Oficina de Bilingüismo

Fundación Universitaria Tecnológico Comfenalco

ENGLISH 3A
SELF-STUDY GUIDE
Week 1-3

Teacher: Carmen Teresa Ariza Palomino

Welcoming paragraph:

Hello dear students, welcome again to this course. I am looking forward to

working together and getting the semester with a lot of enthusiasm. I also want
to welcome everyone bringing a little comfort and relief to those students who
have been concerned about this pandemic. It´s time to go on and to do it
positively. 

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.
 I will share a self-study guide every three weeks in which you´ll find
information about our study routine. So, you must keep in mind that the
success of this new dynamic depends highly on our discipline and our time
management. Autonomy is a PLUS. The guide is divided as follows:

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:

• Compare yourself to someone you know

 • Tell people about good places to go in your area
Stage 1 • Tell people about a typical day in your life
Warm-up

Warm-up space:

Reflection activity: Answer these questions

Is Beto Zabaleta similar to a person you know?

Compare yourself to someone you know

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 Stage 2
Topic Presentation

Presentation of the unit’s function and language space:

Functions and language

 Comparing adjectives and superlatives
 Making comparisons of Equality and inequality
 Tell people about places to go in your area.

1. Compare yourself to someone you know

Comparatives
They show the similarities or dissimilarities between two things, people or
places.

Example: Mark is taller than Michael.

To compare Adjectives of equality, we use:

AS____________________AS
Adjective

Example:

Superlatives
They compare more than two things, persons or places.

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 Example:

These adjectives can be used depending on the syllables they are divided as
it follows:

Read the Language Focus chart and do the following Activity:

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Complete the following chart using Comparatives and Superlatives.

Study the Language Focus and do the exercises on Practice section.

 2. Tell people about good places to go in your area.

Using the topic write a text about the good places you go in your city or around
your neighborhood and share with the class.

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 3. Asking for and giving opinions.

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Practice App

Study the lessons 7, 8, and 9 from textbook INTERACT using its APP in order for
you to practice all of the above worked on subjects.

Stage 4
Project

Project

Work in couples and record a short video where you perform the following
situation:
Student A: You want to go to the beach on the weekend, but your friends
prefer to go to Silvestre´s concert. Persuade your friends to go to the beach
instead of going to the concert. Use comparatives and superlatives.

Student B: You and your friends are going to Silvestre´s concert on weekend
but one of them prefers to go to the beach. Persuade your friend to come to
the concert instead of going to the beach. Use comparatives and superlatives

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