Oficina de Bilingüismo

Fundación Universitaria Tecnológico Comfenalco

ENGLISH 4A
SELF-STUDY GUIDE
Week 7-9

Teacher: Juan Carlos Caraballo Cabeza

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 10 weeks. Each week we will work on a
different communicative subject.
 Every three weeks 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.
 Stage 1
Warm-up

Read the story and complete the chart.

Jemima and Jeremy were a young, rich couple who lived and worked in the centre of London.
Jeremy’s father had found them both lucrative jobs so they lived very comfortably. One Sunday
evening, they were driving home in their Jaguar, when they saw a car, closely resembling their
Porsche, speeding in the opposite direction. They rushed home and to their horror, they discovered
that their Porsche was not there; it had been stolen! They felt terrible and called the police, who said
that they would do what they could to help them. However, to their surprise, when they got back
home from work the following day, their precious car was sitting outside their house. On the
windscreen was a note, which said: “Thanks very much, we just borrowed the car to go to an
important meeting as our car had broken down. Here are some tickets for the best seats at the
theatre for tomorrow night.” The next night, the couple happily went to the theatre and had a
wonderful time. But when they got home, they were horrified to find that their house had been
burgled.

TENSE EXAMPLES FROM TEXT

SIMPLE PAST Lived, worked, saw, rushed, discovered, felt, called,
Said, got, borrowed, went

PAST CONTINUOUS were driving, was, was sitting, were

PAST PERFECT had found, had been, had broken, had been burgled.

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 Stage 2
Topic Presentation

Functions and language

1. Narrative tenses.
2. Telling a story.

1. NARRATIVE TENSES

EXERCISE 1.
Check your understanding. fill in with the correct form of the verbs in brackets.
use simple past, past continuous or past perfect.

Yesterday I woke up (wake up) and the sun was shining (shine). I got up (get up) and had

(have) a shower. While I was having (have) my shower, I remembered (remember) that

I’d had (have) a very strange dream.

EXERCISE 2: page 85 exercise 4

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 Stage 3
Practice App

L4U6L17
L4U6L18

Stage 4
Project

Project
Create a story or talk about something that happened to you.

*CRITERIA:
 It should be narrated in a video file.
 It should last 2 minutes minimum.
 Use the topics studied in this guideline.

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