UNIDAD EDUCATIVA FISCOMISIONAL

“DANIEL ALVAREZ BURNEO”

English Language Subject

Message:

Hello dear students,

First, I want to send you all a big and affectionate hug and I hope you and your family are perfectly well. You as
the young part of our society should take care of your health since you are the future of our countries and we
need you to have a different and wonderful world in the following years. Do not forget to follow all the
authorities’ instructions to avoid worse problems with the corona virus that can affect our country drastically.
Second, as you know one of the recommendations of the authorities was to study the different subjects at home
to prevent the expansion of the virus and English language is not the exception. This document contains all the
activities that you are going to develop during the following days. Try to complete them responsibly, put all your
effort to do it correctly and follow all the instructions written under this message.

Hope to see you soon dear students,

Take care guys.

Instructions:

 This document will be divided in 4 activities. The activities will be developed in 4 weeks, so you will have
one week to complete each activity starting this week.
 Schedule:
 week 1- activity 1 (DATE: March 18th- March 22nd)
 week 2- activity 2 (DATE: March 23rd- March 29th)
 lesson about activities 1 and 2 (Monday-March 30th)
 week 3- activity 3 (DATE: March 30th- April 5th)
 week 4- activity 4 (DATE: April 6th- April 12th)
 Lesson about activities 3 and 4 (Monday – April 13th)
 For the lessons, a link will be sent those days (Monday-March 30th) and (Monday – April
13th) to take lessons online.
 Take pictures of all the activities and send all the pictures and videos to me at the end of each week by
email victor16031991@hotmail.com (The 4 activities will be checked in your notebooks when we go
back to classes again)
 Please, do the activities by yourself and avoid cheating on your activities and lessons
 Teacher will give one hour of video chat to clarify doubts, answer questions related to the topics in the
activities and reinforce the explanation of the different topics. (It is optional to join to the video chat)
 The video chat will be done every Friday at 11:00 A.M.
El uso de esta plataforma para el video chat los viernes es muy sencilla:
 1. Ingresar a www.zoom.us
 2. Click en “Entrar a una reunión”
 3. Digitar el siguiente código de acceso: 816-655-999
 4. Click en “ENTRAR”
 (Automáticamente el navegador descargará un programa con la clase)
 5. Click en el programa descargado o en “Abrir en zoom”
 6. Click en Aceptar o Continuar
 Follow all the instructions and good luck dear students.
ACTIVITY 1

 Choose 10 questions and answer them in your notebook. (Write the question and then the answer)
 After finishing that, you should take a picture of that and send it to me

CLIMATE CHANGE
1) What is climate change? Is it 2) Do you believe in climate 3) Some people claim climate
the same as global warming? change? If so, why do you think change is just part of a natural
Think about it and explain it it is happening? cycle and that it is not man-
made. What do you think?

5) What dangers are threatening 6) Should we be worried about 7) Do you think climate change
our lives and our planet? climate change? Explain. can be stopped?
Make a list of 5 dangers Are you worried? What should be done?

8) Scientists predict that the 9) ‘Cutting carbon emissions’ is 10) Do you use environmentally-
ice caps will melt. What affect an often used phrase. What does friendly products? Have you
could this have on life on Earth? it mean and how can it be ‘gone green’?
achieved? Give examples.

11) What’s a carbon footprint? 12) Have you changed your 13) Do you or your family drive
How big is yours? lifestyle to save our planet and an “eco car”?
How can it be reduced? prevent climate change? What Why or why not?
have you done? Give examples of such cars.

14) Are governments doing 15) The world is addicted to oil. 16) What do you know about the
enough to combat climate Are there any alternatives to Kyoto Protocol? What happened
change? Name 5 measures that oil? Make a list of 4 energy in 2009 in Copenhagen?
have been so far. sources and their effect on
nature.

17) Could climate change destroy 18) Coal is still a widely used source of 19) Should poor developing countries
life on Earth? Write a best-case energy worldwide. Is it more or less be asked to make similar efforts as
and a worst-case scenario. polluting than oil? Is there a future for wealthy, industrialized countries? Give
coal? your view.

 Watch the video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SwBqZlIBmmw

 In your notebook, write 3 environmental problems around the world that you watch in the video. Paste
a picture next to each environmental problem.
 After finishing that, you should take a picture of that and send it to my email.
 ENVIROMENTAL PROBLEMS

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 _____________________________________
 _____________________________________

ACTIVITY 2

 Complete the worksheet.

 You can print this worksheet and paste it in your notebook or you can copy the information on your
notebook and complete it there.
 The activity should be completed hand-made (even if you print it). Take a picture of that and send it to
my email.
 After finishing it, you have to create a poster based on 1 global problem that you wrote on the
worksheet. The poster should have the name of the problem, pictures of it, causes of it, consequences
of it and a solution. Remember to include just key words and pictures in each part. It is not necessary to
write paragraphs or complete sentences in the poster.
 Prepare a presentation of 2 minutes (it can be more time if it is necessary) to talk about your global
problem and use your poster as a visual resource. Record a video of the presentation and send it to my
e-mail.

