Colegio Gimnasio Santo Rey

Aprobado por la Secretaría de Educación del Quindío Resolución No. 1313 de Abril 13 de 2.013
“Ciencia, Conocimiento y Vida”

September 21st to november 20th

ÁREA: ENGLISH
GRADO: Seventh
TITULO: The old days. Better days
DOCENTE: Claudia Marcela Sánchez Ramos
PERIODO: FOURTH

ESTANDAR:
Identifico en textos sencillos, elementos culturales como costumbres y
celebraciones
Comprendo la idea general en una descripción y en una narración

LOGROS:
Narrar eventos pasados.
Establecer comparaciones entre personajes, lugares y objetos.

INDICADORES DE LOGROS:
Utiliza el pasado simple en todas sus formas
Compara cosas o personas utilizando comparativos y superlativos en
adjetivos.

EJES TEMATICOS:
Comparatives and superlatives
Conectors
Present and past continuous
Presnt perfect
Celebrations
Places

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 EXPLORACIÒN DE CONCEPTOS:

COMPARATIVES AND SUPERLATIVES

Comparative adjectives are used to compare one noun to another noun. Superlative
adjectives are used to compare three or more nouns. They´re also used to compare
one thing against the rest of a group. Superlative adjectives demonstrate a higher
level of comparison between entities.

ADJECTIVE COMPARATIVE SUPERLATIVE

Angry Angrier than the angriest
Bad Worse than the worst
Big Bigger than the biggest
Small Smaller than the smallest
Dangerous more dangerous than the most dangerous
Good Better than the best
Fat Fatter than the fattest

CONSTRUCCIÒN TEORICO CONCEPTUAL

Long Longer
Short adjectives Short Shoter
Big bigger
Easy Easier
Adjectives ending happy happier
Difficult More difficult
Longer adjectives Important More important
Bad Worse
Irregular adjectives Good better
far further

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1. Many people say that Hungarian is one of the most difficult languages
2. When Sarah won 1.000. she was the happiest girl in the world.
3. The internet was the most important inventions in the 1960s
4. Vatican City is the smallest country in the world.
5. When my grandmother died, it was one of the worst times in my life.
6. The Nile is the longest river in the world.

CONNECTORS
Linking words or Word connectors are used to link large groups of words:
Phrases and sentences.
You can also use them to connect paragraphs to give them coherence.

Connectors of contrast:
Whereas, however, yet, despite, but, although, Nevertheless.
Addition:
Further,moreover, in addition, then, also, too, besides
Result:
Accordingly, as a result, in consequence, so , than
Time:
Meanwhile, presently, at last, finally, eventually.

PRESENT AND PAST CONTINUOUS

We use the present continuous and past continuous verb tenses when talking
or writing about actions that continue or continued over period of time.

I am walking
I was walking
I was walking hard when the telephone interrupted me.
Everyone was shouting . They were always arguing.
PRESENT PERFECT
How long
I´ve known Karen since 1994
She is lived in London for three years

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 Use with: Since 2010, since July, for the years, for three days
Unfinished time Word
I haven`t seen her this month
Use with: this week, today, this month, this year.
Present result: I`ve lost my keys (so I can`t ge tinto my house)

ACTIVIDADES PRODUCTIVAS

READ AND ANSWER QUESTIONS:

Adrian Ocampo`s a Colombian scientist. Right now, She`s working for Nasa on a
Project to explore Jupiter , a planet in our solar system. She is coodinating the
Project called New Horizons´. In that programme, a spaceship is travelling across
the solar system and is going to jupiter. The ship´s collecting rocks and analyzing
Jupiter. Adriana`s controlling the process and she is making Colombia famous.

1.Who is Adriana Ocampo?

2.Where is she working?
3. What is the name of the Project?
4. What is the ship doing?
5. Why is she famous?

Write 8 sentences in present progressive

Write 8 sentences in past progressive

Complete the sentences. Use the comparative or superlative form of the adjectives

1. Today is the _______(long) day of the year

2. For me. Geography is _________(difficult) than Maths.
3. History is the ______(easy) subject at school.
4. I feel dreadful this is the_______(bad) day of my life
5. I don´t argue with Joe , because he´s ________(big) than me.
6. Sally is ________(good) than me at Art.
7. I think my results will be _________ (bad) this year than last year
8. If you want to be fit , a healthy diet and lots of exercise are the______(important)

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Things.

Complete the sentences with the words: imitate, translate, make mistakes, look up,
accent, mean, guess, communicate.

1.When I speak English, I sometimes _______ ____ in gramar, but I can still
_______ with English speakers.
2.Excuse me, what does this Word _____?
3. I want my pronunciation to be better, so I listen to cassetes and ________ the
speakers
4. For homework, our teacher sometimes gives us texts in English and we have to
________ them into our language.
5. My father speaks good English, but he has a very strong ______
6. When I don´t know a Word, I try to ______ the meaning. If I can´t do that. I
______ the Word in my dictionary.

Read, underline 12 adjectives

My mother is studying Russian in her free time. She goes to a small class at our
local college and she practises conversation with an old friend of hers, who is an
excellent teacher. The Russian alphabet is different from ours , and that was
strange at first. But Mum is good at languages and she´s planning a big holiday in
Russia and Finland soon, and I think that´s really exciting idea.

Write the comparatives forms in the table. Exciting, good, small, quiet, big, lonely,
difficult, bad, expensive, succesful, cheap, noisy , far, relaxing, old.

ER MORE IRREGULAR
SMALL SMALLER

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Compare the two cafés. Write sentences with some of the adjectives from the next
exercise

 EFES CAFÉ
30th birthday specials
This week
Our famous coffee just $ 1.40
A range of sandwiches
At $ 4.50
Big games room with video screen and five pool tables

CAFÉ PARADISO
Just open
Coffee $1.25
Fresh Sandwiches
From only $ 3.25
Small but friendly , relaxing atmosphere

1. Café paradiso is smaller than Efes Café

2.
3.
4.
5.
6.

Write superlatives forms:

High, boring, beautiful, bad, big, important, easy, good, thin, delicious, heavy,
creative, short, rich, intelligent.

EST MOST IRREGULAR

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