Unit 1: IDENTITY

LESSON 1.1 ME AND MY LANGUAGES

VOCABULARY
LANGUAGE
In the background (back part) of the picture, I can see
In the middle of the picture, I can see
In the foreground of the picture, I can see
Fingerprint, shoe print
Learning
Mother tongue
Language learner
Learning strategies
Foreign language
Native speakers
Slang or jargon=jerga: What’s up?
Fluency
Accuracy: precisión, exactitud
Skill=ability to
Bilingual, multilingual
Set the table poner la mesa
Pick up (recoger, coger el lenguaje)
Inhabitants: habitantes
Acquire /akuair/ : adquirir
Concern: preoccupation with
Switch: change
Whom: who-->preposition + whom-->to whom, for whom, by whom
insights: conocimiento o entendimiento

GRAMMAR: QUESTION FORMS

1. Yes/No questions→
Do you like ..? Yes, No, I do/don’t Do you play soccer?
Did you go to the cinema? Yes, I did/ No, I didn’t
Will you eat meat for dinner?
Have we done the homework? No, we haven’t
2. Wh- questions (what, where, when, who, whose(de quien, cuyo),
why, how, which, prep + whom)
What are you doing?
Where is my pencil?
When did you come here?
Who are you?
Whose is this? Whose is this car?
Why am I tired?
How do you know ENglish?
Which is your favorite color?
Who do you live with?
With whoM do you live?
Who do you work for?
For whom do you work?
To whom is this present?
Who is this present to?
3. Indirect questions
Do you know…where the church is?
Can you tell me...where the church is?
Could you tell me...what the teacher is teaching?
FEBRUARY 12 CLASS
UNIT 1, LESSON 1
OBJECTIVE: Students will be able to use questions forms correctly
Students will be able to write an informal email by
using
the correct vocabulary
Students will be able to use 10 words from a specific
vocabulary
Review previous class
Vocabulary: language
Question forms
Wh-questions
a. Subject questions (I, you, he, she, it, we, they): they ask
information about a subject
Who invented penicillin? A. Flem invented penicillin
Who painted the Guernica? Picasso painted the Guernica

b. Object questions: Normal questions we use-->information

about an object
When did you use MEL?
Differences: 1. subject
2. auxiliary verb
1. Who do you live with? Object question
2. Where did she live a year ago? Object question
3. What language invented the apes? Subject
4. Who traveled with Cristopher Columbus when he discovered
America? Subject question
5. When were you when my sister was punished? Object question
6. How many languages are spoken in Africa? Subject question
The animals are great when they know how to behave in the wild.
Bogota, Medellin and Cali are important cities because they are
cosmopolitan cities.

1. DO you study every day?

2. Did your parents teach you any other language?
3. Who is the best language learner you know?
4. Who was your first English teacher?
5. What English words do you remember to write?
 6. What languages do you like listening to?
7. What TV programs do you watch in English?
8. When did you first speak a foreign language?
Commitment: compromiso
WRITING
1. CHOOSE THE TOPIC:
Write an email to a friend asking him/her about the food in
his/her country
2. Brainstorm:
healthy food, sea food, favorite food, tipical food, foreign
food, paella, pizza, hamburger, hot dog, rice, bloodsauce,
sushi
Verbs: eat, taste, cook, try, prepare, boil, fry
Verbs: be, do, buy, go, travel, visit
Connectors/linking words: as, while, then, and, because,
but, however, indeed, so, anyway,
Preposition: on, to, for, about
soup /sup/ soap /soup/
3. Write sentence by sentence. Be coherent.
4. Manage the time (be careful with the time, do not waste
too much time writing)

Yesterday, I eat a healthy soup

I tasted the pepperoni pizza
I liked it
I cooked a new recipe for the visitors
I have cooked sushi
I prepared my favorite food
I want to travel there to try food
Heading: encabezado
 Hi, dear Jessica
I think about you all the time. I want to travel to your
country to visit you and try local food. When can I go
there? I am excited to go there. So, I have heard that the
food is delicious in Spain. Here, I prepare my favorite food:
hamburger and hot dogs but I am tired of that food. I like
all types of food.
Please, write me back / reply to this email so I can go
there.
See you soon.
Love, Eliana
110 and 120
Common language for a formal email
Dear
Faithfully-->atentamente
look forward to (-ing): esperar, ansiar, estar ansioso, estar
a la espera
i look forward to talking to you
1. introduce yourself
2. your experience speaking and learning english
3. why you want to join the class
80 words
UNIT 1, LESSON 2: Same or different?
OBJECTIVE: Students will be able to use most tenses correctly
Students will be able to use 14 words from a specific
vocabulary: Relationships
Students will be able to identify collocations in a
specific
context
Students will be able to discuss the differences
between
 a man and a woman
Vocabulary: Relationships
Boss-employee:jefe-empleado
Classmates
Roommates
Partner
Teammates
member
Godfather and godmother:
mentor (teacher) and mentee (student)
fiancé and fiancée: prometido y prometida
family:
boyfriend-girlfriend
husband-wife: spouses
colleague:colega
acquaintance: conocida-conocido
siblings:plural para llamar a hermano y hermana
Spinal cord: columna vertebral
wire

