ACADEMIC TRAINING

PFA-01-R04
Versión 02
ENGLISH WORKSHOP

ENGLISH AREA
ELEVENTH GRADE
TERM 01
STUDENT:
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ABILITIES SKILLS
 Hago presentaciones orales sobre temas
de mi interés relacionados con el currículo
escolar
 Opino sobre los estilos de vida de la gente
 Speaking de otras culturas apoyándome en textos
 Listening escritos y orales previamente estudiados.
 Reading  Analizo textos descriptivos, narrativos y
 Writing argumentativos con el fin de comprender
ideas principales y específicas.
TEMATIC UNITS

 Analysis of my knowledge
 Descriptions
 Conditions in our context

THEMES SUB -THEMES


 Simple Present Simple Present vs Present Continuous
 Relative Clauses  Relative Pronouns
 Present Continuous or Progressive  Past simple vs Past Progressive
 Past Simple  Will vs Be going to
 Past Continuous or Progressive  Conditional 0
 Future  Conditional 1
 Conditionals  Conditional 2

ASSESMENT:
 Domina los conocimientos de presente, pasado y futuro en presentaciones orales y textos
donde expresa ideas principales y específicas
 Práctica sus conocimientos a través de la solución de ejercicios de entrenamiento para su
examen de estado (ICFES)
 Relaciona los temas aprendidos con su vida cotidiana

SIMPLE PRESENT UNDERSTANDING

1. Simple present explanation:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dSBIqRYu0PY
2. Third Person and the verbs:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gy1m8_CUzK0
3. Time Expressions video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iVmrNFP03Dg
4. Conversation with the use of simple present:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mEj7Y1cjALs
5. Exercises and game to practice simple present:
https://www.englishclub.com/esl-games/grammar/jumbled-tenses-present-simple-2.htm
6. Relationships in present:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FWJRwasIWnM
7. Exercises to practice:
https://learnenglish.britishcouncil.org/english-grammar-reference/present-simple

Lic. Mrs. MARITZA LACHE PIÑEROS English Teacher from Eleventh Grade 1
 READING COMPREHENSION

LIFE IN NEW ZEALAND

New Zealand is a multicultural country with friendly and easygoing people and with a lot of natural
resources. New Zealanders enjoy a balanced lifestyle; the economy creates an environment of work
opportunities. New Zealanders work hard at their jobs, employers recognize the importance of work
life balance (working hard and the time you spend enjoying).

New Zealand offers all sorts of options for choosing a home and lifestyle for your family because
you can spend more time with them, the world recognizes its education system as one of the best
and their healthcare is strong.

Young people grow up with easy access to outdoor sports, they ride horses, and everybody runs
along open beaches, a 90 % of population walks through native forest and the beauty of nature.

Families get great support from a range of public services thanks to the heavy government
subsidies. The rhythm of daily life varies with the days of the week, the seasons, and holidays and
according to a person’s age, family situation and the type of paid employment or education that they
undertake. There are work days and play days. Summer makes people to be far away from their
houses and winter pushes people staying indoor and keeping warm.

Holidays give a chance to ignore the clock, lie in bed, lounge on the couch reading, or watching
television, explore the internet, play games, meet friends or go swimming, biking, walking or skiing.

They don’t forget the earthquakes; they are always present in their lives because there are
earthquakes every day, but they don’t feel many of them.

Food costs lot (meat, cheese and vegetables) and the life is difficult if people don´t have a car and
want to know many places.

A native lizard says people can see easily the whales and dolphins at different times within the
year, a native person drinks wine because here it is fantastic.

If a person is a permanent resident, he or she has a lot of rights. New Zealand doesn’t have the
level of production of goods that some other countries do and it doesn’t have a good public
transportation system.

A person from Latin America misses family and friends, he or she doesn’t feel good because this
country doesn’t have festivals and there aren’t good places to dance. It doesn’t help people who are
depressive.

