English Department

English Language
Miss Elizabeth Alvarado C.

Study Guide Unit 1-Deberes y derechos de la juventud

IV Grade A-B-C

Full Name Date Course

IV A-B

Total Score: your Score Mark

Unit “1” Contents

Deberes y derechos de la Juventud Conjunctions. Reading Comprehension
and Writing production.
Aims Uso correcto de Conjunciones. Capacidad para crear expresiones con
nuevas conjunciones.
Note:

Dear Students, this study guide is going to be checked by the teacher and
compared with your students’ when all of the course comes back to classes.
So print it, solve it and keep it in a folder.

Do you know how to use these conjunctions?

SO THAT (purpose)

WHILE (contrast)

AS LONG AS/PROVIDED (that)

UNTIL

AS IF/THOUGH

Examples:

Let’s start now, so that we’re sure we have enough time.

You can go out as long as (OR provided/provided that) you tell us where
you’re going.

The summers here are wet, while the winters are very dry.

“En la Perfección está la Esperanza.”

I’ll look after the kids until you get back.

I feel as if (OR as though) I’m getting a cold.

Formal style Informal style

Whereas (instead of While) Like (instead of As if)

1. Exercise: Write the best conjunction.

a. You can have my bike ________________________ you bring it back
tomorrow.
b. I’m staying here _______________________I get my money back.
c. I put the light on __________________________I could see where I was going.
d. Joe was short and dark, ________________________his sister was the exact
opposite.
e. You look ________________________________ you’ve seen a ghost.
f. He won’t get any money ____________________________ he finishes the work
properly.
g. It looks _________________________________ it’s going to rain.
h. You can cancel the ticket_____________________________ you tell the airline
48 hours in advance.
i. I’m going to the bank now, ________________________________I’ll have
enough money for shopping.
j. ____________________________ I think his novels are good, his poetry is bnot
so impressive.
2. Exercise: Put in as long as or so that
a. He went to Switzerland _______________________ he could learn French.
b. I don’t mind your singing _______________________ you do it quietly.
c. We moved the piano ______________________there would be room for the
Christmas tree.
d. We’ll play tennis ____________________ it doesn’t rain.
e. We’ll come back this afternoon _________________________that’s ok with
you.

“En la Perfección está la Esperanza.”

 f. I put another blanket on the bed ___________________ I would be warm
enough.

3. Rewrite these sentences, beginning While…

Example:
a. It was sunny, but there was a cold wind.
While it was sunny, there was a cold wind.

b. She´s very clever, but she’s got no common sense at all.

__________________________________________________________________
c. I know how you feel, but I think you are making a mistake.
__________________________________________________________________
d. The job’s well paid, but it’s deadly boring.
__________________________________________________________________
e. I’m interested in economics, but I wouldn’t want to work in a bank.
_________________________________________________________________
f. The hotel was nice, but it was a long way from the beach.
__________________________________________________________________

4. Complete the sentences with your own ideas:

a. Working at home is funnier __________________________________

b. When I was younger I applied to a drama school ____________________

5. Choose three of the conjunctions studied today and invent a sentence

or situation with each of them:

a. _______________________________________________________________
b. _______________________________________________________________
c. _______________________________________________________________

End of the study

guide___________________________&&&&&______________________

“En la Perfección está la Esperanza.”