Décimo EGB "B" Matutina UEQ-Inglés

  STORIES FROM THE COUNTRY Objective: To skim information from a story in the past. 1. LET'S DISCUSS: DO YOU REMEMBER SOME STORIES YOU HEARD AS A CHILD? CAN YOU TELL ONE? 2.  READ THE FOLLOWING BLOG POST ABOUT A TEEN WHO TELLS US AN INTERESTING STORY. OBSERVE THE USE OF SIMPLE PAST (-ED) AND PAST CONTINUOUS (WAS/WERE +ING). 3. NOW, ANSWER THE QUESTIONS FROM THE STORY ABOUT ROSIE. a. Explain why you liked or didn´t like the story. b. Have you heard a similar story in your childhood? c. What were you thinking about as you were reading the passage? d. What lesson did you learn from this story?  

 PROS AND CONS OF LIVING IN THE COUNTRYSIDE Objective:   To talk about the differences between two places using the comparative form of adjectives.  1. LET'S WATCH THE VIDEO FOR MORE INFORMATION ABOUT THE TOPIC. 2. YOUR COUSIN FROM A BIG CITY WANTS TO KNOW ABOUT YOUR TOWN, WHICH IS IN THE COUNTRYSIDE. LOOK AT THE PICTURES AND WRITE P FOR PROS (ADVANTAGES) AND C FOR CONS (DISADVANTAGES) OF LIVING IN THE COUNTRYSIDE. COMPARE YOUR ANSWERS WITH THOSE OF YOUR FAMILY. 3. LET'S WRITE SOME EXAMPLES COMPARING THE COUNTRYSIDE WITH THE CITY.  ●  Example: The countryside is more beautiful than the city.  4.  SEND AN AUDIO TO YOUR TEACHER BY WHATSAPP ABOUT THE COMPARISON YOU DID IN EXERCISE #3 USING THE COMPARATIVE FORM (4 SENTENCES).

 LIVING IN THE COUNTRYSIDE Objective: To compare and contrast two places using comparatives.  1. READ THE TEXT Did you know that…  • Most of Ecuador’s cultural richness is in its countryside.  • There are still some tribes that don’t have any human contact in Ecuador’s Amazon region, and some of them do not even wear clothes as we know them. They wear clothes made from materials found in nature such as ropes and leaves, not like we see in the city every day.  • Some students in the countryside learn Quichua at schools.  • Ecuador has protected areas and they are in Ecuador’s countryside. 2.  COMPLETE THE CHART USING THE INFORMATION FROM THE READING ABOVE. 3.  COMPLETE THE CHART BELOW BY WRITING TWO EXAMPLES OF A SMALL CITY OR A TOWN IN THE COUNTRYSIDE THAT YOU KNOW. ALSO, WRITE A CHARACTERISTIC THAT MAKES THE PLACE SPECIAL. THERE IS AN EXAMPLE TO HELP YOU. 4. NOW, WRITE THREE SENTENCES COMPARING A BIG CITY WITH A SMALL TOWN IN THE COUNTRYSIDE. Remember that for comparisons we use adje