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LICEO DE LA
PRESENTACIÓN
SOGAMOSO

ENGLISH MODULE: FIRST TERM

DESIGN BY: LUZ ANGELA CASTILLO ACEVEDO

Student´s name: _________________________________ GRADE: 10º

Competencia: Argumenta y utiliza tiempos gramaticales sobre la

proyección de los eventos tecnológicos apoyándose en diferentes tipos
de texto.
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LOVE AND RESPECT QUOTATIOS

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LESSON 1 – PRESENT VERBAL TENSES (SIMPLE, PROGRESSIVE)

GRAMMAR

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Exercises
1. Complete the following exercises with present simple or present continuous
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2. Organize the following statements and write sentences in present simple or present continuous.

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3. Complete the following exercises with present perfect or present continuous

a. They _______________(make) exercise in the park at 7 am

b. He __________________ (speak) German for ten years
c. Andrew and Tomas ______________(pay) the bills in the office now
d. Alejandra __________________(live) in California all her live.
e. The ten graders can’t participate in the tournament. They ____________ (forget) the sneakers.
f. He broke his arm, he ________________( take) a rest for a few days
g. We _____________(already/present) the quiz so we can go home.
h. Hurry up Laura ! the door _____________(closing) early this week
i. You ____________(not/finish) the architect plan yet
j. I have and appointment today, I _______________ (take) bus rightnow
k. Tom you are always ______________ (use) your cellphone in class! Paid attention please.

4. According to the previous rules create a short story with present simple, present progressive and
present perfect.
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READING
3 Ways technology could change the world by 2025

1. AI-optimized manufacturing

Paper and pencil tracking, luck, significant global travel and opaque supply chains are part of today’s status quo,
resulting in large amounts of wasted energy, materials and time. Accelerated in part by the long-term shutdown of
international and regional travel by COVID-19, companies that design and build products will rapidly adopt cloud-based
technologies to aggregate, intelligently transform, and contextually present product and process data from
manufacturing lines throughout their supply chains. By 2025, this ubiquitous stream of data and the intelligent
algorithms crunching it will enable manufacturing lines to continuously optimize towards higher levels of output and
product quality – reducing overall waste in manufacturing by up to 50%. As a result, we will enjoy higher quality
products, produced faster, at lower cost to our pocketbooks and the environment.

2. A far-reaching energy transformation

In 2025, carbon footprints will be viewed as socially unacceptable, much like drink driving is today. The COVID-19
pandemic will have focused the public’s attention on the need to take action to deal with threats to our way of life, our
health and our future. Public attention will drive government policy and behavioural changes, with carbon footprints
becoming a subject of worldwide scrutiny. Individuals, companies and countries will seek the quickest and most
affordable ways to achieve net-zero – the elimination of their carbon footprint. The creation of a sustainable, net-zero
future will be built through a far-reaching energy transformation that significantly reduces the world’s carbon emissions,
and through the emergence of a massive carbon management industry that captures, utilizes and eliminates carbon
dioxide. We’ll see a diversity of new technologies aimed at both reducing and removing the world’s emissions –
unleashing a wave of innovation to compare with the industrial and digital Revolutions of the past.

Steve Oldham, CEO of  Carbon Engineering

3. A new era of computing

By 2025, quantum computing will have outgrown its infancy, and a first generation of commercial devices will be able
tackle meaningful, real-world problems. One major application of this new kind of computer will be the simulation of
complex chemical reactions, a powerful tool that opens up new avenues in drug development. Quantum chemistry
calculations will also aid the design of novel materials with desired properties, for instance better catalysts for the
automotive industry that curb emissions and help fight climate change. Right now, the development of pharmaceuticals
and performance materials relies massively on trial and error, which means it is an iterative, time-consuming and terribly
expensive process. Quantum computers may soon be able to change this. They will significantly shorten product
development cycles and reduce the costs for R&D.
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Thomas Monz, Co-Founder and CEO of  Alpine Quantum Technologies

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1. Which is your favorite advance? why?

2. Which has been the best digital or technological advance? describe the field and explain why?

LISTENING

Listen and complete the following exercise, use present simple tenses.

present simple vs present continuous

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Present perfect and continuous

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WRITING –SPEAKING
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Are you thinking in a possible creation? Reflect about and create your own invention use present tenses.
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Lasers have found their way into nearly every

sector, from medicine to consumer electronics to
manufacturing. In fact, the medicine field is using
as strategy in chirurgical processes and in our
daily life person comes into contact with a laser
in some shape or form.

