Escuela Técnica Agrícola e Industrial

Diplomado en Servicios y Actividades Ecoturísticas

Santa Clara, San Carlos

CONVERSATIONAL ENGLISH I. EXTRA PRACTICE AND HOMEWORK.

Contents:

I. Spelling Short Practice

II. Cardinal Numbers Practice

III. Ordinal Numbers Practice

IV. Days of the Week Practice

V. Months of the Year Practice

I. Spelling Practice:
 a) Instructions: Choose the name according to the spelling from the audio:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dBhfQkMcCAM ( 0:40 - 03: 12 ).

1. ( ) Jon ( ) John
2. ( ) Sara ( ) Sarah
3. ( ) Steven ( ) Stephen
4. ( ) Katherine ( ) Kathryn
5. ( ) Kris ( ) Khris

b) Instructions: Get in to the link and solve the spelling listening practice:
http://www.englishoutlook.com/listening/spelling1.html

II. Cardinal Numbers Practice:

c) Instructions: Write down the numbers’ name.

 1 873 690:_____________________________________________________________.

 45 300:________________________________________________________________.

 670 120:_______________________________________________________________.

 55 200 000:____________________________________________________________.

 787 349: ______________________________________________________________.

d) Instructions: Solve the listening quiz:

http://www.esl-lab.com/eslbasic/travel-sights-prices-1.htm

III. Ordinal Numbers Practice:

 Providing Dates: MONTH + ORDINAL NUMBER, YEAR
a) Providing the dates.
b) Practicing pronunciation: Reading aloud.

Example: 17 – 05 – 2004:
March 17th (seventeenth), 2004 (two thousand four)

 11 – 06 – 1948:__________________________________________________________________.

 22 – 12 – 2001:__________________________________________________________________.

 30 – 09 – 2012:

__________________________________________________________________.

 22 – 03 –

1963:___________________________________________________________________.

 31 – 10 – 1729:__________________________________________________________________.
 c) Instructions: Provide the requested Ordinal number as in 3rd (third).

1. José María Castro Madriz
Miguel Mora Porras
2. Juan Rafael Mora Porras
3. José María Montealegra Fernández
4. Jesús Jiménez Zamora
5. José María Castro Madriz
6. Jesús Jiménez Zamora
7. Bruno Carranza Ramírez
8. Tomás Guardia Gutiérrez
9. Aniceto Esquivel Sáenz
10. Vicente Herrera Zeledón
11. Tomás Guardia Gutiérrez
12. Saturnino Lizano Gutiérrez
13. Próspero Fernández Oreamuno
14. Bernardo Soto Alfaro
Carlos Duran Cartín
15. José Rodríguez Zeledón
16. Rafael Yglesias Castro
17. Ascensión Esquivel Ibarra
18. Cleto González Víquez
19. Ricardo Jiménez Oreamuno
20. Alfredo González Flores
21. Federico Alberto Tinoco Granados
22. Juan Bautista Quirós Segura
23. Francisco Aguilar Barquero
24. Julio Acosta García
25. Ricardo Jiménez Oreamuno
26. Cleto González Víquez
27. Ricardo Jiménez Oreamuno
28. León Cortés Castro
29. Rafael Ángel Calderón Guardia
30. Teodoro Picado Michalski
31. Santos León Herrera
José Figueres Ferrer
Otilio Ulate Blanco
32. José Figueres Ferrer
33. Mario Echandi Jiménez
34. Francisco José Orlich Bolmarcich
35. José Joaquín Trejos Fernández
36. José Figueres Ferrer
37. Daniel Oduber Quirós
38. Rodrigo Carazo Odio
39. Luis Alberto Monge Álvarez
40. Óscar Arias Sánchez
41. Rafael Ángel Calderón Fournier
42. José María Figueres Olsen
43. Miguel Ángel Rodríguez Echeverría
44. Abel Pacheco de la Espriella
45. Óscar Arias Sánchez
46. Laura Chinchilla Miranda
47. Luis Guillermo Solis Rivera

- Jose Figueres Ferrer was the ______________ and the _______________ president of Costa Rica.
- Saturnino Lizano Gutiérrez was the ________________ president of Costa Rica.
- The last president of Costa Rica:_____________________________________
- Rafael Angel Calderon Fournier was the ________________ president of Costa Rica.
- Ricardo Jimenez Oreamuno was the ____________ and the ___________ president of Costa Rica.
- Bruno Carranza Ramirez was the the ________________ president of Costa Rica.
- The first time Oscar Arias was a president, he was the:_______________ president of Costa Rica.
- Mario Echandi Jimenez was the_______________ president of Costa Rica.
- Leon Cortés Castro was the___________________ president of Costa Rica.

d) Write 5 more examples of Costa Rica’s Presidents Description by using the ordinal
numbers.
e) Instructions: Solve the listening quiz https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r6NNkW1mDQc
 IV. Days of The Week Practice:
Vocabulary Focus:

 Week = 7 days
 Weekdays = 5 days: Mon. –
Fri.
 Weekend = 2 days: Sat. –
Sun.

 Yesterday = Previous day

 The day before yesterday= Two years

ago

 Today = Present day

 Tonight= Present night

 Tomorrow = Next Day

 The day after tomorrow = In two days

a) Instructions: Fill in the blanks with the appropriate day of the week.

 The 1st day of the week is Sunday, the 3rd day of the week

is:_______________________.

 People usually go to church on: ___________________________________.

 The day in the middle of the week is:____________________________.

 A weekend is:________________________ and___________________________.

 I like to go to the cinema on:_________________________.

 Weekdays are:__________________________.

 A day when people don’t work is called a:________________________.

 Today is Wednesday, yesterday was:_____________________, tomorrow will

be:__________________ the day before yesterday was:_____________________ and the

day after tomorrow will be:______________________.

b) Pronunciation of The days of the week: https://www.youtube.com/watch?

v=zZCRjxGP400

V. Months of The Year Practice:

a) Instructions: Practice your Months of The Year pronunciation and listening
skills:
http://www.ixl.com/math/grade-1/months-of-the-year