The culture is based on Maori Indigenous people and there is a European influence and migrants
bring different cultures, food becomes imaginative day by day with a classic style. You don’t
disrespect anything about Maori culture because you must know they are really serious with that.

Newspapers in New Zealand provide a high standard of reporting and all forms of media maintain
an online presence.

The traditional greeting is when people press their noses and foreheads and symbolizes the
passing of the breath of life. This is used on traditional ceremonies.

And finally you need to know that New Zealand people are high tolerant, so you don´t exhibit
arrogance or superiority and you will be always well received.

 Answer the following questions according to the reading.

1. What is a balance lifestyle in New Zealand?
2. What kind of options does New Zealand bring to people?
3. Why the healthcare is strong there?
4. How often do they have earthquakes?
5. Why is life difficult there?
6. Write a synonym from Native Lizard?
7. Why does this country offer bad conditions for a depressive person?
8. What kind of lifestyle does New Zealand have?
9. What characteristics does its culture have?

Lic. Mrs. MARITZA LACHE PIÑEROS English Teacher from Eleventh Grade 2
PROJECT

Choose a country of your preference and describe it with the use of the following verbs with
affirmative and negative ideas:

To be:ser o estar

 is – are –am
 isn’t = is not – aren’t = are not - am not

To have: tener

 has – have
 doesn’t have / don’t have

There is (singular) and there are (plural): Haber

 There isn’t and there aren’t

WRITING ABILITIES

Write information about the lifestyle in the country you selected before (describe people from there,
their normal life, their environment, their routines and all you want, using verbs in simple present in
affirmative and negative and using ideas in singular and plural). Don´t forget to use the time
expressions.

Note: take as an example the text from Mrs. Maritza about Life in New Zealand

PRESENT CONTINUOUS OR PROGRESSIVE UNDERSTANDING

1. Present continuous or progressive explanation:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=We_m8tyMqcE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=roOVDNSMJz8
2. Time Expressions:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iVmrNFP03Dg
3. Conversation with the use of present progressive:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tVuVrVr4dvI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5U5662_3Jfk
4. Exercises to practice:
https://www.englisch-hilfen.de/en/complex_tests/present_progressive1/index.php
5. Relationships at the moment with parents and classmates
https://learnenglishteens.britishcouncil.org/grammar/beginner-grammar/present-continuous
6. Games to practice:
https://agendaweb.org/verbs/present_continuous-exercises.html
https://learnenglishkids.britishcouncil.org/grammar-practice/present-simple-and-present-
continuous

READING COMPREHENSION

PROBLEMS NOWADAYS AROUND THE WORLD

POVERTY AROUND THE WORLD

Poverty is still a big problem in the world today, “developed” countries with strong economies
still have a significant number of people who are struggling to survive. According to UNICEF
around 22.000 children die due to poverty and 1.1 billion of people are not having access to
water and they are living without basic sanitation, electricity and the lack for resources for
proper health care are increasing nowadays.

Infectious diseases are causing the death of poor people around the world these years and
countries like India and China are contributing with 13% according to the statistics at the
moment.

The inequality causes the instances of losing values and crime is increasing based on the
feeling of injustice, besides, the circumstances are giving fewer options and education is not

Lic. Mrs. MARITZA LACHE PIÑEROS English Teacher from Eleventh Grade 3
 arriving to everybody. Governments are thinking on their own interests and they are investing
on different things far away from the benefits of poor people.

We need to support programs like World Vision where they work hardly to eradicate poverty.
They are teaching how to care the earth, they are also giving information about good nutrition,
the importance of education and they are helping people to increase the productivity of their
contexts.

Answer the following questions:

1. What is world vision doing?

2. What does UNICEF mean?
3. What are the infectious diseases that cause the death of poor people?
4. What are governments doing?
5. Why does the percentage of poor people increase?
6. What is the objective of the reading?

