied in the texts (not to use capital letters in the whole text, not to mix capital and lower
case letter)
2. HOW DO YOU

UNIT 2 Blogging

SPEND YOUR DAY?

Create a blog at www.blogger.com

Post five authentic pictures showing their daily routine, with the corresponding sentence (I have breakfast at 5am)
Post the blog URL in Facebook or other social network.
3. HAVE A GOOD

UNIT 3 Recording a dialogue

TIME

In pairs, students record a dialogue where they talk about their likes and dislikes.
Students post the recording in MP3 or WAV format in their blogs.
Post the blog URL in Facebook or other social network.
4. TELL ME ABOUT
YOUR FAMILY

UNIT 4 Family tree

Students create their family tree using Microsoft Office PowerPoint or Word with authentic pictures and describe it
with sentences using the possessive s
Students send the file to the teachers email.
5. WHAT ARE YOU

UNIT 5 Assignment

DOING?

Download
from
the
document
http://www.scribd.com/doc/14767992/Present-Continuous-Tensedoc-2ndAssignment, develop it and deliver it to the teacher.
6. WHERE DO YOU
LIVE?

UNIT 6 House blueprints

Students draw their house blueprints, scan it and paste it in a Word file. Students describe their house using
sentences with there is / there are
Students post the blueprints and the sentences in a blog entry.

7.
FOOD

ORDERING

UNIT 7 Video streaming

Students work in pairs in order to act out a dialogue about food. They record with a videocamara this dialogue
and upload it to Youtube.com or Facebook.
Students publish the URL in the teachers Facebook profile in order to be checked.

8. HOW MUCH IS UNIT 8 Karaoke

IT?

Students choose a song for a karaoke session.