Asignatura

Suficiencia de Inglés I
Profesores
Lic. Celene Margarita Casierra Párraga, Mg. Eii
Lic. Daniela Lorena Loor Lara, MSc
Lic. María Antonieta Palma Cedeño, MSc
Lic. Iliana Consuelo Villacis Lascano, Mg.Sc.
Lic. Roberth Ponce Martínez, MSc
Lic. Renner Willy Moreira Pérez
Lic. María Monserrate Donoso Cedeño, Mg.Eii

Importante: La presente guía de estudio incorpora contenidos sintetizados sobre los ejes
temáticos correspondientes a la Unidad No. 3. Este documento servirá como referente
conceptual y teórico para las evaluaciones parciales y final de esta materia.

Periodo Académico 2023 – P2 1

Index

CONTENT

Course learning outcome ............................................................................................................. 1

Unit 3: Where do you live? ........................................................................................................... 1
Lesson 1
Lesson 1.1 Vocabulary: Adjectives, clothes. ......................................................................................... 2
Lesson 1.2 Grammar: Adjectives. .......................................................................................................... 5
Lesson 1.3 Reading: My family. ............................................................................................................. 7
Lesson 2
Lesson 2.1 Vocabulary: Daily routine. ................................................................................................... 8
Lesson 2.2 Grammar: Telling the time. .................................................................................................. 9
Lesson 2.3 Reading: Differences.......................................................................................................... 10
Lesson 2.4 Writing: My sister’s daily routine. ...................................................................................... 11
Lesson 3
Lesson 3.1 Vocabulary: Time words and expressions, months............................................................. 12
Lesson 3.2 Grammar: Adverbs of frequency. ....................................................................................... 13
Lesson 3.3 Reading: A Math teacher. .................................................................................................. 14
Lesson 3.4 Video: What time do you get up? ...................................................................................... 15
Lesson 4
Lesson 4.1 Vocabulary: The date......................................................................................................... 16
Lesson 4.2 Grammar: Prepositions of time and place. ......................................................................... 17
Lesson 4.3 Reading: On vacations. ...................................................................................................... 18
Lesson 4.4 Writing: A postcard. .......................................................................................................... 19
Complementary resources ......................................................................................................... 20
Bibliography .............................................................................................................................. 21
Course learning outcome

At the end of this level (English Proficiency Level I), students will be able to communicate
in everyday situations with frequently used expressions and using elementary vocabulary.
To use basic written language for simple practical purposes. To understand the main point
of short extracts in a limited range of situations.

Unit 3: Where do you live?

Unit learning outcome: To use the adjectives, simple present tense, adverbs of frequency for the
description of daily routines and people’s physical appearance.

LESSON 1 LESSON 2 LESSON 3 LESSON 4

VOCABULARY
VOCABULARY VOCABULARY Lesson 3.1 VOCABULARY
Lesson 1.1 Lesson 2.1 Time words and Lesson 4.1
Adjectives,clothes Daily routine expressions , The date
months.

GRAMMAR
GRAMMAR GRAMMAR GRAMMAR
Lesson 3.2
Lesson 1.2 Lesson 2.2 Lesson 4.2
Adverbs of
Adjectives Telling the time Prepositions of time
frequency

READING READING READING

READING
Lesson 1.3 Lesson 3.3 Lesson 4.3
Lesson 2.3
My Family Math teacher On vacations
Differences

WRITING VIDEO WRITING

Lesson 2.4 Lesson 3.4
Lesson 4.4
What time do you get up?
My sister's daily
A postcard
routune

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Lesson 1.1
Vocabulary: Adjectives, clothes.

Objective: To use the verb ´be´ in the simple present with adjectives.
• Adjectives
Explanation:
An adjective is a word that gives us a description about something or someone. For example:

Peter is friendly
-Maria is romantic
My parents are patient
There are appearance and personality adjectives. Next you can find some examples.

