INSTITUCION EDUCATIVA DISTRITAL COLEGIO MARSELLA

11th GRADE IMPROVEMENT PLAN 1st TERM

TEACHER: JUDY ANDREA MALDONADO
2023

NAME : ______________________________________________________ CLASS: ____

TEMATICAS:

∙ Tenses review : present simple and continuous, past simple and past continuous, present perfect,
future ( WILL / GOING TO)
∙ Reading comprehension

∙ Saber Test Section 3 Communicative skill Common Expressions

CRITERIOS DE EVALUACION

1. FECHA DE ENTREGA Y SUSTENTACION: primera clase (NO Día 1) de la semana de mayo 23 al

26 conforme a como esté el horario esa semana.
2. Este taller tendrá un valor del 30 % del plan de mejoramiento.
3. La no realización o entrega del taller, así como sin completar dará por finalizado el proceso de plan de
mejoramiento y el estudiante NO PODRÁ PRESENTAR SU SUSTENTACIÓN. Si tiene alguna duda
sobre el taller pregunte antes del día de la entrega durante las clases.
4. El documento debe ser impreso en tamaño carta y luego diligenciado de su puño y letra, no editado
en PDF.
5. El documento debe venir limpio, organizado, grapado, con letra clara y SIN CARPETA. 6. Tras cumplir
con el requisito del taller, el estudiante deberá presentar una sustentación de los temas de primer
periodo con un valor del 70%.
TENSES REVIEW

Use the “TENSES TABLE” photocopies to check the structure and uses of the tenses mentioned in the following
exercise.

1. Look at each example and highlight when possible the time expression or expression that indicates the tense.
Then complete the missing information in the chart.

TENSES: present simple, present progressive, present perfect, past simple, past progressive,

possible future, certain future

EXAMPLE USE TENSE

I’m writing a poem right now An action in progress Present progressive

Louise got married in 1998

I’m a teacher

Jenny has slept for hours Present Perfect

It’s possible that John

 will come tonight

I have never been to Acapulco Experience

John always drinks coffee at

6 am

Mark didn’t come to

the school yesterday

My son was sleeping at 7 PM Past progressive

Next year, She’s going

to study medicine

In the past, the internet Finished past event

wasn’t fast.

2. Read the following sentences, pay attention to the intention and time expressions. Complete them in the
appropriate tense using the verbs in parentheses, they are already in order. ATTENTION: there can be different
tenses in the same sentence.

a. He ___________________ his first championship in 2012. Since then, he ___________________

everything and ___________________ only once. (WIN, WIN, LOSE)
b. When we finally ___________________ at the camp it ___________________ heavily. (ARRIVE,
RAIN)
c. Dad ___________________ a walk with the dog every afternoon. (TAKE)
d. I can't reach my manager. He ___________________ in North America at the moment. (TRAVEL)
e. I ___________________ to the meeting yesterday because I hadn’t been informed about it. (NOT
GO)
f. I ___________________ your uncle for ages. I don't know where he ___________________ right now.
(NOT SEE, BE)
g. The family usually ___________________ breakfast together during the week, but on weekends
everyone ___________________ breakfast on their own. (HAVE, HAVE)
h. What ___________________ when the headmaster ___________________ the room yesterday
afternoon? (YOU DO, ENTER)
i. I'd like to introduce my new girlfriend. She _________________ from Australia. (BE)
j. They ___________________ this church in the 19 th century and since then it ___________________
renovated. (BUILD, NEVER BE)
k. The president ___________________ to Virginia for a campaign speech next Sunday. (COME)

3. Complete the following text using different tenses

 Tom Wilson 1) .... is.... (be) an explorer. He 2) ___________(be) to nearly every country in the world, but the
most exciting time he 3) ___________ (ever/have) was when he 4) ___________(go) to the Congo jungle. A
magazine had asked him to retrace the route of a famous explorer who had disappeared in the 1920's. As he 5)
___________________(follow) a small river he got separated from his guides. He 6) ___________________(go
on) alone, hoping he would find them, but instead he 7) ______________ (encounter) a group of natives. He 8 )
___________(stay) with them for several days and 9) __________(find out) that a very old woman had actually
met the famous explorer.
She 10) _______________ (know) how he had died. Tom 11) ________________ (become) very friendly with
the natives and now he 12) _______________(plan) to go back and see them again. He is sure they 13)
_______________(welcome) him back.

READING COMPREHENSION

Today, millions of people want to learn or improve their English but it is difficult to find the best method. Is it better
to study in Britain or America or to study in your own country?

The advantages of going to Britain seem obvious. Firstly, you will be able to listen to the language all the time you
are in the country. You will be surrounded completely by the language wherever you go. Another advantage is that
you have to speak the language if you are with other people. In Italy, it is always possible, in the class, to speak
Italian if you want to and the learning is slower.
On the other hand, there are also advantages to staying at home to study. You don't have to make big changes to
your life. As well as this, it is also a lot cheaper than going to Britain but it is never possible to achieve the results of
living in the UK. If you have a good teacher in Italy, I think you can learn in a more concentrated way than being in
Britain without going to a school.

So, in conclusion, I think that if you have enough time and enough money, the best choice is to spend some time in
the UK. This is simply not possible for most people, so being here in Italy is the only viable option. The most
important thing to do in this situation is to maximise your opportunities: to speak only English in class and to try to
use English whenever possible outside the class.

1. What is the article about? A. There are no Italians in Britain.

B. You will have to speak English and not your
A. How many people learn English.
language.
B. The best way to learn English.
C. The language schools are better.
C. English schools in England and America.

2. What is one of the advantages of going to the

UK to learn English?}
SABER TEST SECTION 3 A. Learn English in Britain.
3. What is one of the advantages of staying in your
B. Try and speak English in class more often.
country to learn English?
C. Go to Italy to learn English.

A. The teachers aren't very good in Britain. B.

5. According to the text , the autor lives in …
You have to work too hard in Britain. C. Your
A. America
life can continue more or less as it was before.
B. Italy
C. England
4. People who don't have a lot of time and money
should...

1. Resuelva los siguientes ejercicios de la sección 3 de la prueba Saber, justifique sus respuestas en una
hoja adicional. ¿por qué no son las otras dos opciones? ¿en qué situación comunicativa o a que
enunciado especifico podrían responder?
Test 1

PART 3
QUESTIONS 11–15
Complete the five conversations.
For questions 11–15, mark A, B or C on the answer sheet.

EXAMPLE ANSWER How are you? A I’m 18.

B I’m Peter.
C
C I’m fine.

11 John’s broken this plate. A That’s very good. B Here you are.
C It doesn’t matter.

12 Is this your watch? A It’s three o’clock. B I think it’s Dave’s.

C I’m sorry I’m late.

13 Can I have a sandwich? A Yes, of course. B Yes, it is.

C Yes, that’s right.
14 How many people were in the café? A Not much. B A few.
C A little.

15 We’re from London. A Not at all. B Yes, please.

C How interesting.