ENGLISH ACTIVITIES - EGB 3 Pre-Pet

Prof. Sebastián Mercado

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Pronunciation:
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Before going to college, Alison Reader wanted to see the world – sort of mix work with a long, long holiday away from Britain. She tells us about her experience:
“I wanted to go to Australia because I’d heard the lifestyle was so good. So I got a job in a pizza restaurant and saved up the money I’d need for the trip. A friend of mine wanted to travel, too, and I knew a couple of people in Sydney, so I had someone to go with and somewhere to stay, at least. We didn’t have any jobs organised before we arrived, because we’d been told it was really easy to pick up work.
“We worked in Sydney for three months then met up with another couple of friends from home who flew out to join us. The four of us then bought an old car and drove to Brisbane (north of Sydney) where we found jobs. I worked in a café for three weeks, doing shifts from 6 p.m. until 2 a.m. – three weeks was enough!
“After Brisbane, we headed up to Cairns and just relaxed for a couple of weeks. Then I went inland to work in the rainforest for three weeks, cleaning holiday cabins. Next, we all drove across the north of the country to Darwin – it was all holiday from then, we’d enough of work! We drove around the desert in the middle of Australia for a while but the scenery began to get boring. Lots of dust and the odd palm tree!
“Louise, my friend, decided to stay at the next place we stopped because she’d found a job. And I went off on my own. I got a lift from a woman who drove me to Adelaide and stayed there for a week. The four of us all got back together again in Sydney and travelled back to Britain via Thailand.
“I loved Australia but I don’t know whether I’d like to live there for good. The thing I really loved was the Australian way of life. They’ve got great weather and they take life much easier than the British.”


A. SAY WHICH OF THE FOLLOWING STATEMENTS ARE TRUE (T) OR FALSE (F). CORRECT THE FALSE ONES.
1. Alison wanted to go to Australia because the Australian way of life was very interesting.
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2. To pay for the flight to Sydney she got a job in a café.
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3. Alison would be completely alone in Sydney.
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4. Her last job in Australia was in the rainforest, cleaning holiday cabins.
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B. ANSWER THE FOLLOWING QUESTIONS ABOUT THE TEXT.
1. Who did Alison go to Australia with?
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2. Did they have a job waiting for them in Sydney? Why/ why not?
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3. Why did Alison get tired of working in a café in Brisbane?
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4. Did Alison like travelling around the desert? Why/ why not?
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5. Where did she and her friends go on their way to Britain?
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6. What did Alison like best in Australia?
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C. ASK QUESTIONS FOR THE UNDERLINED EXPRESSIONS.
1. Alison decided to go to Australia. ____________________________________?
2. She got a job at a pizza restaurant. _________________________________?
3. They bought an old car. ____________________________________________?
4. She worked in a café for three weeks. ________________________________?
5. She got a lift from a woman. _______________________________________?
6. She took the bus to Melbourne after staying in Adelaide for a week.
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D. COMPLETE THE SENTENCES. PUT THE VERBS INTO THE PRESENT SIMPLE OR PRESENT CONTINUOUS, POSITIVE OR NEGATIVE.
1. “Have a chocolate!”
“No, thank you. I __________ (like) chocolate.
2. “Let’s have lunch in the garden.”
“No, we can’t. It __________ (rain).”
3. “What _________________________ (do)?
“Pam? She’s a doctor.”
4. Tony __________ (work) at the moment. He’s on holiday.
5. “Why _________________________ (smile)?”
“Because I’m happy.”
6. Sandra and her husband are vegetarian. They __________ (eat) meat.
7. “What ___________________________ (read)?”
“A letter from my sister.”
8. “What time ____________________________ (get up)?”
“Me? About 7 a.m. usually.”

E. COMPLETE THE DIALOGUES. USE THE PAST SIMPLE OR THE PRESENT PERFECT OF THE VERBS IN BRACKETS.
Claire: _______ you _______ (see) John?
Colin: No, why?
Claire: He _________ (break) his leg.
Colin: Really? When _______ he _______ (do) that?
Claire: Yesterday.

