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 11 · Step 1 of 5

URA + SofIA: Lesson URA and SofIA assistants

Resource · not graded
What you bring
From Lesson 10 (What are you going to do?): your product, your glossary and «I can talk about plans with going to.»
What this prepares you for
The forum asks you to use CV: can + past simple with your classmates.

Goal of the lesson

I can write a basic CV and a short professional profile.

Puedo escribir una hoja de vida básica y un perfil profesional breve.

Open the URA of Lesson 11 · II PAC

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

CV: can + past simple

Skills: I can use Excel · I can speak Spanish and some English. Experience: In 2025 I worked as… · I volunteered at… Profile: present simple: I am a responsible student who…

SectionExample
ProfileI am a third-year accounting student. I am organized and punctual.
EducationUNAH, B.A. in Accounting (2023–present)
Experience2025: I worked as a volunteer at a food bank.
SkillsI can use Excel. I can work in a team.
En español

En Canadá el CV/résumé normalmente no lleva foto, edad ni estado civil. Usa datos ficticios en la práctica si lo vas a compartir.

Your AI assistants: SofIA

Recommended for this lesson: SofIA Profesional, about CV sections, can for skills and past simple for experience. 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 11 · II PAC

Your career, your examples

II PAC · May – AugustAwardLate June and late December · approx.Canada (Rideau Hall, Ottawa)

Cultural Corner · Order of Canada appointments

This week: Choose an Order of Canada appointee. Write their mini-CV with 3 past experiences.

The Order of Canada started in 1967. Its insignia looks like a snowflake. Last year, scientists, artists and athletes received it.

Key words

  • snowflake copo de nieve
  • achievement logro
  • nation nación

Fact

Its motto is in Latin: Desiderantes meliorem patriam — they desire a better country.

Your career

  • Health sciences: Doctors and researchers.
  • Engineering & technology: Inventors and engineers.
  • Business & economics: Business and law leaders.
  • Education, humanities & communication: Artists and writers.
  • Environment, agriculture & tourism: Environmental leaders.
Mirror Honduras. What is the motto of Honduras? (Hint: on the coat of arms.)

Official source

Mission: Find the year the Order of Canada started. Write it.

Cultural competency: I can say what Order of Canada is (Late June and late December), use CV: can + past simple to talk about it, and compare it with Honduras.

See it in my II 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

can + verb, without «to»: I can use Excel (not «I can to use»).

Other languagesFrench · Portuguese · Italian · German

Curriculum vitae is Latin («course of life»). In Canada and the U.S. it is often called a résumé, a word from French.

Observe, compare, reflectIntercultural

Many Canadian CVs do not include a photo, age or marital status; many Honduran CVs do. Why could that be?

Mediation challengeBuild a bridge for someone

Help a classmate translate the section titles of their CV.

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 · LiteratureManitoba and Quebec, Canada · 1909–1983

Gabrielle Roy

Gabrielle Roy (writer)

Gabrielle Roy was a writer from Manitoba. She was a teacher, then a journalist, then a famous novelist. She wrote in French.

You use it in: 4 · Assignment · Activity 40

Para docentes

Fuente de datos: data/source/in103_lessons.js (lección 11). 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.