GESTIÓN DE FORMACIÓN PROFESIONAL INTEGRAL

PROCEDIMIENTO DESARROLLO CURRICULAR

GUÍA DE APRENDIZAJE No. 4 EVERY DAY TASKS AND ACTIONS AT THE OFFICE

1. IDENTIFICACIÓN DE LA GUIA DE APRENDIZAJE

 Denominación del Programa de Formación: TECNICO EN ASISTENCIA

ADMINISTRATIVA
 Código del Programa de Formación: 122121
 Nombre del Proyecto (si es formación Titulada) APOYAR PROCESOS
ADMINISTRATIVOS EN LAS ORGANIZACIONES
 Fase del Proyecto (si es formación Titulada) PLANEACIÓN
 Actividad de Proyecto (si es formación Titulada)
 Competencia COMPRENDER TEXTOS EN INGLÉS EN FORMA ESCRITA Y AUDITIVA
 Resultados de Aprendizaje a Alcanzar: Comunicarse en tareas sencillas y habituales que
requieren un intercambio simple y directo de información cotidiana y técnica
 Duración de la Guía: 4 horas

2. PRESENTATION

The Present Simple tense is used to communicate permanent or routinary actions and activities.
As an administrative assistance technician, it is necessary to develop reading and writing skills,
and that is why we will learn technical contextualized vocabulary to be used in sentences having
the proposed structure.

3. LEARNING ACTIVITIES OBJECTIVES

 Knowledge: To identify vocabulary related to everyday tasks and actions both in daily life
and in the labor context. To interpret frequent actions in simple texts.
 Process: To develop communicative skills while reading short texts, writing simple
sentences and basic oral utterances.

3.A Warm-up Activities

 Video: The Present Simple, Regular and Irregular verbs, Frequency

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3W3AZ5Zw0n0
[CITATION AMES \l 9226 ]

 The following are very common collocations, verbs and activities that always go
together. Identify the vocabulary and then match elements in the numbers 1-7
column with the corresponding element in letters a-h column. The first one is done
for you.

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1 read B a) breakfast, lunch

2 eat     A b) magazines, books
3 go to     E c) bread, food, a book
4 play     F d) sport, exercise, and homework
5 do       D e) the cinema, bed, work
6 get         H f) golf, tennis, football
7 go       C  g) shopping, home
8 buy     G h) up, home

3.B Contextualization and necessary knowledge identification activities

 Please watch this video related to daily routines for students and office workers:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=smhmDf9IEXg
[CITATION Eng18 \l 9226 ]

 Please watch this video related to the negative form of the Present Simple:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fasw4MBPbqs
[CITATION Juc16 \l 9226 ]

 Please watch this video related to questions and auxiliaries in the Present Simple:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x-X9sURtFB8
[CITATION Woo16 \l 9226 ]

Write full sentences whether negatives (-) or questions (?) using the following
prompts:

1. John checks e-mails in the evening (-) John doesn’t check e-mails in the evening
2. I type fast (?) Do you type fast?
3. Martha and Thomas live downtown (-)Martha and Thomas don't live downtown
4. I talk to clients everyday (-) I don’t talk to clients everyday
5. I usually get up at 7:00 (?)Do i usually get up at 7:00?
6. Leon reads the newspaper every day (?) Does Leon read the newspaper every
day?
7. My family and I never go to the opera (?) Do my family and I never go to the opera?
8. Luisa likes comedies (-) Luisa don’t like comedies.

3.C. Appropriation activities

 Watch the following video and describe the daily routine of the desk worker in it
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U0Y4rxUlCNM
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 What to do and don’t do in an office? Make a list of 10 recommended actions or

good practices for workers to do every day at the office and 10 actions that are bad
practices.
Example:
 To Do: Say hello to coworkers
Make letters to work
Send emails to clients
Organize documents
Make conceptual pictures
Help in payroll
Make reports for our company
Eat in our free hours
Assertive communication
Organize events for our company

 To Don’t Do: Eat in front of clients

Sleep in our office
Send emails without being polite
be disorganized
talk with your coworkers in work hours about things that not are about our work
Don't know our politics for work. Get to work early
arrive late to work
Don’t be polite
Don’t make calls to our work allies
be in a bad mood every day
Do not go to work

3.D. Knowledge transfer activasteis

 Practical exercises Do these exercises about routines and permanent actions.

