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PRACTICE FORMAT
Unit: II Major: Group: Grade:

Practice’s name: America: the good and the bad

Practice’s number: 2.1
Topic: Simple Present
Student’s name: Jose Mauro Olivares segundo
Teacher’s name: Carmen Ochoa
Practice’s objective:
The student can identify the structure of the simple present in affirmative and negative form.

Pre-Task

NOTE: Watch the following video https://www.engvid.com/present-simple-tense/ take notes in your notebook,
get screenshot and paste evidence of your notebook here. NOTE: Your notebook must have your name written
in each piece of paper.
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Instructions: Answer the vocabulary bank on page 153 in your English book. Match the verbs and photos. Listen

to the audio and check.

While-reading

Instructions: After reviewing the structure of the present simple in affirmative and negative form, you should
answer the exercise 3A (a and b) in the grammar bank on page 129.
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Post - task

Instructions: Read the article WHAT AMERICANS WHO LIVE ABROAD THINK ABOUT OTHER COUNTRIES on
page 23 in your English book. After reading, identify if the person is positive or negative about the country he
or she lives. Give reasons for your answers.

Exercise 1.

a) Sarah’s opinion:_______positivo__________________________________________
b) Amy’s opinion:______negativo_________________________________________

c) Jayne’s opinion:_______positivo___________________________________________
d) Gaby’s opinion:_______positivo_______________________________________
e) Eric’s opinion:________negativo_________________________________________

f) Christina’s opinion: __positivo________________________________________

Exercise 2. Read the article again. Complete the sentences with a name. This exercise could be answered in the
book.

a) ______AMY___ likes the weather.

b) ________jayne______ and ______eric_____ don’t like weather.
c) ___gaby____ like the food.
d) ______jany____ doesn’t like the food.
e) _____gaby__ and ____jany___ think people are friendly.

f) _______Amy___ thinks the food costs a lot.

g) _____sarah_____ thinks Americans work very hard.
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INSTRUCTIONS: Go to Oxford platform from American English File 1. Work in the following practices 2A, 2B, 2C
and 3A. Get screenshot of the score you got and paste it here.
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