Oficina de Bilingüismo

Fundación Universitaria Tecnologico Comfenalco

ENGLISH 4B
SELF-STUDY GUIDE
UNIT1

Teacher: RODRIGO GUTIERREZ CARRASCAL

Student: RAFAEL OLIVERO VALLEJO

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 a self-study guide with you on Ferrum, such
as this one, with different activities in order for you to work
autonomously. The guide is divided into 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 in our meeting on
Teams.
 Communicative objectives:

• Talk about regrets

• Describe your country
• Discuss what you are happy about in your life and what you would like to be
different

Stage 1
Warm-up
Warm-up space:

The main purpose of this space is to introduce the different activities that this
self-study guide intends to develop.

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 Stage 2
Topic Presentation

Functions and language

• Expressing regrets
• Collocations for describing countries
• Expressing regrets, wishes and hopes

1. TALK ABOUT REGRETS

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EXERCISES

should have brought

they should be

I wish I had told you

Ought to have hired

Wishes to have studied

Should have it
 A friend

Have two homes

A beautiful family / cheating on his

wife

San and desolate

 2. DESCRIBE YOUR COUNTRY

economy

Standard of living

Political system

climate

Job market

education

EXERCISES

b. Capitalist
c. Standard of living
d. Booming, unstable
e. Democratic
f. Tempered
g. Competitive
h. Oblygatory
i. Natural, healthy
j. Higher, grat
3. DISCUSS WHAT YOU ARE HAPPY ABOUT IN YOUR LIFE AND WHAT YOU
WOULD LIKE TO BE DIFFERENT
EXERCISES
 Having met a film star

Would have traveled to italy

I would have passed the mathematics test

Exercising daily in college

Having gone to the dance

Don’t play piano

Stage 3
Practice App / classwork

Please download the Interact App and complete the following exercises:

1- I should’ve saved more money

2- A good play to live?
3- What a pity!

As soon as you finish them, please attach the screenshots to the guide
 Stage 4
Project / Evaluation Activity

Project

Videoclip: https://youtube.com/shorts/Pjc9RiYEs2g

Please Record a video describing what you would have wished to do in the
future (one-minute video) and upload it to Ferrum.

https://youtube.com/shorts/Pjc9RiYEs2g

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A. Barrio
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España.
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(5) 3700
672 3700
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Cartagena
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- Colombia
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