María Alejandra Acuña Arrieta

Oficina de Bilingüismo
Fundación Universitaria Tecnologico Comfenalco

ENGLISH 4A
SELF-STUDY GUIDE
CORTE 2

Teacher: Ruberth Salas Guerrero

Welcoming paragraph:

Hello my dear students. I would like to welcome you all to this new experience,
first of all by letting you know that you can always count on me for whatever you
need through-out this process. I am sure we will have a lot of fun and also learn
many interesting things.

Methodology:

 As you already know we will be developing our classes online. For which
we will be using the platforms Teams and Ferrum.
 I will schedule meetings every week through the platform Teams.
 I will upload all the information regarding the classes on Ferrum.
 We will develop our classes in 10 weeks. Each week we will work on a
different communicative subject.
 Every three weeks I will share with you on Ferrum a self-study guide, such
as this one, with different activities in order for you to work on
autonomously. The guide is divided in 4 stages.

Stage 1: Warm-up.
Stage 2: Topic presentation.
Stage 3: Practice. INTERACT App
Stage 4: Project.

 We will cover each aspect of the guide each week on our meeting on
Teams.

Communicative objectives:

 Talk about an important person from your past

 Write and perform a radio commercial.
 Discuss fears.
  Share real or imaginary stories about the past

Stage 1 • Tal
Warm-up

Warm-up space:

WEEK 4:

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WEEK 5:

Answerthe question: What products can you see in the

picture?
 a) Beer

b) Search

c) Makeup

d) Car

e) Coffee

f) Popsocle ice cream

g) Store

h) Shoes

WEEK 6:
 1) Things that scare you make you feel afraid.

2) Scare is a strong feeling of fear or worry that stops you from thinking

properly.

3) If something gives you a panic, it makes you feel suddenly frightened and

worried.

4) People with a phobia have a very strong fear or dislike of a particular thing.

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Stage 2
Topic Presentation

Presentation of the unit’s function and language space:

The main purpose of this space is for the teacher to present the communicative
objectives using contextualized examples that allow students to understand the
different functions and language of the unit.

Functions and language

 Used to, the simple past, and was always for past habits
 Extended listening and speaking
 Present Perfect Simple and past simple with time expressions
 Past perfect simple and past perfect continuous.

WEEK 4
An inspirational Figure
EXERCISE WEEK 4
Name : “Poty”
Facts Characteristic behaviour
my best friend from first semester in I was always late for class but she
college brought me a treat
Behaviour you really liked Behaviour that annoyed you
he always supported me in group sometimes we argue over nonsense
activities and made excellent
presentations
 WEEK 5
Commercial Break

EXERCISE WEEK 5

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Grupo diana is a recognized brand in rice brand in Colombia, since 1964 it
has been preferred by everyone, its flavor is unique and unmatched, today
we are pleased to present the new premium flavor of diana which has a
peculiar coconut flavor.

WEEK 6
Facing Fears

EXERCISE WEEK 6
1. (ever /just/ this year) it´s the most frightening thing I’ve ever done.
2. (before / last month/ yet) I haven´t tried ii before.
3. (always/ last year /never) I was never scared of the dark as a child
4. (just / today / on Tuesday) I’ve heard some terrible news on Tuesday.
5. (ago / for / since) I lived there a year ago.
6. (always/ never / ever) I’ve never studied French.

HOLIDAYS FROM HELL

 EXERCISE WEEK 6

Situation
Where were you, and who were you
with?
What had you been doing just before
the incident happened?
What happened?
What did you do?
What happened in the end?
2
in my house, with my cousin
watching netflix in my room
we ate popcorn and laughed a lot
watch a comedy movie
we went out to eat pizza food
 Stage 3
INTERACT APP
e App / classwork
In this space the teacher has the opportunity to assign exercises from the
textbook INTERACT using its APP in order for the students to practice all of the
functions studied above.

Please attach the screenshots of Interact 4 to this file:

 An inspirational figure
 Commercial Break
 Facing Fears
 Holidays from Hell

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 Stage 4
Project
The project is the last part of the development of this self-study guide.
In this space the teacher will suggest an activity that allows the students to find
relevance to all of the above studied topics in a creative way.

Project

Record a short radio commercial (30 seconds) and upload it to Ferrum

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