Workshop:

Learning activity 6: Keep record of relevant aspects of art history, from artistic and
aesthetic values.

Teacher / Tutor
DIEGO ALEJANDRO ANGARITA GUZMAN

Apprentice:
Claudia Ayala Aguirre
File: 2234915

Servicio Nacional De Aprendizaje “SENA"

Cundinamarca Regional Agricultural Biotechnology Center Tourism Guidance
Technology
April 2021
 Actividad de proyecto 2

Learning activity 6: Keep record of relevant aspects of art history, from artistic and
aesthetic values.

Read short stories and technical documents to write a text

For a tour guide it is essential to master the English language and have the necessary capacity
to express yourself fluently in the language that the foreign visitor requires, thus fulfilling
the role of making known different elements of the art that is in the environment, in order to
provide tourists with relevant information on cultural and natural heritage, thus achieving a
positive projection of the country, attracting more visitors and generating foreign exchange.

In order to complete the evidence, the apprentice must:

1. Read the complementary materials "Summarizing. Getting to the point” and

“Summarizing. Practice 1” in order to have the necessary tools for the elaboration of the
evidence.

2. In the technical section, consult the training material “Cultural and naturaldestinations in
Colombia”, specifically the section “Let’s write”, where you will find strategies to write
a summary.

3. After analyzing the materials contents, please read carefully the following three texts:
Once you finish your reading, make a short summary of each text following thiscriteria:

o Cowboys: for this short story, use the “Strategy number 1. Organizer for
summarizing”, present in the learning material “Cultural and natural destinations in
Colombia”, under the section “Let’s write”.

o The crane and the snake: for this short story, use the “Strategy number 2. The six
Ws”, described in the learning material “Cultural and natural destinations in
Colombia”, under the section “Let’s write”.

o The museum that was a prison: for this technical document, please use the
“Strategy number 3. Go to the main point”, described in the learning material
“Cultural and natural destinations in Colombia”, under the section “Let’s write”.

4. Remember, when you write the summary, don’t include your personal opinion, write
more than just a word or two; cover the main point and key ideas and tryto do it with
your own words.

5. Send the file with the development of the evidence to the instructor through the virtual
learning platform.
 Activity Development
Once you finish your reading, make a short summary of each text following thiscriterion:

Text 1
a. Cowboys: for this short story, use the “Strategy number 1. Organizer for
summarizing”, present in the learning material “Cultural and natural destinations in
Colombia”, under the section “Let’s write”.

Strategy number 1. Organizer for summarizing

Who is the main character?

He is the cowboy who works guiding livestock

What does the character want?

To rest in his chinchorro and eat well, tell stories and tales of ghosts at night, after
the long days of work all day, dealing with cows and horned bulls, crossing rivers,
swamps and deserts under the scorching sun.

What is the problem?

they have to work all day, trying cows and extremely big strong horned bulls in
thousands of squared miles around, crossing rivers, swamps, and deserts under the
burning sun running after the livestock, and all what you drink is a cup of coffee

How does the character try to solve the problem?

they sing songs to calm down the cows when they are branded with burning iron and they
tell tales of the plains life, the joyful stories of the journey, until the next morning, full of
poems, dust, and braveness.

What is the resolution to the problem?

they sing songs to calm down the cows when they are branded with burning iron and
they tell tales of the plain’s life.

Text 2
 b. The crane and the snake: for this short story, use the “Strategy number 2. The six
Ws”, described in the learning material “Cultural and natural destinations in
Colombia”, under the section “Let’s write”.

Strategy number 2.
• Who is the story about?
About a pair of cranes that are trying to nest
• What is the conflict in the story?
The conflict is that they cannot nest because a cobra eats their eggs
• When does the story take place?
The text does not say it explicitly, but presumably in nesting season.
• Where does the story take place?
In the forest near the riverbank
• Why does the story turn out this way?
The cranes think about how to protect the eggs, they believe that killing the cobra
solves the problem, but it doesn’t get solved.
• How does everything get resolved?
The problem is not really solved

• When you understand the story, you will be able to find the central idea, or
theme of the story.

This story let us a moral, the crane wants to solve his problem " the black cobra" , and with
the help of the crab they make a plan that promises end with the snake , but they don’t
measure the consequences . his wife adverts him to think it twice before acting but he ignores
her. the mongoose kills the snake as specter but that doesn’t matter, because the mongoose
kept looking for food, he finds the crane's eggs, and ate them.
do not make early decisions and listen to more advices, to make better decisions.

