My English Portfolio by Evelin Alexandra Quizhpilema Acero

Video

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Unit 1:

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Entertainment

Teaching strategy 1:

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Running dictation.
A running dictation is an activity that makes the students get up from their seats, go to a place where there is a reading and try to remember as many sentences as they can to tell their partner who will copy the dictation and in this way participate in reading, writing, listening and speaking skills.

Teaching strategy 2:

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High 5 mingle
It is an activity that help students to practice speaking skill and try to improve pronuntation with several questions in the class.

Grammar topics:

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The passive voice

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Uses:
1. When we are more interested in the person or thing receiving the action than in the person or thing performing the action.

Shakespeare wrote Romeo & Juliet
Romeo & Juliet was written by William Shakespeare .

2.When we do not know who did the action.

The house was built in 1654.

3. We use passive to say who does an action and we use "by"

The movie ET was directed by Spielberg.

Modals of ability and possibility

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Can and Could:
Uses: We use can/ can´t and could/couldn´t:
1. To say that somebody has the ability to do something:
Alan can swim well
Paul could speak Chinese when he was a child.

2.To say that it is or was possible to do something.
If Jones was at work until six, he couldn't do the murder.

Be able to:
We use it to talk about ability and possibility but it sounds more formal than can or could.

He was able to work yesterday.
Are you able to understand the homework?

Indirect questions:

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Indirect questions are a more polite way to ask for information.We often use them when asking something of strangers or people we do not know well.
Expressions to ask for directions:
Do you know....
Could you tell me....
Could you let me know....
Do you have any idea.....
May I ask....
Can you tell me.....
Examples:
Can you tell me where MacDougal Street is?
Do you know if the game has started yet?

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Unit 2

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Sports and health

Teaching strategy 3

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Onion ring

I consider it a good activity, where I can remember the vocabulary, that I have seen before, practice pronunciation and share ideas with my classmate

Referencing: This and That

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Uses:
We can use this and that to refer back to ideas that have already appeared in the text. The ideas can be nouns or whole phrases:

Vic has broken his legs, an arm, his ribs, and his nose. This is only the start of a long list of injuries.

Vic jumped from a running horse onto a moving tank. That even amazed director steven Spielberg.

Proyect 1:

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Grammar Topics

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Tag questions:

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Uses:
We often use when we think we know something but we want to check.
-She's a doctor, isn't she?
We use to start a conversation:
-it´s a hot dat, isn´t it?

Modals of obligation and advice:

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Have to - Must
We use have to to talk about obligations and rules and in very strong statements.

-You have to take off your shoes before you get into the house.

We use must in conversation unless the obligation:

-You must memorize all of these rules  about tenses.

We don´t use must in questions, past forms and future forms we use have to instead.

-Yesterday, I had to do my  report.

Don´t have to - can´t:

We use haven´t to to say that something isn´t necessary

-You don´t have to pay  to go by bus.

We use can´t to say something is prohibited

-You can´t take photos in the museum.

Should/ shouldn´t

We use it to give advice or recommendations

-You should go to the gym.

Adding information:

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We can use these phrases to add information to a sentence or paragraph:
As well:
She's not only extremely successful, she's beautiful as well.
As well as:
She’s beautiful as well as being extremely successful.

In addition :
The new state park will open next June with numerous hiking trails to explore. In addition, a boat marina is being constructed at the north end of the lake.
Moreover:
I don’t agree that she’s overrated as a singer. Moreover, I think you’re just jealous of her talent!

Unit project:

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Unit 3:

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Food

Uses of Like:

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1. Talking about preferences:
-I like to listen kpop music
2. Talking about similirity:
- She looks like her mother
3. Asking for a description:
.What was the movie like?
4.Making a polite offer or request:
Would you like to eat out with me?

Subsitution: One- Ones

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We use to avoid repetition

One: Singular
- I'm looking for a scarf. How much does that one cost?
Ones: Plural
-Are these your books? - No, those ones are mine.

Ing forms and Infinitive:

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-Ing forms:
1. As the subject of a sentence:
- Eating jung food is bad for the body.
2.After preposition and phrasal verbs:
- We are tired of working
3.After some verbs: enjoy, feel, keep.
- I prefer cooking to eating out.
4. We put not before and Ing verb to make negative:
I enjoy no having virtual classes.

Infinitive to:
1. after adjectives:
-It´s cheap to buy here.
2. after some verbs: afford,agree, decide
-We decided to do the homework together.
3.to give a reason:
-I study to pass the exam.
4. We put not before and infinitive to make negative:
-I want not to excersice.

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Teaching strategy 4

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Madlibs

This was a fun activity becasuse I enjoyed listening the storys of my classmates, my story was fun too, and also because It helped me to practice my pronunciation, remember adjectives, verbs.

Project 3

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Unit 4: Right and wrong

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Teaching strategy 5:

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Grass skirts:
This was an activity in which we were able to work as a group as a team since each student had an activity to do. With this activity we were able to go deeper into the topic we were looking at (second conditional) but we had to be quick to demonstrate our knowledge.

Reported speech:

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We use to say what someone said:
-She said that she liked ice cream.

Change the tense of the verbs:
-Simple present= Simple past
-Present continuous= Past continuous
-Present perfect= Past perfect
-Simple past= Past perfect
-Must=Have to
Don´t change:
-Would
-Could
-Might
-Should

Reported questions:

Yes/No question:
Do you love me? =He asked me if I loved him
Wh-Questions:
What are you doing? =She asked me what I was doing.

Second Conditional:

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We use to talk about:
Impossible situation:
-If I won a lot of money, I'd buy a big house in the country.
Unlikely situation:
-If we hired one more person, we would finish the project on time.

Structure:
If clause + main clause
If+ simple past+ would+base form

We use could or might to say something would be possible:
If I were taller, I could be a professional basketball player.

Unit 5: The natural world

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Third conditional

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Unreal situations in the past and their consequences:
He wouldn’t have missed the bus if he hadn’t overslept.

Structure:
If clause+ main clause
if+ past perfect+ would+ have+past participle

Might and may:
Consequences weren´t certain

Could:
Hypothetical possibilities

Articles

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Indefinite article a/an:
Talk about something or somebody first:

To describe:
It is a interesting conversation.

To talk about a person´s job:
She is a nurse.

Definite article the:
To talk about we already mentioned:

Relative clause to define a noun:
There is only one thing:
Superlative adjectives and ordinal numbers:

Names of rivers, seas, oceans and groups of aisland:

Before countries:

No article:
To talk about thing in general;
Specific activities:
Before next las day, week, month, year:
Names of streets:

Project 4:

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Teaching strategy 6:

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Positive, negative and crazy

It was an interactive activity where we could practice our pronunciation. This activity helps us to remember the grammar topic and we were able to enjoy and have a good time with the sentences my classmates said.

Unit 6: Getting away

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So/Neither do I

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Agreeing

So: Affirmative
I am a student =So so I
Neither: Negative

I don´t have a car = Neither do I

Disagreeing:

Affirmative statement = Negative auxiliary or modal verb:

I enjoyed that movie = I didn´t

Negative statement = Affirmative auxiliary or modal verb:
I can´t swim = Really? I can

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Modals of deduction

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We think something is true: Must + base form

She must bein the garden.

We are sure that something isn´t true: Can´t/ Coudn´t + base form

She can´t be her mother. She is so young.

We think it´s possible that something is true, but we´re not sure: Might/might not + base form

She might be at home.

We think something is possible: May/ Could + base form

He may take the next train.

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Teaching strategy 7:

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Dictogloss
In this activity, we had to listen to the teacher as he read and then take notes. With the information we had in groups we had to put all the ideas together and try to complete the whole reading with as much information as we could remember. In this activity we were able to practice listening skills which is very important in English.

Project 5:

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