ESCUELA NORMAL SUPERIOR SANTIAGO DE TUNJA

WORK GUIDE # 5

AREA: English SUBJECT: English 11°5, 6, 7 y 8

PROFESSOR: BASIC LEARNING RIGHT:

Carmen Ramírez Write texts through which explain my preferences, decisions, or actions.
Jenny Monsalve
Use appropriate vocabulary to express my ideas clearly on issues of curriculum
and my interest.
COMPETENCES TOPIC: TIME
Linguistic INFINITIVE AND GERUND 8 Hours
Pragmatic From April 12th to April 23rd
Sociolinguistic
PEDAGOGICAL ACTIVITIES

1. Watch the following videos and take notes about explanation:

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RV2Cur6TenU&list=PLZOJurmtexYrjeies8vUKUVA
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• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NYBZkPIcG50&t=312s
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t-S9FNz1ZRA

2. Consider these rules.

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3. Complete the text using the correct form of the verb in brackets.

FARMER JONES AND HIS WIFE

Farmer Jones met Jane when he was just a young man. He could not help________ (1 fall) in love with
her immediately and asked her to marry him. She said yes although she knew it would mean________
(2 get) up early to milk the cows for the rest of her life.
“Love means never__________ (3 have) to get up early to milk the cows”, said Farmer Jones, and
explained that he would continue ________ (4 get) up early to milk the cows so Jane could sleep late
every day. Everything went well until they tried__________ (5 increase) their profits by buying some
chickens. The first night, a fox ate one of the chickens. Farmer Jones decided ________(6 build) a fence
to protect the chickens.
But the ground was too hard so he couldn’t. He tried ________(7 use) an axe to break the ground but it
was much too hard. So he went to the local shop and tried________ (8 buy) a gun. But he didn’t have
any identification so he couldn’t buy one. He tried ____________ (9 borrow) one from his neighbours
but they were all worried about the fox too. “I regret not____________ (10 buy) one when I had those
rabbit problems”, he told Jane.
So Jane went to the shop and bought a gun. That night she tried ________(11 stop) the fox. At first she
tried _________ (12 scare) the fox by shooting into the air but it didn’t work. So she tried _______(13
hit) the fox but she missed. She called her husband, and he ran after the fox to try _______ (14 catch) it
but he wasn’t fast enough. They tried_________ (15 shout) at the fox and they tried _______ (16 throw)
things at it and they tried _______ (17 leave) other food for the fox but nothing worked. Soon they had
only 1 chicken left. They tried _______ (18 ask) their neighbours for help and one of their neighbours
told them to try _______ (19 put) tiger dung on the ground. So they went to the local zoo to try _______
(20 buy) some tiger dung. They put the dung on the ground and they never saw the fox again.
https://www.teachingenglish.org.uk/sites/teacheng/files/farmer%20jones%20worksheet.pd f

4. Create a story where you can describe your life during the quarantine.
Use the following link to present your story: https://www.storyjumper.com/
Here you find the tutorial to use the last tool: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=InQGAk8NBAw

EVALUATION CRITERIA
• Take notes about the videos.
● Develop the activity 3 in your notebook.
● Create the story and upload the link to classroom.
● Be careful with the use of grammar, cohesion, and coherence
RESOURCES
Videos - dictionaries
Pictures – notebooks – Google Classroom – Google Meet
Storyjumper.
INFOGRAPHY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RV2Cur6TenU&list=PLZOJurmtexYrjeies8vUKUVA
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NYBZkPIcG50&t=312s
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t-S9FNz1ZRA