Task 2 My hidden talent

Juan Guillermo Cardenas Monsalve

Vicerrectoría Académica y de Investigación, Universidad Nacional Abierta y

Distancia
UNAD

90121: English 3
Alexandra Moreno Castillo

19 de mayo de 2024
 Step 1: Check vocabulary (individual work)
Find and match these phrases in bold with the pictures:
1. Make… 2. Letter
1 a speech in front of more than fifty people. E
2 a meal for more than eight people F
3 a phone call in a foreign language. C
4 A decision that changed your life for the better.
Do…
5 a project with a big team. A
6 Business in another language. D
7 Well/badly in an exam. B
8 your homework on the way to school.

In this chart, match the pictures with the sentences.

Now, write, at least, 5 talents ort skills you have.
Example: I have talked to a hundred-people audience, because I am good at showing off my
points of view.

I have managed to guide work teams, showing leadership and being able to obtain
achievements in the work environment with difficult clients, which have led me to develop
talent in knowing how to express the needs of the team to the client and being able to bring
projects to a successful conclusion. I have also learned to work under pressure to cope with
this coercion without letting it affect my personal life and to value the work of colleagues
who contribute in different ways and make the work easier.
Well, you are really prepared for hard work. All sentences are correct.
 Step 2: let’s listen (individual work)
Look at the pictures and listen to an interview with Mario, the boy in the story. As
you
listen, answer the three questions. Click on the link to listen the interview
https://url.unad.edu.co/UZtSc
1. Now, answer these questions:
What was Mario’s hidden talent?
cooking
- When did he start to use his talent?
in the house at the age of twenty.
How did he use his talent to change his job?
He started preparing the coffee and tables for the office’s game room

2. Listen again and complete the extracts.

I've always had fun cooking
2. Then in my twenties I started to make melas for my friends.
3. I had the idea to sell my food at work.
4. I wanted to find something more interesting.
5. Have you ever thought, ‘Oh, I prefer my old office job’?
it's the best decision I've ever made
NOTE: After doing this step, you must share your answers in the forum.

Step 3: Take a look! (collaborative work)

For this step, after doing the activities below, you must attend to one STT session
with your tutor and together, you are going to check your answers, then, he/she is going to
give you tips and recommendations to develop the rest of this worksheet’s steps.
The date and hour of the session, it will be provided by your tutor at the beginning
of this task.
1. Correcting mistakes:
Read the paragraph below. Find nine mistakes and correct them. For identifying the
mistake, you must use these symbols:
GR= grammar mistake P= punctuation SP= Spelling
My hidden talent
My talent is that I can sing really well. I’ve always like GR music P I sing all kinds of
songs, including rock, pop P and classical music P I first discovered this ability when I was
young. I often listened to music and sand GR at the same time. I’ve doing GR it many times
at parties, in front of my friends, and in karaoke bars. There is no magic secret P I just listen
carefully and
SPam practicing on my own.SP

"My talent is that I can sing really well. I’ve always liked music. I sing all kinds of songs,
including rock, pop, and classical music. I first discovered this ability when I was young. I
often listened to music and sang at the same time. I’ve done it many times at parties, in
front of my friends, and in karaoke bars. There is no magic secret; I just listen carefully and
practice on my own."

In the STT session, you were asked about these questions:

- Which is your hidden talent?

My hidden talent is working with wood, making small projects and shelves.
- When did you discover it?
I discovered it when we moved house and I needed to make some shelves and had leftover
wood.
- Who knows about it?
My wife knows about it because the shelves were for her.
2.Complete the chart with the past participle of the following verbs.
1. Present Simple 2. Past simple 3. Present Simple 4. Past Simple
Catch Caught Give Given
Keep Kept Swim Swum
Make Made Sleep Slept
Drive Driven Lose Lost
Do Done Win Won
Fly Flown Buy Bought
Come Come Pay Paid
Cross crossed Grow Grown

2.1 Using the past participle of the verbs above, create 6 Have you ever…? Questions to do
to your tutor or classmates in the STT session. You can use in the box to help you.

Examples:

- Have you ever bought clothes on Internet?

- Have you ever caught a fly with your hands?

1. Have you ever swum in a pool at night?

2. Have you ever slept in a hammock?
3. Have you ever lost money?
4. Have you ever overpaid for an item you really liked?
5. Have you ever won a game of chance?
6. Have you ever come to Colombia?

3. Do a list of 5 talents or achievements you have done, then, share it to your tutor and
classmates.
Examples:

- I have done cycling for 5 years and I have never fallen down.
- When in my house something is broken, I have fixed them up.
3.1 I have been playing video games since I was 11 years old, and I have never had carpal
tunnel syndrome.
3.2 Every time my wife's computer or mine breaks, I have managed to fix it.
3.3 At my job, I have achieved a significant cost reduction.
3.4 In the evenings, I play with my youngest daughter; she loves to play games.
3.5 I have been exercising for two months now, and I feel very energetic.

STEP 4: Describing your hidden talent (individual work)

For this step, after doing this activity, you must attend to one STT session with your tutor
and together, you are going to check your answers, then, he/she is going to give you tips
and recommendations to develop the rest of this worksheet’s steps. The date and hour of the
session, it will be provided by your tutor at the beginning of this task.

1. Describe your talent:

Now, choose one of the talents you wrote in point 3 Step 3. In a paragraph (between100 and
120 words) describe your talent by giving descriptions using Present Perfect tense. For that,
you can consider these questions to create your text:
- When did you discovered that talent?
- How have you taken advantage of that?
- Do people know about this talent? Why?
- Do you feel your talent has been useful?
My hidden talent is woodworking. I discovered it when we moved to a new apartment. We
needed more storage space to keep order, so my wife asked me to take advantage of some
wood that was left over. I started to work with it and built some shelves for the main
bedroom and the study. Thanks to this, my wife and I have discovered that I can create
things with wood. Yes, this has been useful because it has allowed me to reuse material and
save costs, and it has also given a more personal touch to our new home.

Step 5: Self-evaluation (individual work)

In this step, you must check your performance during the time this task is developed. For
that, you must answer the following questions in a scale from 0 to 2. You can answer the
questions within the chart is given. This step must appear in the consolidation step. These
are the questions:
1. Did I follow accurately the steps according to what the worksheet requires?
2. Did I attend and participate in the STT (synchronous meeting) that the task required?
3. Did I take into account tutor’s recommendations on the forum?
4. Did I record the video according to all the indications in the worksheet?
5. Did I consolidate all the steps in the final document to be posted on the
Evaluation Environment?
Questions 0 1 2
1 X
2 X
3 X X
4 X
5 X
Total