English III · A1.3. National Autonomous University of Honduras, Faculty of Humanities and Arts, Department of Foreign Languages, English Section. PhD. Bessy Mendoza, MSc. Leonel Madrid. Students planning together on campus, with the flag of Canada, autumn maple leaves, mountains and Toronto.
English III · Lesson 9 · Step 1 of 4

URA + SofIA: Lesson URA and SofIA assistants

Resource · not graded
What you bring
From Lesson 8 (What did you do there?): your product, your glossary and «I can use 10 irregular past verbs.»
What this prepares you for
The forum asks you to use Comparing trips + feelings with your classmates.

Goal of the lesson

I can compare trips and say how I felt.

Puedo comparar viajes y decir cómo me sentí.

Open the URA of Lesson 9 · I PAC

The URA has the explanation, audio, examples by career and the Cultural Corner of the I PAC. Take notes: you will use them in the forum.

Comparing trips + feelings

Feelings: I was excited / tired / surprised. The trip was exciting / tiring. Compare: It was cheaper than…, the best trip of my life.

Example
Feeling (-ed)I was really excited.
Thing (-ing)The tour was amazing.
ComparativeThe bus was cheaper than the plane.
SuperlativeIt was the most beautiful place I visited.
En español

-ed = cómo me sentí (I was bored); -ing = cómo era la cosa (the tour was boring). Comparativo y superlativo también en pasado.

Your AI assistants: SofIA

Recommended for this lesson: SofIA Comunicativa, about comparatives and superlatives in the past, feelings adjectives. SofIA asks your name, your career and your lesson, then helps you step by step. It explains, gives hints and helps you create your own mini-lesson, flashcards or practice. It never does graded work for you.

Available: SofIA Gramatical · SofIA Léxica · SofIA Fonética · SofIA Comunicativa · SofIA Profesional · SofIA Cultural.

Open SofIA for Lesson 9 · I PAC

Your career, your examples

I PAC · January – MayHeritage & festivalLate April – early May (about 11 days) · approx.Toronto, Canada

Cultural Corner · Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival

This week: Imagine you watched 2 documentaries at Hot Docs. Which one did you prefer? How did you feel?

Hot Docs started in 1993. Last spring, people watched documentaries from many countries. This year, the festival is going to show new films about science and nature.

Key words

  • documentary documental
  • director director/a
  • true story historia real

Fact

Hot Docs is the biggest documentary festival in North America.

Your career

  • Health sciences: Documentaries about medicine and health.
  • Engineering & technology: Cameras and editing.
  • Business & economics: The documentary industry.
  • Education, humanities & communication: Real stories from many cultures.
  • Environment, agriculture & tourism: Films about the planet.
Mirror Honduras. Do you know a documentary about Honduras? What was it about?

Official source

Mission: Find the year Hot Docs started. Write one sentence in the past.

Cultural competency: I can say what Hot Docs is (Late April – early May), use Comparing trips + feelings to talk about it, and compare it with Honduras.

See it in my I PAC Cultural Passport

Language bridge · plurilingual and intercultural

Use every language you know to learn English, and use English to understand other people.

English ↔ SpanishNotice the difference

bored (how I feel) / boring (what causes it) — Spanish «aburrido» covers both!

Other languagesFrench · Portuguese · Italian · German

Happy: heureux / heureuse (FR) · feliz (PT) · felice (IT) · glücklich (DE).

Observe, compare, reflectIntercultural

First Nations, Inuit and Métis (Canada), Lenca, Garífuna and Miskitu peoples (Honduras): use the names peoples use for themselves.

Mediation challengeBuild a bridge for someone

Recommend a destination to a friend based on what they like.

Your languages count: ask at home or in your community how to say it in Garífuna, Miskitu, the English of the Bay Islands or any other language you know, and add it to your glossary. Add it to «My languages» in your Passport →

Arts Corner · Visual artBritish Columbia, Canada · 1871–1945

Emily Carr's forests

Emily Carr

Emily Carr was a painter and writer from Victoria. She painted the big forests and the villages of First Nations of the West Coast.

You use it in: 2 · Forum · Activity 31

Para docentes

Fuente de datos: data/source/in103_lessons.js (lección 9). Ingreso al UNAH Virtual Campus: data/links.json. H5P (práctica del sitio y calificado del Campus): data/h5p/. Anuncios: data/anuncios.json. Títulos y porcentajes según el Calendario. Inglés I: 12 lecciones (decisión de la Sección, 26-10-2026); las actividades 1–38 no cambian. Regenerar con python3 generator/build.py.