TASK 1 - THEMATIC CONTENT 2

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 MY HOME, MY FOLKS
THEMATIC UNIT: PERSONAL MATTERS
THEMATIC CONTENT: A DAY IN MY LIFE

Task: A host family will welcome you, so they have requested you to make
a short video introducing yourself with basic personal information and a
brief description of your regular activities in order to get to know you better.

GOALS:
• To share schedules for making plans to study with a classmate.
• To write about and share one’s own daily routines.
Context: You are going to apply to an exchange program in an English speaking country. A
host family has requested you a short video introducing yourself in order to get to know you
better.
LANGUAGE FOCUS
Greetings and Farewells: How are you? How do you do? Have a good night.
The alphabet: How do you spell your name? How do you spell your last name?
Numbers (1-100): What’s your phone number? What’s your address?
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Months: When is your birthday? When is Colombia’s independence?
Days of the Week: Class is on Monday. I rest on Saturdays.
Countries: Where are you from? What country would you like to visit?
Expressions of Time (early, on time, o’clock, at night, in the afternoon,in a rush...): I arrive on time
to the English class. I have science class at night.
Frequency Adverbs: On Sunday, I usually go to the university at 8:00 o’clock, I visit my parents on
vacations.
Sequence Connectors: First, later, then, after, before, finally.
Basic Action Verbs: Study, Work, Eat, Go.
Verb to Be: I am a student, She is my professor.
Simple Present Tense (affirmative, interrogative and negative): I usually work on weekends. I do not
sleep at home on Fridays, What do you like to do on weekends? How often do you go to the library?
Family Members: How many brothers do you have? What is your father´s name?
Colors What is your favorite color? Do you prefer red or green?
Family Types: Do you have step-siblings? What does you father-in-law do?
Occupations and Jobs: What does a researcher do? What does a scientist do?
Physical Descriptions: How do you look like? What do you look like?
Body Parts: My hair is black. Your eyes are beautiful.
House Objects: My TV set is great. I have a bookcase for my magazines.
Rooms of the House: My kitchen is convenient. My room is very comfortable.
Types of Houses: I live in an apartment. My sister lives in a flat.
Adjectives She is intelligent. I am serious.

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Word Order: (Adjetivos y sustantivos) I love that really old big green antique.
Possessive Adjectives (mi, tu, su: de él, de ella, de ellos, de ellas): My best friend is special. Her
brother is so smart?
Saxon Possessive (‘s): The principal´s director office is on the third floor. Students´ lives are energy
consuming.
Yes/no Questions: Do you have a part-time job? Does your advisor work at the university?
There Is/Are: There are several libraries at the university. There isn’t a physics lab on block 2.
Prepositions of Place (en - sobre - entre, y otras): There is a cafeteria behind the museum. There are
several rooms in block 5.
Sports and Leisure Time Activities: I practice soccer and baseball. I do karate.
Feelings And Personality Traits: She is so funny. I feel moody today.
Can / Can’t, Be Able To (Negative Form) I can graduate from a program. I can´t be mediocre, I am
able to do what I want, I am not able to fail.
Infinite: To have an interview. To read an article.

Pronunciation

ACTION ONE: Get together with a classmate and use a schedule to figure out what time
you can meet to study English during the week.
PRE: Daily routines vocabulary
1. Match the activities in the box to the images below. Write the name of the activity on the lines un- 3
der each picture. There are some extra activities.

go to school wake up do errands read newspaper

have breakfast go dancing watch TV do chores

go to the gym take a shower go out with friends have a meeting

Wake Up Take a shower Go out with friends Go to the gym

Read newspaper Do errands Have breakfast Have a meeting

 Aa Vocabulary Task: My Daily Routines

BbCc With the help of your dictionary, complete these boxes with activities you do
at different times during the day: in the morning, in the afternoon and at night.

Wake up Wake up

Breakfast Have
Wake up Wake up Take a shower Wake up breakfast Wake up Wake up

Breakfast
Breakfast Breakfast study Do chores
Take a shower Take a shower
study Take a shower Do chores

Breakfast Breakfast
study by study study study
study Take a shower Take a
miself shower

study by study study study by study by

study study
miself miself miself

Play study Play Talk with

study study study
videogames videogames friends

study Go out with

4 Watch tv study study study Watch tv
friends

Sleep Sleep Sleep Sleep Sleep Sleep

Sleep

WHILE: Making plans for a get together

A. Get together with a classmate and use the schedule above to figure out what
time you can meet to study English during the week. Some of the statements
below might help you with this activity.

What do you usually do at...?

What time do you...?

Can you get together on (Monday morning)? / At (8:00 a.m.)?

B. Were you able to make arrangements to study English? What time and when will you do
it? Discuss your answers and share them with your teacher and classmates. Besides this, talk
about how easy or difficult it was for both of you to make this decision taking into account the
differences in your schedules.

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 POST: Busy teachers video

Watch the video of three teachers describing their daily routines. How busy are
they?
First Listening: Watch the video and complete the sentences with the right time.

I wake up at ______________
nine o'clock everyday.

I go to work at about ______________.

3 nine o'clock

I finish work at ______________

nine o'clock everyday.

I wake up at ______________
about nine o'clock in the morning

I normally get to work at _______________

10.30ish

I go to bed at about ______________.

