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Week 15 - My short-term plans

Topics: My future short-term plans (academic plans and professional plans) Learning outcome: Describe my future academic and professional plans in the short term. Activity 1 - Previous task Complete the previous task: to-do list with your personal and love life plans, and the steps you are going to follow to achieve each item in the list. Give your list to the classmate to your left. Your classmate is going to present your plans. (In this case, you need to use he or she, so pay attention to the correct conjugation.) Activity 2 - About Final Oral Task The teacher is going to share the instructions for the final oral task. Activity 3 - Academic and professional plans Look at the flashcards with examples of academic and professional plans. Do you have any of these plans? What other academic or professional plans do you have? Activity 4 - be going to vs. will Watch the video and answer the questions along it. Task What are your academic and professional plans? Take one p...

Week 14 - What are your personal future plans?

Topics: My future plans (personal life, love life) Learning outcome: Describe my future plans (personal life, love life) Activity 1 - Writing task back Based on writing conventions , the teacher provides feedback on the writing task. Activity 2 Read, listen to, and practice a conversation about future plans . Activity 3 Complete grammar focus activities as a group. Activity 4 Complete the video workshop as a group. Task - To-do list Create a to-do list with your personal and love life plans. Indicate what steps you are going to follow to achieve each item in the list.

Week 12 - Vacation plans with friends

Topics: My vacation plans with my friends. Possible activities to do on vacation. Learning outcome: Talk about the activities I will probably and am certainly going to do on vacation with my friends. Activity 1 What was your last vacation destination? Where would you like to go next time? Activity 2 Look at the following flashcards about vacation destinations. Try to guess each place based on the image. Activity 3 What kind of activities can you do at each place? Activity 4 Look at the following flashcards about vacation activities. Try to guess each activity based on the image. Activity 5 What means of transportation can you use to go to each destination? Activity 6 Look at the following flashcards about means of transportation. Try to guess each means of transportation based on the image. Activity 7 Let's play some games to review the vocabulary learned so far. Task In groups of 3 people, you are going to create and act out a dialog. It...

Week 11 - Days of the week, times, frequency adverbs

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Topics: Days of the week Time/parts of the day Frequency adverbs Learning outcome: Recognize the different expressions to talk about routines. Activity 0 - Week 10's activities review (15 minutes) Make a review of Week 10's activities in wizer.me . Activity 1 - Time (15 minutes) From worksheet Routines (Basic Tactics for Listening), complete Getting ready Task 1 and Task 2, and Listening 1. Activity 2 - My daily routine (30 minutes) Read Mr. Miller's and Ms. Lucy's daily routines . Identify the keywords to talk about routines from Mr. Miller's and Ms. Lucy's routines. Activity 3 - Mr. Bean's daily routine (30 minutes) Watch the Youtube video about Mr. Bean's daily routine . From worksheet Routines (Basic Tactics for Listening), complete Listening 2 Task 1 and Task 2. Task - Popular times In groups of 2 people and making use of frequency adverbs, decide on the most common or popular times to do certain activities, for example, ...

Week 8 - Relevant past events in Colombia

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Topics: Relevant events that happened in Colombia. Learning outcome: Talk about important events that happened in the past. Say when things happened. Say what you were doing when some relevant events happened. Functional language: In 2012, Mariana Pajón won her first Olympic medal. Last year Nairo Quintana won La Vuelta. What were you doing when Guns and Roses played in the Atanasio Girardot. I was working. I couldn’t go to the concert. What were you doing when Nacional won? When Nacional won, I was celebrating with my friends. What were you doing when Guns and Roses came to Medellín? Time expressions: the day before yesterday, yesterday morning, last night, last week, last month, last year, last Saturday, one week ago, in 1990, in March, on Sunday, once upon a time, etc. Activity 1 - Accidental inventions Where did the ideas for these "accidental inventions" come from? Matches, teflon, potato chips, ice-cream cones, Coca Cola, post-it notes ...

Week 5 - Thinking back

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Topics: My school years. Time expressions. Learning outcome: Say what you did in your school years. Functional language: Where did you study high school? I went to Santo Domingo school in 2010.  Were you a good student? Yes, I was. Did you repeat any grade? Yes, I did. I repeated the eighth grade. Why did you repeat? Because I failed Algebra. Activity 0 - Reading Task review The teacher will give you your Reading Task back and will provide you with feedback. Activity 1 - Thinking back In groups of 3 people, you will play the game Thinking back . Activity 2 - Anecdotes in English Since this week we are working with the most interesting stories from your school years, it is important to understand how people tell stories in English. Have you ever had any similar anecdote? How similar? How different? Activity 3 - School subjects School years are a fundamental part of our lives. We spend several years there. Do you remember you...