This document contains information about the city of Medellin, Colombia. It discusses some of the major tourist attractions in Medellin, including museums, parks, and the metro system. It also describes an important annual festival held in Medellin in August called the Flower Exhibition, where farmers and businesses decorate chairs with flowers and parade them through the streets along with musical concerts and parades. The document asks if the reader has participated in any of these events.

1. RECUPERACIÓN DE LENGUA EXTRANJERA
GRADOS 6 Y 7
1. Información personal
Name: __________________________________________________________________
Lastname: _______________________________________________________________
Grade: __________________________________________________________________
Studyday: _______________________________________________________________
Telephone: ______________________________________________________________
Address: ________________________________________________________________
Occupation: _____________________________________________________________
Birthday: ________________________________________________________________
Country: ________________________________________________________________
Teacher: ________________________________________________________________
Hobbies: ________________________________________________________________
Description: _____________________________________________________________
2. Escriba debajo de cada verbo su forma en tercera persona singular (“ies”, “es”, “s”)
To study To drink To comb
______________________ ____________________________ _________________________

2. To watch To dance To fly
_______________________ __________________________ __________________________
To play To wash To listen
_______________________ _____________________________ _______________________
3. Complete las siguientes oraciones con la forma correcta del verbo y tradúzcalas a español:
a) I ____________ (live, lives) with my parents.
b) We ___________ (live, lives) downtown.
c) My parents _______________ (has, have) an apartment.
d) I ______________ (walk, walks) to work.
e) I ________________ (don´t, doesn´t) need a car.
f) My mother ________________ (don´t, doesn´t) walk to work.
g) She __________________ (use, uses) public transportation.
h) She ___________________ (take, takes) the subway.
i) My father is retired, so he ______________ (don´t, doesn´t) have a job.
j) But he ________________ (do, does) a lot of work at home.

3. k) He also _______________ (watch, watches) television.
l) I ________________ (has, have) a brother and a sister.
m) My sister _______________ (has, have) a husband and three children.
n) They ________________ (live, lives) in a house in the country.
o) The children _______________ (go, goes) to school by bus.
p) My brother _______________ (has, have) an apartment in the city.
q) He ____________ (live, lives) alone.
r) He ____________ (don´t, doesn´t) have a car.
s) He ____________ (use, uses) public transportation.
t) He ____________ (go, goes) to work by bus.
4. Escriba doesn’t/don’t/wasn’t/weren’t:
A. The Simpson ___________ drink beer.
B. You ___________ with the friends.
C. My father ____________ worry about it.
D. The dog ______________ bury the bone.
E. The whales ____________ fly by themselves.
F. We _____________ reading the book.

4. RECUPERACIÓN DE LENGUA EXTRANJERA
Name: __________________________________________________
Course: _8 Y 9
1. Conjuga el verbo to be en presente y pasado en las formas afirmativa, interrogativa y negativa.
2. Usando los siguientes verbos, construya con cada uno de ellos cinco (5) oraciones en tiempo futuro en
las formas afirmativa, interrogativa y negativa.
a. Call = Llamar
b. Run = Correr
c. Work = Trabajar
d. Write = Escribir
e. Travel = Viajar
3. Utiliza el auxiliar Do o Does en el espacio en blando según sea el caso y traduzca las oraciones a
español:
a. ______________ you speak Spanish?
b. ______________ Bill and Betty live in the United States?
c. I ______________ not speak English very well.
d. The children ______________ not like to play in this park.
e. He ______________ not live Jane.

5. RECUPERACIÓN DE LENGUA EXTRANJERA
Name: __________________________________________________
Course: _10 Y 11
MY CITY
Hello, my name is Juan Carlos, I am 15 years old, I am from Medellin. Medellin is a big and beautiful city,
it is the capital of the department of Antioquia (Colombia); it has many beautiful places as well as Botero
Museum, the cemetery of San Pedro, the Explora park, Botero’s park, the EEPP intelligent building, the
zoo, the botanical garden, Los Pies Descalzos park, libraries parks, El Pueblito Paisa, the exposition
palace and the metro system for transportation and many other places of public interest; as well as
plaza Botero, the lighting through Medellin river avenue and majority of the streets.
In December, Medellin is visited by many tourists from in and outside the country, It has some
universities: Universidad Pontificia Bolivariana, Universidad de Antioquia, Universidad Nacional,
Universidad Eafit, Universidad Autonoma and others.
In the second week of august, we celebrate a very important festivity, the exhibition of flowers. In this
festival, farmers of St. Helena, business men and others persons prepare “chairs” adorned with flowers,
and paraded through the streets in a lovely caravan, there is popular (musical) concerts; myths and
legends parades, this event is used by people from many countries for business, because this festivity is
a great opportunity for having it. Medellin is an important touristic and commercial city of Colombia.
Have you participated of these events?
DE ACEURDO AL ENTERIOR TEXTO REALIZA LAS SIGUIENTES ACTIVIDADES
A. Traduzca la lectura a español.
B. Pase el verbo to be que está en presente al pasado y resáltelo en la lectura.
C. Responda las siguientes preguntas de acuerdo a la lectura:
1. The name of the festivity is: b) The cemetery of San Pedro and Botero
a) The flower festivity museum
b) Botero festivity c) The libraries parks and the flower
c) Medellin festivity d) The zoo and the school
d) Park festivity
3. One of the places of public interest in
2. Two touristic places are: December is:
a) Botero museum and commercial a) The alpujarra building
b) The cemetery of San Pedro

6. c) The Medellin river avenue lighting a) Ten years old
d) The flower festivity b) Twenty years old
c) One year old
4. Medellin is: d) Fifteen years old
a) An important flower in Colombia
b) An important pop music in Colombia 6. The festivity of the flower is:
c) An important commercial city in Colombia a) In august
d) An important metro station in Colombia b) In July
c) In February
5. Juan Carlos is: d) In October
7. Some sites mentioned in the text are:
a) Park, house, chair, universities, Botero, flower and pop music
b) Museum, zoo, intelligent building, St. Helena, Medellin and universities
c) Festivity, universities, tourist, Medellin, myths and legend, and Antioquia
d) Important, parks, festival, music, universities and metro cable.
8. The verb that best completes the following sentence MEDELLIN ____________ A BIG AN BEAUTIFUL
CITY is:
a) Am
b) Are
c) Is
d) You
9. The cemetery of San Pedro and plaza Botero _______________ touristic places
a) Is
b) She
c) Am
d) Are
10. In the flower festivity the chairs are adorned with:
a) Lights
b) Parks
c) Festivals
d) Flower