DAY 1: INTRODUCE

YOURSELF
Basic English 1

Activity 1
 PERSONAL INFORMATION

• My name is Liliana.
• I’m 20 years old.
• I’m from Villahermosa.
• I’m a student.
 WHAT ABOUT YOU?
Complete with your own information.

• My name is __________. (Pedro, Liliana…)

• I’m _______ years old. (20, 19, 27…)
• I’m from _______________. (Comalcalco,
Paris…)
• I’m a _____________. (teacher, student, doctor,
vet…)
 QUESTIONS

• What’s your name?

• How old are you?
• Where are you from?
• What do you do?/ What’s your
occupation?/What’s your job?
Practice the questions and the answers.
 HOMEWORK
• Practice the questions and answers for Personal Information.
• Join the WhatsApp group.
• Sign the framework.
• Upload this Power Point presentation with your Personal Information in the
“Task” section. (Power Point or PDF).
PIECE OF CAKE!

(Very easy!)
Activity 2
▪ These numbers denote quantities. For example:
4,000 (four thousand) computers

$5 pesos

20 cats

50 dogs

0=Zero
▪ After the number 20 (twenty), we add in the unit the quantity (1-9), and we use a
dash (-) to separate them:
▪ 25 twenty-five
▪ 57 fifty-seven
▪ 89 eigthy-nine
▪ 46
▪ 96
▪ 28
▪ To talk about hundreds (centenas) we only add the word “hundred” :
▪ 200 two hundred
▪ 500 five hundred
▪ 567 five hundred and sixty-seven
▪ 789
▪ 478
▪ To talk about thousands (millares) we only add the word “thousand”:
▪ 4000 four thousand
▪ 2000 two thousand
▪ 5896 five thousand eight hundred and ninety-six
▪ 6875 six thousand eight hundred and seventy-five
▪ 5467
▪ 1293
▪ 4597
▪ These numbers define the position of something in a serie. When using figures to
represent these numbers, we add the endings “-st” ,“-nd” ,“-rd” and “-th”.
▪ In English we use them for the dates.
Cardinal Ordinal
1 one 1st first
2 two 2nd second
3 three 3rd third
5 five 5th fifth
8 eight 8th eighth
9 nine 9th ninth
12 twelve 12th twelfth
20 twenty 20th twentieth
21 twenty-one 21st twenty-first
28 twenty-eight 28th twenty-eighth
▪ What’s your telephone number?
▪ My telephone number is 9-9-3-3-1-4-5-6-7-8.

▪ What’s your cellphone number?

▪ My cellphone number is 9-9-3-4-4-5-7-8-0-3.
1. What’s your name?
2. How old are you?
3. Where are you from?
4. What do you do?/ What’s
your occupation?/What’s
your job?
5. What’s your
telephone/cellphone
number?
*What about you?= And you?=How about you?
1. My name is __________. (Pedro,
Liliana…)
2. I’m _______ years old. (20, 19, 27…)
3. I’m from _______________.
(Comalcalco, Paris…)
4. I’m a _____________. (teacher, student,
doctor, vet…)
5. My telephone number is 9-9-3-4-5-2-
7-8-8-9.
DAYS, MONTHS, SEASONS
Activity 3
DAYS OF THE WEEK

Pay attention to: Tuesday and

Thursday.

We use capital letters in the

beggining.
MONTHS OF THE YEAR

Pay attention to: January

Pay attention to: May
Pay attention to: June
Pay attention to: July

We use capital letters in the

beggining.
 SEASONS OF THE YEAR

We use capital letters in the

beggining.

Fall= Autumn
QUESTIONS
• What day is today?
• Today is Thursday.

• What’s the date today?

• Today is September 24th.
PERSONAL INFORMATION

• When is your birthday?

• My birthday is on April 26th.

• (We write first the month, then the ordinal number)

COMPLETE THE SENTENCES WITH THE DATES

• Ex. The teacher’s birthday is on April 26th .

