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Teaching Guide: Animals are great!

Author: Marisol Alba Echeverría – Description: This lesson plan focuses on skills animals have. As students love Art, teacher can integrate art in this lesson. Students will develop their creative skills by designing a collage, which is fun to students. Additionally, Formative Assessment Techniques are suggested to involve students in their learning process.

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Learning Guide: Parts of the body

Author: Sandra Milena Osorio, Wilson Huependo from Huila
Description: This English self-study guide helps you to practice vocabulary related to the parts of the body. The topic is developed in WAY TO GO – WORKBOOK 6, module 2-unit 2 lesson 1.

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Learning Guide: What do they look like?

Author: Mayra Castro Villota, Anna Eduvina Álvarez Morales, Cruz Del Cármen Pérez Sánchez – Description: This English self-study guide helps you check useful adjectives and practice making physical descriptions. All the activities are related to the topic of physical appearance presented in Way to Go 6 Student’s Book, Module 1 Unit 3 Lesson 2. It starts with some vocabulary revision activities. Then, you have to develop some reading comprehension and grammar activities, to finally write some descriptions about people you know.

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Lesson Plan: A Tale of Two Animals

Author: Veronica L. Diptoadi – Description: A lesson plan about animals with a skit. 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/

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Teaching Guide: Identifying classroom objects

Author: Leonel Andres Granada Gordillo from Quindío

Description: This Activity plan is very useful if you as a teacher want to improve your Students’ ability to name classroom objects. By the end of this lesson, students will be able to name classroom objects.

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Teaching Guide: Actions for protecting the environment

Author: María Angélica García Mora – Description: This plan is mainstreamed with the area of Natural Sciences. The subject is about the Environment. This lesson plan gives different strategies for improving meaningful learning. It contents different activities for obtaining the knowledge and encouraging the participation. It also has assessment strategies that allow knowing the progress of students in learning. The students show acquired knowledge by using the imperative form and vocabulary related to environment, the elaboration of posters about protecting the environment and the participation in the different activities.

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Learning Guide: Enjoy your free time!

Author: Paulo César Guerrero Pabón, Deicy Mercedes Eraso Burbano, María Fernanda Insuasty – Description: This self-study guide helps you practise the different English language skills and competences. The tasks start with a practice related to vocabulary about free time activities, consequently frequency expressions are reviewed. After that, you will read a short text and answer different types of comprehension questions. Finally, you will review and practice the present simple and the gerund form (-ing) for some verbs through a writing task.

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Learning Guide: Incredible Places

Author: Juan Carlos Sánchez, John Arley Murillo, María Cristina Rosas – Description: This English self-study guide will help you describe actions or events in a time before now. The topic is related to places in the city. First of all, you will have to relate some words with their respective description, answer some questions about a short text and finally you will have to write down a short text about a trip you have done in the past.

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Teaching Guide: Describing people in my community

Author: Leonor Alvarez Franco – Description: This plan guides students to work on describing physical and personality features of people through different fun and innovative activities that allow students to practice adjectives, Wh questions and simple present and present progressive tenses.

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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.

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Learning Guide: Human Actions and the environment

Author: Andrés Felipe Muñoz Cortés, Margarita María Montes Montoya – Description: This English self-study guide helps you to describe the human actions that affect the environment and express what you would do to promote the care of it. All the activities are related to the topic of human actions and the environment presented in Way to Go Student Book 8, Module 1, Unit 1, Lesson 1. Besides, you will be able to write about the environmental problems that affect your school or community.

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Learning Guide: Changing lifestyles

Author: Dexy Barros Fontalvo, Manuel García Ortíz – Description: This English self-study guide will help you practice to make suggestions in writing form to take
care of our environment. All of the activities are related to the topic of changing lifestyles
presented in the Way To Go students book 8 module 1 unit 2 lesson 2.
Pay attention what you have to do:
● It starts with some vocabulary activities.
● Then you have to read a text and answer some questions
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● Read the text again and find about the languages used to make suggestions.
● After that, you’ll write sentences making suggestions to people to take care of the
environment.
● Finally you will design an information leaflet with at least three suggestions to improve
our environmental practises.
● At the end you can check your progress by putting (X) if you consider you did it very
well, quite well, or if you have to review your activities.

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Teaching Guide: A day in a famous person’s life

Author: Alcira Sánchez Arévalo – Description: This lesson plan gives the teacher a chance to integrate the skills of listening, reading, speaking and writing by taking the topic: “A day in famous person’s life” as the starting point to help students to ask and answer WH questions.

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Learning Guide: Food for a balanced diet

Author: Nury Basto Cerinza , Fabián Gildardo Santiago Moreno, Elsa Cristina Molina Cruz – Description: This English self-study guide helps you practise vocabulary about food and improve your lexical,
reading and writing skills. All the activities are related to the topic of food, likes, dislikes and
healthy diet presented in English Please 1 Student book page 86, exercise 1 and page 91,
exercise 4. It starts with some vocabulary, then you have to write sentences about your likes
and dislikes and end up reading a short text about a healthy diet and check your comprehension
about it.

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Teaching Guide: Describing my Family

Author: Camilo Augusto Bautista Rodríguez – Description: This lesson plan is a teacher’s guide for running a lesson, and it includes what the students are supposed to learn, the procedure and a way of measuring how well the goal was reached. It can be used as a guide for class learning.

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Teaching Guide: Describing what you see

Author: Johny Barrera Tafur – Description: This plan is framed within the scope of the suggested English curriculum for Module 4: Globalization, in which students can discover different cultural aspects of various countries in terms of body language communication. Students have the chance to work individually and in groups in order to achieve the expected goals in this lesson.

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Learning Guide: Traditional Games

Author: Noralba Correa Suarez, Maria Alma Lenny Sierra Echeverry, Jorge Augusto Cardona Osorio – Description: This English self-study guide helps you to write about traditional games, describe them and talk about the rules, objects that you need and the places where you can play. All the activities are related to the topic of “enjoy your free time!” presented in Way to Go Students and Workbook 7, Modulo 1 unit 1 lesson 3. It starts with some vocabulary revision activities. Then, you have to complete some sentences taking into account that you have to be careful on how to write the main verb (simple present tense) and end up answering questions about some traditional games.

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