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ÁREA: INGLÉS ASIGNATURA: INGLÉS FECHA

DOCENTE: JORGE HERNÁN ARIAS VALENCIA GRADO: NOVENO
ESTUDIANTE yony alexander patino GRUPO 9/2
TEMA: PASADO SIMPLE (VERBOS REGULARES). READING ACTIVITY
COMPETENCIA: DESARROLLA SUS HABILIDADES LECTORAS EXTRACTANDO IDEAS PRINCIPALES Y
SECUNDARIAS DE UN TEXTO
GUIA 1 JUNIO SEGUNDO PERÍODO
LEA CON DETENIMIENTO LAS INSTRUCCIONES

A VIVENCIA:
Look at the images and answer these questions. (Mire la imagen y responda las siguientes
preguntas)

a. What professions do you identify in the picture? Doctor

b. Mention 5 objects or people you can identify in the picture bed, pen, payroll, based, sick
c. Where is the scene of the picture? In a hospital room

B FUNDAMENTACIÓN:
1. Read the following text quickly and extract:
a. 5 countries mentioned in the text: France, Turkey and Russia
b. 10 Cognates (palabras similares en español): Example: soldiers, History. Crimean, hospitals,
terrible, studied, conditional, different, lamp, famous,
THE LADY WITH THE LAMP

In 1854 a war started between Britain, France, Turkey

and Russia, it was called the Crimean War. The hospitals
for the soldiers were terrible. There were not bed or
toilets, there was blood everywhere, the soldiers were
hungry and their clothes were dirty. Many people in
Britain were very angry about all of this. One of them
was a woman called Florence Nightingale.

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Florence Nightingale was born on 12 May, 1820. When she was a girl, she studied History and Science,
she was a good speaker of French, German and Italian and she often visited other countries. She
wanted to be a nurse but her mother and her father did not like the idea. Florence did not listen to
her parents.

In october1854, when she was 34, Florence and 37 other students travelled to the hospital in Scutari
in Crimea. There was a lot of work to do, but they worked very hard. After six months the conditional
in the hospital were very different. The hospital was clean and there were toilets, clean clothes and
food for the soldiers.

The soldiers at Scutari loved Florence and they called her “the lady with the lamp”. Soon, she was
famous in Britain and all over the world. She died on august 1910, when she was 90.
2. Look up the meaning of the following words in your dictionary and circle them in the text.
(Busque el significado de las siguientes palabras y resáltelas en el texto.

WORD (palabra) MEANING (significado) WORD (palabra) MEANING (significado)

Lady Dama Girl niña
Turkey Turquía Speaker altavoz
War guerra Country País
Hungry Hambriento Bed cama
Clothes ropa Toilet baño
Dirty sucio Blood sangre
Woman mujer Angry enojado
French Francés Hard Difícil
German Alemán Clean limpiar
Nurse enfermero Food comida
Parents padres Hard Difícil

IN ENGLISH WE TRANSFORM A VERB FROM PRESENT INTO PAST BY ADDING THE PARTICLE ED TO
THE VERB. THESE VERBS ARE CALLED REGULAR. (En inglés para transformar un verbo del presente al
pasado solo agregamos la partícula ED al verbo. Estos verbos se llaman verbos regulares: work,
worked- paint, painted- study, studied)
Example:
Michael studies grade 9 at La Salle (present) Michael estudia grado noveno en la salle
Michael studied his elementary school at the Fe y Alegria (past) Michael estudió su primaria en Fe y Alegría

Rose and Jenny live in Colombia (present). Rosa y Jenny viven en Colombia
Rose and Jenny lived in Venezuela when they were children (past)Rosa y Jenny vivieron en Venezuela…

3. The underlined words in the reading “THE LADY WITH THE LAMP” are regular verbs in past.
Transfer them to the table and write their respective simple form and meaning. (Las palabras

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subrayadas en la lectura son verbos regulares en pasado. Transfiera esos verbos a la siguiente tabla y
escriba sus respectivas formas simples y significados).

3.1 Fill in the chart

VERB IN SIMPLE VERB IN PAST MEANING

FORM
start started Empezar

called llamar
call
visited visitar
visit
wanted querer
want
Travelled viajar
Travel
worked trabajar
work
died morir
di

C COMPLEMENTACIÓN:

3.2 Answer the following questions based on the reading. Use the vocabulary section in question 2
(Responda las siguientes preguntas de acuerdo con la lectura, haga uso del vocabulario del punto 2)
3.2.1 Why is the reading called “The lady of the lamp”? Because she helped many hospitals and
people.

3.2.2. What countries participated in the Crimean War? Britain, France, Turkey and Russia
3.2.3 Why were the hospitals terrible? Because there were no beds or baths and there was blood
everywhere

3.2.4 When was Florence born? He was born on 12 may, 1820

3.2.5 What did she study? She studied history and science

3.2.6 What languages did she speak? She spoke French, German and Italian

3.2.7 What did she really want to be? She wanted to be a nurse

3.2.8 What was the difference at Scutari Hospital after six months? It was already clean, there were
toilets and food

3.2.9 Why did the soldiers love Florence? She changed the hospital
3.2.10 When did she die? She died on august 1910

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