Unit 2: Don'T Give Up!

UNIT 2: DON’T GIVE UP!
Presentado por: Juan Felipe Bonilla Serrato

Presentado a: SANDRA PATRICIA MOSQUERA
Institución Educativa José Eustasio Rivera

Materia: Técnica de ingles
Grado: 1002
Jornada mañana
Año 2020
UNIT 2: DON’T GIVE UP!
EXERCISE
 Write the words in blue (10) of the text and look for their definitions in English.
Primary: The first definition of primary in the dictionary is first in importance, grade, rank, etc.
Another definition of primary is position or time first, as in a series. Primary is also essential;
BASIC.
Ordinary: not special, different, or unusual in any way.
Independent: not controlled or ruled by anyone else.
Government: the group of people who officially control a country
Education: the process of teaching and learning in a school or college, or the knowledge that you
get from this.
Attend: To go to an event.
Believed: to think something, without being completely sure .
Motivated: to make someone enthusiastic about doing something.
Leader: a person in control of a group, country, or situation.
Decided: certain, obvious, or easy to notice.
 According to the Reading, answer the activities from page 27: “UNDERSTANDING THE
READING”.
A. Chose the correct option to complete the sentence about the reading passage.
The world’s oldest first grader is about an old man who_C_.
a) Fought a war so he could attend primary school
b) Became a film actor after studying at school
c) Faced many difficulties to attend primary school
B. Use the words in the box to complete the phrases about events in maruge’s life.
Movie, farmer, refugee camp, principal, taught, spoke, war
a) Started work as a farmer
b) A movie about his life was made
c) Fought in a war against the British
d) Taught elderly people to read and write
e) Got help from a principal to go to primary school
f) Went to New York and spoke at the United Nations
g) Moved to a refugee camp and continued going to school
C. Complete the timeline with the events in exercise B
A D
1920 1960 2005
1950 C
2000 2010
E
G
B
D. How would you describe Mary's character? Write three adjectives, and find information from
the passage to support each one. Then share your ideas with a partner.
Adjectives Reasons
1. Optimistic Kimani Maruge worked as a farmer in order to
study
2. Old He was 84 years old the world´s oldest first grader
 Read the topic “DEVELOPMENT OF READING SKILLS”: identifying main ideas of

Paragraphs and translate the paragraph (page 28)
. Talk about how to get the main idea out of a text or paragraph and other ideas that support the
main one.
La idea principal de un párrafo es la idea de que el párrafo se enfoca en un buen párrafo
generalmente tiene una idea principal. Otras ideas en el párrafo apoyan la Idea principal al
describirla o explicarla. La idea principal generalmente se da pero no siempre al principio o al final
del párrafo
.The main idea of the text is to show how important education is and how good it is to prepare for
life.
Cuando era niña, Kakenya Ntaiya era como la mayoría de las chicas de su aldea en Kenia. Cuando
era una adolescente, se esperaba que se casara y tuviera hijos. En cambio, Ntaiya convenció a sus
padres para que la dejaran terminar la escuela secundaria. Después de eso, fue a los Estados Unidos
para asistir a la universidad. Finalmente obtuvo un doctorado en educación. Cuando Antalya
regresó a su hogar en 2009, comenzó el internado Kakenya Center for Excellence. Ahora casi 280
niñas en su pequeño pueblo reciben educación primaria. La educación cambió la vida de Ntaiya, por
lo que espera que su experiencia inspire a otras chicas a alcanzar sus propias metas literarias.
 Complete activities A and B from the same page

1. Topic of the paragraph: kakenya Ntaiya
2. What is the main idea of the paragraph?
a) Kenyan girls often do not get an education because they must marry at a young age.
b) Through her hard work, a Kenyan woman went to college in the United States.
c) A Kenyan woman got an education and is now helping Kenyan girls improve their
lives.X
3. Which sentence in the paragraph summarizes the main idea?
a. The first sentence
b. the third sentence
c. the last sentence .X
B. Look back at the reading passage on pages 25-26. Match each main idea below to one these
paragraphs from the passage: A, C, E, or G.
_G_ 1. Maruge was an inspiration to other adult Kenyans
_C_ 2. Maruge faced many challenges when he started school
_A_ 3. Maruge was unlike ordinary first graders.
_E_ 4. Maruge did not stop studying, even when it was difficult.
 Answer these questions in English:

A. What elementary school did you attend? Describe it.
Answer: I studied my elementary school at the San Miguel Arcangel School, This school was big,
it had a forest, fields and recreational classrooms for us students.
B. Which school subjects made you feel the most motivated? And Why?
Answer: The social course was the one that made me feel motivated since it made me an interesting
subject and with many ways to use it in everyday life.
C. What do you think about Kimani Maruge’s challenge?
Answer: I think that everything he lived was very difficult but he was very strong since he
managed to overcome all obstacles and always wanted to learn more since it is very important to get
out of ignorance and fight for education.

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UNIT 2: DON’T GIVE UP!

Presentado por: Juan Felipe Bonilla Serrato

Institución Educativa José Eustasio Rivera

 Read the topic “DEVELOPMENT OF READING SKILLS”: identifying main ideas of

 Complete activities A and B from the same page

 Answer these questions in English:

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