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Teaching Guide: Learning about fair trade products

Author: Aydee Barrera Plazas – Description: This lesson plan strengthens students’ communicative skills because the development of the activities makes students feel active and motivated. The topic encourages students to appreciate farmers´ labor and how fair trade may help them.

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Teaching Guide: NEW YORK USED TO BE AN ECOSYSTEM

Author: JHON EDWAR FIERRO GONZALEZ – Description: This plan presents reading comprehension activities to work with the habitual past “used to”. It is an opportunity for students to express changes they can perceive in different contexts. In this specific plan student will focus on the City of New York, they will be able to identify how a big city used to be an ecosystem in the past.

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Teaching Guide: Traditional celebrations

Author: Claudia Rocio Castro Jaimes – Description: This lesson plan gives the students the opportunity to express their ideas about their own cultural traditions, presenting a celebration they like at home. Students can improve their listening and speaking skills along with social skills, related to team work and decision making.

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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: DESCRIBING TOURISTIC PLACES

Author: Yury Milena Meneses Vera – Description: This lesson plan gives the students a chance to read and find out important information about New York city which is well known as the capital of the world. On the other hand, the students will have the opportunity to write about important places of their region. Students will create a booklet or poster with key information of tourist places from the region.

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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: 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: Different cultures, Different traditions

Author: Lizeth Catalina Murillo Urrego – Description: This plan gives students the chance to approach to other cultures from an intercultural perspective while developing their ability to recognize, accept and respect others. In addition, students will have the opportunity to express their personal opinion by observing different examples of structures and by using uncommon adjectives in order to expand their vocabulary. In the same way, they will have the possibility of establishing relationships of difference and similarity taking into account their own context.

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Teaching Guide: Money makes the world go round

Author: Maria Consuelo Amaya Sanches – Description: This lesson plan has been designed to allow students improve their reading skills, identify important information related to spending money and present it to the class. Students have the opportunity to work in groups, interact with other students, make decisions, come up with conclusions and present factual relevant information to the class.

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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: 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.

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