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GUIDE 01
TEACHER: Maleidys Díaz Castro

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LEARNING: Identify the purpose, parts and type of texts in a reading and share them with their
classmates.
PERFORMANCE INDICATOR : After reading an expositive text on netiquettes, the student can explain to
his classmates what it is about.
CONTENT: types of texts, connectors

FOCUS ON LANGUAGE :

TYPES OF TEXTS
NARRATIVE Narrates one or more real or imaginary
events occurring at a specific time and
place.
DESCRIPTIVE Describes objects, places and people in
detail
EXPOSITIVE Develops and explains a topic with the
purpose of informing about it
ARGUMENTATIVE Defends or refutes an opinion or idea
INSTRUCTIVE Provides steps, instructions, guidelines
or directions to follow

BASIC CONNECTORS
AND: y
BUT: pero, sino
BECAUSE: porque
OR: ó, ni
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SO: así que, entonces
AS: mientras, cuando, ya
que
BEFORE: antes
AFTER: después
THEN: entonces, luego
FIRST: primero
SECOND: segundo
THEREFORE: por lo tanto
HOWEVER: sin embargo
ALTHOUGH: aunque
WHEN: cuándo

ACTIVITIES:

A. Lee el texto y resuelve las actividades:

CLARA'S ADVENTURES

Clara is a seventeen-year-old student from a state school. She dreams of being a great
architect.

Juan is seventeen years old. He is at high school too. One day Clara’s friend introduced her to
Juan at a basketball tournament. It was love at first sight. Clara and Juan started going out
together.

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After ten months together, Clara decided to have sex with Juan for the first time. She had heard
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many things about birth control. Lots of her friends argued about the best option and she
didn’t know what to believe. Juan and Clara agreed to go on a trip together. They couldn’t
spend a lot of money on their holiday so they went camping.

When they arrived at the camp site, they felt it was the right moment. It was a beautiful place
in the mountains. Clara loves Juan. They had both talked about the situation, and Clara trusted
him. Although Juan had already had some sexual experiences with his ex-girlfriend, he had not
spoken to Clara about them. She thought that it was Juan’s first sexual experience too.

Clara was definitely not planning on getting pregnant but when they went on the trip together,
they forgot to use protection in the heat of the moment. Now they’re waiting for a pregnancy
test and they’re both frightened about the future. Clara never thought this would happen to
her.

B. Después de leer el texto encuentra el pasado de los siguientes verbos:

INFINITIVE PAST MEANING

Example: Introduce Introduced Introducir, presentar

Is Es, está
Start Empezar
Decide Decidir

2 Argue
Agree
Go
Discutir, argumentar
Acordar
Ir
Arrive Llegar
Feel Sentir
Trust Confiar
Have Tener
Think Pensar
Forget Olvidar
frighten asustar

C. Luego de completar el cuadro anterior, vuelve a ubicar el pasado de los siguientes verbos en el texto
y escribe la oración completa con su significado en español:

Example: arrive: when they arrived at the camp site (cuando ellos llegaron al campamento)

Introduce: ________________________________________________________________________________________________
____________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Start: _____________________________________________________________________________________________________
____________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Is:__________________________________________________________________________________________________________
____________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Go:_________________________________________________________________________________________________________
____________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Trust:_____________________________________________________________________________________________________
____________________________________________________________________________________________________________

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Think:_____________________________________________________________________________________________________
____________________________________________________________________________________________________________

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Forget:____________________________________________________________________________________________________
____________________________________________________________________________________________________________

D. Lee el texto nuevamente y completa el siguiente resumen:

The text I read was about _______________________. It had_________ paragrhaphs. At the beginning,
the author introduces the names of ______________ and ______________. Then, he describes all the
activities that Clara and Juan did at the ___________________. At the end, the author says that Clara
and Juan are __________________ about the future.

E. De acuerdo al texto anterior, completa el siguiente texto como se ve en el ejemplo:

Example:
Title (titulo) Netiquette
Purpose (propósito) Inform about rules to follow when
writing online messages.
Type (tipo, clase) Expositive

Parts (partes) Definition : what is nequitte?

Body: tips
Conclusion: importance for nequitte
for communication

Title
Purpose 3
Type

Parts

ASSESSMENT:

VALENTINE´S DAY

Valentine's Day, or St Valentine's Day, is celebrated every year on 14 February. It's

the day when people show their affection for another person (or people!) by
sending anonymous cards, flowers or chocolates with messages of love. And
traditionally on Valentine's Day in a leap year - every four years - women can
propose marriage to their lovers!