Appearance adjectives

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PERSONALITY ADJECTIVES

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 • Clothes
Objective: To understand and use vocabulary related to clothing and style.
Explanation: Clothing is what someone wears to cover his/her body. Any of a wide variety of
articles, usually made of fabrics, animal hair, animal skin, or some combination of them.
The wearing of clothing is mainly restricted to human beings and is a characteristic of all human
societies.
Clothes are used in order to provide a barrier between the skin and the environment.
Wearing clothes is also a social norm, and connotes modesty. In most parts of the world, not
wearing clothes in public could be considered indecent exposure.
Examples:

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 Lesson 1.2
Grammar: Adjectives.

Objective: To understand and use adjectives to describe nouns.

• What is an Adjective?
adjective (noun): a part-of-speech that modifies or describes a noun or a pronoun
An adjective is one of the nine parts of speech.

An adjective is a word that tells us more about a noun. It "describes" or "modifies" a noun (The big
dog was hungry). In these examples, the adjective is in bold and the noun that it modifies is in
italics.

An adjective often comes BEFORE a noun:

a green car
a dark sky
an interesting story
And sometimes an adjective comes AFTER a verb:

My car is green.
The sky became dark.
His story seemed interesting.
But adjectives can also modify pronouns (She is beautiful). Look at these examples:

They were empty.

I thought it seemed strange.
Those are not expensive.
Note that we can often use two or more adjectives together (a beautiful young French lady / it is
black and white).

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 Lesson: 1.3
Reading: My family.

Objective: To understand simple descriptions of people’s physical appearance.

My Family

Hi! I am Eve. I have long straight blonde hair and blue eyes. I am short and slim. Iam wearing
pink socks, yellow and blue dress, black shoes. Here is the photo of my lovely family.
My mother's name is Bettys has long, straight, brown hair and green eyes. Sheis tall and thin. She
is beautiful. She is wearing a green skirt, yellow jacket, a green shirt and brown shoes.
My father's name is Jack. He has short, curly, dark hair and brown eyes. He is talland thin. He is
wearing a black jacket, black tie, white shirt, black trousers and black shoes.
My brother's name is Tim. He has short, curly, brown hair and brown eyes. He is short and thin.
He is wearing an orange shirt, brown trousers and brown shoes. My sister's name is Wilma.
She has short, wavy, brown hair and green eyes. She iswearing a pink dress, white socks and
purple shoes.
My grandfather's name is Tom. He is old.
He has black eyes. He is bald. He is medium height
and plump. He is wearing black glasses,a green jacket,
a white shirt, black
trousers and black shoes.
MyI grandmother's name is Jenny.
She is old. She has short, curly, gray hair. She is
short and plump. She is wearing a colorful skirt, blue
shoes and a red t-shirt.I love my family!

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 Lesson 2.1
Vocabulary: Daily routine.

Objective: To use simple sentences about someone's life and routines.

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 Lesson 2.2
Grammar: Telling the time.

Objective: To use a range of time expressions with whole numbers (+ o’clock).

Explanation:
When we want to express an exact time in English, we use the word o’clock after the number. For
example:
1:00 one o’clock 2:00 two o’clock 3:00 three o’clock
10:00 ten o’clock 11:00 eleven o’clock 12:00 twelve o’clock
It is important to state that in English we typically do not use the 24-hour time system. In other
words, we do not say 16:00 hours, or sixteen hundred hours. We would say 4:00 pm.
am: morning hours from 12:00am midnight to 11:59am. Then the afternoon and evening hours
begin.
pm: afternoon and evening hours from 12:00pm in the afternoon to 11:59 pm, one minute before
midnight, i.e.(12:00am)
There are two common ways of telling the time.
• Say the hour first and then the minutes. (Hour + Minutes)
6:25 - It's six twenty-five
8:05 - It's eight O-five (the O is said like the letter O)
9:11 - It's nine eleven
2:34 - It's two thirty-four
• Say the minutes first and then the hour. (Minutes + PAST / TO + Hour)
For minutes 1-30 we use PAST after the minutes.
For minutes 31-59 we use TO after the minutes.
2:35 - It's twenty-five to three
11:20 - It's twenty past eleven
4:18 - It's eighteen past four
8:51 - It's nine to nine
2:59 - It's one to three

• When it is 15 minutes past the hour

we normally say: (a) quarter past
7:15 - It's (a) quarter past seven • When it is 30 minutes past the hour
we normally say: half past
3:30 - It's half past three (but we can also say
three-thirty)
• When it is 15 minutes before the
hour we normally say: a quarter to
12:45 - It's (a) quarter to one

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 Lesson 2.3
Reading: Differences.