February 19 Class
GRAMMAR: REVIEW OF VERBAL TENSES
Simple present: Routines or habits
Specific words that are used in SP:
Adverbs of frequency: always, sometimes,usually, never, regularly,
often, normally, rarely, occasionally, almost never/always,
 → I, you, we, they→ normal form→ They always cry
 → He, she, it→
 CONJUGATION: -s, -es, -ies→ -es→ -o, -h, -x, -s,
He doES the homework
She watchES TV
 → -ies→ consonant + y
He crIES for her
She studIES at home
→ -s→ the other endings
She listenS to music
He danceS salsa music
- → I, you, we, they→ don’t→ I don’t know / we don’t
participate
he, she, it→ doesn’t→ He doesn’t like that food
She doesn’t study for the exam
? →I, you, we, they→ Do→Do you work?Do you study
medicine?
he, she, it→ Does→ Does she run? Does he eat fast
food?

Present continuous:
Use: Things we are doing NOW
Common words: now, right now, at the moment, in this moment, this
day, tonight, these days…

 → BE + verb (-ing) → I→ I am studying English right now

You, we, they→ We are working with teacher
Jessica
He, she, it→ Wilfrent is teaching us present cont
 → Be + not + verb (-ing) → I am not studying English now
 They aren’t doing the homework
Carlos isn’t sleeping in class
? → Be + subj + verb(-ing) → Are they working with teacher Jessica?
Is Carlos sleeping in class?
Conjugation of the verbs:
1 syllable→ cons + vowel + cons→ The taxi is stopping around the
corner
 Charles is running around the park
a verb that ends in -e→ He is coming now / She is taking a nap now
Simple Past→
USe: past routines or habits
Common words: yesterday, last (day, night, week, month, year…), ago,
this -->specific moment in the past.
2 types of verbs: regular and irregular
Regular verbs: conjugation: -ED, -IED (cons+y)
Irregular verbs: Conjugation is different
REGULAR VERBS
 → I, you, he, she, it, we, they→ I decided to study English yesterday
 → The bus stopped on the corner
 → I, you, he, she, it, we, they→ I didn’t want to play tennis
 He didn’t believe her
? → I, you, he, she, we they→ Did → Did the bus stop (infinitive) on the
corner?
Irregular verbs:
 → I, you, he, she, it, we, they→ I forgot to study English yesterday
 → He ran three kilometers last week
 → I, you, he, she, it, we, they→ I didn’t forget to study English yesterday
 He didn’t run 3 kilometers last week
? → I, you, he, she, we they→ Did → Did he run 3 kilometers last week?

PAST CONTINUOUS: BE (past)+ verb (-ing) → WAS (sing) -

WERE(plu)
USe: Things that had a duration in the past
Common words: While, at that moment, then, before, after, as=while

 → I, he, she, it→ He was reading a book for an hour

  → You, we, they→ They were watering the plants last night for 2
hours
 → Be + not + verb (-ing) → She wasn’t reading that book
I wasn’t eating
They weren’t participating during the
class
SIMPLE PAST vs PAST CONTINUOUS
Simple past: when we have a series or a sequence of actions
Ex: I sat down on the chair, turned on the PC,
prepared the mic and clicked on Teams
Past continuous: When an action in progress is interrupted by a
past action
The teacher was asking a question when Jessica screamed
I was taking a shower when my wife called me
I was sleeping when the Mariachis woke me up
I was playing video games when the teacher asked me a
difficult question

Survey: encuesta
UNIT 1, LESSON 2: Same or different?
OBJECTIVE:
Students will be able to use collocations with GET, Take, Do and get
correctly in exercises
Students will be able to identify collocations in a specific context
Students will be able to speak in an interview
Collocation: When we use a verb, we have to use the correct word or
the meaning will be out of context.
Make the machine
Go for broke: arriesgarse (ir por el todo)
Go along with: estar de acuerdo (agree)
Join in:unirse, participar de
take part in something: formar o tomar parte de algo
take after somebody: parecerse o perseguir
take responsibility for..: tomar responsabilidad por
get along with: llevarse bien con
Fire: fuego, despedir (del trabajo)
Blame: culpar
Take the blame: echarse la culpa
HOMEWORK: Write sentences using the COLLOCATIONS with GO,
GET, TAKE and DO.
February 26th class
SHOW off: Bling-bling= (Don’t be a lamp)
briefly: brevemente
avoid: evitar, esquivar
interview→ interviewer: entrevistador
→ interviewee:entrevistado
As no one is participating, I assume that everything is clear.
I have a question.
Duck: pato. DUCK (verb)= agacharse
Blu-tack: masilla adhesiva
wonder: preguntarse a uno mismo
Edgy: provocador