The day gets its name from a famous saint, but there are several stories of who he was. The most
popular belief about St Valentine is that he was a priest from Rome in the third century AD. Emperor
Claudius II had banned marriage because he thought married men were bad soldiers. Valentine thought
this was unfair, so he broke the rules and arranged marriages in secret. When Claudius found out,
Valentine was sentenced to death and thrown in jail. There, he fell in love with the jailor's blind

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daughter. His love and belief in God cured her blindness, and when he was taken to be killed on 14
February he sent her a love letter signed "From your Valentine".
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✓ De acuerdo al texto anterior responde las preguntas 1-5 en su hoja de respuesta:

1. what type of text is it?
a. Argumentative b. Instructive c. Expositive
2. what is the purpose of the text?
a. Describe the activities at Valentine´s Day
b. Explain that Valentine do
c. Inform about the Valentine´s Day
3. how many paragraphs do have the text?
a. four b. two c. three
4. who was Valentine?
a. a priest b. an emperor c. a soldier
5. why Valentine was sentenced to death?
a. because he fell in love of the jailor´s daughter
b. because he banned marriage of the soldiers
c. because he broke the rules and arranged marriages

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SELFASSESSMENT:

EVALUATION CRITERIA WITH QUITE VERY

DIFFICULTY WELL WELL
I identify the purpose, type and parts of a text in a
reading.
I identify the past tense of regular and irregular
verbs in a text.
I identify the connectors in a text.

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GUIDE 02
TEACHER: Maleidys Díaz Castro

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LEARNING: Distinguishes general and specific information in opinion texts and oral and written
discussions on familiar topics.
PERFORMANCE INDICATOR: when reading a text, the student highlights the general ideas and
the supporting details in each paragraph.
CONTENT: Present Simple

LEARNING CONTENT:

ACTIVITIES:

A. En estos momentos vamos a practicar la explicación del cuadro anterior; por lo tanto, completa con
la forma correcta de los verbos que están en paréntesis:
• My mother ______________ (go) shopping with me
• Peter and Claudia _______________ (work) together
• Does she __________ (study) at San José High School?
• They don´t ____________ (play)in the class
• She __________ (travel) every weekends

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B. Lea el siguiente texto y complete con la opción correcta
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Letter to the editor: Tattoos.

Dear editor, I 1. ________ understand what is happening with young people these days!! More and more
often I 2. _______ them with tattoos on 3. ________ arms, their legs, and some on their necks. This younger
generation 4. _______ know the risks of tattooing. There is the risk of long-term effects of illnesses and
infections that could be created by dirty needles. Besides it 5. _____ very painful to remove the tattoo if
they change their mind. Anyway, I will never let my children get a tattoo!

1. a. don´t b. doesn´t c. do
2. a. sees b. see c. seed
3. a. them b. her c. their
4. a. doesn´t b. don´t c. do
5. a. are b. am c. is

C. De acuerdo al texto anterior escoge la respuesta correcta:

1. what is the main idea of the text?

a. The writer doesn´t understand what happen with Young people
b. The younger generation is crazy
c. The writer says that tatoos are dangerous for people because dirty needles can produce infections.
2. the people who mostly use tattoos are:
a. old people b. crazy people c. Young people
3. The people use the tatoos on:

6 a. Their arms and legs

4. What are the risks of tatooing?
a. loss of apetite
b. their heart

b. weightloss
c. their hands

c. infections produced by dirty needles

5. What does the person who is writing the letter think?
a. she thinks tatoos are not good
b. she thinks tatoos are good
c. she thinks tatoos are interesting

ASSESSMENT: It´s time to read

HOBBIES AND SPORTS

Hi, my name 1. _________ Chris. I am always excited about trying new things in my spare time. That’s why
I love doing all kinds of sports and hobbies like hiking, swimming, cycling and bowling with my friends.
I 2. ________ play ice hockey, but I’d like to do that. I hate staying indoors at weekends. My cousin 3.
__________stamps, but I don’t. I make model airplanes in my free time at a club after school.

1. a. are b. am c. is
2. a. doesn´t b. don´t c. did
3. a. collect b. collectes c. collects

4. what is the main idea of the text?

a. talk about cycling and bowling
b. talk about Chris sports and hobbies
c. talk about model airplanes

5. what does Chris do after school?

