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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: Healthy and unhealthy habits

Author: Mauricio Londoño Betancourt – Description: This plan gives the students the chance to identify healthy and unhealthy habits and express their ideas about it through crafting. It can also provide a space where students can learn while having fun.

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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: Dangerous situations at school

Author: YON FREDY ESPINOZA GARZON
ANA LUCIA TRUJILLO PARRA
KELY ALEJANDRA ROA PLAZA – Description: This English self-study guide helps you learn vocabulary about accidents at school. All the activities are
connected to the reading in Way to Go Student Book 6 page 53 & 55. It starts with some vocabulary
activities. Then, you have to read a text to identify the typical accidents at school. Then you will discover
how to use the verb CAN. Finally, you will complete the dialogue and design a poster about typical
accidents at school; that poster will be shared with your teacher and classmates.

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Learning Guide: Protecting the Earth

Author: Eliecer Díaz, Julio Dario Vega – Description: This English self-study guide helps you learn expressions related to the environment and how to take good care of it. All the activities are connected to the reading in English, Please 1 Module 4 Unit 1 Lesson 2 (pages 128, 129 & 130). It starts with some vocabulary activities. Then, you have to read a text and work on some activities about it. After that, you will discover how to tell people what to do and NOT to do. Finally, you will design a poster where you tell people what to do and NOT to do to save water; that poster will be presented to your teacher through a video.

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Learning Guide: My daily routines

Author: Ricardo Homero Arciniegas Erazo, Diana Yazmin Arboleda Piedrahita, Ruben Yamid Ordoñez Gomez – Description: This English self-study guide helps you recognize the verbs used to talk about daily routines by developing vocabulary, listening and reading activities. These activities are related to the topic What do you do? presented in the Way to go student book 6°, module 1, unit 2, lesson 1.

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Learning Guide: Saying No! to bullying

Author: Natalia Cardozo Durán/ Natalia Méndez Lugo – Description: This English self-study guide helps you learn vocabulary related to bullying and types of bullying. Additionally, this guide helps you give suggestions to people experiencing bullying. The activities in this guide are connected to the reading in Way to Go Student Book 7 Module 2 Unit 3 (page 76). It starts with some vocabulary activities. Then, you must read a text and do some activities about it; then, you will discover how to give suggestions. Finally, you will make an informative flyer giving some suggestions to those experiencing bullying. That flyer will be shared with your teacher and classmates.

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Learning Guide: Food and nutrition

Author: Carolina Triviño Giraldo, Carolina Jaramillo – Description: This English self-study guide helps you practise giving instructions in written form. All the activities are related to the topic of food presented in English Please Student Book 9 Module 3 Unit 1 Lesson 1. It starts with some vocabulary revision activities. Then, you have
to answer some questions about the language used to describe routines (Third person rules) and other questions about a specific reading. After that, you end up writing a paragraph describing a relatives’ day.

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Teaching Guide: Problems and Solutions

Author: Adriana Ordoñez Trochez – Description: This project plan is very useful if you as a teacher wants to improve Students’ awareness about the environment. It is very complete and will allow you to assess your learners through different stages.

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Why English? Comics for the Classroom – Story 18: A Great Experience, A Great Trip with Audio and Lesson Plans

Author: American English – Description: When on vacation, the main character encounters someone who has lost his father. Can he help? Read and find out! 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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Why English? Comics for the Classroom – Story 8: A Gateway to Success with Audio

Author: American English – Description: A story: Where are your former classmates today? When Mr. Lois discovers the new job of one of his former classmates, it changes him. 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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Learning Guide: How do you spend your free time?

Author: Yasmín del Rocío Armero Cabrera,
Johanny Katherine Quiroz Rosero,
Rocío Chalapud Velasco,
Román Rodrigo Bolaños Carlosama – Description: Welcome dear student! This English guide helps you to practice how to talk about free time activities using the simple present and the auxiliary verb do and does. You will find some activities to review vocabulary, a short reading and some comprehension questions about it. Also, you will answer some simple questions to discover the uses of the simple present and finally, you will make a short interview to a family member and report his/her answers in a short paragraph following the model given.

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Teaching Guide: Common preventable diseases

Author: Adriana Ojeda Alvarez – Description: This lesson plan provides a path to practice vocabulary regarding diseases in context. It also fosters vocabulary acquisition to convey meaning and understanding in the basis of task-based approach. Thus, it is useful to contextualize students based on their own real situation to achieve meaningful learning. Moreover, it gives support in terms of assessing as an ongoing process that has been grounded in formative practices.

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Teaching Guide: Common preventable diseases

Author: Euliser Hurtado Prado – Description: This lesson plan gives students the chance to deepen their knowledge about simple past experiences. Additionally, it highlights the importance of honesty and respect. Students are given the opportunity to assess their peers by using peer assessment. Finally, this lesson can lead to the development of a project that promotes creative writing.

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