3.

1 Actividades de reflexión inicial

Actividad I De manera individual lea el formato que se encuentra a continuación,
identifique los datos solicitados y diligéncielo con su información personal. Formule
en forma de lista las preguntas posibles para obtener la información solicitada.
Preste atención al ejemplo dado (4).

1. what is your name? my name is deily yuliana Rincon peralta.

2. What language do you speak? I speak spanish
3. how old are you? I am 15 years old
4. When is your birthday? my birthday is the fourth of november.
5. What nationality are you? my nationality is from Colombia
6. ¿In which school do you study? I study at the Juan Bautista Arnaud school.

3.2 Actividades de contextualización e identificación de conocimientos

necesarios para el aprendizaje.
Actividad II
Unit 5 cultivation, planting and harvesting equipment Reading
comprehension Before you read the passage, answer the following
questions:
1. ¿Has modern equipment changed farming in your country?
relatively if, in the past, many people were needed to do a job, today a job can
be done by a single person having the machinery.
2. When do farmers in your country harvest the crop?
combine harvester.
3. What equipment do farmers in your country use for cultivating plants and
for harvesting the crop?
4. How do farmers in your country prepare the fields for planting?
First they put herbicides on it, then they plow it and fertilize it.
3.3 Actividades de apropiación del conocimiento (Conceptualización y
Teorización).
Actividad III
Key vocabulary
Baler/ baling machine (n.) = an agricultural machine for making bales of hay.
Crop (n.) = cultivated plants or agricultural produce like vegetables, fruit, cereals.
Cultivator (n.) = an implement/machine for loosening the soil and destroying
weeds around growing plants.
Harrow (n.) = agricultural implement used to level the ground, stir the soil, destroy
weeds.
To harrow (v.) = to draw a harrow over land.
Harvest (n.) = the process of harvesting a crop Key vocabulary To harvest (v.) = to
gather a crop.
Herbicide (n.) = a chemical substance that destroys plants especially one used to
control weeds.
Plow/ plough (n.) = a farm implement consisting of a strong blade at the end of a
beam usually used for breaking up soil in preparation for sowing.
To plow/ plowed/plowing/ plows To plough /ploughed/ploughing/ ploughs =
to break and turn over earth with a plow.
Reaper (n.) = an implement/machine used in agriculture for harvesting grain/ crop .
To reap (v.) = to cut grain for harvest with a sickle or reaper.
To reap a crop/ a field Ripe (adj.) = mature and ready to be eaten e.g. ripe fruit.
Shallow (adj.) = having little depth.
Thresher (n) = 1.a threshing machine; 2. A person who threshes
To thresh (v.) = to beat stalks of ripe crop with a hand implement or with a
machine.
Tractor (n.) = a vehicle used in farming
Weed (n.) = any plant that grows wild.

3.4.Answer the following questions:

1. What factors must farmers take into account during the seeding stage?
the farmer must take into account the following aspects such as planting
rate, density of plants.
2. What examples of harvesting equipment can you give?
combine harvester.
3. What must farmers do before cultivation?
Before cultivation it is very important to prepare
The top layer of the soil. If the soil is nutrient deficient,
farmers must add fertilizers.
4. Is soil preparation important?
Yes, because it allows to provide the optimal conditions for the growth and
development of the plant.
5. What are reapers used for?
Reapers are used to cut cereal grains.
6.What machines/ implements plow the land?
disc plow.
grating plows.

7.What machines / implements are used to destroy weeds?

the stands
the cultivators

3.5.Mark the following sentences with True/ False:

1. The farmers need to check the soil temperature before planting the seeds.
 True.

2.Harvesting equipment consists of a reaping part and a baler part.

 True.

3. Harvesting equipment is also used for controlling the production of weeds.

 False.

4. Most fields require treatment with an herbicide.

 True.

5. Cultivators eliminate habitat for mice and insects.

  True.

6. Ploughs turn over the upper layer of the soil bringing fresh nutrients to the
surface.
 True.

7. The chisel plow is a device that goes deep in the earth to turn soil.
 False.

8. The broadcast seeder is used to prepare fields.

 False.

3.6 Choose the right word:

1. Farmers will develop fertile ……. by rotating crops and using compost.
a. soil
b. crop
c. nutrients
2. If farmers use zero tillage methods, they will leave …… residues in place.
a. fertilizers
b. crop
c. harvesting
3……. equipment consists of a reaping part and a baler part.
a. harvesting
b. crop
c. gathering
4. …… are used in farming for initial cultivation of soil in preparation for
sowing seed or planting.
a. ploughs
b. tractors
c. cultivators
5. Reapers are used for cutting cereal grains.
a. harrows
b. tractors
c. reapers
6. Cultivators are designed to destroy ……with shallow roots and to break up
surface soil neat plants for aeration.
a. plants
b. weeds
c. seeds
4.Fill in the blanks with the correct words and phrases:
harvest, planter, seeding, no-till, chisel plow, cultivators, harrow.

1.Farmers no-till different parts of the plants: seeds, fruit, root.

2. To get rid of weeds farmers can use chisel plow which break apart soil and
weeds.
3. The implement that breaks soil and smoothens the ground is the cultivator
4. The harrow is an instrument which is attached to a tractor and goes deep
in earth to turn soil.
5. The planter is the implement attached behind a tractor that lays seeds
down in rows.
6. harvest farming is a technique that reduces soil erosion.
7. Many farmers work hard to raise a crop from seeding to harvest.

5. Match the words with their definitions:

Actividad IV
De manera individual lea el párrafo a continuación, conteste las preguntas de la
sección a usando oraciones completas e identifique las palabras necesarias para
llenar la tabla b.
Sección a.
Andrea Perez is thirty-one years old. She lives in a nice house in Cartagena with
her husband, Rafael Orellana. She has an older sister, Natalia Perez. Her father is
a system engineer and her mother is a nurse. Every Morning, Andrea and Rafael
get up 5.00 am. She takes a shower. Then she goes to the dining room and has a
big breakfast. She goes to work by car. Rafael goes to work by bicycle. At noon
Andrea has lunch in a restaurant with her colleagues. Rafael goes home early and
makes the dinner. Andrea arrives at 7.00 pm and they have dinner at 7.30 p.m.
They talk a lot during dinner. Then, they watch their favourite series on T.V. and go
to bed.
● How old is Andrea? Andrea is thirty-one years old.
● Where does she live? in a house in cartagena.
● Does she live with her parents? no, she does not live with her parents.
● What is her father's job? his father is a systems engineer.
● What is her mother´s job? his mother is a nurse.
● What time Andrea and Rafael get up? they get up at 05:00 am.
● How does Rafael go to work? Rafael goes to work on a bicycle.
● How many siblings does she have? she has only one sister.
● Where do they have dinner? they have dinner at their house at 07:30 pm
● What do they do after dinner? they watch their favorite series on television and
then go to bed.
Sección b.
6. Actividades de transferencia del conocimiento.
6.1 Escriba un párrafo en inglés utilizando el vocabulario de los recuadros
iniciales.
Juan Tuesta lives on a farm on the banks of Restrepo, he wants to plant the rice
crop; but for that the first one has to carry out a sample of the soil in order to know
the acidity of the soil, after knowing this what he is going to do is water the
herbicide in order to kill the grass.
Twenty days later Juan begins to plow the land and after having plowed the land
what he started to do was use the sowing machine to start sowing the rice crop,
after spending certain seasons the rice is ready to be harvested . Juan and his
workers are going to start; They put the mower hooked to the tractor to mow the
crop, after all this, with the thresher, they separate the rice from the straw, leaving
it clean by sieves, after having all that, they use the baler to pack hay, rice and
straw.
6.2 Construye una sopa de letras utilizando el vocabulario dado para la
temática.
6.3 Realice un crucigrama utilizando el Vocabulario visto en la guía. Esta
evidencia adjúntela como un documento aparte y tenga en cuenta las
siguientes instrucciones:
● Debe ser hecho a mano
● Debe proporcionar las pistas para resolverlo
● Debe incluir un crucigrama en blanco y uno resuelto