Unit 8/ week 6

Remote Learning Activities Guide No. 5

Date: September 14th -19th

Introduction

This course student’s guide is to help you complete the different activities for the topic “food an culture”. The
activities are set in sequence to be completed in the week, and they can be accessed in Blackboard. Please,
read the information and instructions carefully before starting each activity. Also, contact me any time in case
you have any question. (oabadia@javerianacali.edu.co )

Topic’s learning outcome:

At the end of the content Students will be able to express Speak about actions that are in some way in progress
now/ presently/ currently/ now, etc, and earn mo st of the vocabulary related to food and at the restaurant.

Activity 1
At the restaurant

Aim: Students will be able to think and express ideas in present progressive

Instructions: Please, read very carefully each instruction to follow.

Answer the following questions with your teacher. Prepare in advance your answers:

Ask students to close their eyes and think about their relatives like their mom, dad, husband, wife, dog, etc.), tell them to
think about what are they doing right now (for example 'She is preparing lunch', 'he is working', 'he is running', etc.).
Ask individually, and make sure students are using the correct progressive form, be at hand to correct mistakes or
provide help with some vocabulary students may need to make their sentences then
Make them to report to the class their choice and sentences, individually, and make sure students are using the correct
progressive form, be at hand to correct mistakes or provide help with some vocabulary students may need to make their
sentences.
What’s going on? Explain to the students that there are actions that express a temporary action happening in the right
present moment: Now.
 LET’S TALK ABOUT THE PRESENT CONTINOUS

Activity 2.

At the restaurant.

Aim: The student will be able to complete sentences and identify different progressive actions forms.

What’s going on in each picture?

 Activity 3
At the restaurant
Aim: Practice and learn the structures, vocabulary, and activities related to the
present progressive actions..

Complete each sentence or question with the main verbs.

1. How _________ you ____________?
2. ________ he __________ to the store?
3. My feet _________ __________ me.
4. Everyone _________ ____________ now.
5. Where _________ you __________?
6. This computer ________ ___________ anymore.
7. Mark __________ __________ his car.
8. The customer __________ __________ her car with gas.
9. What _________ she ___________ for breakfast?
10. Where _________ we __________?

b. Reading:

Academic skills

Right now, it is Monday morning. Mike and ____________________________________

Tina are at home. They are sitting at a table.
They are eating breakfast. At this moment,
Tina is drinking coffee. She is eating a pastry.
She is sitting across the table from Mike. She
is talking to Mike. Mike is Tina’s husband. He
is sitting at the table with Tina. He is also
drinking coffee. Mike is listening to Tina. After
breakfast, Mike and Tina are leaving for work.
They work in the city. They are riding the bus
to work.
____________________________________
____________________________________
B. Rewrite the following sentences as
negative sentences, yes/no questions, WH-
questions (using the underlined word) and tag
questions.
Examples for the sentence “Sandy is cooking
tonight.”

A. Answer the following questions. Use the
Present Progressive tense.  Yes/No Question: Is Sandy cooking tonight?
1. Where are Mike and Tina on Monday
morning? What are they doing?
____________________________________
____________________________________
____________________________________
____________________________________
2. Where is Tina sitting now? What is Tina
eating?
____________________________________
____________________________________
____________________________________
____________________________________
3. Where are Mike and Tina going after
breakfast? How are they getting there?
____________________________________
Negative: Sandy is not cooking tonight.
WH-Question: When is Sandy cooking?
1. They are eating breakfast.
Negative:____________________________
__________________________________
Yes/No
Question:____________________________
____________________________
WH
Question_____________________________
______________________________
2. Mike is listening to Tina.
Negative:____________________________
__________________________________
Yes/No Questio (long
answer):_____________________________
_________________________ 
WH
Question:____________________________ 4. My mother is preparing dinner now.
Negative:
3. They are riding the bus to work. ____________________________________ 
Yes/No Question (long answer):
Negative: ____________________________________
____________________________________ WH-Question:
Yes/No Question (long answer): ____________________________________
____________________________________
WH-Question:
___________________________________

Activity 4

1. Aim: Use the vocabulary related to “At the restaurant”.

At the restaurant:

Watch the video below with the main vocabulary about “at the restaurant”.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I6lArkT15l8

Create your own conversation using all the expressions learned in it. You must add
at least 2 present continuous sentences.

DELIVERABLE

Assessment:
app.animaker.com/video/IDJD2E3VNJNM7DOM

It’s time to do video you may use any application for doing videos Pootown,
animaker, etc. or instead you can do your own video and upload it by youtube. If
you decide this last choice, you have to be stood up and write the script in the
video.