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Teaching Guide: Describing my family
Author: Juan David Ramírez Hincapié – Description: This plan allows you to work family members recognition and daily activities. It represents a great opportunity for students to express feelings about things they like and dislike. Several activities can be done through this plan.
Teaching Guide: Daily routines
Author: Maira Alejandra Anchico – Description: This plan gives you a chance to assess your students’ understanding about how to build basic simple tense sentences talking about daily activities. It also includes some extra activities so the teacher can select the most appropriate ones, for the context.
At the end of each stage, there are some spaces in which the teacher can write some notes, related to self-reflection, after each activity.
Teaching Guide: What I do in my house
Author: Indira Rosa Sierra Solano – Description: This lesson plan permits that students imagine their dream house, create a model of it and present it to the class. Students can develop their creativity and use language to express things that are relevant to them. It is a good opportunity to learn language in a context that is connected to students’ lives, and thus this opportunity results in memorable and significant learning.
Teaching Guide: Landscapes
Author: Jorge Andrés Molina Tovar – Description: This lesson plan gives the opportunity to work on a topic that we can relate to objects that we see every day, which are the parts of the landscapes. The activities written here allow the teacher to introduce vocabulary and language functions in a way that is not boring to the students through the use of creative activities. Besides, at the end we also include an activity for researching about national parks in Colombia, in this way, they can learn about their own country in a different language.
Teaching Guide: Hobbies, sports and leisure time
Author: Michelle Escorcia Díaz – Description: This plan will give to the students a new way to learn English with enthusiasm and responsibility. It will see reflected in the student´s level in order to be better in their abilities and competences.
Teaching Guide: Earth Day
Author: Gleiber Martínez Arias – Description: This activity plans raises students’ awareness on positive actions to take care of the environment. It also provides students with some vocabulary about environment. Finally, teachers can use Classroom Assessment techniques to check that students have learnt some vocabulary.
Teaching Guide: MY FAMILY
Author: Leidy Johanna Carvajal Figueroa – Description: This lesson plan gives the students a chance to review family vocabulary and it introduces possessive adjectives. It also gives students a valuable opportunity to describe their family and talk about their relatives.
Teaching Guide: Democracy
Author: Mary Cielo Ossa Antury – Description: This plan is an excellent opportunity to share knowledge, experience, discipline, creativity when each teacher prepares a new class. Here you must know than all teachers are different and according the place socio-cultural, you do a plan to your students and in it you can use methodology and strategies to motivate your teaching learning. We know that the level is very important; when you look for material for the activities. This lesson plan would help the rural English Teachers for improving the students level
Teaching Guide: Eating habits
Author: Lyda Nuñez Fuentes – Description: This lesson plan allows students to give information about the nutritional value and health benefits of food. It also gives the opportunity to integrate the four communicative skills and use different assessment strategies (self-assessment/peer-assessment and classroom assessment techniques CATs).
Learning Guide: Feelings and emotions
Author: Claudia Rojas, María Herrera, Alejandra Marín – Description: This English self-study guide will help you to learn vocabulary about feelings and emotions and how to use it in different communicative situations. These activities are related to the book “Way to Go 7, Module 2, Unit 1, Lesson 1 (pages 50 and 51). The first part is about vocabulary related to feelings and emotions. After that, you must do a short reading exercise where you complete some tasks according to the reading. Finally, you have a speaking exercise where you put in practice what you learnt by asking some questions to a friend or family member about how they feel in some situations. Then, you have to record yourself doing a short presentation about your friend or family member’s feelings. Don’t forget to complete your self-assessment task.
Teaching Guide: Healthy/unhealthy
Author: Beatriz Adriana Alvarado Figueredo – Description: This plan gives teachers a chance to energize the class. The students have a great opportunity to enjoy the English class and learn the topic in a different way by including the four skills.
Learning Guide: How do you dress for the weather?
Author: Gaby Doris Caicedo Parra
Mercedes Andrea Dejoy Armero
Zoila Rosa Melo Guerrero – Description: Dear student, this English self-study guide will help you to practice vocabulary about the weather and clothes. All activities are related to the English, Please! Fast track student’s book 9. First of all, you will review some vocabulary related to clothes and the weather. Then, you will read some descriptions about the weather in other countries, and answer some reading comprehension questions. Later, you will discover the uses of adverbs of frequency and the present simple tense, and finally you will design a flyer to illustrate the weather in your town/city and the clothes you use accordingly. I hope you have fun developing the activities!
Learning Guide: The influence of images in the world
Author: Tatiana Paula Lozano, Daisy Viviana Montilla Gonzalez – Description: This self-study guide will help you to follow instructions in a written form. Some activities are
related to the English Please 3 Student ́s Book Module 2, Unit 2 that will help you to reinforce
the vocabulary related to advertisements, modal verbs: can, should, could and to show your
creativity and ability to convince others.
Teaching Guide: Identifying and expressing hobbies
Author: BLANCA CECILIA CETINA ACOSTA – Description: This plan helps students and teachers to have a guide in order to follow sequential steps, so they can be more organized in their teaching and learning process.
Teaching Guide: Creating Monsters
Author: Marlon Méndez – Description: This task plan integrates literature and Arts. Students have the opportunity of developing creative thinking and team work to create a monster. This is a plan that motivates students to read and enjoy literature.
Learning Guide: What we eat
Author: Melba Rocio López, Erika Viviana Hernández – Description: Welcome to this guide which includes different skills to reinforce related to the topic of food. At
the same time, a mini-project will be included to enhance your learning. This guide is based on
English Please! Student’s Book 1. Module 3, pages 87,88,94,98
Learning Guide: Amazing places to discover!
Author: Jairzhinio Bautista Sanchez, Ana Milena Rojas Silva, Diego Fernando Salazar Méndez – Description: Dear students, This English Learning Guide is designed to learn comparatives and superlatives related to the characteristics of places. All the activities are found in module 4, unit 1, lesson 1: Let’s see the World, which is on pages 130-132 from Way to Go 7th, Student’s Book.
Activity 1. Find the definitions of the adjectives presented. Activity 2. Write and associate the names of the places with the images. Activity 3. Answer the questions about your preferences of places.
Teaching Guide: School problems and how to handle them
Author: Isabel Cristina Pinto Garcés – Description: This plan gives learners the opportunity to use English in context and also to express their thoughts about common situations for them, so that they can talk about their feelings and also provide solutions to a problem.