PROJECT: I am worried about … because …

Make a reflection and tell to the class or to the teacher what is happening now in a country of
your preference and why you are worried about it. Make a presentation with the tool of your
preference.

WRITING ARTICLE

Write a paragraph about the bad situation in Buenaventura these days using present
continuous and the time expressions.

SIMPLE PRESENT VS PRESENT CONTINUOUS OR PROGRESSIVE

SIMPLE PRESENT PRESENT CONTINUOUS OR

PROGRESSIVE
Repeated Actions Actions happening at the moment of
Fixed Arrangements speaking or around the moment of
Scheduled Events (Timetable) speaking
Sequence of actions in the present (first – Fixed plan in the near future
then –after that) Temporary actions trends
Instructions Repeated actions which are irritating
Things in General to the speaker (with always,
Facts constantly, etc)
Habits and routines Actions in progress
Developing Actions
TIME EXPRESSIONS TIME EXPRESSIONS
Always Now
Often Right now
Usually At the moment
Sometimes In this moment
Seldom Look!
Never Listen!
Rarely Today
Every day (daily) At the present
Every year (annually – yearly) Tonight
Every week (weekly) This morning / afternoon / evening
Every month (monthly) This week / month / year / weekend
On = (Mondays, Tuesdays, Wednesdays, This term
Thursdays, Fridays, Saturdays, Sundays, These days
weekends) Just now
Once a week Currently
Once a month
Once a year
Twice a week
Twice a month
Twice a year
Three times a / four times a … (you can
use different numbers)
In the morning
In the afternoon
In the evening
At night
At noon
At midnight
All the time

Lic. Mrs. MARITZA LACHE PIÑEROS English Teacher from Eleventh Grade 4
SIMPLE PRESENT VS PRESENT PROGRESSIVE PROJECT:

Make a poster that shows the relationships on a normal life and in this moment of pandemic, use
ideas with simple present and present continuous and don’t forget to use the time expressions and
the conjunction (or) to join your ideas.

SIMPLE PAST UNDERSTANDING

1. Simple Past Explanation

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O3FdGPehN-E
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ypq7nDhVrT8
2. Regular verbs:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r2cf1qcltzY
3. Irregular verbs:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aPgtdZ_urZk
4. Time Expressions
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O2nqdDSy9nk
5. Conversation with the use of simple past
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g-uW_KheiEc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ybuaVah9Uaw
6. Exercises to practice
https://www.english-4u.de/en/grammar/past-simple.htm
7. Games to practice
https://www.gamestolearnenglish.com/past-tense-game/
https://www.mes-games.com/past1.php

READING COMPREHENSION

CHARITIES

When I visited England a few weeks ago in November, it was the weekend that Children in Need
was on TV, an entertainment programme dedicated to raising money for disadvantaged children in
the UK. It was a fun filled Friday night that involved a whole host of celebrities and performers who
sang, danced and made a fool of themselves for charity. That year we saw a number from the
musical Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, a one-off “Doctor Who” special and they even had a
Club perform, all 7 of them, re-united for the first time in 11 years! It was amazing to sing along to
“Reach for the stars”, that situation brought back memories of my childhood.

But the best thing was the amount of money they raised. On that night alone it reached £32.6m!
That was an incredible amount of money!

That same weekend I visited the Tower of London, whose moat was filled with a sea of 800,000 red
ceramic poppies to represent all those who died in the First World War. It was a striking sight, that
really made you think about all those who sacrificed their lives for us. Sadly the poppies have all
been removed now but they have been sold for charity, with the funds, which were predicted to be
around £15 million according to the British Legion website, being split between various military
charities in the UK.

That same week Bob Geldof released Band Aid 30, a song featuring a number of big-name artists
like Olly Murs, One Direction and Bono (from U2) and went along the lines of “Do they know it’s
Christmas time at all” (maybe you know it?). These singers made this song for free, meaning all the
money from the sales of the song could go the victims of Ebola, not even iTunes was taking a cut.

