WORKSHOP N° DATE:

14

THROUGHLINES: we are all different PERIOD:

GENERATIVE TOPICS: Different looks, Be yourself, Mind your manners
OVERARCHING GOALS: Students will be able to recognize general and specific COURSE:
I.E. JOSÉ MIGUEL DE RESTREPO Y
information in written and oral opinion texts and discussions on familiar topics.
PUERTA COPACABANA,
ANTIOQUIA NAME: ENGLISH TEACHER:
Carlos Alvarado

FIRST SECTION

a. Describe each image using basic tenses

1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
7.
8.
2.Look at the pictures and answer the following questions.

a. Which festivals can you see in the pictures?

b. Do you celebrate these days? If so, how?

c. What other festivals do people celebrate, in Colombia and abroad? How do they celebrate them?

3. Read and translate about two different festivals that are celebrated all around the world.
Which festival sounds more interesting to you and why? Tell a partner.
4. Read the texts again. Copy and complete the diagram with information about the
festivals.

5. Look at the sentences and questions below. Copy and complete the table
with the quantifiers. Some quantifiers go in more than one place. ( translate them)
Affirmative sentences

A lot of people dress up.

People spend a lot of time making their costumes.

We’re making some special cakes.

We’re drinking some special tea.

Negative sentences

There isn’t much money in the envelopes.

Not many people go home in the evening!

There aren’t any people on the streets at night.

There isn’t any milk.

Interrogative sentences

Do many people watch the parades?

Is there much money in the envelopes?

Have you got any biscuits?

Have you got any sugar?

6. Think of a festival and a special meal that you eat. Explain what things you eat as
part of the meal. Use the quantifiers from exercise 4.

Example: For Christmas lunch, we eat a lot of vegetables. We also have some meat. We

don’t eat much bread and we don’t eat any salad.

7. Go to the next link, https://www.youtube.com/watch?

v=EtCjt2JCf2U&feature=youtu.be&ab_channel=CarlosAlvaradoFonseca Listen to four people

describing their favourite special occasion. Match the people to the pictures.

.
8. Listen again and complete the table.

Celebration Pla Ti Activiti

ce m es
e

9. Work in groups. Discuss the following questions.

a. Do you have similar festivals in Colombia to the ones that you have read and heard about
in this lesson? Which ones?

b. Which of the festivals in this unit is the most interesting? Why?

c. Which special occasion would you like to have in Colombia? Why?

 10. How do you celebrate the following festivals in Colombia? Choose two, and
write a description. Say when and where people celebrate and what they usually
do.

a. Love and Friendship Day

b. Christmas
c. Patron Saint of the City
d. Independence Day
e. New Year’s Eve

SECOND SECTION AVOIDING THE CORONAVIRUS VIRUS

My name is Coronavirus

1. Answer the question and point out.

2. Translate the information.
3. Answer the next questions. (Use basic tenses, modal verbs, adjectives, quantifiers)

a. How should my mask fit?

b. When do I need to wear my mask?

c. Does wearing a mask mean it's safe to stand closer than 6 feet to someone else?

d. What's the right way to remove my mask?

e. How should I wash my mask and how often?