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Support material / Material de apoyo

Learning activity 1 / Actividad de aprendizaje 1


Presentation / Presentación

A. Personal information / Información personal


To ask for and give personal information, you should take into account: / Para
preguntar y dar información personal, usted debe tener en cuenta:
1. Greetings. / Saludos.
2. The place of origin. / Lugar de origen.
3. Age. / Edad.
4. The use of verb be. / El uso del verbo ser – estar.
5. Vocabulary related to the context. / Vocabulario acorde al contexto.

Remember the following questions and answers: / Recuerde las siguientes


preguntas y respuestas:
a. What’s your name? – My name is __maria______.
b. How old are you? – I am _32_______ years old.
c. Where are you from? – I am from _______colombian___
B. There is – there are

There is / there are is a grammatical structure used to express that someone or


something exists. / Esta estructura se utiliza para expresar la existencia de
alguien o algo.

There is indicates the existence of someone or something in singular form; it


refers to only one person or object. / There is indica la existencia de algo o
alguien en singular, es decir de un solo objeto o persona.

There are indicates the existence of someone or something in plural form. It


refers to two or more people or objects. / There are indica la existencia de
alguien o algo en plural, es decir dos o más objetos o personas.
Practice / Práctica

Do the excercises and then compare them to the suggested answers sheet. /
Desarrolle los ejercicios y luego compárelos con la hoja de respuestas
sugerida.
A. Write the nationality for each country. / Escriba la nacionalidad para cada
país.
Example / Ejemplo:
Canada - Canadian

Australia australian

Chile
Chilean

Colombia
Colombian

Costa Rica Costa Rican

Cuba Cuban

Egypt Egyptian

England English

France French

Germany german

Italy
Italian

Japan Japanese

Mexico
Mexican
Nigeria Nigerian

1. Peru Peruvian

2. Spain Spaniard

3. Venezuela Venezuelan

B. Write the numbers as words. / Escriba los números en letras.

Example / Ejemplo:
35  Thirty-five

1. 5 FIVE

2. 24
twenty-four

3. 17 seventeen

4. 75 seventy-five

5. 20
twenty

6. 9 NINE

7. 84 eighty-four

8. 28 twenty-eight

9. 66 sixty-six

10. 92 ninety-two
11. 19 nineteen

12. 100 one hundred

13. 88 eighty-eight

14. 109 one hundred nine

15. 52 fifty-two

16. 6 SIX

C. Verb to be / Verbo ser-estar

Complete the chart with am, is or are. / Complete la tabla con am, is o are.
Example / Ejemplo:

I am a student.

1. They Are in the park.

2. We ARE doctors.

3. It IS a beautiful house.

4. She IS a model

5. Carlos IS my husband.

6. He IS in Medellin.

7. Lorena and I ARE in the cafeteria.

8. The cat IS on the sofa.

9. Flowers ARE very expensive.

10. The computer IS in the living room.

11. You ARE an excellent musician.

12. Martha IS on the phone.

13. What ARE your name?


14. Where ARE you from?

15. Where IS the eraser?

D. Look at the images and write there is or there are to complete the
sentences. / Mire las imágenes y escriba there is o there are para
completar las oraciones.

_______THERE
ARE____________ three
1 apples on the table.

2 ______________THERE
IS_____ a pencil on the floor.

3 ____THERE
ARE_______________ two
cars in the garage.
4 ________________THERE
ARE___ five students in the
classroom.

5 __________THERE
IS_________ a computer on
the desk.

6 ______THERE
IS_____________ a pencil
case in my bag.

7 __THERE
ARE_________________
two pictures on the wall.
8 _________THERE
IS__________ a clock on the
wall.

9 ________________THERE
ARE___ many books in the
big library.

10 _________________THERE
IS__ a magazine on the
table.

Fuente de imágenes: SENA

E. Match the question with the corresponding answer. / Relacione la pregunta


con la respuesta correcta.
Example: / Ejemplo:
Good morning. How are you doing? I am doing fine, thank you.
1. Where is he from? __D_ a. You too!

2. Hi, how is it going? __G b. It is 200 years old. It is very old!

3. Who is he? __H_ c. I’m fine, thank you.

4. How old are you? _I__ d. He is from Mexico.

5. How are you? __C_ e. My name is Charlie.

6. Where is Teresa? _J__ f. Rossana.

7. How old is it? _B__ g. Everything is going well!

8. Have a nice day! __A_ h. He is my husband.

9. What is your name? _E__ i. I am 26 years old.

10. What is her name? __F_ j. She is in the office today.

F. Complete the days of the week. / Complete los días de la semana.

1. M ON__ __ day

2. T__U e _S_ day

3. Wed _NE_ __ sday

4. T_HU_ __ rsday

5. Fr__I d __AY __

6. Sa _TUR_ __ __ day

7. S__UN __ da __Y

Production / Producción

A. Make a business card in which you provide personal information about


yourself. / Haga una tarjeta de presentación en la cual usted comparta su
información personal.

NAME: Maria

NATIONALITY: Colombian

Age: 32 year old


Ocupation: Administradora
fuente: SENA

B. Cut and paste and image of a bedroom. Use there is or there are to name
of the objects that are found in the bedroom. / Corte y pegue una imagen
de una habitación. Use there is o there are para nombrar los objetos
encontrados en la habitación.

Fuente: google

Example / Ejemplo:
In the bedroom there is a window.
In the bedroom there a two picture.
Document control / Control del documento

Name Position Dependence Date

Theme expert Dirección de


Ricardo Aristizábal Asesor English Dot July
Author formación
Salinas Works - Programa de profesional. 2014
bilingüismo Dirección General

Copy editor – Línea Centro


Adaptation Rachman August
de producción Agroindustrial.
Bustillo Martínez 2014
Regional Quindío

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