Oficina de Bilingüismo

Fundación Universitaria Tecnológico Comfenalco

ENGLISH 1B
SELF-STUDY GUIDE

Teacher: Donaldo Barrios Balmaceda

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:
 Describe a problem in a shop
 Give advice for health problems
 Asking about problems and giving advice
 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.

LABEL THE FOLLOWING PICS. USE THE WORDS FROM THE BOX

TIGHT TORN SCRATCHED BROKEN STAINED

Example: The tv is broken

THE WATCH IS… ____________

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Stage 2
Topics presentation and exercises

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

Functions
 DESCRIBE A PROBLEM IN A SHOP
 GIVE ADVICE FOR HEALTH PROBLEMS
 ASKING FOR HEALTH PROBLEMS AND GIVE ADVICE

Language

 TOO AND NOT ENOUGH

 SHOULD AND SHOULDN’T FOR ADVICE

1 . TOO AND ENOUGH
EXERCISE 1.2 REWRITE THE SENTENCES
 GO TO THE FOLLOWING LINK AND
EXERCISE 1.3
DO THE EXERCISE. THEN PASTE THE RESULTS
BELOW

https://www.liveworksheets.com/mr1668376j
b
2. SHOULD AND SHOULDN’T TO GIVE ADVICE

GOOD IDEA BAD IDEA

EXERCISE 2.1 WRITE A SOLUTION FOR THE 4 PROBLEMS BELOW

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EXERCISE 2.2 GO TO THE FOLLOWING LINK
AND DO THE EXERCISE. THEN PASTE THE
RESULTS BELOW

https://www.liveworksheets.com/worksheets/en/English_
as_a_Second_Language_(ESL)/Modal_verbs/Should_and_sh
ouldn't_ue369037xo
3. ASKING ABOUT PROBLEMS AND GIVING ADVICE
ACTIVITY 3.1
IDENTIFY THE PARTS OF THE BODY.

GO TO THE FOLLOWING LINK AND DO THE EXERCISE. THEN PASTE THE

RESULTS BELOW

https://www.liveworksheets.com/worksheets/en/English_as_a_Second_Language_(ESL)/Parts_of_t
he_body/Body_parts_yg158pu
3.2 MATCH THE HEALTH PROBLEMS WITH THE PICS

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3.3 TAKE A LOOK AT THE FOLLOWING HEALTH PROBLEMS AND GIVE ADVICE.
SAY 1 THING HE/SHE SHOULD DO AND 1 THING HE/SHE SHOULDN’T DO.

EXAMPLE : TOOTHACHE YOU SHOULD EAT AN ICE CREAM

YOU SHOULDN’T GO OUT

HEADACHE

STOMACHACHE
 BACKACHE
Stage 3
Practice App

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
above worked on subjects.
Stage 4
Project

YOU BOUGHT AN ITEM IN A SHOP, BUT THEY HAVE A PROBLEM. CHOOSE 2 OBJECTS
FROM THE BOX AND MENTION 2 POSSIBLE PROBLEMS FOR THOSE ITEMS. USE TOO
+ ADJECTIVE/ NOT +ADJECTIVE+ …ENOUGH. THEN USE THE QUESTIONS TO
COMPLAIN.

BOX
SHOES
JEANS
TV
T-SHIRT

QUESTIONS TO
COMPLAIN CAN I HAVE A REFUND?
CAN YOU REPAIR IT?
CAN I EXCHANGE IT/THEM?

EXAMPLE: 1. I BOUGHT A SHIRT, BUT IT IS TOO BIG, CAN I HAVE REFUND?

I BOUGTH A SHIRT, BUT IT IS TORN, CAN I EXCHANGE IT?

2. I BOUGHT A SMARTPHONE, BUT IT IS SCRATCHED, CAN I EXCHANGE IT?

I BOUGHT A SMARTPHONE , BUT IT IS NOT FAST ENOUGH,CAN YOU
REPAIR IT?

ITEM 1.

ITEM 2.