The document discusses an exciting trip the speaker took where they describe someone they met. It provides questions about Sequoia National Park in California, including its location, that it has the tallest living things, and what General Sherman is. It also mentions exercises to practice conversations and being a supportive listener.

2. • Objective:
To Interact with reasonable ease in a short structured
conversation about an exciting travel experience or trip
you have taken, in which you must also describe a person
that you met/ran into.

3. • Which national parks of Colombia have you
visited?
http://www.parquesnacionales.gov.co/portal/es/parques-nacionales/For help:

4. • Watch video about the Sequoia
Natural Park.
• https://www.youtube.com/watch
?v=42N0JKA6vvo
• Then answer the following
questions:
• Where is it?
• Besides tall trees it has the tallest …?
• What is General Sherman?
• What can you find under Sequoia
Natural Park?

5. • Listen and practice dialogue page 26.
• Find examples of being a supportive listener in the dialogue.
• Do exercise D in page 26 and exercise 2 page 27. Sit in pairs
and make statements in different verb tenses for example
about the Javeriana, a shopping mall, or a touristic place.

6. Exercise
Match the comments on the left column with
the responses on the right.
1. The weather was great on
the week-end
___ a. You’re right. We really should
2. Bogotá has a few parks ___ b. Yeah, you sure can
3. We should go hiking
sometime
___ c. Yeah, it sure is
4. The Amazon River is a great
place to go swimming
___ d. It really was. I spent the two
days in Pance
5. I think that is it good to be
out of town. You can hear the
birds
___ e. No, it really doesn’t. That is too
bad