Adam: Oh no! I __________ (lose) my car keys.
Tony: When _______ you last _______ (see) them?
Adam: This morning when I __________ (leave) the house.

Mary: Alan’s going to sell his car.
Simon: Really? He only __________ (buy) it last month.
Mary: I know. He loves changing cars.
Simon: How many cars _______ he _______ (have) in his life?
Mary: At least 20!


Grammar
Present Perfect

Complete these sentences. Use the present perfect of the verbs in brackets.
◦ I ____________________________ (not be) to Disneyland.
◦ I ____________________________ (go) to Madrid.
◦ I ____________________________ (not try) skiing.
◦ My mum ____________________________ (study) French.
◦ My brother ____________________________ (not start) school.
◦ The concert ____________________________ (finish).

Write sentences. Use the present perfect, affirmative or negative.
a) Juan / not study / German
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b) We / see / that film
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c) David / not travel / to Australia
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d) My sister / do / yoga
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e) I / not meet / David Beckham
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Write the questions:
☺ You / ever / go / to Madrid
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☺ Your best friend / ever / play / golf
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☺ You / ever / visit / New York
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☺ Your teacher / ever / arrive / late
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☺ You / ever / go / to a concert
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Cross out the wrong already or yet.
a) Ann has already had lunch already.
b) I haven’t yet finished this exercise yet.
c) We already have already seen that film.
d) The maths class yet hasn’t started yet.
e) They’ve already been already on holiday.

Write the words in the correct order.
 just / ‘s / She / the door. / opened
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 heard / We / a noise. / ‘ve / just
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 They / lunch. / just / finished / ‘ve
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 has / Paul / returned / just / from Granada.



2- Read Peter’s diary and complete with the verbs in brackets into the Simple Past or the Present Perfect Tenses.


3- Read these sentences and circle the right option to complete them.
1- Where ________________ last month?
a. did he go
b. he went
c. has he gone

2- _________ you ever __________ a wild tiger?
a. Have… seen
b. Did…seen
c. Did … see

3- She bought a nice present for Tom ___________.
a. yet
b. two days ago
c. already

4- We have ____________ gone to the dentist’s.
a. yet
b. already
c. ever

5- I have studied English __________ five years.
a. already
b. since
c. for

6- She has waited for you _________ four o’clock.
a. since
b. ever
c. for

7- They haven’t studied for the exam __________.
a. Yet
b. already
c. just


JOBS

1- Look at the list of jobs and match them with the corresponding pictures










DESCRIBING PERSONALITY





1 Complete the sentences with the words in the box.
PROUD - FRIENDLY - LAZY - PATIENT - CHEERFUL - JEALOUS

1 ‘Rob has been very __________ recently.’
‘Well, he’s got a new girlfriend.’
2 Tim never helps with the housework.
He’s so ____________ !
3 Zoe was ____________ of Linda. She was much prettier than Zoe, and more intelligent, too.
4 Karen rarely gets angry with people. She’s
usually ____________ and understanding.
5 Pam is very ____________ . I’m sure you’ll like her when you meet her.
6 The teacher felt very ____________ when all her students passed the exam.

2 Choose the correct alternative.
1 Karen is so bossy / shy. She’s always telling me what to do!
2 Ian started university a year early. He’s
really stupid / clever.
3 My grandparents are very mean / generous. They give me some money whenever I see them.
4 You should write a novel. You’re so imaginative / boring.
5 ‘When I invited Clare to the party, she went bright red!’
‘She must be very confident / shy.’
6 When Mark ignored his mother, she told him off for being rude / well-behaved.