Steps fort your presentation

- Look for the principal Time for your presentation!

Select a revolutionary picture
for you invention
information to model your
writing exercise
Describe the important invention using
the present tenses view in class.
Don`t forget the new vocabulary
pronunciation .
Now you are ready for your
presentation you have 5 min

LESSON 2 – PRESENT PERFECT VS PAST SIMPLE

GRAMMAR

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Select the best option present perfect or past simple

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WRITING

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It’s time for writing
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LISTENING

Big Bang Theory - past simple and present perfect

Listen the trailer and complete the following statements with present perfect or past simple

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READING

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LESSON 3– FIRST AND SECOND CONDITIONAL

GRAMMAR

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LISTENING AND SPEAKING EXERCISE

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READING

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LESSON 4 – PRESENT PERFECT PROGRESSIVE

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GRAMMAR

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https://worldenglishblog.com/present-perfect-continuous/

Exercises
1. He (write) an interesting essay.______________________________________________________________
2. I (take) the dose of medicine for two days._____________________________________________________
3. The farmer (plant) since morning.__________________________________________________________
4. I (learn) English._________________________________________________________________________
5. Rita (drive) the black car for five years._______________________________________________________
6. The children (watch) the TV all day long._____________________________________________________
7. John (smoke) for five years.________________________________________________________________
8. The mechanic (fix) my bike since morning.____________________________________________________
9. I (plan) my holidays for one week.___________________________________________________________
10. He (obey) the orders of his boss._____________________________________________________________
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READING
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LISTENING AND SPEAKING

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cont.htm

WRITING

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READING PLAN Nº1

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READING PLAN Nº2

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READING PLAN 3

Two decades ago, the American government left democracy’s front door open to California’s fledgling
internet companies, a cozy fire lit in welcome. In the years that followed, a surveillance society
flourished in those rooms, a social vision born in the distinct but reciprocal needs of public
intelligence agencies and private internet companies, both spellbound by a dream of total information
awareness. Twenty years later, the fire has jumped the screen, and on Jan. 6, it threatened to burn
down democracy’s house.

I have spent exactly 42 years studying the rise of the digital as an economic force driving our
transformation into an information civilization. Over the last two decades, I’ve observed the
consequences of this surprising political-economic fraternity as those young companies morphed into
surveillance empires powered by global architectures of behavioral monitoring, analysis, targeting
and prediction that I have called surveillance capitalism. On the strength of their surveillance
capabilities and for the sake of their surveillance profits, the new empires engineered a fundamentally
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anti-democratic epistemic coup marked by unprecedented concentrations of knowledge about us and

the unaccountable power that accrues to such knowledge.
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In an information civilization, societies are defined by questions of knowledge — how it is distributed,
the authority that governs its distribution and the power that protects that authority. Who knows?
Who decides who knows? Who decides who decides who knows? Surveillance capitalists now hold the
answers to each question, though we never elected them to govern. This is the essence of the
epistemic coup. They claim the authority to decide who knows by asserting ownership rights over our
personal information and defend that authority with the power to control critical information systems
and infrastructures.
The horrific depths of Donald Trump’s attempted political coup ride the wave of this shadow coup,
prosecuted over the last two decades by the antisocial media we once welcomed as agents of
liberation. On Inauguration Day, President Biden said that “democracy has prevailed” and promised
to restore the value of truth to its rightful place in democratic society. Nevertheless, democracy and
truth remain under the highest level of threat until we defeat surveillance capitalism’s other coup.

The epistemic coup proceeds in four stages.

The first is the appropriation of epistemic rights, which lays the foundation for all that follows.
Surveillance capitalism originates in the discovery that companies can stake a claim to people’s lives
as free raw material for the extraction of behavioral data, which they then declare their private
property.

The second stage is marked by a sharp rise in epistemic inequality, defined as the difference between
what I can know and what can be known about me. The third stage, which we are living through now,
introduces epistemic chaos caused by the profit-driven algorithmic amplification, dissemination and
microtargeting of corrupt information, much of it produced by coordinated schemes of
disinformation. Its effects are felt in the real world, where they splinter shared reality, poison social
discourse, paralyze democratic politics and sometimes instigate violence and death.
In the fourth stage, epistemic dominance is institutionalized, overriding democratic governance with
computational governance by private surveillance capital. The machines know, and the systems
decide, directed and sustained by the illegitimate authority and anti-democratic power of private
surveillance capital. Each stage builds on the last. Epistemic chaos prepares the ground for epistemic
dominance by weakening democratic society — all too plain in the insurrection at the U.S. Capitol.

