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Semana 10 Where were you born

Let’s learn

Esta semana continuaremos estudiando el tiempo pasado. Esta vez, trabajaremos

con el verbo to be en situaciones relacionadas con información personal.

Por lo tanto, al finalizar esta semana podrás informar en inglés tu lugar y fecha de na-
cimiento. También, lograrás expresar situaciones que viviste cuando eras pequeño.

Let’s start

¿Dónde y cuándo naciste?, ¿dónde nacieron tus padres?, ¿cuándo nacieron tus her-
manos?, ¿cuál fue tu primer trabajo?, ¿y tu primera escuela?

Let´s focus

Esta semana estudiaremos el verbo to be en pasado. A diferencia de los otros verbos,

éste no necesita el auxiliar did. Es decir, el verbo to be y el auxiliar did nunca pueden
aparecer juntos. Existen dos formas del verbo to be en pasado: was y were.

Was lo utilizamos con los pronombres: I, she, he, it

I was at home last night

Were lo utilizamos con: you, we, they.

They were at home yesterday

Para preguntar y contestar en pasado con el verbo to be:

Were you in Carúpano? Yes, I was./ No, I wasn´t (was not)

Was she at home at 6 pm? Yes, she was / No, she wasn´t.

Where were they last Sunday? They were at the park

When was he this morning? He was at work.

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Cuando queremos conocer el lugar de nacimiento de una persona, preguntamos de
la siguiente manera:

Where were you/we/they born? Where was she/he born?

I was born in Maracaibo She was born in Margarita

Si lo que queremos saber es la fecha, preguntamos:

When were you/we/they born?

When was she/he born?

She was born in May

I was born in 2003

They were born on May 13th, 2003.

Hi. I´m Caribay.

/jái. Aim Caribay/
I was born in Chachopo.
/ái uós born in Chachopo/
I was born on March 12 in 1989
/ái uós born on march in naitín éity náin/
I studied in my hometown but then
/ái stadid in mái jómtáum bot den
I moved to Mérida.
/ái muvd tu Merida/
I lived there until I finish high school
/ái livd dér óntil ái finish jái skul/

Apóyate en la pronunciación con el ejemplo an-

terior y con lo que has aprendido en los semestres
anteriores.

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This is my cousin, Victoria.

She was born in February 28
in Boca de Autana.
She went to school in Puerto
Ayacucho.
He is my friend Chris.
He was born in Trinidad.
He was born in June, 1992.
He grew up in Port of Spain.
He worked there as a
carpenter.
I am Jamal.
I was born in England in 1992.
I grew up in India.
I came to Venezuela last year.

Saber más

Let´s know a little bit more

Durante varios semestres has estudiado la Historia de Venezuela en el área de

Sociedad y Cultura. Ahora lee, en inglés, la historia de nuestro país, en la siguien-
te dirección web: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Venezuela. Contrasta
lo que has aprendido hasta ahora en Sociedad y Cultura con lo que aparece re-
señado en Wikipedia. Presta especial atención a lo sucedido durante el siglo XIX,
después de la Independencia.

Let´s work

1. Escribe en pasado los verbos que se encuentran en negritas.

Carlos Cruz-Diez was born on August 17, 1923 in Caracas, Venezuela. From 1940 un-
til 1945, he studies at the Academy of Fine Arts in Caracas. Following this, his works
primarily display a realistic style of painting. Also during this time, Cruz-Diez works as
a graphic artist for various companies, later holding the position of art director for the
advertising agency McCann-Erickson in Caracas. This is when he becomes interested
in the effective uses of color. From 1953 to 1955, Cruz-Diez is an illustrator for the “El
Nacional” newspaper, while also teaching art history at the academy of fine arts in
Caracas. In 1955, he goes for two years to Barcelona, also traveling to Paris several
times and immersing himself in the theories of the Bauhaus school of architecture.
He also studies scientific theories of color as well as geometric abstractions. After re-
turning to Venezuela, Cruz-Diez opens the Studio for Visual Art, where he investiga-
tes the interaction of color and kinetic art. Carlos Cruz-Diez works as acting director
and professor of painting at the Academy of Fine Arts of Caracas and as professor for
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In 1960, Cruz-Diez goes to Paris again, where he works as advisor of the cultural cen-
ter of Noroit in Arras from 1965 and as lecturer for kinetic techniques at the Ecole
Superieure des Beaux Arts in Paris from 1972. He is appointed professor and director
of the art department of IDEA - Institut International d’Etudes Avancées in Caracas in
1986. Cruz-Diez is considered one of the most important artists of Venezuela and has
been honored with many awards.

Esta y otras biografías podrás encontrarlas en la siguiente dirección web: http://

www.kettererkunst.com/bio/carlos-cruz-diez-1923.shtml

Let´s have a reading

A biography is a description or account of someone’s life and the times, which is

usually published in the form of a book or essay, or in some other form, such as a film.
An autobiography (auto meaning “self”, giving “self-biography”) is a biography of a
person’s life written or told by that same person. A biography is more than a list of im-
personal facts (education, work, relationships, and death), it also portrays the subject’s
experience of those events.

Continúa esta lectura en: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biography

Let´s create

Investiga la fecha de nacimiento de algunos personajes históricos del siglo XIX, tan-
to de nuestro país como de la Historia Universal. Complementa la información con
acciones importantes que realizaron y con la fecha y el lugar de su muerte. Escribe
breves reseñas en inglés. Utiliza el diccionario.

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