GOBAL PROBLEMS

1. Choose two of the environmental problems

A drought an earthquake an eclipse

a flood A hurricane a thunderstorm
a tsunami animal extinction Global warming

2. Write a definition for both environmental problems

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3. Write 3 causes for one of the environmental problems

 Problem: __________________________
1- ___________________________________________________________________
2- ___________________________________________________________________
3- ___________________________________________________________________

4. Write 3 consequences for one of the environmental problems

Problem: __________________________
1) ___________________________________________________________________
2) ___________________________________________________________________
3) ___________________________________________________________________
5. write 1 solution for each problem
Problem: __________________________

___________________________________________________________________

Problem: __________________________

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ACTIVITY 3

 Watch the video about active and passive voice

 You can print all the exercises of this activity and paste them in your notebook (even if it is printed, you
should complete the exercises by hand-made) or you can copy the information of this activity on the
notebook.
 After finishing it, you should take pictures of all the exercises and send them to me.

Grammar

Active and passive voice

Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nkAyggAM1q4

Why should you use the passive voice?

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What are the four steps to write a passive voice sentence?

1) ______________________________________________________________________
2) ______________________________________________________________________
3) ______________________________________________________________________
4) ______________________________________________________________________
5) ______________________________________________________________________
6) ______________________________________________________________________
Write 5 examples in passive voice given by video

1. ______________________________________________________________________

2. ______________________________________________________________________

3. ______________________________________________________________________

4. ______________________________________________________________________

5. ______________________________________________________________________

Change the following sentences to passive voice.

 Maria usually writes poems.

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 Pedro sings beautiful songs in his concerts.
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 James Cameron directed the movie “TITANIC”.
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 Someone stole my bike yesterday.
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 Juan built my house. He is an excellent architect.
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 Look at the following sentences and write the formulas next to them

TENSE SENTENCES FORMULA

PRESENT ACTIVE: PABLO DRIVES A BUS EVERYDAY ACTIVE: S+VERB+ OBJECT + COMPLEMENT
PASSIVE: A BUS IS DRIVEN BY PABLO EVERYDAY PASSIVE: OBJECT+TO BE(AM/IS/ARE)+VERB IN
PAST PARTICIPLE +BY+S+COMPLEMENT
PAST ACTIVE: ADRIANA STOLE 50 DOLLARS YESTERDAY ACTIVE:
PASSIVE: 50 DOLLARS WERE STOLEN BY ADRIANA PASSIVE:
YESTERDAY
FUTURE ACTIVE: ANDREA WILL BUY A BEAUTIFUL HOUSE ACTIVE:
IN CUENCA NEXT MONTH
PASSIVE: A BEAUTIFUL HOUSE WILL BE BOUGHT PASSIVE:
BY ANDREA IN CUENCA NEXT MONTH
PRESENT ACTIVE: THE BANK HAS GIVEN BACK SOME ACTIVE:
PERFECT MONEY TO THE CLIENTS
PASSIVE: SOME MONEY HAS BEEN GIVEN BACK PASSIVE:
TO THE CLIENTS BY THE BANK
PAST ACTIVE: I HAD WRITTEN SOME SONGS FOR MY ACTIVE:
PERFECT MOM PASSIVE:
PASSIVE: SOME SONGS HAD BEEN WRITTEN BY
ME FOR MY MOM
Exercises:

 Change the following sentences to passive voice in your notebook by hand-made

In order to check if the passive voice sentences are correct, you can go to the link and solve the activity online.
Then, you can click in “resolver” and it will help you to check the correct and incorrect ones.

https://www.curso-ingles.com/practicar/ejercicios/the-passive-voice

ACTIVITY 4

 Read the information, understand it and complete the activities

 You can print all the exercises of this activity and paste them in your notebook (even if it is printed, you
should complete the exercises by hand-made) or you can copy the information of this activity on the
notebook.
 After finishing it, you should take pictures of the information copied, and about all the exercises and
send them to me.
 GRAMMAR

RELATIVE CLAUSES

1. Relative clauses are used to connect sentences.

2. The relative clauses are formed by two parts, a main sentence and subordinated sentence.
3. The two clauses are connected by that, who, whose, which.

EXAMPLE:

1. Our planet is a wonderful place to live

2. Our planet is destroyed by Humans every day

Our planet that is a wonderful place to live is destroyed by humans every day

1. Our planet is a wonderful place to live = main sentence

2. Our planet is destroyed by Humans every day =subordinated sentence

RELATIVE PRONOUNS: who, that, whose

Who for people

The woman who works at my office is very efficient.

That for both things and people

The woman that works at my office is very efficient.

Which for things and animals

The computer which a bought yesterday is amazing

Whose for possession for people

Yesterday I met the girl whose sister is a supermodel.

COMPLETE THE SENTENCES WITH WHO/THAT/ WHOSE

examples:
Mark's brother _________is 18 has just started University.

The families __________houses were destroyed by the Hurricane

The woman ________works at my office is very efficient.

The book ________I read last week is very interesting.

The cat __________is very friendly is called Tom.