Oficina de Bilingüismo

Fundación Universitaria Tecnologico Comfenalco

ENGLISH 1
SELF-STUDY GUIDE
Week 1-3

Teacher: Ruberth Salas Guerrero

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:

• Guess what someone is talking about

• Discuss problems and give advice
• Practice bargain
 • Plan a walking tour

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.

Check this link to watch the video... https://youtu.be/L1X-eOrxONI now work on

the activities below.

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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

• Modal verbs of deduction
• Should, ought to, and the second conditional for giving advice
• Polite requests
• Present simple for schedules

1. Modal verbs of deduction

EXERCISE
2. Giving advice

EXERCISE

3. Polite requests
4. Present simple for schedules

EXERCISE
Stage 3
Practice App

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.

Work from L2U9L25 to L2U10L28

Stage 4
Project

PROJECT
Please record a video where you speak about your plans for your next vacation
(One-minute video), then upload it to Ferrum