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ENGLISH ACTIVITIES - POLIMODAL

Prof. Sebastián Mercado

“The Fast and the Turtle”

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GUIA DE TRABAJO - KET (EGB 3-TM)

Prof. Fabian Tapia






















You Never Know
By Raul Cordoba

In Catamarca, in a neighbourhood of the periphery, a man called Juan García lived alone. He didn’t have much money because he wasn’t well paid in his job, he worked as cleaner in a school.
One day while Juan was playing football with his friends, he started to feel bad, and decided to go to the hospital to see a doctor. As he was revised the doctor got surprised by the strange symptoms in Juan's whole body, the doctor indicated him some studies to be done, to find out what was happening to him.
Juan, very preoccupied, spent all his savings to pay the medical studies. The following day, he went to the laboratory to know the results of the examinations but the doctors told him that he had to return in one week to obtain a more complete report.
On the following week, the secretary of the laboratory called Juan to tell him they already had the final results of the examinations. At that moment he was feeling extremely bad. Immediately, Juan went to look for the results to the hospital. When he arrived in there, they sent him to speak to the doctor in chief. After having seen the results, the doctor remained surprised and warned Juan that he had to make a very complex treatment with the famous doctor Sebastian Parisi, who was the only one that could help him with his strange disease in the muscles, otherwise he would die.
Juan tried to get another job and he asked all his friends for money for the treatment but all his attempts were useless for he didn’t have the strength to work and his friends weren’t in a good economical situation. Without having another alternative, he decided to go out to steal and asked his friend Pablo to give him a weapon.
It was a calm night, Juan saw a mansion and he decided to steal there. When he entered he heard a noise, and a tall man appeared from behind with a piece of wood. Juan, very frightened, shot the man three times in the head. The man died and Juan took all the money from of the house, which was enough to pay the treatment.
The following morning, Juan went to see doctor Parisi, but his secretary told him that he was killed during the night when a thief shot him three times in the head. Juan fell on the floor with a deathlike expression in his face, and remembered the words from his father: "treat all people well, because you never know when you need them".

Activities

1- Use the dictionary to look for the difficult words.
2- Write what the story is about.
3- Write 5 questions for the story.


An Unforgettable trip
By Matias Mauvecin

This story is about a man called Roberto Garcia. He was a manager and he had a beautiful family, two sons, four daughters and a beautiful wife. One day Roberto’s boss called him and said that he needed him to travel to Salta because he was going to start a new business in that province.

The following week Roberto started the trip. Firstly, he arrived to Tucuman to visit his relatives. He stayed in Tucuman for three days. Then he continued travelling to Salta, but he had a problem on the way. He had a flat tyre and just in front of a river. Then he saw something strange, he saw a dead man floating in that river. Roberto realized that the man died recently because the body wasn’t rotten yet. Roberto started to look for some identification in the pocket but he only found a letter within a small plastic bag. It was a suicidal note in which he could read: “My name is Hector Rodriguez, I’m a lawyer and I decided to finish my life because I lost my job and I can’t feed my family. Ps: tell my wife and my daughter that I love them”. Immediately, Roberto called the police and the police arrived to the place in a half an hour with the reporters.

The police took the dead man and thanked Roberto for his help. Roberto changed the tyre and got back to his way to Salta. He lost many hours in the incident and he decided to sleep in a motel because it was getting dark and he was very tired. He had terrible nightmares and suddenly he was woken up by the phone of his room. He answered and a man with a strange voice introduced himself as Hector Rodriguez. He told Roberto that he didn’t commit suicide. He also explained that the Mexican mafia was chasing him because he was fighting and putting into jail dangerous drug dealers. So he managed to get out of that trouble by killing a homeless person and putting a fake letter in his pocket. He regretted of what he had done and decided to confess everything about the murder. After that the police arrested Hector. Finally, Roberto arrived to Salta with an unreliable story of his unforgettable trip.

Activities

1- Read and write T (true) or F (false).

