Welcome to English for

Programming
Week 2 Class 2

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Topics for today

• Review the content from your asynchronous sesison

• Describe routines and objects using prepositions
• Pronounce the final -s in regular plural nouns
• Read effectively by using predicting, skimming and vocabulary skills
 Checkpoint – Review
1. How was your experience with the asynchronous session?
Share your opinion and ask a different partner
Good
Acceptable Very good
- My experience was______,
how about you?

Bad Excellent
Mention two things that you learned and two things that you
did not understand, then share with others and ask.

Learned Did not understand

✔ I learned…
✔ I did not understand…

How about you?

 Warm up: Is your office…
tidy? untidy?

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Model answer: My office is usually…

Explore What do you have in your office?
• Make a list of objects that you can find at
the office

How many objects can you think of?

For example:

- Computer
- USB Flash drive
- …
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• You have 2 minutes to make a list
 Do you know the
difference between
singular and plural?
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 Mouse Charger Mousepad
Computer Notebook
Complete the chart with the following 1 Printer Laptop
Scanner
USB Flash drive
words. Folder Keyboard Tablet

Singular Plural 2 What do you notice? What is the rule for

plurals?
- A computer - Two computers

Add –S if a word ends with a

3 vowel
Add –ES if a word ends with a
consonant
Singular and Plural Nouns
 But, how do we
pronounce plurals?
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Pronunciation Final –s and -es

Scanner Laptops Notebooks Tablets

Zoom Folders Flash Drives

/IZ/ Watches Boxes Devices

You will sometimes need to say numbers,
especially in coding

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 Zero 0 11
/ˈzɪroʊ/ 

1 Twelve 12 Your dictionary

/ˈtwɛlv/ shows the
transcription
Two 2 13
Write the /ˈtuː/
missing Three 3 Fourteen 14 Look up the missing
numbers /ˈθriː/ ˌfôrˈtēn transcriptions on
four 4 15
https://www.wordrefe
/ˈfɔːr/ rence.com/
Look at the
5 16
phonetic
transcription. Six 6 Seventeen 17
/ˈsɪks/ /ˌsɛvənˈtiːn/
How do you
pronounce 7 18

these numbers? 8 19

Nine 9 Twenty 20
/ˈnaɪn/ /ˈtwɛnti/

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 As you could see, we can use
dictionaries to learn..

The meaning The pronunciation

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Look at the photo

What plurals can you see?

Pronounce them.

How many elements of each

category?

Example:
There are eight co-workers.

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Let’s practice
 How do we use prepositions?

To tell specific time To point to a specific place

At See you at 5 pm. See you at the office.
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To say that something happens on a specific day

To say that something is over a or date
on surface I don’t work on Saturdays.
It is on the table. I start my holidays on the 25th.

To say that something is below

under The CPU is below the desk.

Inside/within a period of time

inside
Physically I usually workout in the morning or in the evening.
in
My agenda is in the drawer. I start my holidays in March.
• Look at the photo, complete the sentences
with in, on under.

1. The glasses are ON the notebook.

2. The credit cards are IN the wallet.
3. There is a bag UNDER the desk.
 More Practice
4
Read the conversation with your partner and complete the dialogue

Ricardo: Hi Maria, what time do you start working tomorrow?

MariO: Hey Ricardo, well, I arrive ___ the office… I think at 7:10am, and you?
Ricardo: I start at 1pm. I work from home tomorrow IN the morning .
MariO: Oh, nice. Hey, can you please pass my cellphone? It’s ___ the desk
Ricardo: Sure, no problem.
MariO: Wait, no. That is not my cellphone, let me check ____ my bag… Where
is my bag?
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MariO: Thanks, oh my God it’s 8pm I have to go home!
 Answers
4 Read the conversation with your partner and complete the dialogue

Ricardo: Hi Maria, what time do you start working tomorrow?

Maria: Hey Ricardo, well, I arrive at the office… I think at 7:10am, and you?
Ricardo: I start at 1pm. I work from home tomorrow in the morning .
Maria: Oh, nice. Hey, can you please pass my cellphone? It’s on the desk
Ricardo: Sure, no problem.
Maria: Wait, no. That is not my cellphone, let me check in my bag… Where is
my bag?
Ricardo: Under the chair, look.
Maria: Thanks, oh my God it’s 8pm I have to go home!
Reading Strategy:
Skimming

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 Explore Skimming

Instructions:
Instructions:

Step Take aa look

1: Take
Step 1: look at
at the
the text
text in
in your
your worksheets (Sin mirar
worksheets (Sin mirar las
las
preguntas oo la
preguntas la hoja
hoja de
de respuestas).
respuestas).

In groups,
1: In
Step 1:
Step groups, create
create aa list
list of that you
steps that
of 33 steps you follow
follow ifif you
you
have to
have to read
read the
the text.
text.

Step 2:
Step 2: Get
Get ready
ready to
to share
share the
the list
list with
with the
the group.
group.
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 What is skimming?

Skimming means reading:

Titles
Subtitles
First and last sentence of each paragraph
Visual help

Skimming refers to looking only for the general or

main ideas.

Skimming works best with non-fiction (or factual)

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 Reading Strategy: Skimming

Predict what the text is about

Decide what to read and what

to skip

Know where to look for

specific information when you
scan

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 Discover
In your groups, you are going to work on a worksheet.

Instructions:
Instructions:

Step 0:
Step 0: Open
Open the
the document
document
Step 1:
Step 1: One
One person
person shares
shares the
the screen
screen so
so every
every student
student
can see
can see the
the questions
questions and
and discuss.
discuss.

Step 2:
Step 2: Read
Read the
the instructions
instructions for
for every
every section
section
carefully.
carefully.

Your teacher
Your teacher will
will visit
visit the
the groups.
groups. You
You have
have 30
30 min
min for
for
this activity.
this activity.
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 Download the word
Worksheet document from the chat.
 Wrap up Let’s check the answers!
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Any
questions?

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 Autonomous
Asynchronous work

First Reading Challenge!

10% of your course grade
Deadline to take it: By Sunday midnight
See you in your net class when you will learn about:

✔ Adjectives
✔ Reading strategy: Scanning
Thank you!