All this got me thinking, have I seen anything like this whilst living in Italy? Well the answer is no.

In fact, one of my Italian friends was quite surprised by our generosity in the UK, commenting on
how many charity shops we have. These shops sell good quality second hand items that people
have donated such as clothes and books. I always buy my books from here because they are so
much cheaper! So you get a bargain whilst helping out a charity; everyone wins!

Whether this is just a British phenomenon I’m not sure, but I certainly didn’t realize that this was
such an important part of British culture. From its presence in every day life such as charity shops,
to special events like Children in need, the whole country gets involved!

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 CELEBRITIES AND CHARITY

Read the texts and be ready to participate in class with the information in the articles.

Colombian singer Shakira is famous about her beauty, hip shaking and her voice, but she also
works tirelessly for good causes. When she was just eighteen and starting to make money as a
singer, she decided to use that money to create the Barefoot Foundation, named after the children
who lived on the streets in her local community. The organization aims to provide an education for
poor and disadvantaged children with the hope of lifting them out of poverty.

She knows what it is like to have no money as, when she was seven her father´s jewellery business
went bankrupt. Her family had to sell a lot of their belongings, including her air conditioner and their
television. When she complained to her father about the heat with no air conditioner, her father took
her to see the "barefoot" children, who lived in the dirt, with tattered clothes and bare feet, and she
realized that many families had less than they did. This made a lasting impression on her. In April
2004, she was appointed the youngest ever UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador.

LISTENING ACTIVITY

Watch the video and listen to Shakira's speech

(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U8iy5zvXhJc), then answer the following questions:

1. How did people know her?

2. What was her purpose in life?

3. Why did she say people live trapped in a vicious cycle in Colombia?

4. What did she remember when she was eight years old?

5. What did she ask herself?

6. Where were kids living and how were the characteristics of that place?

7. What is poverty?

8. What did she want to do first when she got successes?

9. When was her foundation born?

10. What kind of witness did she have according with her childhood?

11. What did she know when she was 18 years old?

12. What did she feel?

13. What did she realized?

14. What does education provide?

15. Why did the government didn´t say no to her project when she decided to engage it?

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David Beckam, an English footballing hero, played for Manchester United, England, Real Madrid
and LA Galaxy, and is one of England´s wealthiest sportsmen. He came into the news in2013,
however, for a different reason. On signing for Paris St - Germain, a French team, he promised to
donate part of his weekly salary to a French Children's charity.

He has always worked tirelessly for good causes and is passionate about helping children. In
January 2005, he became a UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador. Since then he has an important role in
UNICEF´s work. In 2012 he took part in a Save the children Campaign to persuade the UK Prime
Minister David Cameron to take action to help children affected by malnutrition around the world. In
2015 he launched his own David Beckman UNICEF fund to help protect children in danger.

 Write DB (David Beckman), S (Shakira) or B (both) according to any idea.

Who ...
a. has experienced poverty? _______
b. started their own charitable organisation? ______
c. gave all their salary to charity? ______
d. lived in Spain and France? _______
e. is dedicated to help children? ______
f. has been UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador? _______
g. wanted to help children in their local community? ______

WRITING ABILITIES:

Write about your childhood and describe all the aspects that were remarkable on you using simple
past and regular and irregular verbs.

PROJECT:

Select a celebrity who support charities and tell us how he or she started with that. Prepare a
presentation to show the aspects you want to highlight and practice the pronunciation to talk.

