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Pedagogic Activity Course 4
Pedagogic Activity Course 4
Pedagogic Activity Course 4
Read the following facts about the history of Valentine’s day. Which do you
think are true? Choose the best option. Then write the past tense of the
Interaction verbs in the chart. What do these verbs have in common?
Listening
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While:Build your language skills
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adjectives
no
un
s Language
Structure
Practice
Complete Mark’s description of his Sunday look open organize rain play
with suitable verbs from the box in past. share start walk laugh explain
Make sure you apply appropriate spelling stop stay help clean call
rules. hurry enjoy study invite
It was a gray Sunday. It ________________ all morning long, so I ________________ home and
____________________ mom with the house chores. I also ___________________ my bedroom,
which was a complete mess. After that, I _____________________ my best friends, Tom and Alice, and
_____________________ them to come home. We _____________________ videogames for a while
and we _________________ for our math exam. When the rain finally _____________________,
we ___________________ to our favorite park. By then, it was 2:00 p.m., and Mr. Sullivan, the gardener, was around cutting some grass.
He is a nice, talkative, interesting gentleman who tells the best stories about the time he was a child. He _________________ some of his
funny anecdotes with us and we surely ____________________ a lot. When we ___________________ at the time in our watches, it was
almost 7:00 at night! It was very late, so we ____________________ to get home as fast as we could. I was sure mom was very upset by then.
I _____________________the door and there she was, sitting in the livingroom looking really upset, so I __________________ the
reason for our delay. Before going to bed, I _____________________ my backpack with all my school supplies to get ready for a new week.
Sunday ____________________ a little slow and boring, but after all, I certainly ___________________ this day with my friends.
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Say it Correctly
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/d/ /t/ / Id /
A B
1. We lived in New York for many years. 1. _______________________________
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Dictation Exercise:
Interaction STUDENT B CURSO 4
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A B
1. _______________________________ 1. The car stopped at the red light.
July and Mark tak about what they each did last weekend. Listen to
Listening them describe some of the activities and write the regular verbs you
hear in the correct tense under each picture.
Pronunciation tip
July Mark
a. ___________________ a. ___________________ Linking sounds in English:
Linking is a common phenomenon in spoken
b. ___________________ b. ___________________ English, which consists of moving smoothly
from one word to the next without stopping.
Speakers from other languages may think only
c. ___________________ c. ___________________ one word is being pronounced. The past of
Regular Verbs /t/, /d/ or /Id/ is clearly more
noticeable when the first sound of the following
d.___________________ d.___________________ word is a vowel sound. Listen to your teacher
and compare:
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Vocabulary
Building CURSO 4
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no
Language
rbs
veadjectives
un
s
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Listening
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Second Listening:
Listen to the interview again. In a few lines describe the event that inspired her current work.
___________________________________________________________________________
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Read the statements below. Write two possible follow up questions in past using verb Be
or other verbs like in the example above.
1
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I went to a party last Saturday.
___________________________________________
2
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I met a nice girl last weekend. ___________________________________________
3
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I travelled in Europe on vacation. ___________________________________________
4 ___________________________________________
I started a new job yesterday. ___________________________________________
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Reading &
Listening CURSO 4
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Samiya and Lidia were born in two different countries and had
TWO LIFE STORIES different life opportunities. First, guess the sequence of each
story and number the lines separately. Then listen to both life
stories and check your work.
Samiya was born in Nigeria on 18th August 1993, in a Lidia was born on 18th August 1993, in Poland in a
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village near Lagos. _______ large town near Gdansk. ______
When she was fifteen she went to university and One day she went to a park in Rome to play basket-
studied information technology. In her fourth year at ball, and a man walked up to her and took pictures
university she met her future husband, Obi, and after of her. ______
they finished university, they got married. ______ It was her big moment, but she didn’t become a
Her parents didn’t have a lot of money, and the fami- basketball star; the man was a fashion photographer
ly lived in a small house. Samiya’s father Worked as a and Lidia became a professional model. With the mon-
taxi driver and her mother was a teacher. ______ ey from her first year’s work, she bought her parents a
Their apps made a lot of money and with the money, new house. ______
Samiya bought her parents a new house. ______ When she was fifteen, her family moved to ltaly. _____
In her childhood, Sami was shy, but her parents Lidia thought ‘This is it, it’s mybig moment! _____
knew she was very intelligent; she was really good She was tall for her age and very beautiful, but she
at maths and computer games. _______ was shy. She hated school, but she loved sport
Samiya and Obi had some great ideas for apps and and played basketball every day after school with
together they started a company. The company made a group ofboys. She wanted to be an internation
apps for teaching children maths and English.______ basketball star. ______
Source: Eales, F., & Oakes, S. (2016). Speakout Elementary Book
(pp. 60-61). New York: Pearson.
Roleplay Time
Lidia: Nice to meet you, Samiya. Where Samiya: I was born in Laos. How about
were you born? you, Lidia?...
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about it
Reading
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Life’s Little
In the course of our lifetime, we have experiences which make
us change attitudes, views and leave us with important lessons.
Lessons
Read about Dany’s experience and discuss:
a. What was he like before the event?
b. What happened to him?
c. Was the outcome of the event?
we us Grandma told us a good story. “ Dad planned a fun trip to Grandma’s country house, and we
were all excited to visit her in the suburbs...”
they them Ana loves them very much.
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Listening
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Claire
Robert
Audio Source: Richards, J.C., Hull, J., & Proctor, S (2012). Interchange: English for international
communication: student’s book 1. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Second Listening
Listen to the rest of the conversation. What other turning points do they mention? What were
the positive outomes of their experiences? Take notes on the lines below and check your
answers in group.
Claire Robert
______________________________________ ______________________________________
______________________________________ ______________________________________
______________________________________ ______________________________________
Think of 5 events that marked your life in ways similar to those described by the
speakers above and write the events in the timeline below. Prepare to present your
timeline in class. Make sure you feel comfortable discussing the events in public.
Interaction Your classmates and teacher may ask questions about them. This is a graded
activity. Grading criteria will be discussed with your teacher.
_________________________ _________________________
_________________________ _________________________
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