BASIC 1 LABORATORY

Dear students,

May you receive warm greetings from the coordinator, Roberto Alcantara, and best wishes on behalf of all our teachers at CJC English Immersion Program, and our staff at the Direction of Foreing Languages (DLE) at MESCYT.

The purpose of this note is to make you aware of the importance of Laboratory Practice in our program. When the English Immersion Program was founded in 2005, our staff back then included Computer Lab Practice in the regular operations of the program in most centers. In 2020, due to the pandemic and some changes on our administration, computer labs in some centers stopped operations. CJC is one of those centers. However, the need for computer lab practice is still a must in our program in order to achieve our learning objectives and foster the development communictive competences that are vital for success in the academic and job or entrepreneurial industries nowadays.

Taking the facts above into consideration, I've decided, as the coordinator designated to this center, to provide onliine practice that would make out for the lack computer lab in our center. This practice will be available on this blog for all the students to complete within the dates indicated. Students have to report to their teachers the complition of each final task which will consist of a quiz. The student should complete the practice before the quiz. If a student completes the quiz without dong the practice, he/she could fail the quiz. In case of failing / flunking a quiz, (minimum score: 70), the student can try the quiz one more time, or do it repeatedly until he/she gets a high score.

Assignment 1 _ Friday March 14th

Objective:

At the end of this lesson, students will be able to indicate the specific time or duration refering to 5-8 different events or actions on their daily life, using prepositions of time, such as: from, until, by, before, after, at, in, on...

Warm up: Listen to the song and identify the use of some propositions of time:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zYam00egugc

Lesson 1: Read and study:

https://learnenglish.britishcouncil.org/grammar/a1-a2-grammar/prepositions-of-time-at-in-on

Lesson 2: Watch this video for an extensive look on Propositions of time: 27 minutes

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f_oH6zDYbJQ&t=610s

Lesson 3: Watch this video for a quick revision of 3 propositions in use: 5 minuts

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fRrVkXG0-v4&t=12s

Practice 1: https://test-english.com/grammar-points/a1/at-in-on-prepositions-time/

Practice 2: https://www.english-4u.de/en/grammar-exercises/prepositions-time4.htm

Quiz: https://learnenglish.ecenglish.com/lessons/prepositions-time-quiz

Assignment 2 _ Monday, March 17th

Objective: At the end of this lesson students will be able to talk about quantities or amounts, indicate whether a noun is countable or uncountable, whether the quantity is large or small, either on speech/talk or interaction carried out orally or written, using quantifiers "much, many, some, any, little, and few", as well as indefinite artiles a / an.

Warm up: Listen to the song and identify the usef : a few, a little, much and many with food items.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yndxtkHxWKQ

Lesson 1: Read and study:

https://test-english.com/explanation/a2/much-many-little-few-some-any/

Lesson 2: Watch this video for an extensive look on quantifyers: 5 minutes

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XxGzMZZ_Hjc&t=54s

Lesson 3: Watch this video for a quick revision indefinite articles a / an: 5 minuts

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HnGt--iz01I

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cX12FsLMf3c

Practice 1: https://agendaweb.org/grammar/quantifiers-quantity-exercises.html

Practice 2: https://www.english-grammar.at/online_exercises/quantifiers/quantifiers1.htm

Quiz: https://test-english.com/grammar-points/a2/much-many-little-few-some-any/5/

Assignment 3 _ Tuesday, March 18th

Objective: identify over 10 plural forms and their singular pairs, and notice subject-verb agreement in at least 8 attenrances by classifying regular and irregular plural forms of nouns and pronouns, as well as verb forms.

Warm up: Listen to the song and identify the use of the plural form of some nouns:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=duZ-eu0aI7E

Lesson 1: Read and study:

https://www.grammar.cl/Notes/Plural_Nouns.htm

https://www.lewisu.edu/writingcenter/pdf/useofnouns_etc.pdf

Lesson 2: Watch these videos for an extensive look on plural forms: 5 minutes

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L4B7XxuJO6A

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uFest3GAJLw

Extra: Adjectives don't have a plural form: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/1dI2U0_qnME

Lesson 3: Read this text for a quick revision of subject-verb agreement:

https://webapps.towson.edu/ows/sub-verb.htm#:~:text=Subjects%20and%20verbs%20must%20AGREE,verb%20must%20also%20be%20plural.

