Oficina de Bilingüismo

Fundación Universitaria Tecnologico Comfenalco

ENGLISH 4B
SELF-STUDY GUIDE
Week 1-3

Teacher: Carmen Sofia Barrios Serrano

Welcoming paragraph:

Hello my dear students. I would like to welcome you all to this new experience,
first of all by letting you know that you can always count on me for whatever you
need through-out this process. I am sure we will have a lot of fun and also learn
many interesting things.

Methodology:

 As you already know we will be developing our classes online. For which
we will be using the platforms Teams and Ferrum.
 I will schedule meetings every week through the platform Teams.
 I will upload all the information regarding the classes on Ferrum.
 We will develop our classes in 10 weeks. Each week we will work on a
different communicative subject.
 Every three weeks I will share with you on Ferrum a self-study guide, such
as this one, with different activities in order for you to work on
autonomously. The guide is divided in 4 stages.

Stage 1: Warm-up.
Stage 2: Topic presentation.
Stage 3: Practice. INTERACT App
Stage 4: Project.

 We will cover each aspect of the guide each week on our meeting on
Teams.

Communicative objectives:

• Talk about regrets

• Describe your country
• Discuss what you are happy about in your life and what you would like to be
 Stage 1
Warm-updifferent
• Talk about what makes you stress and how you relax

Warm-up space:

These are the followings activities you have to develop:

Reflection activity: Answer these questions

1. What situations make you regret what you did or didn't do??
2. Do you like your country?
3. Do you want to change anything in your life?

Decisions: complete the following chart with decisions you consider are
important in your life. Example: Getting Married

Personal Family Work Economic Social

Now answer the following questions:

Have you taken any of these decisions?

Are these decisions easy or difficult?

Are you happy with your decisions?

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Topic Presentation

Presentation of the unit’s function and language space:

Communicative objectives of the unit.

Functions and language

• Talk about regrets
• Describe your country
• Discuss what you are happy about in your life and what you would like to be
different
• Talk about what makes you stress and how you relax
• Collocations for describing countries
• Zero, first, and second conditionals with providing, as long as, and unless

1. Talk about regrets, wishes and hopes

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 Go to this link to study about the topic: Regrets.
https://www.engvid.com/talk-about-mistakes-regrets/

Vocabulary
https://www.espressoenglish.net/english-phrases-for-talking-about-regrets/

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Complete the above activity in this link to practice the topic: https://test-
english.com/grammar-points/b1-b2/wishes-regrets/

Describe your
country
Watch this video where some people describe the places where they live.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xv7zmrRPHZs

Answer: Where do you live? Is it a city, town or village?

When describing your city you can use this vocabulary:

Examples: My city is really beautiful and there are many touristic places.

You can find more vocabulary in this link:

https://www.myenglishpages.com/site_php_files/vocabulary-lesson-city-palces.php
Practice: Reading
Go to this link read the text and complete the activities.
https://learnenglishteens.britishcouncil.org/skills/reading/elementary-a2-reading/my-town

Do you know how to use Zero, first, and second conditionals ?

 Look a these examples to see haw they work:

 The Zero Conditional:

(if + present simple, ... present simple)

Example: If you heat water to 100 degrees, it boils.

 The First Conditional:

(if + present simple, ... will + infinitive)

Example: If it rains tomorrow, we'll go to the cinema.

 The Second Conditional:

(if + past simple, ... would + infinitive)

Example: If I had a lot of money, I would travel around the world.

Now practice:

https://www.englishgrammar.org/providing-long-exercise/

Stage 3 do you like writing about? What sport do you enjoy practicing?
Practice App

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 In this space the teacher has the opportunity to assign exercises from the
textbook INTERACT using its APP in order for the students to practice all of the
above worked on subjects.

Stage 4
Project

Project

Create a power point presentation with audio talking about the place you live,
mentioning the place’s most important sites or landmarks. Explain what things
you regret doing or not in your city or town

Follow the example “Describing your city “video to create your activity.

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