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a. he uses his free time
b. he collects stamps

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c. he makes model airplanes

GUIDE 03
TEACHER: Maleidys Díaz Castro
LEARNING: Distinguishes general and specific information in opinion texts and oral and written
discussions on familiar topics.
PERFORMANCE INDICATOR: when reading a text, the student highlights the general ideas and
the supporting details in each paragraph.
CONTENT: Verbs + ing form; verbs

FOCUS ON LANGUAGE:

La siguiente tabla debes interpretarla de la siguiente forma:

La columna verb + ing form, quiere decir que en esa columna se ubican los verbos que después de ellos
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el que continua debe ir con ing.

Example: I love doing all kinds of sports or hobbies

La columna verb + to + infinitive, quiere decir que en esa columna se ubican los verbos que después de
ellos el que continua debe ir en forma infinitiva.

Example: I would like to live in the country

¿Qué quiere decir un verbo en infinitivo? Este es el que está en su forma base, por ejemplo: cry, travel,
do, write, speak…

Verb+ing form Verb + to + infinitive

Love Would like to
Enjoy Want to
Hate

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FOCUS ON VOCABULARY:

8 A. Match the pictures with its name:

Skydiving____
▪ white water rafting_____
▪ skateboarding ______
▪ fishing _____
▪ horse riding ______
▪ playing music _____
▪ chatting online _____
▪ playing board games _____
▪ bowling______
▪ playing basketball ______
▪ playing ice hockey _______

ACTIVITIES

A. Choose three sports or hobbies. Escríbelos en la columna de deportes o hobby y completa la

información para cada uno, luego haz una oración como se aprecia en el ejemplo:

SPORT HOBBY INDOORS OUTDOORS TEAM INDIVIDUAL

skateboarding x x

Example: skateboarding is a sport, it is an outdoor activity that you can practice individual

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B. Ahora es tiempo de practicar lo aprendido con respecto a los verbos seguidos de ING o del
INFINITIVO:
Complete the senteces with the correct form of the verbs in bracktes:

1. Thomas: I really enjoy ______________ (do) extreme sports. I love _________ (experience) new things. I
would like to _________ (try) bungee jumping.

2. Angela: I love __________ (paint) and playing the guitar. I want to ________ (live) in the country when I'm
older.

3. Chris: I love ________ (do) all kinds of sports or hobbies. I hate ________ (stay) indoors at
weekends.

ASSESSMENT: According to the next text, answer question 1-5 in the answersheet.

Parkour: You feel as if you are flying!

Parkour is definitely my favourite 1. _________ sport. I love 2. ________ my

body to move freely and to jump obstacles in public places with only
my body and my skill. I also climb and run. Parkour can be a hobby, an
extreme sport, or an art. In Parkour, you use your body to 3. ________
from one point to another without stopping.

Parkour is excellent exercise because it helps you to keep fit and

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healthy. It makes you brave and confident, too. Another good thing about Parkour is that it’s very cheap.
You need to be in good physical condition, and you need a good pair of running shoes. And that’s all!

However, Parkour can be dangerous. If you’re new to Parkour, you need to

know and understand the different basic moves. You also need to train a
lot so you don’t have accidents.

It can take a long time to become good at Parkour and you can sometimes
hurt yourself, but I think it is a perfect way to exercise and discover your
body’s potential. Try it! You feel as if you are flying.

1. a. outdoor b. indoor c. sport

2. a. use b. using c. used
3. a. get b. getting c. gets

4. the main idea of the text is:

a. says Parkour is a cheap sport
b. says Parkour is dangerous
c. describe how to practice Parkour

5. one of the recommendations to practice this sport is:

a. you need so much money
b. you need a long time to practice it
c. you need to be in good physical conditions

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SELFASSESSMENT

EVALUATION CRITERIA WITH QUITE VERY

DIFFICULTY WELL WELL
I identify the main idea and the specific information
in a text.
I identify and classify the verb with ing and infinitive

GUIDE 04
TEACHER: Maleidys Díaz Castro
LEARNING: Distinguishes general and specific information in opinion texts and oral and written
discussions on familiar topics.
PERFORMANCE INDICATOR: when reading a text, the student highlights the general ideas and
the supporting details in each paragraph.