Objective: To understand familiar simple words and vocabulary related to times and daily routines.

DIFFERENCES

My name is Sally and I work in a hospital “Life is too short, so you have to enjoy
as a doctor. Although I live with Lisa, my every minute that you are alive”, this is my
sister, we have a different lifestyle, maybe proverb and while my sister Sally is
because we have different professions working so hard, I try to enjoy and live. I
and schedules, as well. For instance, I am a waitress in a pub from Wednesday to
usually get up early because I start work at Saturday, it is not the best work but at least
seven o ́clock A.M., but Lisa goes work at I have one. In my free time I love to have a
seven o ́clock P.M., just on weekends I snack while I watch TV or sometimes do
sometimes sleep in. I hardly ever catch a nothing. I usually like to lie on the beach
bus instead of I prefer to walk, I don ́t mind and fall asleep for a couple of hours, I can ́t
going by bus or on foot. I don ́t like to have stand doing exercises because it is tiring,
breakfast but, I have a big and health lunch beside I have some friends and I love to
every day. My daily routine is boring meet them and we often go out for dinner
because when I get home, I usually have on Mondays or Tuesdays. I don ́t mind if
to prepare the dinner for myself and check we have different personalities because I
my emails. When I am not tired, I like to go love my sister and I know she loves me so
for a walk, read a book or listen to music in on holidays we always visit our parents or
order to be relaxed, finally I go to bed at a have a picnic with the family. (Lisa
half past nine and sometimes at ten, but I Longman, 30)
never go to bed late. (Sally Longman, 32)

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 Lesson 2.4
Writing: My sister’s daily routine.

Objective: To describe daily routines in short paragraphs.

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Lesson 3.1:
Vocabulary: Time words and expressions, months.

Objective: To identify time expressions and months of the year.

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Lesson 3.2
Grammar: Adverbs of frequency.

Objective: To use adverbs of frequency in simple routines.

The Position of the Adverb in a Sentence

An adverb of frequency goes before a main verb (except with To Be).

Subject + adverb + main verb

I always remember to do my homework.

He normally gets good marks in exams.

An adverb of frequency goes after the verb To Be.

Subject + to be + adverb

They are never pleased to see me.

She isn't usually bad tempered.

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 Lesson 3.3
Reading: A Math teacher.

Objective: To recognize the adverbs of frequency in simple sentences.

A Math teacher

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 Lesson 3.4
Video: What time do you get up?

Click to watch the video

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1-7PGtFqxdxgBfukfk1nQlsWmvAuNZD_T/view?usp=sharing

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 Lesson 4.1
Vocabulary: The date.

Objective: To identify the correct way telling dates.

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 Lesson 4.2
Grammar: Prepositions of time and place.

Objective: To use the prepositions of time in simple sentences.

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 Lesson 4.3
Reading: On vacations.

Objective: To recognize the prepositions of time, months and time word expressions.

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 Lesson 4.4
Writing: A postcard.

Objective: To write short, simple notes, postcards to friends.

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 Complementary resources
The following complementary resources are suggestions so that you can expand the information on
the topics studied, as part of your self-learning process:

• Lesson 1.1: VOCABULARY: Adjectives, clothes.

Extra video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x0YQX7gGkQs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pHLIlXaUAeA

• Lesson 1.2: GRAMMAR: Adjectives.

Extra video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=87ci-thlLmQ

• Lesson 2.1: VOCABULARY: Daily routine.

Extra video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L31ExXwlsVc

• Lesson 2.2: GRAMMAR: Telling the time.

Extra video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AyAQfTxGyqI

• Lesson 3.1: VOCABULARY: time words and expressions, months.

Extra video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AxgZ8RnmFG0

• Lesson 3.2: GRAMMAR: Adverbs of frequency.

Extra video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VAWo65QwP2c

• Lesson 4.1: VOCABULARY: The date.

Extra video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mewbwwwmMik

• Lesson 4.2: GRAMMAR: Prepositions of time.

Extra video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qki04CybAHo

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