MARCH 3rd CLASS

UNIT 2: TALES, LESSON 1: FACT OR FICTION?
OBJECTIVES:
Students will be able to use questions forms correctly
Students will be able to listen and complete listening exercises
Students will be able to use 13 words from a specific vocabulary
about types of story
VOCABULARY: TYPES OF STORIES (MOVIES)
Tale= story→ cuento, historia(de cuentos)
History: historia, hechos acerca de la civilización
army: ejercito
kilt: a skirt(falda) for men in Scotland
Biopic: biographical picture(movie) →
Docudrama: documentary drama→
Disaster movie→
Romantic comedy
A period drama: drama set in a specific time in history
A fantasy film/movie: Avatar, Godzilla
A science fiction movie (sci-fi): Avengers
A psychological thriller: The butterfly effect
An action movie: Fast and furious, Rambo
An adventure movie: Tomb raider, Indiana Jones, Jumanji
A mystery movie: Zodiac
A crime movie: Sherlock Holmes, Enola Holmes
GRAMMAR: PRESENT PERFECT SIMPLE vs SIMPLE PAST

Simple past:
Use: Past habits with specific time, sequence of past habits
negative and questions→ DID
affirmative→ conjugate the verb to simple past→ go→ went
Present perfect simple:
USe: When an action started in the past and continues up to the
present.
Ex: I have called her many times
Present perfect: have, has→
I, you, we, they→ I have called her (
He, she, it→ He has called her
Haber→
I→ Yo→ have (he) → I have called her
You→ Ud, ustedes o tu→ have (ha, has, han) → You have called her
We→ Nosotros→ have (hemos) → We have called her
They→ Ellos→ have (han) → They have called her
He, she it→ has (ha) → He has called her
Contractions:
I have: I’ve /aif/
He has been : He’s been /his/
Stock Broker: corredor de bolsa (de valores)
Homework:
Go to TEMA and practice with the present perfect and past simple

March 5th class

Unit 2: Tales, Lessons 1: Fact or fiction? and 2: What really
happened?
Prepositions of TIME
At: specific time: I woke up AT 6 am, I am eating breakfast at the
moment, I am going to a party at/on the weekend (American English
ON, British AT), See you at lunchtime

In: seasons, months, years, centuries, long periods of time.

My birthday is in December. Barcelona won the CL in 2015
I am going to travel in summer
On: Days of the week, holidays (festivos o celebrations), For specific
dates.
I have english class ON Wednesdays and Fridays
I will meet my friends on Sunday morning
The independence of Colombia is ON July 20th
We celebrate Halloween ON October 31st
I was born ON december 20th, 1978
Directed BY ----
Gabriel Garcia Marquez. 100 years of solitude was written BY GABO
The scream was painted BY Edvard Munch
BY→ author, creator
BY→ means of transport→ bus, car, taxi, airplane, bicycle
Signals→ object uses→ ON
I am working _ON_ the computer
I am working _ON_ Google→ INTERNET
FOR→ when we have expressions FOR A
I want to go out for a DRINK (beer), burguer, sip, movie
FIXED EXPRESSIONS TRANSLATION
I dropped it BY mistake: Lo dejé caer por error
I saw the movie on my own: Vi la película solo
I’m here ON business: estoy acá por negocios
We met by chance: Nos conocimos accidentalmente
Made by hand: hecho a mano
We got there in the end: Llegamos allí al final
She said it on purpose: Ella lo dijo a propósito
We arrived on time: nosotros llegamos a tiempo
In a moment: en un momento
In a hurry: apresurados, afán

MARCH 10th CLASS

UNIT 2: TALES, LESSON 2:WHAT REALLY HAPPENED?
OBJECTIVES:
Students will be able to use narrative tenses correctly
Students will be able to read and complete reading exercises
Students will be able to use 13 words from a specific vocabulary
about the news
Vocabulary
Leap=jump: saltar (salto)
mankind: humanity
Act out: actuar
Point out: Señalar
although: aunque
waving=flutter: ondear
lying: echado (acostado)
found: find: encontrar
unconscious: inconsciente
desperate: desesperado
rushed: apresurado
die (died→ verb): morir
dead: muerto (a)
painkiller: analgésico
pain: ache→ doler /eik/
stomachache
toothache
earache
refuse: negar
sight: vista→ sightings→ avistamientos
crowds: multitudes (a lot of people)
gunman: sicario, tirador, armado
shoot→ shot
bull’s eye: puntería
charged: acusado
doubts: dudas
agreed: acordó
unknown /an-noun/: desconocido
Grammar: Narrative tenses
Simple past
Use: Past actions in a specific time, series of past actions.
Past continuous
Use: refers to a continuing action or state that was happening at
some point in the past

Past perfect
Use: to show the order of two past events. The past perfect shows
the earlier (first) action and the past simple shows the later (second)
action.
1 2
I had cooked dinner when you arrived.
( Yo había cocinado la cena cuando tu llegaste)

When you arrived, I had cooked dinner.

Gianni had slept when the teacher called him.
Gianni se había dormido cuando el profesor lo llamó
March 12th Class.
Unit 2: TALES, Lesson 2: What really happened?
Vocabulary: The News
Branches: ramas (árboles), poder político
each other: el uno al otro
release: liberar
crowd: a group of people,
square: cuadrado, plazoleta
suddenly= all of a sudden: de repente, repentinamente
huge=gigantic=enormous:
cheer: animar
crash: chocar, estrellar
attack:
strike: paro, huelga, golpe
earthquake: terremoto
quicksand:arenas movedizas
fugitive
floods: inundaciones
crops: cultivos
destroy: destruir
hostages: rehenes
headlines: encabezados
refuse: rechazar, rehusar
Riot: disturbio, vandalismo
idiom: refrán o frase idiomática→ It’s raining cats and dogs (esta
lloviendo a cantaros) (aguacero)
reveal: revelar
hide (hiding): esconder
updates: actualizaciones
Introduction: To summarize (resumir) the whole text but no details
attorney (investiga el caso): fiscal→ del caso
prosecutor: fiscal→ la persona que está a cargo de defender a la
defensa (la víctima)
charge: cargar, law→ acusaciones
face: cara, verb→ encarar, enfrentar
add: agregar→ past→ added /adid/
Befriend: hacerse amigo de
able to: capaz de
By the time: para el tiempo
As soon as: tan pronto como
Currently: actualmente
Actually: de hecho

TEXT format
Intro→ short description but with no details
Body→ describe, give details
Conclusion→ The ending of the story (now)

WRITING about a news report

Time linkers or expressions→ As soon as, during, by the time, while=
meanwhile, until (up to), then, after, before…

INVENT IT! USE YOUR IMAGINATION!

WIlfrent on strike for salary

MARCH 17th CLASS

UNIT 2: TALES, LESSON 3:I DON’T BELIEVE IT!
OBJECTIVES:
Students will be able to use SAY and TELL correctly
Students will be able to listen to a story and complete listening
exercises
Students will be able to use 13 words from a specific vocabulary
about how to show interest in a story
Students will be able to tell their own story using their
imagination
Vocabulary:
Guilty: culpable
Swear: jurar, (bad words→ insultos)
SAY: decir→ We use “say” to talk about something in general
(public). Do not use an object pronoun (me, you, him, her, them,
us)
Ex: He says bad words. She said he was working
She said to me that I...
TELL: contar→ We use “tell” to talk about something in specific
(to a person or people). Use an object pronoun (me, you, him,
her, them, us)
Ex: I told you that. Tell me the truth
Punch line: funny thing in a joke
Upset: make a person angry
SWOLLEN: Hinchado
Pimples: espinillas
VOCABULARY: How to tell a story
Before long=soon: en breve, pronto, no muy tarde
So: Entonces
Then: Luego
All of a sudden=suddenly: de repente,
ill: enferma
pills: pastillas
expired: caducadas, vencidas
allergic reaction:
embarrassing: embarazoso, vergonzoso, (que oso)
blotches: erupciones, manchas

HOMEWORK
 1. Choose one of the topics above
2. Create a story using the vocabulary (how to tell
stories)
3. Speak ! Next class→ Friday March 19th, 2021
4. This is going to be included in the quiz (writing)
5. Speaking→ quiz→ included in the quiz

MARCH 19th CLASS

UNIT 2: TALES, LESSON 4: HUSTLE!
OBJECTIVES:
Students will be able to use vocabulary about hustle to complete
exercises
Students will be able to watch a story and complete the
exercises
Students will be able to tell their own story using their
imagination
Vocabulary
Burglar: ladrón
hustle: timo, fraude, engaño
Customs: costumbres, disfraz, aduanas (DIAN)
trouble=problem
Stolen→ steal
quite=very=really
golf clubs: palos de golf
onto the grounds: al suelo / al jardín
climb the wall
break into: irrumpir (entrar sin ser invitado o a la fuerza)