Practice 1:

https://www.liveworksheets.com/w/en/english-second-language-esl/46047#google_vignette

Practice 2:

https://agendaweb.org/grammar/plural-exercises.html

Quiz: https://test-english.com/grammar-points/a1/a-an-plurals/

Assignment 4 _ Wednesday, March 19th

Objective: At the end of this lesso students will be able to talk about actions happening at the moment of speaking, (ongoing actions), termporary situations habits, and inmediate or future arrangements.

Warm up: Listen to the songs and identify the use of the present progressive tense:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tt_Bm8vR4hg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ftp7xr5947w

Lesson 1: Read and study:

https://www.perfect-english-grammar.com/present-continuous-use.html

Lesson 2: Watch this video for an extensive look on Present Progressive Tense: 7 minutes

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7O-Ye9HF2DI

Lesson 3: Watch this video for a quick revision of 3 positions in use:5 minuts

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AKzG_ZS-Ydg

Practice 1: https://agendaweb.org/verbs/present_continuous-exercises.html

Practice 2: https://www.englisch-hilfen.de/en/exercises/tenses/simple_present_progressive2.htm

Quiz: https://test-english.com/grammar-points/b1/present-simple-present-continuous/

Assignment 5_ Thursday, March 20th

Objectives: At the end of this lesson setudents will be able to:

* Express advice, suggestions, or opinions about what is considered the right thing to do in 3-5 differet situations related to common ailments or other contexts, through extensive study and practice with the modal verb should in different forms.

* Show the intensity or degree to which something is true or happens, using 3-6 adverbs of degree such as: too, very, enough, etc.

Warm up: Listen to the songs and identify the use of should, ailments, and adverbs of degree:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k8AFiIc5Xrs

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L7ID8ekAogM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8gTr9gAukIM

Lesson 1: Read and study:

https://test-english.com/explanation/a2/should-shouldnt/

https://www.ef.com/wwen/english-resources/english-grammar/adverbs-degree/#:~:text=Adverbs%20of%20degree%20tell%20us,examples%20of%20adverbs%20of%20degree.

Lesson 2: Watch this video for an extensive look on Adverbs of Degree: 13 minutes

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xJgkf_nVTb8

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QkRIQDiXFDE

Lesson 3: Watch this video for a quick revision of 3 propositions in use: 5 minuts

Practice 1: https://www.liveworksheets.com/w/en/english-second-language-esl/1509459

Practice 2: https://agendaweb.org/exercises/grammar/too-enough/very-too-enough-quiz.htm

Quiz: https://test-english.com/grammar-points/a2/should-shouldnt/

Assignment 6 _ Friday, March 21st

Objective: At the end of this lesson students will be able to identify the use of infinitive forms of have and want, the past tense of have and can, and review the use of possessive adjectives, possessive pronouns, subject and object pronouns, as well as the simple past tense, focusing on meaning, usage, and forms.

Warm up: Watch the following video to listen to a stories and identify the use to verbs in the simple past tense:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WDg85KdxFHU

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SzDaky6j9i4

Lesson 1 : Watch the following video to identify the use of infinitives:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iq0AdiNMgdY

Lesson 2: Read and study: Possessive adjentives and Possessive Pronouns

https://www.wallstreetenglish.com/exercises/possessive-adjectives-pronouns

Lesson 3: Watch this video for an extensive look on the use of could for abilities or possibilities in the past: 5 minutes

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Lo6RPWiEYI

Lesson 4: Watch this video for a quick revision of the simple past tense: 5 minuts

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MI3S3kdkofo&t=101s

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nrjfZmccwAM&t=85s