1 Underline, select, or circle the correct alternatives for each case.

-A Do you 1Like  / likes meetings?
B Yes, I 2like / do.
-A 3Does / Do your co-workers eat lunch together?
B No, they 4don’t eat / don’t. They individually 5go / goes to the company’s canteen.
-A 6Do / Does the people in the office go out after work on Fridays?
B Yes, they 7don’t / love it. Every week, they 8go / do to a pub.
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A 9Do you / You write reports?

B No, I 10do / don’t. I hate 11it / its. I only file them!

2 Complete the text with the correct form of the verbs.

Karen’s 19 and she’s a shop assistant. She 1 gets (get) up early, 2      has                        (have)
breakfast and 3                  leaves            (leave) home at 8.30. She 4        starts                      (start)
work at 9.30 and 5                    finishes          (finish) at 5.30. She 6        works                      (work) in a
bookshop but she 7        doesn’t             like          (not like) reading! She 8                gets            (get)
home at 6.30 and 9              doesn´t read                (not read) in bed!

 Discussion:
What are the most difficult or most boring activities people daily do in an office? What are
the most interesting activities to do in an office?

The most difficult activity in an office is talk with a rude customer, because that
client is very difficult to speak in a good conversation. When we have to organize
documents today to morning.

The most interesting activities for me is make letters, meetings and customer
service with genial people.
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4. EVALUATION ACTIVITIES

 The learner asks and answers questions about himself/herself and others
 The learner appropriately pronounces the vocabulary and expressions proposed

Learning evidences Evaluation criteria Evaluation techniques and

instruments

Knowledge evidences The learner identifies the Workshop assessment

vocabulary about habitual
actions and routinary tasks in
an office

Performance evidences The learner uses simple and The learner expresses Present
technical vocabulary in shirt Simple structures in a simple
texts way and following the model

Product evidences The learner appropriately The learner answers and

pronounces the learned sends the guide using the
vocabulary and expressions. platform.

5. GLOSSARY [ CITATION Dic18 \l 9226 ]

 Downtown: the main business section of a city.

 Newspaper: a publication issued at regular and usually close intervals, especially daily or
weekly, and commonly containing news, comment, features, and advertising.
 Canteen: a place, as in an office, company, factory, school, or summer camp, where
refreshments and sometimes personal supplies are sold.
 Pub: a bar or tavern where people typically socialize
 Shop assistant: a store clerk or employee
 Bookshop: A store where books are sold
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6. BIBLIOGRAPHY

Ames836. (2013, septiembre 9). Present Simple. Europa. Retrieved marzo 18, 2018, from
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3W3AZ5Zw0n0
Dictionary.com. (2018). Definitions. Retrieved febrero 20, 2018, from
http://www.dictionary.com/browse/hobbies?s=t
English Speaking Diary (2018) Daily routines for students and workers. Indonesia.
Retrieved marzo 18, 2018 from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=smhmDf9IEXg

Garcia, Vicent (2016) Food and cooking vocabulary. Inglaterra. Retrieved marzo 18, 2018 from

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=duLHns8-GCg
Jucegongar (2016) Present Simple negative. Inglaterra. Retrieved marzo 18, 2018 from
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fasw4MBPbqs
Woodward English (2016) Present Simple auxiliaries and questions. Inglaterra. Retrieved marzo
18, 2018 from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x-X9sURtFB8

7. DOCUMENT CONTROL

Nombre Cargo Dependencia Fecha

Autor Andrés Leal Instructor Bilingüismo Marzo 18, 2018

(es) SENA-ISPA
Bogotá

8. MODIFICATIONS CONTROL (diligenciar únicamente si realiza ajustes a la guía)

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