University of Costa Rica Modern Languages School Conversational Courses

Prof: Silvia Ortega Meza English-Level 1 ING01L01

Virtual Class
Week 2

Self – Study Guide

October 25th & October 27th

Unit 1 (Hello!) & Unit 2 (All about me)

General Instructions: Read all the instructions carefully and do the activities by following the indicated
order. Make sure you understand what you have to do. Let me know if something is not clear. Write
your answers or take notes in your notebook.

Aims of the activities: At the end, you are expected to . . .

. . . use a lexical set of nationalities correctly.

. . . understand a conversation about people from different nationalities.

. . . use “be” in positive and negative statements and questions correctly.

. . . ask and answer questions about people’s nationalities.

. . . understand a conversation in which someone meets new people at work.

. . . understand information, texts and conversations about places.

. . . use different adjectives to describe places.

 Monday (October 25th)

Activity 1 – Vocabulary – Nationalities: Go to page 10 from your student’s book and do exercises
1b– 1c – 1d & 1e.

Click the following link to listen to tracks 1.15 & 1.16.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tzEG_oXVxLA&list=PLbTxxEOMTzB2Vfiuvjie3Sk9m2HiQSkWb

Activity 2 – Grammar – Verb to be: Go to page 11 from your student’s book and do exercises 2a- 2b-
& 2d.
Visit the following website to listen to tack 1.18

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tzEG_oXVxLA&list=PLbTxxEOMTzB2Vfiuvjie3Sk9m2HiQSkWb

Activity 3 – Listening: Go to page 11 from your student’s book and do exercise 3a.

You can use the following link to listen to track 1.20

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tzEG_oXVxLA&list=PLbTxxEOMTzB2Vfiuvjie3Sk9m2HiQSkWb

Activity 4 – Grammar – Verb to be: Go to page 11 from your student’s book and do exercises 4a &
4c.

After that, listen and check exercise 4c. You can use the following link to get track 1.24.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tzEG_oXVxLA&list=PLbTxxEOMTzB2Vfiuvjie3Sk9m2HiQSkWb
Activity 5 – Vocabulary – Countries and Nationalities. Watch the following videos about countries
and nationalities. Pay attention to pronunciation and take notes.

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NJVV1LDt2hE
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZwSmUux1ZSg

Activity 6 – Vocabulary and Grammar. Let’s focus on how the preposition “FROM” is used when we
mention people’s origin, it could be a country or city. But, we do not have to apply the preposition “from”
when we mention the nationality. Look at the following image and take notes.
Activity 7 – Vocabulary – Nationalities. According to the pictures, complete the sentences.
Activity 8 – Vocabulary – Countries and nationalities: Go to the following websites, and do some
exercises related to countries and nationalities. The exercises are checked by the website
automatically.

• http://iteslj.org/v/e/ab-countries_nationalities.html
• https://www.englishexercises.org/makeagame/viewgame.asp?id=2122
• http://www.esl-lounge.com/student/vocabulary/1v3-nationalities-and-countries.php

Activity 9 – Listening – Useful language: Watch the following video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NI07i-NaHqw&list=PLbTxxEOMTzB2ijvJONYtFF6lM3ZNxuo_S

After that, go to page 12 from your student’s book, focus on part 3: Listening and useful language
and do exercises a – b – c & e.

Activity 10 – Listening – Useful language: Watch the previous video again and do exercises b & c in
part 4: Listening and useful language

Activity 11 – Writing – Everyday English: Go to page 13 - part 6 from your student’s book and
complete the conversation in exercise a.
 Wednesday (October 27th)

Activity 12 – Vocabulary – Home town: Go to page 15 from your student’s book, and look at the
picture. After that, answer the questions a1, a2, a3, a4 & b in your notebook.

After that, listen to the track1.38 and pay attention to the conversation. You can use the following link
to listen to the audio.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xIlQFpZaih8&list=PLbTxxEOMTzB2Vfiuvjie3Sk9m2HiQSkWb&index=2

Activity 13 – Vocabulary – Cities, towns and villages: Let’s focus on some differences among these
places. Look at the following images, analyze them and write some adjectives to describe each place.

CITY TOWN VILLAGE

Activity 14 – Vocabulary – Adjectives: Look at the following adjectives word wheel and look for the
meaning of each word. After that, write eight sentences describing your community, you can write
affirmative and negative sentences.

ADJECTIVES

• Beautiful • Large • Dirty

• Ugly • Bright • Clean
• Small • Dark • Modern
• Big • Exciting • Historic
• Ordinary • Boring • Noisy
• Unusual • Interesting • Quiet

1. _______________________________________________________________.
2. _______________________________________________________________.
3. _______________________________________________________________.
4. _______________________________________________________________.
5. _______________________________________________________________.
6. _______________________________________________________________.
7. _______________________________________________________________.
8. _______________________________________________________________.
Activity 15 – Listening and Vocabulary: Go to page 16 on your student’s book. Read and listen to
the conversations. After that, do exercises 1a - 1b & 1c.

Listen to track1.39 & track 1.40 by using the following link:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xIlQFpZaih8&list=PLbTxxEOMTzB2Vfiuvjie3Sk9m2HiQSkWb&index=2

Activity 16 – Grammar – Verb to be: Go to page 16 on your student’s book and do exercises a & b
from part 2. After that, listen to track 1.41 in order to check the sentences.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xIlQFpZaih8&list=PLbTxxEOMTzB2Vfiuvjie3Sk9m2HiQSkWb&index=2

Activity 17 – Reading and Vocabulary: Go to page 17 on your student’s book and do exercises a&c
from part 3. Listen to track 1.44 & track 1.46 to check your responses.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xIlQFpZaih8&list=PLbTxxEOMTzB2Vfiuvjie3Sk9m2HiQSkWb&index=2

Activity 18 – Vocabulary – Adjectives: Go to page 134 on your student’s book and study each
adjective, pay attention to pronunciation on track 1.47. After that, do exercise c.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xIlQFpZaih8&list=PLbTxxEOMTzB2Vfiuvjie3Sk9m2HiQSkWb&index=2
Due Date: Monday, November 1st, 2021

• Work on the UNIT 1 from your ONLINE WORKBOOK. Do the exercises on lessons 1B & 1C.

LINK: https://www.cambridgelms.org/main/p/splash
Our class code is LL4eb6

• Activity 1
• Activity 2

• Activity 3

• Activity 4
• Activity 7

1. United Kingdom British

2. France French

3. Germany German

4. Greece Greek

5. Italy Italian

6. Portugal Portuguese

7. Spain Spanish

8. Sweden Swedish

9. Turkey Turkish

10. Japan Japanese

11. China Chinese

12. Peru Peruvian

• Activity 9

• Activity 10

• Activity 11
• Activity 15:

• Activity 16:

• Activity 17: