Guayaquil University

Science Faculty
School of Environmental Engineering
Level 3
Class #1
Name: Jhon Tapia Estupian

Date: October 28, 2014

Project/Research for the whole semester

1st Term
1.- Theme
2.- Topic
3.- Issue (Problem)
4.- Sources: Textbooks newspapers magazines magazines articles
internet, etc. (APA format) (minimum 5)
5.- Notes/Summaries

2nd Term
6.- Images and videos
7.- Organization of the material
8.- Power Point Presentation (5x5x5) (Links Graphs)
9.- Preview presentation

Assesment Criteria
Content
Creativity
Pronunciation
Use of language
Fluency

10.- Final presentation

Guayaquil University
Science Faculty
School of Environmental Engineering
Level 3
Class # 3
Name: Jhon Tapia Estupian

Date: November 6, 2014

Types of Reading
General Tenses of Verbs

Global General idea of a text

Pleasure Having fun and relax
Selective Specific information of something
Detailed order, sequence, procedure. To do something, step by step.

Global

dictionary

magazines

encyclopedia newspaper

Leaflets

editorial

letters

Selective manuals
Phone books

Pleasure comic books

Short stories
stories

essays/papers
CV/resume

novels

biography

history books

bible

magazines

stage magazines poetry books

fairytales
science fiction

Guayaquil University
Science Faculty
School of Environmental Engineering
Level 3
Class # 4
Name: Jhon Tapia Estupian

Date: November 11, 2014

Future Tenses in English Exercise 1

Use the verbs in brackets in the correct future tenses.
Use will- future, going to- future, Simple Present or Present Progressive.
1.The train leaves at 11:45. (to leave)
2.We are going to have dinner at a nice restaurant on Saturday. (to have)
3.It will snow in the mountains tomorrow evening. (to snow)
4.On Sunday at 8 oclock I am meeting my friend. (to meet)
5.They are flying to London on Friday evening. (to fly)
6.Wait! I will drive you to the station. (to drive)
7.The English lesson starts at 8:45. (to start)
8.I am going to see my sister in April. (to see)
9.Look at the clouds- it is going to rain in a few minutes. (to rain)
10.Listen! Theres someone at the door. I will open the door for you. (to open)

Guayaquil University
Science Faculty
School of Environmental Engineering
Level 3
Class # 6
Name: Jhon Tapia Estupian

Date: November 20th, 2014

Cognates
Words that have almost the same etymological
meaning.
Example.Product - producto
Line - lnea
Practice - Prctica
Complement - Complemento
False Cognates
Library - Biblioteca
Sensitive - Sensible

Often used in
scientific
articles/journals.

Guayaquil University
Science Faculty
School of Environmental Engineering
Level 3
Class # 6
Name: Jhon Tapia Estupian

Date: November 20th, 2014

Theme: Earth Pulse

Topic: Flexible Seawalls
Issue: Beach ecosystems protect both wildlife near the shore and people inland.
Cognates
Gradually
Human
Island
Condominium
Prohibit
Line
Legislation
System
Limits
Species
Federal
Defense
National
Gulf
Rehabilitation
Collected
Amputated
Incubated
Defense
Dunes

False cognates
Assistance

Guayaquil University
Science Faculty
School of Environmental Engineering
Level 3
Class # 8
Name: Jhon Tapia Estupian

Date: November 27th, 2014.

Parts of Speech

1. I bought a beautiful (adjective) dress at the mall.

2. What did she (pronoun) ask you to do?
3. I left my shoes under (preposition) the kitchen table.
4. If we finish our work quickly (adverb) we can go to the movies.
5. On Saturdays I work (verb) from nine to five.
6. I want to go to a university (noun) in the United States.
7. Im sure I have met (verb) your girlfriend before.
8. Well (interjection) I dont think I will be here to answer the phone.
9. Andy knocked on the door but (conjuction) nobody answered.
10. After (preposition) lunch lets go out for a coffee.

Guayaquil University
Science Faculty
School of Environmental Engineering
Level 3
Activities in Class
Name: Jhon Tapia Estupian

Date: November 11th, 2014

Choose the correct verbs, using each tense once.

Future I (will or going to), Future II, Simple Present or Present Progressive.
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.

The train arrives at 11:20.

Wait! I am going to help you.
As we want to get better marks in English, we will study harder in the future.
Josh is going to go to the cinema with his friends tonight.
I am afraid they will have eaten everything by the time we arrive.

Complete the sentences about situations in the future. Decide which tense
you need to use.
1. Aaron is carrying two tyres he (change) is going to change the tyres on a car.
2. Next week (be) will be the beginning of winter and the weather forecast says
that there (be) is going to snow tomorrow.
3. Thats why so many of the garages costumers have made an appointment and
(call in) are calling in today to get their winter tyres.
4. By the end of the day Aaron (mounted) will have mounted about 80 tyres.
5. He (be/probably) will be probably tired after that.
6. Its a lot of work for one day, but his costumers promise that next year they
(have) are going to have their tyres changed earlier.
7. Thats what they always say, but they (forget/surely) will forget surely about it
next year.

Guayaquil University
Science Faculty
School of Environmental Engineering
Level 3
Activities in Class

Name: Jhon Tapia Estupian

Date: November 11, 2014

PREFIX is the beginning syllable of the word.

Example: Impossible
Note: the most of prefixes express negative meaning.

SUFFIX is the ending syllable of a word.

Example: Respectful
Note: the most of suffixes express positive or affirmative meaning.
In English, a very common way to give positive adjectives a negative meaning is by
adding the following prefixes: un- mis- dis- im- in-.
Exercise.Add prefixes to the following adjectives to give them a negative meaning.

1.

Possible

impossible

2.

Respectful

disrespectful

3.

Friendly

unfriendly

4.

Natural

unnatural

5.

Sociable

unsociable

6.

Loyal

disloyal

7.

Creative

uncreative

8.

Understood

misunderstood

9.

Predictable

unpredictable

10.

Patient

impatient

11.

Organized

disorganized

12.

Active

inactive