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Reading plan Nº4

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READING PLAN Nº5

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READING PLAN Nº6

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READING PLAN Nº7

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READING PLAN Nº8

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Name: _____________________________

Nonfiction Reading Test

Seat Belts

Directions: Read the following passage and answer the questions that follow. Refer to the text to
check your answers when appropriate.

"Click!" That's the sound of safety. That's the

sound of survival. That's the sound of a seat belt
locking in place. Seat belts save lives and that's
a fact. That's why I don't drive anywhere until
mine is on tight. Choosing to wear your seat
belt is a simple as choosing between life and
death. Which one do you choose?

Think about it. When you're driving in a car, you How about giving money away? Do you like to
may be going 60 MPH or faster. That car is give your money away? Probably not. And when
zipping down the road. Then somebody ahead you don't wear your seat belt, you are begging
of you locks up his or her brakes. Your driver to give your money away. That's because kids
doesn't have time to stop. The car that you are are required to wear seat belts in every state in
in crashes. Your car was going 60 miles per America. If you're riding in a car, and you don't
hour. Now it has suddenly stopped. Your body, have a seat belt on, the police can give you or
however, is still going 60 MPH. What's going to your driver a ticket. Then you will have to give
stop your body? Will it be the windshield or money to the city. I'd rather keep my money,
your seat belt? Every time that you get into a but you can spend yours how you want.
car you make that choice. I choose the seat belt.
Wearing a seat belt does not make you
Some people think that seat belts are uncool. invincible. You can still get hurt or killed while
They think that seat belts cramp their style, or wearing your seat belt. But wearing them has
that seat belts are uncomfortable. To them I proven to be safer than driving without them.
say, what's more uncomfortable? Wearing a You are much less likely to be killed in a car
seat belt or flying through a car windshield? wreck if you are wearing a seat belt. You are
What's more uncool? Being safely anchored to a much less likely to get seriously injured if you
car, or skidding across the road in your jean are wearing one. So why not take the safer
shorts? Wearing a seat belt is both cooler and way? Why not go the way that has been proven
more comfortable than the alternatives. to result in fewer deaths? You do want to live,
don't you?
Let's just take a closer look at your choices. If
you are not wearing your seat belt, you can hop
around the car and slide in and out of your seat
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also more likely to die or suffer serious injuries.
If you are wearing a seat belt, you have to stay
in your seat. That's no fun. But, you are much
more likely to walk away unharmed from a car
accident. Hmmm... A small pleasure for a
serious pain. That's a tough choice. I think that
I'll avoid the serious pain.  

1. Which title best expresses the main idea of this text?

a. Car Accidents: Ways That We Can Prevent Them

b. Slow Down: Save Lives By Driving Slower

c. Seat Belts: Wear Them to Survive Any Wreck

d. Why Not? Improve Your Odds with Seat Belts

2. Which best expresses the author's main purpose in writing this text?

a. To inform readers about seat belt laws

b. To persuade readers to wear seat belts

c. To entertain readers with stories and jokes about seat belts

d. To describe what car accidents are like without seat belts

3. Which best describes the text structure in the fourth paragraph?

a. Compare and contrast b. Chronological order

c. Sequential order d. Problem and solution
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READING PLAN Nº9

Nonfiction Reading Test

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The Cobra Effect

Directions: Read the following passage and answer the questions that follow. Refer to the text to
check your answers when appropriate.

The British colonized India from 1858 to 1947. That

means that they ruled the country. They governed the
Indian people. They used India to make wealth for the
British Empire. But they also developed India. They
built canals and railroads. They tried to make India
more like the United Kingdom.

Yet India was different from the UK. It was more rustic.
The ecology was different too. Some British colonists
had a hard time adapting. The snakes were particularly
troubling. The capital area of Delhi was overrun with
venomous cobras.