1 o'clock

I wake up at ______________
7 o'clock and start my routine.
I wake my children up at _______________.
7 o'clock 5

We leave the house at _______________.

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Second listening: Listen to the teachers talk about their activities again.
Write Kim, Claire or Sam next to the activity that each one mentions.
Leave a blank space for the activities that none of them mention.

1. __________
Kim I go outside and I do some exercise.
TALK ABOUT IT:
2. __________ I clean up my room and do the dishes.

3. __________
Sam I make a cup of coffee. 1. Which of the three teachers would
you say has the busiest schedule?
4. __________
Kim Then I have a shower.
2. How about you? Which of your
5. __________ I go out to dinner with friends. weekdays is the busiest? Which is the
least busy day? Justify your answers
6. __________
Clare
We sit down for breakfast together. by describing the activities you do in
both cases (use the schedule you filled
in the previous activity).
7. __________
Clare Sometimes I go back to work.
 ACTION TWO: Write a note about your own routine and share it with the
class.

PRE: Read about Brenda’s daily routine.

1. This is Brenda’s daily routine. Look at the pictures and discuss what she
usually does at the different times shown in the clocks. Then, read the
paragraph on the next page and fill in the information with the missing
actions.

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 BRENDA’S DAILY ROUTINE

My name is Brenda, and I consider myself a very active and busy woman. Having a

regular schedule is important because you learn how to make better use of your time.

Let me tell you about a typical weekday for me: I ______________________________ at

wake up

6: 00 a.m. in the morning and take a shower right away. Before leaving for work, I drink
some coffee and ____________________________________________ at
eat my breakfast
about 7:00 a.m.
everyday. I teach at a community college. At ________________________________
8.00 a.m. in
the morning I usually walk to school, and I do office work until 1:00 p.m. Then, I take a
break, and I ____________________________________________.
watch my computer I usually teach a class at
4:00 p.m., and I finish at 6:00 p.m. After this, I go home and relax.

In the evening, I often __________________________________

read a book at about 6:30 p.m. I
love sports because they are a great way to relax after a busy day, so I ________________
go to run

_________________ at 7:00 p.m. three times a week. Sometimes my boyfriend picks me

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up at the gym at 8:30, and we __________________________________________________
go to out

___________. When I get home, I usually ________________________________

take a shower at about
9:00 p.m. and then I ____________________________________.
go to sleep I am always in bed by
10:00 p.m. I seldom stay up late because I like to rest well for another busy day.

Having a regular schedule is not always easy because you have to be very self
disciplined to keep up, but when you manage to organize your time, you can surely
have free time to enjoy doing fun acitvities with family and friends.

Adapted from: Gateway to English from Uceda English series

Grammar Task: Frequency Adverbs use.

1. Circle the frequency adverbs you find in Brenda’s description of her daily routine
and discuss with your teacher and classmates how they are used in the sentences
with To Be and other verbs.
How about you? What are some things in your routine that you:

a. usually do b. often do c. seldom do d. never do

 What is in a paragraph?
Review and discuss these basic rules for writing a paragraph about your own daily
routine:

• A paragraph is composed of a series of sentences that are organized and coherent,

and are all related to a single topic. Take a look at Brenda’s paragraph. What is her topic?

• A paragraph is introduced by a main idea (Topic Sentence,) which states what

the paragraph is all about. Is there a Topic Sentence in Brenda’s paragraph?

• Some important components of a paragraph are Coherence and Unity. Coherence refers to
the relationships that are established between the sentences in the paragraph. These are
determined by the use of connectors or linking words: and, so, but, because and others. Take
a look at this expample taken from Brenda’s composition:

“ Having a regular schedule is important because you learn how to make better use of your time.”
sentence 1 sentence 2

The word is a connector that establishes a relationship of cause and effect between both
sentences. What other connectors can you identify in the paragraph? What relationships
between sentences are established by using them?
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Unity in a paragraph means that the entire paragraph should focus on one single idea. This
makes the paragraph cohesive, which is an important characteristic in writing. Take a look
at Brenda’s paragraph. Does it focus on one single idea? Which one?

WHILE: Write about your own routine

2. Write a paragraph about your own routine(s). You can choose from one of the three options
below:

a. Describe what you do on your busiest day of the week.

b. Write about your weekly routine. How do activities vary each day?

c. Write about your weekend and talk about how you spend it.

Remember to include some of the connectors you have studied in class, punctuation and
capitalization. Give your paragraph a creative title that reflects its content.

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 On Wednesdays, my busiest day of
the week, I wake up at 4:30, after I
wake up, I take a shower and have
breakfast to attend a 6:00 am class.
After that, I have classes with the
university until 2:00 pm, and then I
have lunch. I then head to my technical
school, where I have classes from 3:00
pm to 6:00 pm. After that, I walk back
home and study until 8:00 pm, in this
moment i take a breake to have dinner,
and at 9:00 pm, i finish studying and
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play some videogames, around 10:

00pm i am going to bed. It's a long
day, but I feel accomplished by the end
of it. I try to stay focused and manage
my time wisely to get everything done.

POST: Read Aloud

Read aloud the paragraph you wrote. Can you find any similarities or differences between
your own schedule and some of your classmates’?