Evaluación integradora U3: people and places

2. Reading: 'The new neighbor' and 'the old house'

The new neighbor. The woman who moved in next door is difficult to forget. She is short and quite heavy, with long curly gray hair and small dark eyes. She isn't unfriendly, but she is very quiet: she never talks to anyone in the street, and her face looks tired, like she is always bored with the world. Inside, however, everyone says her little house is full of life.

The old house. Her house is the oldest building on the street. There are no curtains on the ground-floor windows, and there is a big wooden sign with a black cat painted on it. Upstairs there are five small rooms, and there isn't any modern furniture: there is an old sofa, two wooden chairs and some enormous bookshelves everywhere. In the kitchen there are dozens of jars with strange labels, and in the garden behind the house there is a cat of every color. The neighbors joke: that shy, bored old woman and her cats are the most cheerful thing on our street.

4. Error correction: ¡a detectar!

Un compañero escribió esta descripción con cuatro errores de la unidad: 'My grandmother lives in a house beautiful. There has a big garden behind the house and there is many flowers in it. She is very happily and friendlys.' Corrígelo en tu cuaderno. Después, en la tarea de producción, evita repetir cada uno de esos errores.

5. Tu producción: describe to guess

Elige un lugar que conozcas bien (tu cuarto, tu calle, la cafetería escolar). Escribe una descripción de 10-12 oraciones que integre: al menos cuatro estructuras con there is / there are (una negativa y una pregunta), dos adjetivos antes de un sustantivo en orden correcto, un opuesto con prefijo y tres preposiciones de lugar distintas. Léela en voz alta y que el grupo dibuje el lugar a partir de tu descripción; al comparar el dibujo con la foto real verás qué adjetivo faltó.