• My birthday is on _______________.
• My brother’s or sister’s birthday is on____________.
• My mom’s birthday is on _________________.
• My father’s birthday is on ______________.
• My girlfriend’s or boyfriend’s birthday is on ____________.
COMPLETE THE SENTENCES WITH THE MONTHS OR
DATES
• Valentine’s day is on ______________ 14th.
• Christmas day is on _____________ 25th.
• Mom’s day is on ______________ 10th.
• Mexican Independence day is on _____________ 16th .
• The teacher’s birthday is on _________________.
COMPLETE THE SENTENCES WITH THE DAYS OF THE
WEEK
• On ____________ I go to church.
• From ___________ to _______________ I go to school.
• The day after Monday is ___________.
• The day after Friday is____________.
• On _____________ I go dancing.
• The day after Tuesday is ____________.
• The day before Friday is ___________.
• The day before Tuesday is __________.
BEFORE: antes de
AFTER: después de
LET’S PRACTICE THE NUMBERS
• 9856
• 3456
• 31st
• 7803
• 22nd
• 12th
• 6543
• 28th
THE ALPHABET
Activity 4
The Alphabet.
In English we don’t have “Ññ”

Pay attention to : A E I

Pay attention to : C S Z

Pay attention to : M N
Pay attention to : G J
Pay attention to : B V
Pay attention to : H K Q Y
We use it:
◦ What’s your full name?
◦ My full name is Alejandro Arturo Perez Rodriguez

◦ How do you spell your first name?

◦ It’s A-L-E-J-A-N-D-R-O.

◦ Can you spell your middle name?

It’s A-R-T-U-R-O.

◦ How do you spell your last name (surname)?

◦ It’s P-E-R-E-Z.
Sometimes we spell the e-mail
address…
◦ What’s your e-mail address?
◦ It’s alejandro_perez@gmail.com
◦ It’s alarpe98@gmail.com

◦ @ at
◦ _ underscore
◦ - dash
◦ /slash
◦ . Dot
More practice…
◦ What’s your nickname?
◦ My nickname is Alex.

◦ What’s your Facebook username?

◦ It’s Alex98.

◦ What’s your Microsoft Teams username?

◦ It’s 192C3096. / It’s Alejandro Perez.

◦ What’s your student ID number?

◦ It’s 192C3096.
Listening
Listening
 Review: personal Information
questions and answers
1. What’s your name?
2. How old are you?
3. Where are you from?
4. What do you do?/ What’s
your occupation?/What’s
your job?
5. What’s your
telephone/cellphone
number?
6. When is your birthday?
7. How do you spell your ____?/
Can you spell your___?
8. What’s your e-mail address?
1. My name is __________. (Pedro,
Liliana…)
2. I’m _______ years old. (20, 19, 27…)
3. I’m from _______________.
(Comalcalco, Paris…)
4. I’m a _____________. (teacher,
student, doctor, vet…)
5. My telephone number is 9-9-3-4-5-2-
7-8-8-9.
6. My birthday is on April 26th.
7. It’s A-L-E-J-A-N-D-R-O.
8. It’s alejandro_perez@gmail.com
COGNATES
Activity 5
COGNATES

• The cognates are words that are similar in two different languages.

• It is important to look for these words when you read, because

they help you to understand the text.
•

• There are real cognates and false cognates.

REAL COGNATES

• Words that are similar in both languages and have the same meaning (tienen el mismo
significado).
• Examples:
English Spanish
Hotel Hotel
Telephone Teléfono
Doctor Doctor
Restaurant Restaurante
FALSE COGNATES

• Words that are similar in both languages, but they don’t have the same meaning (no significan
lo mismo).
• Examples:
English Spanish
Educated Persona culta
Assist Ayudar
Attend Asistir
Actually Realmente/ De hecho
COGNATES

Taken from: Open Mind Level 1, Mickey Rogers. Macmillan Press

COGNATES

Taken from: Open Mind Level 1, Mickey Rogers. Macmillan Press

FALSE COGNATES PRACTICE
False Cognates
Match the false cognates with the correct picture.
Parents
College
Exit
Pie
Fabric
Groceries
Manners
Introduce
Lecture
Discuss
HOMEWORK
• Study vocabulary
• Record a video or audio introducing yourself. Remember to include the following
information:

1. My name is __________. (Pedro, Liliana…)

2. My last name is________. (Pérez, López…)
3. I’m _______ years old. (20, 19, 27…)
4. I’m from _______________. (Comalcalco,
Paris…)
5. I’m a _____________. (teacher, student, doctor,
vet…)
6. My birthday is on _________.
7. My telephone number is __________.
8. My e-mail address is _________.
Remember today you only add your video or audio.