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Teaching Guide: Health Education

Author: Lina Constanza Home Gutierrez – Description: This plan gives the students an opportunity to review vocabulary related to free time activities and express their likes and preferences with their classmates. This lesson plan lets rural students not only reinforce what they probably know about the topic but also learn more in a meaningful way when they use their real context.

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Teaching Guide: Conservation

Author: Magda Vasquez Ramirez – Description: This lesson plan gives the students a chance to know more about the biodiversity that Earth has. It also encourages students to take actions, no matter how small are. It includes interactions among Ss and they could share many thoughts as well as practicing about interesting topics.

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Teaching Guide: A Place for Everything

Author: Yelithza Cedeño Salcedo – Description: This task plan gives the students a chance to have self-efficacy when doing a specific task whose main purpose is to make students be able to create reusable or recyclable things for environmental conservation in the community. It has a warm up which helps students to predict what the topic is by playing a nice game. The pre-task is made up of a short reading which objective is to clarify the difference of the three Rs, which is also supported with a video-listening exercise and a unscramble game that emphasise on the use of modal should to give recommendations and suggestions for preserving our environment. The while-task consists on a collaborative work in which students have to decide how to create a reusable or recyclable thing together by using some follow up questions. This will give them the chance of learning by doing. The Post-task consists on the presentation of each collaborative group to the whole group. All these activities are centred on students.

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Teaching Guide: Abilities

Author: Carlos Alberto Portilla – Description: This lesson plan gives the students a chance to recognize their own skills and the skills of their partners; it also gives a teacher the opportunity to recognize student’s English skills, and their social skills. It is a very productive class in which students will be able to interact among themselves with simple phrases

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Teaching Guide: Having fun free time activties

Author: Edna Teresa Ruth Lancheros Guerrero – Description: This lesson plan gives the students the opportunity to work and be involved in an interactive class. Students can enhance the four communicative language skills. It helps the teacher to have a better classroom management. Also, it makes students to be feel confident and motivated towards the lesson.

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Teaching Guide: Natural parks in Colombia

Author: Luz Marina Cipagauta Siabato – Description: This lesson plan gives the students the opportunity to look for new information related to natural parks in Colombia and present it by means of a role play. It is good that students can practice asking and answering questions as this simulates a real life situation. This fosters students’ communicative skills.

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Teaching Guide: Teen Culture

Author: Melba Sofía Cifuentes Rodríguez – Description: This plan will enable students to reflect on the characteristics they consider important in a role model giving them the opportunity to express their point of view and to talk about important roles for them. The lesson presents useful vocabulary in a context that creates a good speaking framework then, students will be able to enhance their communicative skills.

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Teaching Guide: Urban Tribes

Author: María Cristina Valdés Páez – Description: This lesson plan was created for 10th graders in order to allow them to express their opinion about urban tribes and compare them with their fashion style, music, common interest, ideology and activities they do.

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Teaching Guide: How to be a good citizen

Author: Claudia Raquel Tabares Ortega – Description: This plan will be useful for helping students to reflect upon their citizenship, considering their duties and rights (rules) for being part of a community. In this lesson plan the teacher will find strategies to promote ideas sharing regarding citizenships themes.

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Teaching Guide: Natural Landscapes

Author: Nayire de Jesús Cárdenas Bermúdez – Description: This lesson plan gives the students a chance to become familiar with vocabulary about geographical features, in addition they have the opportunity to describe landscapes in Colombia or places they know.

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Teaching Guide: The weather

Author: Rosario Rocha Sarmiento – Description: This lesson plan gives teachers the opportunity to make more dynamic classes and it also provides a valuable opportunity to students to develop their speaking skills. Students can develop autonomy as they are encouraged to choose the topic they want to talk about, negotiate with people in a group and work as a team.

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Teaching Guide: Travelling around Colombia!

Author: Amaury Nicolás Caro López – Description: This plan gives the students a chance to know about places and it also gives the students a valuable opportunity to assess their level. It is a useful and productive class for the module 1 democracy and peace.

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