PAST PROGRESSIVE UNDERSTANDING

1. Past Progressive Explanation

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=liX95VS4a14
https://es.slideshare.net/colomboamericanopereira/c9-c4-project-past-continuous-vs-
simple-past
2. Time Expressions
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9qte1mz_tvI
3. Conversation with the use of past progressive
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=etvW0FOD_so
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kHNwVK_IB-0
4. Exercises to practice
https://agendaweb.org/verbs/past_progressive-exercises.html
https://www.myenglishpages.com/site_php_files/grammar-exercise-past-progressive.php
5. Games to practice
https://www.eslgamesplus.com/past-progressive-past-continuous-past-simple-verb-tenses-
esl-grammar-interactive-activity/

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 https://www.englishclub.com/esl-games/grammar/jumbled-tenses-past-continuous-1.htm

WRITING ABILITIES

 Narrate a terrible day you had using simple past and past progressive

PAST SIMPLE VS PAST CONTINUOUS OR PROGRESSIVE

PAST SIMPLE PAST PROGRESSIVE

 Action finished in the past (single or
repeated)
 Series of completed actions in the past
 Regular verbs (infinitive + ed)
 Irregular Verbs (2nd column of the
table of the irregular verbs).
 Together with the past progressive/
continuous. The simple past
interrupted an action which was in
progress in the past
 Action was in progress at a special
time in the past
 Two actions were happening at the
same time (the actions don’t influence
each other)
 Was or were + infinitive + ing
 Together with simple past represent
the action that was interrupted.
 Repeated Actions irritating the speaker
(with always, constantly, etc)

TIME EXPRESSIONS TIME EXPRESSIONS

 Yesterday  While
 Last Week  When
 Last month  As
 Last year  A certain time specified: yesterday at
 A month ago 9am
 A year ago  Last week on Sunday
 Three days ago  Three years ago in May
 In 2009
 This morning

ROLE PLAY AND CONVERSATION

 Create questions and answers between a lawyer in a court with a case of a crime where the
person died and a person who is accused of that death. Don´t forget to use simple past,
past progressive and time expressions.

READING COMPREHENSION WITH ANONYMUS WRITERS

A DOG´S STORY

He’s a very happy dog, but his life used to be very different. Two years ago, when he was just a
puppy, he was living on the streets. He had wounds all over his body and he was drinking water
from the ground.

People scared him and he didn’t like it when a dog catcher picked him up. But that was when his life
turned around. He spent a month at the vet’s getting better and then he went home with Hazel, his
new owner. Now he’s probably the most fashionable dog in his neighborhood.

Answer the following questions:

1. Where was it living?

2. How long was the dog getting better?
3. Who was Hazel?

A BUSY DAY

It was a busy day, the sun was shining and everyone was hurrying to work. Michael decided to take
a different route to college, and something caught his eye. A young puppy was limping along the
road. He looked very sick and he was starving.

Michael found him some food and water, but he couldn’t afford to adopt him because he was
supporting both himself and his younger brother through school. So he turned to his friends for help.
He posted a message on Facebook with a map of the dog’s location and asked everyone to share
it.

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The message made its way where Geri picked it up. She contacted her friends in the Philippines
and found someone to take Jay to the vet.

Jay was suffering from mange, a skin disease that made him lose his fur. He was always scratching
because his skin was itchy, but not any more. Jay was adopted by Ninfa and just look at him now.
What a bundle of lovely white fur and what a happy dog!

Answer the following questions:

1. What were people doing in that busy day?

2. Where did Michael go?
3. What were the conditions of the puppy?
4. Why Michael didn’t adopt it?
5. Who was Jay?
6. What did the disease make on the young puppy?

FUTURE UNDERSTANDING

1. Future Explanation
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vjoZvhzWfxI
2. Be going to Explanation
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=juhyvurt6Jw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Um_AWHNKJI
3. Time Expressions
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kj-2BXXHkKk&t=121s
4. Conversation with the use of future
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U8L2m8TeIWA
5. Exercises to practice
https://agendaweb.org/verbs/future-simple-exercises.html
6. Games to practice
https://www.eslgamesplus.com/future-forms-review-spin/
https://www.mes-games.com/future1.php

READING COMPREHENSION
TOYOTA MOTOR COORPORATION AND THE CONSTRUCTION OF A
SMART CITY

Toyota Motor Corporation started a construction on a Smart city at the base of Japan’s Mount Fuji,
about 62 miles from Tokyo.