Text 3
 c. The museum that was a prison: for this technical document, please use the
“Strategy number 3. Go to the main point”, described in the learning material
“Cultural and natural destinations in Colombia”, under the section “Let’s write”.

Strategy number 3. Go to the main point

• Read the text.
• Don’t let big words scare you.
• Ask, “What was this text about?”
• At the moment of writing a summary, your text:
• Should be a complete sentence or two.
• Should cover main point and key ideas.
• Should be in your own words.
• Shouldn’t just be a word or two.

Colombians consider the national museum of Colombia, has a representation of everything in

the country, but that doesn’t mean that all of their visitors know the story behind this
museum.
The next phrase caught my attention "we are so convinced that when you read briefly a little
about your history, your visit will be more fruitful and interesting" when you go to the
national museum you not only find items of the history, you find that the building its history
in it himself by his past use being the most important panopticon in the country, hiding
secrets, like the search information in natural sciences and economics to Europe.
Of the national museum represents a change in cultural and social thinking, in the fact of
changing the vocation of a structure built to reprimand and imprison criminals, to a research
center for natural sciences, history, and cultural heritage.
 Text 1: Cowboys

(Short story: 450 words)

Sunset. The sun seals the working day with a long and hushed kiss. Herons flying in groups
stamp a long shadow on the green emerald plains, binding the eternity ofthe heaven and
earthly purity. In the immensity of the aquatic world the water meltswith the red of the sky,
turning the orange of the piranhas into an underwater rainbow, crossed by a world of tiny
colorful fishes.

The day was dying, but the shadows of the night were gathering to cover the thirstyplains
with his mystery and stillness veil, watched from the infinite by the moon. When the moon
appears, the maporas get enlightened with his glow while the heaven dresses in thousands of
colors, into and describe less mirage of lights, feathers, yells and trills.

Dusk in the plains is an introduction to the appearance of ghosts, that’s why the llaneros
hurry home to avoid the goblin’s jokes. In the rivers they travel in bongos,a tight large boat
for transporting over the rivers. The beloved horse is the only
friend for the plains man, after the tame of the horse, he’s the only priceless thing among all
his possessions, but he can’t allow him to sleep in the chinchorro.

It’s full moon night, just for ghost’s tales. The moon’s light glow make the plains full of
goblins. In the dark the objects tend to be bigger, creepier, the distances to be deeper than it
really is, and among the cowboys there’s always someone who wantto talk about ghosts that
had seen. Night is the moment to rest: the only meal during the day is the morning coffee,
and until sunset dinner. Imagine you have to work all day, trying cows and extremely big
strong horned bulls in thousand of squared miles around, crossing rivers, swamps, and deserts
under the burning sunrunning after the livestock, and all what you drink is a cup of coffee,
do you think you can handle that? Well, you could do that if you have the power of the songs,
because whenever the llanero works, in his lips a song is running, a verse, to calm down the
cows when they are branded with burning iron. But tying is not the sole labor they have to
do. There’s a lot of work to do!

After dinner, each one goes to his chinchorro and the tales begin to flow from mind,the
thoughts, the joyful stories of the journey, and, the laugh and tales as abackground of the
plains life, the journey ends, for giving birth to another one the next morning, full of poems,
dust, and braveness.
 Text 2: The crane and the snake

(Short story: 450 words)

In a forest close to the riverbank mere lived a crane with his wife. They were very
unhappy. Every time the wife laid eggs in their nest, a big black cobra who lived in a
hollow in the tree, would eat them up. The crane had a friend the crab. He went to his
friend the crab and shared his misery. "I feel so hopeless…That sneaking thief has eaten
our eggs again," complained the crane angrily.
“Don’t worry," said the crab comfortingly. “You need not be hopeless when you have a
friend like me. We will come up with a solution."
The crab sat to think of a plan. Suddenly he jumped up and rushed to the crane.
“Friend, I have a wonderful plan," said the crab and whispered something into the crane’s
ear.
The crane flew back to his nest and told his wife all about the crab’s plan. He was very
excited.

“Are you sure this will work?" asked the wife.

