WEEK 5

HOMEWORK ACTIVITY

Homework: Experience
Objective: The student is able to talk about activities in the past using another past activity as
reference.
Writing Activity
Writing Activity 1. Describe ten different activities you carried out before graduating from school.
Use expressions such as: by the time, before and structures using ago.
I want to tell you a little bit about the things I did before I graduated from college. During the last
week of school thousands of things happened, there were times when we did: (1) constant farewell
dances, obviously before that we had to (2) organize every space in the school, (3) we had nights
called lunadas where we had We had to do it for a while, we stayed at the school at night, (4) we
had a carnival at the school and we had to prepare our car for the show before we showed up.
Before each of the activities we had to organize the agenda, since that took us a lot of time, after
three days of carnival (5) we took photos for the graduation and (6) we had to paint the wall of the
graduates of the year, (7) we also had to pass the invitation and confirmation of the people who
would accompany us on the big day, after those things and a few days before graduation (8) we
rehearsed the entrance to the theater, like this We lasted about 8 hours straight for Sometimes we
thought it would be fine and it turned out not, and what was missing for the big day came the (9)
proof of the toga and the viceroy, we had to have the perfect measurements and finally one day
before the big day we had (10) lunch from school and everything that included the graduation
party. well that was a bit of what I did before graduating. I hope you like it, see you later, bye.

Speaking Activity
Activity: What happened?
Explain what happened before the situations described below and record them as a podcast.
1. Jim was condemned to 2 years in jail.

A month before Jim was sentenced, he was in a bar sharing with some friends, when the party
ended he decided to start his car and drive home, but the police stopped him on the way and fined
him for having consumed alcohol and driving. He refused and hit a policeman, therefore he was
arrested and sentenced to two years in jail.

https://voca.ro/112brZebCQto
 2. Jane went on a cruise around the world.

Five years ago Jane set out to travel on a cruise with her husband, therefore she decided to save
and cut gas to see the world through a cruise since she had always dreamed of this experience.

https://voca.ro/1eerl97IEr2E

3. The police officer became the hero of the day.

This morning two children were playing as usual in the tree of the house, but one of them slipped
and was left hanging the tip of a branch of the tree and luckily a policeman was passing by who saw
the situation and ran to help them, in At that time, some people took photos of him and published
them, which made news during the day.

https://voca.ro/1aRbrHIG9cen

4. Everyone burst into laughter.

They were in math class talking to their classmates while the teacher entered the class and a
classmate was sleeping so when the teacher entered he said we shouldn't make noise so he
wouldn't wake up and we decided to clap so he would wake up and he said okay he was dreaming
everyone burst out laughing.

https://voca.ro/1h65mrWumDGd

5. The teacher grounded the whole class.

When I was in the last year of school, the physical education teacher punished the entire class
because half of the students were late and therefore decided that everyone should go around the
soccer field for punishment and not arrive early.
https://voca.ro/1nn6UAnXihAo

The student needs to record his/her voice on https://vocaroo.com/

Once the students finished the recording, the recording link will be sent to the student`s email.
Example:

Then, copy and paste the link sent to the student`s email in this document for the teacher to verify
and grade your production. Send this document to your tutor.
Example: https://vocaroo.com/i/s02n501mY3oc