Oficina de Bilingüismo

Fundación Universitaria Tecnologico Comfenalco

ENGLISH 3A
SELF-STUDY GUIDE
Week 1-4

Teacher: Carlos Miguel Gomez Cortes

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:
 Get to know my classmates
 Discuss my diet
 Describe someone
 Oral and written activity: feedback

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 Stage 1
Warm-up
Warm-up space:
The main purpose of this space is to introduce the different activities that this self-study guide intends to
develop.

Week 1:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=skA8xCibz-o&t=66s (present progressive)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RW9lOBCN6JE&t=136s (information questions: present progressive)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NbYLF6CTsao&t=224s (simple present)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NbYLF6CTsao (information questions: simple present)
-where do you live?
-what are you studying?

Week 2:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1SbJ1B1MTQghttps://es.slideshare.net/bitola123/new-vocabulary-abilities
(vocabulary: foods and drinks)
What’s your favorite vegetable?
What fruits do you like/ don’t like?
What do you usually have for breakfast, lunch or dinner?
Do you eat many snacks?
Do you think you have a healthy diet?

Week 3:
Adjectives to describe people
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sip0nbImXJ8

Answer this question:

What adjectives can you use to describe your mother’s, father’s and your physical appearance?

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Stage 2
Topic Presentation

Presentation of the unit’s function and language space:

The main purpose of this space is for the teacher to present the communicative objectives using contextualized
examples that allow students to understand the different functions and language of the unit.

Functions and Language

 Getting to know my classmates
 Discussing my diet
 Describing someone

WEEK 1: GETTING TO KNOW MY CLASSMATES

Information question:

VERB ACTION
TO BE -ING

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 INFORMATION QUESTION:

DO
/ ACTION
DOES

Forro 1

1) A: ___________? B: She runs in the stadium R/= where does she runs?
2) A: ___________ ? B: I am cooking "my food" R/= What are you cooking?
3) A: ____________? B: Yes, he is working now R/= Does he work now?
4) A: ______________? B: No, they don't trust their family R/= Do you trust your family?
5) A:_____________? B: She is studying because she has an exam in the afternoon R/= Why is she studying?
6) A: _____________? B: they are buying their clothes now R/= When did they go to buy their clothes?

Part 1: Make questions based on the answers given:

1) ____________________?
Yes, he is making his bed
2) ____________________?
No, they aren’t working now
3) ____________________?
Yes, I am watching TV
4) _____________________?
 Yes, they are studying Engineering
5) _____________________?
No, she isn’t studying right now

Part 2: Make information questions based on the answers given:

1) ______________________?
She is cooking chicken
2) ______________________?
They are working at Ecopetrol

3) _____________________ ?
I am studying
4) ______________________?
He is swimming now
5) ______________________ ?
We are buying some food because we are hungry

PART 3: Make up a question up out of the words:

Part 4: Make questions based on the answers given:

1) ______________________?
I study at Tecnologico
2) ______________________ ?
He practices soccer on Saturdays
3) _______________________?
They study English
4) _________________________?
 I usually go to the gym because I like it
5) __________________________ ?
We eat breakfast at 7am

Week 2: Discussing my diet

PART 1: Complete the blanks with “many”, “much” or “A lot of”.

1. We have _____a lot of___ oranges.

2. We don't have ___many____ bananas, and we don't have _____much_____ fruit juice.
3. David has ______a lot of ___ rice, but Tyler doesn't have ____much____
4. He's very busy; he has ____a lot of_______ work to do
5. Leila is popular. She's got ______a lot of ____ friends. Nancy does not have __many______
6. She hasn't got _____many_____ patience
7. They eat ____a lot of_____ apples.
8. I didn’t visit ____many______ European cities last year.
9. She does not eat ___much________ meat, but she eats ______a lot of_____ vegetables.
10. I have got _______a lot of_____ English books, but I have not got _____many____ Spanish ones.

Part 2: Complete the blanks with “a little” or “a few”:

1) I have _____a few_____ good friends. I'm not lonely.

2) I have _____a little_____ water left. There's enough to share.
3) We've got _____a few_______ time at the weekend. Would you like to meet?
4) Julie gave us ______a few____ apples from her garden
5) Unfortunately, I have ____a few________ problems at the moment.

Part 3: Choose the correct answer:

1) We have _______ money
a) A few b) A little c) A lot
2) She doesn’t have _______ dictionaries
a) Much b) A little c) Many
 3) I have _________ friends
a) A little b) Much c) A lot of
4) I eat ________ meat. I prefer fish
a) A few b) Lot of c) A little
5) There are ________ of shops in our city
a) Lot of b) A few c) Many
Part 4: Answer the following questions: (use a little, a few, many, much, a lot of)
1) How much free time do you have? R./ I have a few tome
2) How many real friends do you meet? R./ I meet a Lot of friends.
3) How much money do you have now? R./ I don't have much money right now.
4) How many cousins do you have? R./ I don’t have many cousins.

Week 3: Describing someone

Part 1: Write the adjectives from the box under the nouns they can describe. Some adjectives can
go with more than one noun.

A person: attractive, beautiful, good-looking, gorgeous, Slim, short.

Eyes: Big, beautiful, green, grey.

Hair: bald, Blonde, curly, dark, permed, red, short, favor.

Part 2: match the descriptions to the right picture:

 B) 2,5
C) 1
D) 5
E) 2,4
F) 1
G) 3

Part 3: Describe the following famous characters: (7 pieces of information about her/his physical
appearance)
Jackie Chan Shakira Momoa

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 Shakira is a beautiful short woman from latín américa, in this picture she wear Blonde and
curly hair and her eyes are big and black, my mother loves they way she shakes her hips.
Jackie Chan is from china he is short, he has got short, straight, black hair and has small black
eyes he work making movies un Hollywood and he is 65 years old.
Momoa is a handsome man who starred a movie called Aquaman, he looks greats with his long,
curly, dyet hair and his big muscle, his face is oval and he wear beard, he is a tall man and he
do exercises a Lot.

Stage 3
Practice App / classwork

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. Lessons 2-3-4.

Attach a screenshot of these activities here.

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 Stage 4
Project / evaluation activity
The project is the last part of the development of this self-study guide.
In this space the teacher will suggest an activity that allows the students to find relevance to all of
the above studied topics in a creative way.

Project:
Week 2:
Talk about your eating habits using “many-much-a few-a little-a lot of” (1min ½)

Week 3:
Find 2 pictures any member of your family or friend and record a video saying what they look
like.

Video 1:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SMAlV6QXQiA

video 2:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T-KQ5Olsa1M

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