Encountering a cobra is quite frightening. It's even

worse getting bit by one. The cobras killed many
The British plan seemed like a good idea at first. In
colonists. Enough died that the British government
practice though, it made things much worse. This is
took action. They paid a bounty for every dead cobra.
the cobra effect. The cobra effect is when a solution
The program was a success at first. Many people worsens a problem.
hunted and killed the cobras for the rewards. The
Many well-intentioned programs backfire. In 2014 the
number of cobras dropped. The colonists felt safer.
City of Chicago banned lightweight plastic bags. Single
But then it became harder to catch cobras. So
use bags are bad for the environment. They end up in
enterprising people started breeding them. After all, it
the water. They pollute the land. City officials wanted
is easier to catch a pet cobra than a wild one.
people to reuse bags. So they put a tax on lightweight
News of this scheme got back to the British bags.
government. They learned that people were breeding
Retailers did not want to anger customers with the
cobras to earn rewards. This is not what the British
new tax. So they made their bags much thicker. The
wanted to happen. They felt foolish. They scrapped
new bags were 150 times thicker than the old bags.
the program.
The thicker bags were no longer lightweight, so they
Now the breeders were angry. Raising cobras can be weren't taxed. But most customers did not reuse these
challenging. They were doing it for the money. When bags. They just threw away the really thick plastic
the program ended, the snakes were worthless. So the bags.
breeders released them into the wild. Now there were
This is another example of the cobra effect. The city
more wild cobras than when the program started.
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intended to reduce plastic waste, yet the tax worsened

it 150 fold. Our actions do not always have the
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consequences that we expect.
1. Which best defines the word colonize as used in the FIRST paragraph?

a) To destroy or ruin a foreign land

b) To trade or do business with other people

c) To inhabit and rule a foreign land

d) To do battle or fight with another group of people

2. Which conclusion can be supported with text from the passage?

a) India had more poisonous snakes than the UK.

b) India had fewer poisonous snakes than the UK.

c) India had the same amount of poisonous snakes as the UK.

d) India DID NOT have poisonous snakes.

3. Which event happened LAST?

a) The number of snakes decreased.

b) The government began paying a bounty for dead snakes.

c) The snake breeders released their cobras into the wild.

d) People started breeding snakes.

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INFOGRAFÍA

Grammar

https://www.slideshare.net/RebecaMartinCastroverde/english-present-and-past-tenses-revision?
next_slideshow=1
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https://english.lingolia.com/es/gramatica/tiempos-comparacion/simple-present-present-progressive/ejercicios
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https://www.perfect-english-grammar.com/present-perfect-present-perfect-continuous-1.html
https://www.eslbuzz.com/english-grammar-past-simple-vs-present-perfect/

live worksheets.com
https://test-english.com/grammar-points/b1/first-and-second-conditionals/
https://test-english.com/grammar-points/b1/first-and-second-conditionals/
https://worldenglishblog.com/present-perfect-continuous/
https://examplanning.com/present-perfect-continuous-tense/
https://www.curso-ingles.com/practicar/ejercicios/present-perfect-continuous

READING

https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2020/06/17-predictions-for-our-world-in-2025/

https://www.photocopiables.com/sites/default/files/EFL_Reading_Past%20Simple-Present
%20Perfect_0.pdf
photocopiables.com
https://www.really-learn-english.com/support-files/present-perfect-progressive-story-4.pdf

LISTENING
https://en.islcollective.com/video-lessons/ed-sheeran-castle-hill-present-simple-vs-present-continuous

https://en.islcollective.com/video-lessons/learn-the-present-perfect-simple-and-continuous

https://en.islcollective.com/video-lessons/big-bang-theory-past-simple-and-present-perfect
https://www.liveworksheets.com/worksheets/en/English_as_a_Second_Language_(ESL)/Conditionals/First_and_second_conditional_az964781yz
https://soundgrammar.com/learn/L5-CEFR-B2/L5-09-pres-perfect-cont.htm

WRITING
https://es.liveworksheets.com/worksheets/en/English_as_a_Second_Language_(ESL)/Present_perfect_or_past_simple/Matt_Damon's_Biography_oy817466li

https://www.education.com/download/worksheet/106764/creative-writing-exercise.pdf

READING PLANS

https://englishteststore.net/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=3006:elementary-reading-
comprehension-test-09&catid=201&Itemid=143
englishforeveryone.com
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/29/opinion/sunday/facebook-surveillance-society-technology.html
https://www.ereadingworksheets.com/text-structure-worksheets/main-idea-and-text-structure-2.pdf
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https://www.ereadingworksheets.com/reading-comprehension-worksheets/medicine-comprehension-
worksheet.pdf

https://englishteststore.net/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=2984:english-intermediate-
reading-comprehension-test-011&catid=201&Itemid=143

https://www.ereadingworksheets.com/figurative-language-worksheets/figurative-language-poem-6-poems-
about-books-by-emily-dickinson.pdf

https://www.ereadingworksheets.com/free-reading-worksheets/reading-comprehension-worksheets/
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ELABORÓ REVISÓ APROBÓ

Lic.Luz Angela Castillo Acevedo

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