TUMBES STATE UNIVERSITY

LANGUAGE INSTITUTE

LEARNING LESSON – BASIC 10

I. INFORMATIVE DATA
1.1. SUBJECT : BASIC ENGLISH 10
1.2. WEEKLY HOURS : 06
1.3. LASTING : March 5th – 26th, 2024
1.4. RESPONSIBLE PROFESSOR : Dra. Zoraida Esther Pérez Chore

COMMUNICATION GOALS:
UNIT 7: On Vacation 1.
2.
Greet someone arriving from a trip.
Ask about someone’s vacation.
https://youtu.be/blhD4TfHrV8
3. Discuss vacation preferences.
4. Describe good and bad vacation experiences.

GRAMMAR CONTENTS:
SCENE 1: How was your vacation? https://youtu.be/PddqDJL_vSA
A. In this activity, we identify the abilities of the language and the function of the
listening practice. After watching the video, you can copy the tape script of it and
analyze the speech of each scenes participants. Take the considerations and
suggestions given in class.

Marie: Hello Mr. Rashid.

Mr. Rashid: Hi, how are you?

Marie: Fine thank you. How was your vacation?

Mr. Rashid: It was wonderful.

Marie: I’m so happy to hear that was your flight okay?

Mr. Rashid: No, pretty bad, actually It was so bumpy, it was very scary.

Marie: That’s too bad. Did you have nice weather after you arrived?

Mr. Rashid: No, but the weather was terrible, very rainy I actually never saw the sun.

Marie: That’s awful so what did you do?

Mr. Rashid: I stayed inside the hotel.

Marie: Was the hotel room nice?

Mr. Rashid: The room was fine but it was right next to the cafe and the music was very
loud, I didn´t sleep much.

Marie: I’ll bet the food was great.

Mr. Rashid: No, it was too salty for me and the waiters were very unfriendly.

Marie: Did you go shopping at all?

Mr. Rashid: A little bit until someone stole my wallet after that I stayed in the hotel and
read a book.
Marie: Was the flight home okay?

Mr. Rashid: Actually they canceled my flight I had to stay for two more days.

Marie: That was terrible but Mr. Rashid you said that your vacation was wonderful.

Mr. Rashid: Yes, I did and it was wonderful. I met a very nice person, a woman actually
her name is Basma, she’s from Lebanon, just like me but she lives here, I’m
seeing her tonight so yes it was a wonderful vacation.

Marie: That’s great Mr. Rashid.

EXTENSION:
Develop the transcription of scene 2.
Elaborate a project with your personal experience on vacation, follow the
teacher’s instructions given in class.

B. Observe the pictures related to special places on vacation:

* After observing the pictures, select a place where you would like to visit to and
present the principal features of the tourist attractions people can find there:
C. This conversation of the photo story gives you a pattern how you can practice
speaking skill and the new vocabulary of idiomatic expressions you can identify here.
D. Revision of adjectives to describe trips:

Create as many as possible exercises with illustrations like these models: Boring,
comfortable, scenic, etc.

1. Tumbes beaches were really nice.

2. Chimbote streets were very rough.
3. It was wonderful to travel to Mancora and taste its meals.
4. Mix seafood ceviche, fish and crabs were so tasting in their fresh flavor.
5. Our trip to Huacachina was very beautiful because we enjoyed the games with a lot
of adrenaline.
6. The trip to the beaches of Mancora was so warm.
7. My trip to Lima was very interesting.
8. It was fantastic to travel to Lima and see the park of legends.
9. I was in Cajamarca where I visited the beautiful places that represent it.
10. Ernesto was in Ucayali in 2019 due to a Medical Congress which was a great
experience.

More about describing vacation experiences:

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Identify the synonyms of the given adjectives in this vocabulary:
Adjective Synonym Meaning
Awesome Overwhelming
Grand

If you find new words, create your own vocab with spelling and meaning:
English Spelling Meaning
Scary es – si – ei – ar – uai Miedoso / temeroso

E. CONVERSATION MODEL:
Someone greets a person arriving from a trip:

Conversation practice
F. CONVERSATION MODEL: Someone describes a vacation:
G. Identifying conjugation verbs in past:

Conjugation verbs
The conjugation verbs gets rules which are guided by the grammarian steps and the
groups of verbs English language has, so the following charts show the different
changes in order of the simple past tense, however it is convenient to clarify there are
three conjugations as present, past and past participle, but in this tense, just it is
necessary the past form.

Regular verbs Irregular verbs

Present Past Past participle Present Past Past participle
complete completed completed put put put
access accessed accessed keep kept kept
justify justified justified get got gotten

REGULAR: d – ed – ied IRREGULAR

PRESENT PAST P. PARTIC. PRESENT PAST P. PARTIC.
Ask asked asked begin began begun
collect collected collected draw drew drawn
enjoy enjoyed enjoyed fly flew flown
guide guided guided have had had
invent invented invented joyride joyrode joyridden
kiss kissed kissed leave left left
match matched matched nim nam num
quiver quivered quivered pay paid paid
save saved saved run ran run
study studied studied teach taught taught
use used used vex vext vext
wait waited waited write wrote written
xerox xeroxed xeroxed yive yove yiven

Pronunciation tips: select the regular verbs according to the sound in each column:
/d/ /Id/ /t/
saved waited asked
 a. Example:
Simple Past Use  Lauren took a far vacation trip.
 She didn’t take a far vacation
USE 1 Completed Action in the Past
trip.
 Did she take a far vacation trip?
 Yes, she did.
 No, she didn’t.

STRUCTURE:
Affirmative form: SUBJECT + PAST VERB + COMPLEMENT
Negative form: SUBJECT + DID NOT + SIMPLE VERB + COMPLEMENT
Interrogative form: DID + SUBJECT + SIMPLE VERB + COMPLEMENT?
SHORT ANSWERS: YES / NO

H. Read the tourist descriptions to take a model so you have to select a specific
touristic place into our country or an international one for your extension activity:

I. Comparing the information charts to practice oral exercises in class:

Develop the oral practice as best as you can.

EXTENSION: Complete the following chart: