Oficina de Bilingüismo

Fundación Universitaria Tecnologico Comfenalco

ENGLISH 2A
SELF-STUDY GUIDE
FIRST TERM

Teacher: CARMEN TERESA ARIZA APLOMINO

Welcoming paragraph:

Hello my dear students. I would like to welcome you all to this new experience,
first of all by letting you know that you can always count on me for whatever you
need through-out this process. I am sure we will have a lot of fun and also learn
many interesting things.

Methodology:

 As you already know we will be developing our classes online. For which
we will be using the platforms Teams and Ferrum.
 I will schedule meetings every week through the platform Teams.
 I will upload all the information regarding the classes on Ferrum.
 We will develop our classes in three terms. Each Term, we will work on a
different communicative subject.
 Every Term, I will share with you on Ferrum a self-study guide, such as this
one, with different activities in order for you to work on autonomously.
The guide is divided in 4 stages.

Stage 1: Warm-up.
Stage 2: Topic presentation.
Stage 3: Practice. INTERACT App
Stage 4: Project.

 We will cover each aspect of the guide each week on our meeting on
Teams.

Communicative objectives:
• Talking about past events / past holidays
• Talking about schools days
• Narrative events / a story
• Talking about famous people
• Describing experiences
 • Talking about places you like
• Talk about travel

Stage 1
Warm-up

Warm-up space:
ACTIVITY:
Guess the name of the cities below
Use the adjective in order to describe the two cities.

DESCRIBE A PLACE YOU WOULD LIKE TO VISIT AND EXPLAIN (use the
adjectives from the box above)

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 Stage 2
Topic Presentation

Presentation of the unit’s function and language space:

Functions and language

Describe things
Describing things with adjectives and passive forms
Talk about holidays
Like vs be like
Tell people about a place you like
Articles

Active and Passive Adjectives

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EXAMPLE

Active adjectives

Her answer was amazing!

The film is so boring!

They found the topic very interesting.

Passive adjectives

We were amazed by her answer.

I don’t like this film, I’m bored.

They were interested in the topic.

Choose the correct adjective

1. The instructions in the exam were very complicated and left the students
feeling totally confusing / confused.

2. I don't think that horror films are frightened / frightening - in fact, I find them
quite funny.

3. Would you be interested / interesting in coming to the theatre this evening? I

have a spare ticket.

4. Can't you fix that dripping tap? It's getting on my nerves - it's really irritated /
irritating.

5. I didn't expect to see Peter at the party. I was really surprising / surprised to
see him there.

6. He's had a lot of bad news recently and is feeling a bit depressed/ depressing.
Let's go and cheer him up.

7. I find it relaxed / relaxing to lie on the sofa and listen to music after a hard
day's work.

8. I was told the film was really good but I felt utterly boring / bored by it.

9. I get really annoying / annoyed when people throw rubbish down in the
streets. It makes me furious.

10. If I said anything as stupid as he did in front of a thousand people, I'd feel
really embarrassing / embarrassed.
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ARTICLES

OnLine Activity
https://www.englisch-hilfen.de/en/exercises/nouns_articles/a_the.htm
 Stage 3
Practice App

In this space the teacher has the opportunity to assign exercises from the
textbook INTERACT using its APP in order for the students to practice all of the
above worked on subjects.

Stage 4
Project

Project
Do a power point presentation, describing a place around the world you would
like to visit. Talk about touristic places, gastronomy etc.

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Sede Barrio España.
Barrio Cra.44D
España. No.30A
Cra.44D No.30A- 91- 91
BX: (5)(5)
PBX: 672672
3700 |Email:
3700 Cartagena
|Email: - Colombia
Cartagena | |
- Colombia