1- Roberto has a small family. ( )
2- He went to Tucuman for business. ( )
3- He saw a dead body on his way to Salta. ( )
4- Roberto didn’t touch the body. ( )
5- Hector Rodriguez was dead. ( )

2- Write your opinion about the story.
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WRITING

Choose a topic to write a COMPOSITION (about 100 words)

• SCHOOL VIOLENCE (Give your opinion)
• CATAMARCA (You can write about festivals, night life, tourism etc.)
• EDUCATION
• ART
• TECHNOLOGY

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GUIA DE TRABAJO - FLYERS (EGB 2 TM)

Prof. Fabián Tapia





















You Never Know
By Raul Cordoba

In Catamarca, in a neighbourhood of the periphery, a man called Juan García lived alone. He didn’t have much money because he wasn’t well paid in his job, he worked as cleaner in a school.
One day while Juan was playing football with his friends, he started to feel bad, and decided to go to the hospital to see a doctor. As he was revised the doctor got surprised by the strange symptoms in Juan's whole body, the doctor indicated him some studies to be done, to find out what was happening to him.
Juan, very preoccupied, spent all his savings to pay the medical studies. The following day, he went to the laboratory to know the results of the examinations but the doctors told him that he had to return in one week to obtain a more complete report.
On the following week, the secretary of the laboratory called Juan to tell him they already had the final results of the examinations. At that moment he was feeling extremely bad. Immediately, Juan went to look for the results to the hospital. When he arrived in there, they sent him to speak to the doctor in chief. After having seen the results, the doctor remained surprised and warned Juan that he had to make a very complex treatment with the famous doctor Sebastian Parisi, who was the only one that could help him with his strange disease in the muscles, otherwise he would die.
Juan tried to get another job and he asked all his friends for money for the treatment but all his attempts were useless for he didn’t have the strength to work and his friends weren’t in a good economical situation. Without having another alternative, he decided to go out to steal and asked his friend Pablo to give him a weapon.
It was a calm night, Juan saw a mansion and he decided to steal there. When he entered he heard a noise, and a tall man appeared from behind with a piece of wood. Juan, very frightened, shot the man three times in the head. The man died and Juan took all the money from of the house, which was enough to pay the treatment.
The following morning, Juan went to see doctor Parisi, but his secretary told him that he was killed during the night when a thief shot him three times in the head. Juan fell on the floor with a deathlike expression in his face, and remembered the words from his father: "treat all people well, because you never know when you need them".

Activities

1- Use the dictionary to look for the difficult words.
2- Write what the story is about.
3- Write 5 questions for the story.



An Unforgettable trip
By Matias Mauvecin

This story is about a man called Roberto Garcia. He was a manager and he had a beautiful family, two sons, four daughters and a beautiful wife. One day Roberto’s boss called him and said that he needed him to travel to Salta because he was going to start a new business in that province.

The following week Roberto started the trip. Firstly, he arrived to Tucuman to visit his relatives. He stayed in Tucuman for three days. Then he continued travelling to Salta, but he had a problem on the way. He had a flat tyre and just in front of a river. Then he saw something strange, he saw a dead man floating in that river. Roberto realized that the man died recently because the body wasn’t rotten yet. Roberto started to look for some identification in the pocket but he only found a letter within a small plastic bag. It was a suicidal note in which he could read: “My name is Hector Rodriguez, I’m a lawyer and I decided to finish my life because I lost my job and I can’t feed my family. Ps: tell my wife and my daughter that I love them”. Immediately, Roberto called the police and the police arrived to the place in a half an hour with the reporters.

The police took the dead man and thanked Roberto for his help. Roberto changed the tyre and got back to his way to Salta. He lost many hours in the incident and he decided to sleep in a motel because it was getting dark and he was very tired. He had terrible nightmares and suddenly he was woken up by the phone of his room. He answered and a man with a strange voice introduced himself as Hector Rodriguez. He told Roberto that he didn’t commit suicide. He also explained that the Mexican mafia was chasing him because he was fighting and putting into jail dangerous drug dealers. So he managed to get out of that trouble by killing a homeless person and putting a fake letter in his pocket. He regretted of what he had done and decided to confess everything about the murder. After that the police arrested Hector. Finally, Roberto arrived to Salta with an unreliable story of his unforgettable trip.

Activities

1- Read and write T (true) or F (false).

1- Roberto has a small family. ( )
2- He went to Tucuman for business. ( )
3- He saw a dead body on his way to Salta. ( )
4- Roberto didn’t touch the body. ( )
5- Hector Rodriguez was dead. ( )

2- Write your opinion about the story.
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