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Teaching Guide: Daily routines
Author: Cristian Jahir Méndez Castro – Description: This plan is designed to help students acquire vocabulary through listening. The activity is developed step by step to allow students to listen for more detailed information as they go through the activities. Even though it is designed for eighth grade, my students are only developing level A1, that is why I am using the sixth-grade content from the suggested curriculum.
Learning Guide: Traditional games
Author: Daniela Mejía Rodríguez – Description: This study guide helps you learn how to express ideas about your free time activities, your hobbies and interests and some plans you have to use your free time. You need to use the book Way to go 7th grade, unit 1, lesson 3. Plus, you are to record a voice message telling your classmates about your parents answers and the traditional games you know. The voice message will be shared in the group chat where all students can interact talking about the games in English.
Teaching Guide: Let’s travel around Colombia
Author: Carmen Teresa Morales Marulanda – Description: This plan helps teachers who want to make the students become aware of the tourist places in Colombia and their most important aspects by providing them with a variety of activities that gradually take them to practice vocabulary and the uses of the modal verb “can”.
Learning Guide: My Daily Routine
Author: Gloria Ceballos Reina, Cristian Gabriel Coral, Yuliana Katherine Delgado – Description: This English self-study guide helps you practise vocabulary related to daily routines and the adverbs of frequency, time and sequence. All the activities are related to the topic of daily routines presented in “Way to Go 6” Student’s Book and workbook. It starts with some vocabulary revision activities. Then, you have to read and choose the best options and end up writing about your daily routine habits.
Teaching Guide: Clothing
Author: Carolina Cordoba Hurtado – Description: This plan gives students the opportunity to open their mind to the different skills that allow them to interact with the teacher, classmates and others, practicing basic vocabulary of their daily life.
Teaching Guide: Healthy and unhealthy habits
Author: Mauricio Londoño Betancourt – Description: This plan gives the students the chance to identify healthy and unhealthy habits and express their ideas about it through crafting. It can also provide a space where students can learn while having fun.
Are You Sleeping? Song with Poster, Lyrics, and Audio
Author: American English
Description: A song in English. These resources were originally created for English language learners and teachers around the world by the Office of English Language Programs in the Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs at the U.S. Department of State.
Teaching Guide: Healthy eating
Author: Aleida Leonor Solano Mendoza – Description: This plan is useful because it gives the student the opportunity to know about healthy food in a creative way and it also promotes collaborative work. Besides teachers from other regions could adapt it to their context.
Learning Guide: Here’s where I live!
Author: Jhon Jaiver Ladino, María Mónica Timaná, Rodrigo Chaguala – Description: Dear students, this self-study guide will give you enough input and practice about the topic: “Describing Places” which is necessary for you to talk and describe the place where you live. By means of completing this guide, other students from Colombia and your classmates will have the chance to learn about your town, city or department. At the end of this guide, you will also have the opportunity to self-assess your progress and performance while doing all the activities. Enjoy it!
Teaching Guide: My Body is an Amazing Machine!
Author: Rosana Josefina Narvaez Vicuña – Description: This activity plan gives the students an opportunity to practice and review vocabulary for the next class. They will also learn the importance of listening, to pay attention and follow instructions in English.
Teaching Guide: Amazing people
Author: Nancy Camargo Rodelo – Description: This plan gives the teachers the opportunity to teach in an effective and different way considering the different learning styles while engaging the students in multiples tasks. It integrates the four skills, so they can write, listen, read and speak about events related to their biographies. It also allows you to have an out-of-the-ordinary class by incorporating new strategies to assess the students’ performance and the class itself leading to improvement in classroom management and increasing motivation.
Teaching Guide: Let’s compare means of transportation
Author: LESLY GISSEL TUAPANTE NARVÁEZ – Description: This plan is a good way to consolidate language already practiced in a controlled way. It will give students a meaningful task to use language in real context and with a real purpose.
Learning Guide: You can make a difference
Author: Luz Adriana Garcia, Julian Andrés Yaya, Angela Carolina Villa – Description: This self-study guide helps you to strengthen and provide new vocabulary about social troubles
using the second conditional as a tool to express some wishes and hopes that they would want
to happen in a better world. In this self-study guide we use English Please 3 module 3, unit 1 lesson 2.
Activate: Games for Learning American English – About Me Game Board
Author: American English – Description: The Board game, About Me. It is a game that promotes discussions about Personal Information. These resources were originally created for English language learners and teachers around the world by the Office of English Language Programs in the Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs at the U.S. Department of State. Visit the American English page here: https://americanenglish.state.gov/
Teaching Guide: Sport and hobbies
Author: Vilma Cancimancy – Description: This activity plan gives the students an opportunity to make a presentation about likes and hobbies, and to exchange information in an easy way. This activity challenges students to speak in another language in a stress-free environment.
Teaching Guide: Everybody has the right to…
Author: Vanessa Alejandra Claros – Description: This activity plan provides teacher ideas about Human Rights. Students develop creativity and critical thinking because they design a Bill of Rights. Additionally, this activity plan incorporates Formative Assessment by using the Feedback Sandwich technique that promotes peer assessment.
Learning Guide: My people
Author: Alba Rocío Ramírez – Description: This English self-study guide helps you learn new vocabulary about family members and how to mention people in your family. All the activities are related to the topic “My people” presented in Way to Go Student Book 6, Module 1 Unit 3 Lesson 1. It starts with some vocabulary revision activities. Then, you have to write some sentences about family members. There is a listening exercise to complete and end up drawing and writing about your family tree.
Learning Guide: Eco-life
Author: Belkis Amaya, Yurany Rubiano, Jorge Reyes – Description: This self-study guide helps you to practise vocabulary about the environment in written and oral form. All
the activities are related to the topic Human actions and the environment, presented in Way to Go 8
Module 1 Unit 1 lesson 1. It starts with some vocabulary revision activities. Then, you have to fill in some
gaps, then answer will analyze the structure and it ends up with speaking and writing activities.
