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Teaching Guide: This is my home!

Author: Neify Yineth Olmos Valderrama – Description: This lesson plan provides students with vocabulary to describe their houses. Teacher personalises the topic so that students find it more meaningful. Formative Assessment techniques are suggested to check the progress.

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Teaching Guide: School habits

Author: Olga Mayorga Saenz – Description: This plan provides teachers and students with time to talk about habits specifically at school or classes. It makes students reflect upon how good habits at school can help them to have better academic results and better coexistence at school. Besides, it gives teachers some strategies to assess students’ level.

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Teaching Guide: Places of the neighbourhood

Author: Juan Carlos Sierra Villarraga – Description: This lesson plan provides students with the chance to talk about places of the neighbourhood and its corresponding location. Even though students are encouraged to develop the four skills, they need to pay special attention to a conversation in order to locate places and they are expected to describe their neighbourhood by creating a model scale made with disposable material. This lesson plan also gives students the opportunity to assess their peers and self-assess their own learning process.

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Teaching Guide: Saving Energy

Author: María Isabel Gamboa Corrales – Description: This lesson will provide a non-conventional way to work with students on a relevant topic as it is saving energy; it will also reveal diverse ways of assessing students’ progress and understanding. In addition to the previous, it contains different moments which approach the diversity in the classrooms. The steps are given sequentially, so the different moments of the lesson are very clear and connected with the previous parts.

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Teaching Guide: Health

Author: Carolina Lizarazo Gallo – Description: This plan gives the students a chance to learn about their daily activities by having fun, it also gives the teacher the opportunity to assess the students’ progress. It can also be a useful lesson if you have a large class, and you want all the students to participate.

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Teaching Guide: Professions

Author: Lucy Milet – Description: This plan has been designed for students in urban and rural areas with little knowledge of English language. Here you can find an activity that will help students build vocabulary as they practice a little speaking. It is a hands on task that will allow SS to personalize language

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Teaching Guide: Taking care of our homes

Author: Miguel Ramírez – Description: This task plan focuses on describing the house. Additionally, it integrates Arts because students use origami to create a paper house. This activity promotes creativity and production skills. Finally, students can find it very meaningful because they will be talking about their houses.

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Teaching Guide: Touristic places

Author: Ricardo Yepes Carmona – Description: This task plan focuses on describing cities around Colombia. It also looks towards raising awareness on the variety of cities Colombia has. T can integrate social studies to make students identify key aspects about Colombia. Finally, this plan incorporates peer assessment techniques that make students provide feedback to other peers.

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Teaching Guide: Places in a town

Author: Gladys Rodriguez Vergara – Description: This plan provides opportunities and activities to mention the main parts of a city and what you can or can’t do there. It is fun and enjoyable opportunity to use L2 inside of the classroom.

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Teaching Guide: We are all different

Author: Bienvenida Esther Zambrano Pabób – Description: This lesson plan gives the students the chance to develop their listening, speaking and writing skills in order to improve their English level. It motivates to partners and colleagues because it can show them different sessions. It can be used in any English class to make it better.

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Teaching Guide: Healthy food versus junk food

Author: Isabel Orozco Hernández – Description: This activity could bring the ss the opportunity to know about which nouns have plural or can be counted, and which nouns don’t have plural or can´t be counted; besides to know about healthy and unhealthy food

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