Oficina de Bilingüismo

Fundación Universitaria Tecnológico Comfenalco

ENGLISH 4A
SELF-STUDY GUIDE
Week 4-6

Teacher: Heimy Nathali Montes Antequera

Welcoming paragraph:

Welcome back dear students. We will start this new online experience and I am
sure you will give your best! Education breaks distances. Blessings to all of you.

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 9 weeks. Each week we will work on a
different communicative subject.
 We will cover each aspect of the guide each week on our meeting on
Teams.
 The guide is divided in 4 stages:

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

AIMS:
• Talk about an important person from your past
• Discuss fears
• Share real or imaginary stories about the past
 Stage 1 • Ask about likes and dislikes
Warm-up

The main purpose of this space is to introduce the different activities that this
self-study guide intends to develop.

WHAT THINGS DO SCARE YOU?

VOCABULARY

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 Stage 2
Topic Presentation

The main purpose of this space is for the teacher to present the communicative
objectives using contextualized examples that allow students to understand the
different functions and language of the unit.

Functions Language
 Talk about an important person from  Used to, the past simple, would, and
your past was always for past habits
• Extended listening and speaking
• Write and perform a radio commercial • Present perfect simple and past simple
• Discuss fears with time expressions
• Share real or imaginary stories about the • Past perfect simple and past perfect
past continuous

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 Let´s work…

Describe an important person from your past. Write short text including
sentences in affirmative and negative forms using simple past. ( 8 LINES)

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USED TO + VERB (BASE FORM)

I DIDN´T USE TO PLAY WITH MY SISTER BUT I USED TO PLAY WITH MY

BROTHER

ACTIVITY…
Look At the example answers and give your own information.

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1. PRESENT PERFECT VS SIMPLE PAST
READ THE ARTICLE, THEN MAKE A LIST OF SENTENCES IN SIMPLE PAST AND
SENTENCES USING PRESENT PERFECT.
READ THE ARTICLE…

SIMPLE PAST SENTENCES YOU FOUND PRESENT PERFECT SENTENCES YOU

FOUND
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 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

The project is the last part of the development of this self-study guide.
In this space the teacher will suggest an activity that allows the students to find
relevance to all of the above studied topics in a creative way.

Project
WRITE A FICTIONAL STORY USING ALL TENSES IN PAST WE STUDIED IN THE
GUIDE.

AT LEAST 15 LINES. ADD IMAGES TO YOUR PRODUCTION.

STAGE 1

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 EXERCISES 1

1 SCARE
2PHOBIA
3 SCARE
4 PANIC

EXERCISES 2

1 WHEN I ´M ALONE IN MY ROOM AND I SEE SOMETING WIERD O STRANGE, I FEEL

SCARE

2 YES, I DO…. LAST VACATIONS I WENT TO MY TWON AND SOMEBODY TRIED TO

KILL A GUY ON THE STREE I HAD NEVER SEEN THAT BEFORE I WAS REALLY IN
PANIC, COULDN´T BREATH AND MOVE I WAS QUIET.

STAGE 2

EXERCISES 1 A

MY FRIEND JOSE, HE LIVED IN CARTAGENA FOR FAMILY REASONS HAD TO MOVE TO

ANOTHER CITY, HE WAS A VERY COLLABORATING PERSON, HE WAS ALWAYS VERY
ATTENTIVE. HE ALWAYS HAD A GOOD COUNCIL TO GIVE, HE NEVER SAID NO, HE
ALWAYS HAD A POSSIBILITY AND NEVER GIVEN UP, I DIDN'T REMEMBER SOMETHING
THAT HAS NOT STOPPED DOING WITHOUT A SMILE .... EVERYTHING DO OF THIS
WAY

EXERCISES 1 B

1 I USED TO WATCHED CARTOON WITH MY SISTER, I USED TO PLAY WITH MY

UNCLES

2 I USED TO WATCH TV AND I USED TO SLEEP WITH MY PARENTS

3I USED TO PLAY DOMINO WITH MY RELATIVES AND I USED TO GO TO SWIMMPOOL

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EXERCISE 3

1 HAVE GONE

2 HAVE SEEN

3 HAS PLAYED

4 HAS BEEN

5 HAVE READ, HAVE READ

6 HAS DONE

EXERCISE 4

SIMPLE PAST PRESENT PERFECT

HE WAS A CHILD ROBER JUST HAS COMPLETED

HE FELL HE NAS EVER DONE
HIS FAMILY TOOK HIM HE´V ALWAYS BEEN
IT WAS ONLY 3 YEARS AGO ROBERT HAS WORKED
ROBERT FOUND THE CORAGE I´VE MADE
IT WAS SHORT I ´VE EVEN FLOWN
I WAS ONLY IN THE AIR I ´VE FINALLY DONE IT
I WAS TERRIFIED IT HAS BEEN
HE DECIDED TO TAKE I ´VE NEVER DONE
HE CONSULTED I HAVEN´T COMPLETLY BEATEN
HE WENT TO I´VE STRUGGLED
I THOUGHT I ´VE STARTED
I KNEW
ROBER MADE
I ACHIEVED
I LANDED ON
I REALISED
I STILL FELT
IT WAS ALSO
EXERCISE 5

1 I´D READ
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2 I´D BEEN RUNNING

3 I´D BEEN RUNNING

4 WE´D WAITED

5 I´D BEEN EATING

STAGE 3
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STAGE 4
Thom smith

It was once a boy named Thom Smith. This boy liked to live by telling his stories. in them
he told that he was a navigator who had known the whole world through his prodigious
adventures full of terror and drama

This boy always lived off of his fantastic and imaginary stories and never saw the world as
real to everyone around him was an adventure he had to explore. it was difficult not to live
that daring 4 led him to carry out impossible missions in search of something special