The city, which Toyota called the “Woven City,” is expected to function as a testing ground for
technologies like robotic smart homes, and artificial intelligence. A starting population of about 360
inventors, senior citizens, and families with young children will test and develop these technologies.

These residents, who will move into the Woven City within five years, will live in smart homes with in-
home robotics systems to assist with daily living and sensor-based artificial intelligence to monitor
health and take care of other basic needs, according to the company.

The eventual plan is for the city to house a population of more than 2,000 Toyota employees and
their families, retired couples, retailers, and scientists. Toyota announced plans for the city at CES
(the biggest tech trade show in Las Vegas).

Called the “Woven City,” the development will feature pedestrian streets “interwoven” with streets
dedicated to self-driving cars, according to press materials. The city will be fully sustainable, powered
by hydrogen fuel cells.

The Woven City will function as a testing ground for technologies like robotics, smart homes, and
artificial intelligence, according to the company.

Toyota officially started construction on the city in a groundbreaking ceremony and plans to send
about 360 people to live in the Woven City to start. From there, it intends to gradually grow the
population to more than 2,000.

The first residents will be a group of roughly 360 inventors, senior citizens, and young families with
children, according to the company; these residents will move in within five years.

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Residents will live in homes outfitted with in-home robotics technology as well as sensor-based
artificial intelligence to monitor their health and take care of their basic needs.

Toyota says it plans to integrate nature throughout the city with native vegetation and hydroponics, a
method of growing plants without soil.

They will design the city with three different types of streets: one for self-driving vehicles, one for
pedestrians using personal mobility devices like bikes, and one for pedestrians only.

Some critics say smart city developers should focus on the human aspect of the projects, not just
technology.

The city is still under construction with completion expected in 2022.

Taken from: https://medium.com/topic/future and written by Katie Warren (senior reporter at

business insider)

 Answer the following questions about the text:

1. Where will the company build this smart city?
2. What kind of technologies will this project have?
3. Who will live there?
4. How will be the streets?
5. When is the project going to be ready?

WRITING ABILLITIES

Write a text where you explain about your project of life and what are the steps you are going to do
to make that dream real. Don’t forget to use future.

PROJECT

Prepare a presentation where you can talk about the most important professions for future and
explain why. Don´t forget to use the time expressions.

FUTURE WITH WILL VS FUTURE WITH BE GOING TO

WILL BE GOING TO
 Offer  Decisions made before the moment of
 Promise speaking
 Threat  Evidence / signs (when there are signs
 Refusal that something is likely to happen
 When  When something is about to happen
 When we think or believe something  To talk about a planned activity for
about the future (Prediction) future
 You use won’t (the negative form of  For prediction in a near future. The
will) when someone refuses to do speaker is sure because there are
something signs about it.
 When we decided to do something at  Definite plans
the time of speaking  Immediate actions
 For a prediction in the remote future
 Requests
 Invitations
 Dreams

TIME EXPRESSIONS TIME EXPRESSIONS

 Perhaps  In a week
 Probably  In a month
 Certainly  In an hour
 Tomorrow  On the weekend
 Tomorrow Morning  In June (months of the year)
 Tomorrow Afternoon  Tonight
 Tomorrow Evening  Next
 Next week  After
 Next month
 Next year
 One day after today
 The week after this week

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BIBLIOGRAPHY

Ministerio de Educación Nacional. English Please 11°. Richmond Edition help 2.016
https://learnenglish.britishcouncil.org/skills/reading
https://agendaweb.org
https://www.englishclub.com

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Lic. Mrs. MARITZA LACHE PIÑEROS Lic. CLAUDIA TEODY DUARTE
English Teacher from Eleventh Grade Academic Coordinator

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