“I hope we are not making a mistake. Think twice before going ahead with the plan."
But the crane was eager to try out the plan. The crane flew down to the riverbank and
began to fish. He caught several little fishes and went down to the hole in which a
mongoose lived. He dropped a fish at the mouth of the hole. Then he took another fish
and dropped it a little further away from the first one. Repeating this, he made a trail of
fishes leading to the tree where his nest was.
The mongoose smelt the fish and came out of the hole. “Ah, a fish!" exclaimed the
mongoose joyfully and quickly ate it up. He then followed the trail of fishes. As he
neared the tree where the cranes and the snake lived, the trail ended. Finding no
more fishes, he looked around.
Suddenly he came across the black cobra at the foot of the tree. Seeing the mongoose,
the cobra fought for his life. Both fought for a long time and in the end the mongoose
killed the snake. The cranes who were watching the fight from their nest sighed with
relief.
The next day the mongoose began to follow the same trail hoping to find more food.
When he came to the tree where the trail ended, he decided to climb the tree in
search of food.
The cranes who were away at the river bank returned to find the mongoose climbing
down the tree. On looking in their nest, they discovered that this time, the mongoose had
eaten up all their eggs.
 “Alas! We got rid of one enemy only to find another”, said the crane to his wife. (English
for students, s.f.)
Text 3: The museum that was a prison

(Technical text: 593 words)

A building that was the most famous jail in the country, in times of civil wars between the
nineteenth and twentieth, known as "The Panopticon", now houses the oldest museum in
Colombia: The National Museum. Founded by the Decree 117 of July 28, 1823, with the name
of the Natural History Museum and School of Mines, this place holds many voices from the
past through the history of their formation and the current collection of over 20,000 pieces that
symbolize Colombia´s national heritage.
Indeed, this building that is currently located on the famous seventh street “avenida carrera
séptima” with 28, which breaks with the landscape of large buildings in the area of the
international center in Bogota, worked from 1874 to 1946 as the Cundinamarca’s Central
Penitentiary. The English architect Thomas Reeds designed a type panopticon prison in
which prisoners across the country were convicted. Butthe Ministry of Education and the
Organizing Committee of the IX Pan American Conference in 1946, decided to transfer the
collection of the Historical Museum (it wasthose years’ name of the National Museum) to the
building that you can nowadays visit, and for free!
On the history of the National Museum of Colombia
The Museum is not only the first institution of its kind formed by legal order, additionally it
is one of the inaugural museums in Latin America. That is why we are soconvinced that when
you read briefly a little about your history, your visit will be more fruitful and interesting.
By 1821 Simon Bolivar assigns Francisco Antonio Zea to undertake various diplomatic
missions in Europe, in search of sponsorship and partnerships for research in natural sciences
and economics, for the exploitation of natural resources of the country, and thus start the
civilizing project of an independent Republic in the young nation that was Colombia at the
beginning of the nineteenth.
At the time, knowledge of the territory through science as mineralogy, botany and engineering,
were key in order to had a good economy and international recognition. That is why in 1822,
a commission of French naturalists graduated from The Science Institute and de Museum of
Natural History, travel to Colombia to start with the project of the Museum of Natural History
and School of Mines, as an institution pointed to research and the guard of the progress of the
nation memories.
Though, civil wars throughout the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, hindered the
process; multiple shipments of collections and the main interest only on items that belonged
to the great men of the country and their battles, were leaving aside the visibility of other actors
who also were participating on the construction of the country: women, peasants, children, etc.
That is why, in the second half of the twentieth century, gradually were incorporated elements
of art, industry, countryside work, and archaeological collections that call for the importance
of material culture and customs of a country that over the years and nowadays, it’s been
working on recognize the diversity of ethnicities and multiculturalism, as central figures to
understand the history of the country
Hence today, Colombians consider that National Museum story tells also the history ofthe
formation of the nation, as it was the place that hosted the first results of research in natural
sciences, elements of the independence wars, but also material culture of everyday life and
customs of generations of men and women who have contributed ondefining our culture from
various disciplines such as science, art, military, research, countryside work and industry. Is
the Museum for all who wanted to have a great background about Colombian cultural heritage.
(Bogotá Concierge, s.f.)
Environment required: Virtual Learning Environment.
Materials: computer, internet, training material "Cultural and natural destinations in
Colombia", complementary materials "Summarizing. Getting to the point” and “Summarizing.
Practice 1”, glossary and SENA library.
Evidence 6: Summary “Read short stories and technical documents to write a text”.

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Note: This evidence is an individual activity. Remember to check the project guide in order
to know if you have done all the assigned activities, know how to develop them and deliver
them correctly.

Criterios de evaluación

Elabora resúmenes cortos sobre textos sencillos, y con contenido técnico.

 References
Bogotá Concierge. (s.f.). Our toughts in one place. Recuperado de
http://www.bogotaconcierge.com
English for students. (s.f.). The crane and the snake. Recuperado de
http://www.english-for-students.com