This document provides instructions for 5 tasks to help students learn English for creating social media profiles and sharing information about themselves and their families. The tasks include creating a social media profile, making a family tree, describing family members, interviewing a partner about their family, and taking a quiz on grammar lessons. Completing the tasks helps students practice listening, reading, speaking and writing skills for sharing basic personal information in social and work contexts. It also provides links to additional online resources for practicing English grammar, vocabulary, pronunciation and listening skills at the elementary level.

1. English for a label Program
A1 First level
Activity 1: Creating Your Profile
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2. Welcome!
In this activity, you are going to learn how to share basic personal information about
yourselves and your family members by doing different tasks to reinforce your
listening, reading, speaking and writing skills. You have an estimated time.
1st communicative result
Your Profile
Watch and listen to the following conversation between Mr. Guzmán and Juliet and
be ready to answer some questions.
Task 1: Registering to a Social Network
John is worried at this moment because he wants to register on a new social network.
His problem is that he does not understand the registration form very well. Read
and listen to his story and, then, fill out a social network registration form with the
information about him. Click on the button to download the form and write the
answers in the text boxes. You can also download the checklist with the assessment
criteria for the task.
Task 2: Create your Profile
Martha has a lot of friends on a social network. She likes chatting with them. Read and
listen to the information about her contacts. Then, start creating your own profile.
Take the guiding questions into account to fill out the profile form provided below.
Click on the corresponding buttons to download the study material, the guiding
questions, the form, and the checklist with the assessment criteria for this task.
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3. Task 3: Let me introduce myself
Some distinguished people also have a public profile in social networks. Click
on the button to watch the video of an interview that a successful entrepreneur
posted in her profile. Based on the video “This is me”, record a video of your
own personal introduction and send it to your tutor by means of a file or a link.
Download the checklist with the assessment criteria for this task.
Task 4: Tagging your friends
Antonio likes photos and tagging them with their corresponding names. Now, he
wants to talk about each one. Read and listen to the material “My life in pictures”
to know about the people in his pictures. Then, find a group photo of you or one
of your friends. The photo must show, at least, five friends. In case you do not
have this photo, you can use one from a newspaper, a magazine or internet. Then,
introduce the people in the photo in a written report using the expressions this,
that, these, those, a or an. Remember to include the picture in your report.
Task 5: My personal information
Participate in an oral interaction session with your teacher to talk about your
personal information. Your teacher has to establish the corresponding interaction
tool. Remember to check the materials “Online friends” and “This is me” to help
you in this task. Download the checklist with the assessment criteria for your
participation.
Up to this point, you can:
- Share basic personal information in different social and labor contexts.
- Introduce someone else’s basic personal information in different social and labor
contexts.
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4. - Ask and answer questions about basic personal information in different social
and labor contexts.
- Fill in profile forms in different social and labor networks.
2nd communicative result
My family on the web
Watch the following video about Karen and Jacob talking about their family.
Task 1: Family tree
Your online friend, Carlos, is a doctor and his daughter, Gina, is a little kid who
asks questions about her family as she looks at some photos. Read and listen
to the description he makes about his family. Then, make your own family tree
using pictures or drawings and include information about professions. Moreover,
write a text to describe your tree and send it to your tutor. Click on the button to
download the checklist with the assessment criteria for your written report.
Task 2: My Busy Family
Participate in an oral interaction session to talk about your family based on the
information of your family tree. Click on the button to download the assessment
criteria for your participation.
Task 3: What are they like?
Sonya is a social worker at a primary school. She asks questions to a group of
kids about the physical characteristics in their families. Listen and read Sonya´s
interview and, then, with one of your partners, record a video of an interview
about physical characteristics in your family. One of you asks the questions and
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5. the other one answers. Click on the button to download the checklist with the
instructions and the assessment criteria for your participation.
Task 4: Check your knowledge
Click on the button below to go to the test section in the platform. The topics
covered in the exam include present simple with be; subject pronouns (I, he,
she, it, you); articles: a/an, demonstratives (this, these/that, those) Y/N and WH
questions with be; possessive adjectives (my, his, her, your).
Up to this point, you can:
- Share basic information about your family in different social and labor contexts
- Ask and answer questions about your family in different social and labor contexts
- Share basic personal information in different social and labor contexts
- Introduce someone else’s basic personal information in different social and labor
contexts
- Ask and answer questions about basic personal information in different social
and labor contexts
- Fill in profile forms in different social and labor networks
- Remember to ask your teacher if you have to check any review material.
Check the information of the following external links, which can help you
reinforce the contents of this activity.
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6. Further Material:
Check the information of the following external links, which can help you reinforce
the contents of this activity:
- Listening: In the following link, you can find a set of podcasts and activities from
the British Council to practice elementary listening skills:
http://learnenglish.britishcouncil.org/en/elementary-podcasts
- Grammar: In the following link, you can find a quick grammar reference from
the British Council, with brief explanations on common topics and interactive
activities:
http://learnenglish.britishcouncil.org/en/quick-grammar
- Vocabulary: In the following link, you can find an elementary vocabulary exam
from Cambridge University:
http://www.cambridge.org/other_files/Flash_apps/inuse/EVUElementaryTest/
EVUElementaryIndex.htm
* In the following link, you can find elementary vocabulary exercises from Oxford
University Press: http://elt.oup.com/student/englishfile/elementary/b_vocabular
y/?cc=global&selLanguage=en
- Pronunciation: In the following link, you can find elementary pronunciation
exercises from Oxford University Press:
http://elt.oup.com/student/englishfile/elementary/c_pronunciation/?cc=global
&selLanguage=en
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