10 CONTENT: comparative and superlative

FOCUS ON LANGUAGE
La siguiente tabla quiere decir que para formar el comparativo y superlativo tienes que tener en cuenta
los adjetivos; además el número de sílabas, dependiendo de estas así se deben formar. Te invito a qué
analices como se forma los comparativos y superlativos:

COMPARATIVE SUPERLATIVE
ADJETIVOS CON UNA ADJETIVOS CON DOS O ADJETIVOS CON UNA ADJETIVOS CON DOS O
SÍLABA O DOS SÍLABAS MÁS SÍLABAS SÍLABA O DOS SÍLABAS MÁS SÍLABAS
TERMINADAS EN Y. TERMINADAS EN Y.
Old – er = older (más Modern – more= more Old – est= the oldest Modern – most = the
antiguo) modern (más (el más antiguo) most modern (el más
moderno) moderno)
Ugly – er = uglier (más Beautiful- more= more Ugly- est= the ugliest (el Beautiful – most = the
feo) beautiful (más bonito) más feo) most beautiful (lo más
bonito)
IRREGULAR COMPARATIVE AND SUPERLATIVE
Good Better : mejor The best: el mejor
Bad Worse: peor The worst: el peor
Far Farther : más lejos The farthest: lo más lejos

En ingles, construimos los comparativos añadiendo la partícula -ER al final del adjetivo, seguido
colocamos la palabra THAN (que) y luego el objeto o sujeto con el que queremos comparar:

SUJETO + VERBO + [ADJETIVO+ER] + THAN + SUJETO DE COMPARACIÓN

EXAMPLE: My car is newer than yours

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She eats faster than me
Mario is taller than John

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Por otra parte, para los adjetivos con más de dos silabas o aquellos que tienen dos sílabas que no
terminan en la letra “Y”, se debe usar la palabra MORE antes del adjetivo y luego THAN

EXAMPLE: Math is more difficult than spanish

My dress is more fashionable than yours

Mientras que los superlativos (que son adjetivos que indican el máximo grado de una característica).
Típicamente se construyen añadiendo a un adjetivo la partícula -EST si:
• El adjetivo tiene una sola sílaba (Tall → Tallest)
• Tiene dos silabas y termina en “y” (Easy → Easiest)
Por otra parte, se agrega antes la palabra the most si el adjetivo:
• Está formado por dos sílabas, pero la palabra no termina en “y” (modern – the most modern )
• Es mayor a dos silabas (Beautiful → The most beautiful)

FOCUS ON VOCABULARY

✓ Look at the next list of adjectives:

ADJECTIVES
One syllable, or two syllables ending -y Two or more syllables
Cool= fresco, relajado Popular = popular
Dark = oscuro Interesting= interesante
Dirty= sucio
Long: largo
Big: grande
Extreme: extremo
Fashionable: de moda
Dangerous: peligroso
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Easy: fácil Expensive: costoso
Healthy: saludable Difficult: difícil
Tall: alto Intelligent: inteligente
Young: joven Hard working: trabajador
Fat: gordo Handsome: simpático
Strong: fuerte
Funny: cómico
Serious : serio
Lazy: flojo
Thin: delgado
Weak: débil
Short: corto
Happy: feliz
Sad: triste
Angry: enojado
Calm : calmado

✓ Now it´s time to practice!!!…. Form the comparative and superlative of the following
adjectives:

COMPARATIVE SUPERLATIVE
Strong= Strong=
Happy= Happy=
Weak= Weak=
Lazy= Lazy=
Young= Young=

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Angry= Angry=
Long= Long=
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Dangerous= Dangerous=
Difficult= Difficult=
Fashionable= Fashionable=

ASSESSMENT: It´s time to read:

✓ Complete the next conversations and answer the questions:

DIALOGUE
What is the biggest country in the world?

A: Hmmm, I’m not sure. I think it’s China.

B: No, Russia is 1. __________ than China.
A: What about Canada?
B: Canada is big, but I’m sure Russia is bigger. I think Russia is the answer.

What is the 2. __________ river in the world?

A: What do you think about this one, Emma?

B: Is it the Amazon?
A: I think it’s the Nile.
B: Are you sure? The Amazon is really long.
A: I know, but the Nile is longer.

12 What is the most difficult language in the world?

B: I know the answer – English!

A: I don’t think so. French is more 3. _____________ than English.
B: Yes, maybe. What about Chinese?
A: Oh yes. That’s really difficult.
B: But it’s not difficult for Chinese people…
A: That’s true. So maybe the answer is… there isn’t an answer! It depends what your first language is.

1. a Biggest 2. Biger 3. Bigger

2. a. Longer 2. Longest 3. Longeer
3. a. Difficulter 2. Difficultest 3. Difficult
4. what is the main idea of the text?
a. talk about the differences between places and languages
b. talk about the most difficult language
c. talk about the longest river in the world
5. According to the conversation, what is the most difficult language?
a. english
b. french
c. none

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EVALUATION CRITERIA WITH QUITE VERY
DIFFICULTY WELL WELL
I identify the main idea and the specific information
in a text.
I compare places and objects using comparative and
superlative.

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