Interpreting short technical texts

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GI- 8 – Interpreting short technical texts

Ambiente de formación   ESCENARIO  Aula, taller y   LMS Sofiaplus. Blackboard.

MATERIALES DE FORMACIÓN

DEVOLUTIVO (Herramienta - equipo)

CONSUMIBLE (unidades  empleadas durante el programa)

Resultados de Aprendizaje: Identificar formas gramaticales básicas en textos y documentos elementales escritos en inglès.

Competencia:  Producir textos en Ingles en forma escrita y oral. 

Duración de la guía: 24 horas

INTERPRETING SHORT TEXTS

1. Actividades de Reflexión inicial. 

In this activity You have to carry out the following steps in order to develop a very good activity:

1. Read and understand the conversation in the given example.
2. Identify greetings, polite expressions and farewells.
3. Make a list a different formal and informal greetings and farewells in English that You know.
4. Based on the example and on the list of greetings and farewells, write your own conversation but taking into account your own workshop or learning environment.
5. Identify all the personal and possessive pronoun from the reading.

DIALOGUE

JHON:  Good afternoon instructor. How are You?

INSTRUCTOR: Good afternoon Jhon. I’m fine. Thank You. What about You?

JHON: I’m fine thanks. I’m ready to work very hard in your class.

INSTRUCTOR: That’s ok because at the end of the session You have to show a product.

JHON:  Very well!  I like sessions where I can apply what I learn. Dear Instructor, Could You please send me the guide of the activity to my e- mail? 

INSTRUCTOR: Of course!  Give me a minute. I’m attaching it in order to send it to very one.

JHON:  Thanks instructor, meanwhile I need a favor. May I go out to make a call? My friend was sick yesterday and I would like to know about him.

INSTRUCTOR: Yes, Go ahead. No problem. But just five minutes because in this moment your guide is in your e-mail.

JHON: Ok. Teacher. Thanks. I just come back!

(Jhon comes back and takes a seat in the classroom)

INSTRUCTOR: Jhon, download your guide and if there is a question Please tell me.

JHON: I’m reading the guide. It is very long I don’t think that we finish at the end of the day.

INSTRUCTOR: Yes, You will be able. Don’t lose time. Start already.

JHON: Mmmm. Ok

( at 5:30 pm)

INSTRUCTOR: Dear apprentices no more time. In this moment You have to send your evidences through your LMS.  Tonight I will review and I’ll give You your marks. Tomorrow,  You can review your grades.

JHON: Please! Teacher. Can You give me 10 minutes more? I’m ending the last activity.

INSTRUCTOR: Mmmmm. Yes Jhon. You have time until 6:00 o’clock After that the platform won’t allow more sends.

JHON: Thank You very much dear Instructor.

INSTRUCTOR: Ok. Dear apprentices I have to go out. See You tomorrow. Have a nice night. Please Jhon, Close the door of the workshop when everybody go out.

JHON: Ok. Teacher no problem. See You tomorrow.

CLASS: Good bye! Instructor. See You…

INSTRUCTOR: Good bye dears. Thanks for coming in.

By: Alba Yaqueline Ariza Fonseca. English Instructor.

Let´s review about personal pronouns:

1. Actividades de contextualización e identificación de conocimientos necesarios para el aprendizaje.)

In this activity You have to watch a video and complete the following text. In order to develop this activity You have to:

1. Watch the video and understand what it is about. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iHeXFRlo17g 
2. When You understand the video You have to complete the blanks taking into account the video and the words in the box.
3. Send the activity by the link disposal by the tutor.

WEDGES AND SCREWS

1. Mr. Douglas is making a wooden table and some chairs for the back yard with the help of some simple machine  .
2. Mr. Douglas is using a log to make the table. He needs to shuck the log in smaller pieces.
3. To cut the thick log of wood he has to use a lot of effort force. To make it easier is now using a simple machine, the wedge.
4. A wedge is basically an inclined  plane.
5. Now let it see how it works. With the knock of the hammer Mr. Douglas has pushed the wedges into the log.
6. To assembly the table Mr. Douglas is using screws. Look at the screw closely, It is an incline plane.

1. Actividades de apropiación del conocimiento (Conceptualización y Teorización).

In this activity You will do the following:

1. Read and understand the text.
2. Answer the questions which appear after the reading.
3. Send the activity by the link suggested by you tutor.

Tablet (tablet PC)

A tablet is a wireless, portable personal computer with a touch screen interface. The tablet form factor is typically smaller than a notebook computer but larger than a smartphone.

The idea of tablet computing is generally credited to Alan Kay of Xerox, who sketched out the idea in 1971. The first widely-sold tablet computer was Apple Computer's Newton, which was not a commercial success. Technological advances in battery life, display resolution, handwriting recognition software, memory, and wireless Internet access have since made tablets a viable computing option.

Today, the most common type of tablet is the slate style, like Apple's iPad , Microsoft's Surface or Amazon's Kindle Fire. External keyboards are available for most slate-style tablets and some keyboards also function as docking stations for the devices.

Other styles of tablets include:

Convertible tablets - typically have a display that rotates 180 degrees and can be folded to close, screen up, over an integrated hardware keyboard. Convertible models may allow user input through a variety of methods in addition to the hardware keyboard, including natural handwriting with a stylus or digital pen and typing through a screen-based software keyboard.

• Hybrid tablets - sometimes referred to as convertible or hybrid notebooks. A hybrid is like a regular notebook but has a removable display that functions independently as a slate.
• Rugged tablets - a slate-like model that is designed to withstand rough handling and extreme conditions. Rugged tablets are usually encased in a thick protective shell and have shock-protected hard drives.

Taken from: http://searchmobilecompng.techtarget.com/definition/tablet-PC

Questions:

1. What do you understand by a Tablet?

A tablet is a wireless, portable personal computer with a touch screen interface. The tablet form factor is typically smaller than a notebook computer but larger than a smartphone.

1. In what Year was the first idea of a Tablet sketched?

Nineteen seventy one

1. Why the first tablet was not a commercial success?

Because

1. What is tablet with the best characteristics?

1. What style of tablet do You like most? Why?

1. Actividades de transferencia del conocimiento.

In this activity You have to:

1. Read, interpret and understand the attached text (The story of Coca-cola)
2. Write in your own words a short summery about it.  Write about 15 or 20 sentences.
3. Tell your summery to your teacher in 2 minutes.

1. Actividades de evaluación.