Colegio Agustiniano ENGLISH FIRST WORKSHOP

SEVENTH GRADE
SECOND TERM
2020
COMPETENCES: 1. Escucha y comprende información general y específica de textos orales en situaciones
comunicativas variadas, para identificar y describir personajes, hechos y lugares, adoptando una actitud
respetuosa y de cooperación 2. Hace presentaciones breves y explica de manera sencilla experiencias para
practicar la pronunciación con fluidez y coherencia, expresando motivación en mejorar el dominio de la lengua.
3. Identifica el vocabulario relacionado con descripciones personales, personalidad, comida y bebidas, para TEACHER:
producir escritos teniendo en cuenta las estructuras gramaticales del pasado y presente simple desarrollando
su sensibilidad frente a su entorno cercano y diversos contextos. 4. Escribe textos breves que explican, en Pedro Julian Amaya Muñoz
términos sencillos, aspectos de su entorno para poner en práctica el uso de estrategias de planeación, revisión,
edición y corrección de gramática en trabajos y textos escritos, fortaleciendo la capacidad de autorregular su
aprendizaje. 5. Extrae información general y específica de un texto corto para responder preguntas de
comprensión lectora, fortaleciendo con entusiasmo su proceso de lectura crítica e intertextual.

Name: ____________________________________________________Date: April 23

 Decorate the second term page in your notebook, then print and stick the term plan, if
you don’t have a printer write it in your notebook.
 Send all the activities of this workshop to the corresponding e-mail of your
course
701english2020@gmail.com, 702english2020@gmail.com ,
703english2020@gmail.com. on May 4th only with your doc files.
 The first video conference meeting with your teacher to clarify the doubts will be
on April 27th from 8:00-9:00 am. By Google Meet
 Name the e-mail subject of your workshop like this example
701+surname+first name.
 Save the workshop changes and name the file like this
701workshop1+name

TOPICS
 In this workshop we will take into account all unit 3, student´s book and workbook practice
exercises and the project.

Grammar
For a better understanding of these contents, see the tutorial that will be presented as a virtual
class. There you will find explanations, examples and practical exercises.
 Present simple and continuous
 There is, there are, a, an, some, any
 Counts – Non counts
Vocabulary

In this part you should take into account a power point presentation to reinforce the vocabulary.
 Physical description
 Personalities
Skills

Here we will work all the contents integrating the communicative competences, being very practical
in the development and application of knowledge and deepening of the English level.
 Reading – identifying main ideas
 Listening – identifying speaker´s attitude
 Writing – completing a form
 Speaking – Presenting a short speech video at home about your project.

 Project Unit 3 – Making a self-care kit

 UNIT 3
What makes a good friend?

Vocabulary activities
To start we will tackle the new vocabulary about physical description and
personalities.

1. First go to the student's book on page 42, and 43, exercises 1 and 4 in
your notebook. For the development of these points you must have on
hand your headphones and the book CD.
2. In your notebook, write the vocabulary words from unit 3 as a glossary
list with the Spanish meanings.
3. Then in your notebook make a write a physical description of a famous
person you like and paste a picture of that person.
4. Do not forget to take photos as evidence of your performance and
development of each activity.

Grammar activities
Guys here you are going to emphasize learning through virtual tutorials to
reinforce and deepen the content.

1. Look at the following picture as a reference to the present tense, Print

and paste in your notebook or write the explanation by hand.

https://www.tes.com/lessons/lygRfsIqZiF1CA/copy-of-present-simple-vs-continuous

1. Now go to the student´s book and develop pages 44 and 45, where you
will put into practice the correct use of the present simple and continuous
2. Then put your knowledge into practice by solving the exercises in the
workbook page134, 135 and 136.
3. Finally go to the following link and watch the video tutorial to
mechanize what you have learned. In your notebook choose 5 verbs from
the video and make different sentences in present simple in positive,
negative and questions, giving short answers and 5 sentences in present
continuous in positive, negative and questions with Wh Words.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VP8MRGAjgAs&t=3s
4. Do not forget to take photos as evidence of their performance and
development of each activity. Please organize your doc files in a digital
folder.

There is, there are, a, an, some, any

Look at this photo to remember the steps to build sentences in positive,
negative and questions of this topic. Print and paste in your notebook or
write the explanation by hand.

https://co.pinterest.com/pin/534802524483456306/

1. After analyzing the photo of the quantifiers, in your notebook write the
exercises that you will answer on the following link before
https://elt.oup.com/student/solutions/elementary/grammar/grammar_0
3_012e?cc=co&selLanguage=en
2. In your notebook make a drawing of your bedroom and write sentence
describing it using there is, there are with a, an, some, any. You can
also cut out pictures from magazines or books instead of drawing.
3. Watch the following video link to continue deepening the topic
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=68bT4Q9BPsM

Counts – Non counts

 1. Look at the explanation photo to know the correct use of count and
noncount nouns and write out the explanation chart in your notebook.
2. Carefully watch the following video tutorial for clarify on the differences
between counts and non-count nouns.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3JixwKwIHvw

3. In your notebook, choose ten count nouns and ten non count nouns
and classify them making a chart with two columns one of count and
the other of noncount nouns.

Extension activities
1. Take the quiz on physical description and personality on the
following link, then take a screen shot of your result and save to
your file.
2. You will do different exercises to practice physical appearance and
descriptions.
https://es.educaplay.com/recursos-educativos/2579864-physical_appearance.html

You have to print these extension activities and paste it in your

Notebook.

 Reading
Read the short text and answer exercises 1
 Listening
1. Do the exercises on your student´s book page 46 and 47, use your
headphones and the book´s cd, then go to workbook page 137. Don´t
forget take photos to your activities done.
2. Listen to the conversation about how to study better and do the exercises
to practice and improve your listening skills
3. Practice your listening skill in the following audio link and pdf file

Audio link https://soundcloud.com/user-213649643/british-council-

learnenglish-teens-1
Pdf worksheet practice link
https://drive.google.com/file/d/12D6Tph5YMCFyUZFBfA7HvTYsBsh3zyd9/
view?usp=sharing

Writing
1. First, do the introduction to the writing exercise to familiarize yourself with
the vocabulary in your student's book page 48 and 49.
2. Second, write in your notebook answering the following questions and use
images or cutouts to energize the activity.

- What makes a good friend?

- What can you learn by studying in another country?
- Do you need to be really good at a hobby to enjoy it?
- How do people feel when you use negative words to describe them?
Speaking - Project Unit 3
 First of all answer the activities of the student´s book pages 50 and 51
 Make a self-care kit, take the example to do it on page 51, from student´s
book.
 Use your creativity and imagination for the design and structure of the kit
box.

Present your project by making a video at home, explaining your project.

Take into account the following questions in the video.
-How did you feel doing it?
-What materials did you use?
-Explain the steps of the how you did your the self care kit?
-Say in your own words what are you going to use it for? or which is its
usefulness?
You can use your cell phone to record and save the video
Take into account the guidelines required for the development of the project in the following
evaluation rubric.

If you have any questions please contact me through my e-mail: pedroa@agustiniano.net or attend the
virtual meeting on April 27th from 8:00-9:00 through Google meet.