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Teaching Guide: Living together in the classroom
Author: Nancy Arias Pacacira – Description: This plan is designed with the purpose of having students become aware and understand the importance of establishing coexistence rules in the classroom through a set of fun and practical activities that allow them to use modal verbs in context.
Learning Guide: Introductions and routines
Author: Jose Wilson Calderon Trujillo – Description: This English self-study guide helps you practise listening skills. You will:
• read a short dialog about Wilson then answer some questions and next listen and repeat track one to become familiar with the intonation and pronunciation.
• match the numbers from one to twenty, then complete a word grid with the numbers and listen to track 2 to repeat the dialog, after that, read the same questions and answer with your information.
• with the alphabet, study the corresponding symbols for pronunciation, after that, listen to complete the table with the people’s names, and finally complete the introduction with your own name.
• record an audio greeting, saying about your name, your last name, age, place where you were born, spelling your full name and a farewell and send it to me by WhatsApp.
Teaching Guide: My people (people I admire)
Author: Cristian Camilo Moncada García from Armenia
Description: This plan is a useful tool for catching the students’ interest in writing graphic organizers; specifically mind maps about celebrities or family topics. The way this lesson plan is created, gives students the opportunity to learn how to organize ideas properly about people generating impact positively from the individual learning to the collaborative work based on the ZPD theory. In other words, there is a multifunctional purpose in the application of this lesson plan that can be worthy for other subjects and contexts students will face.
Teaching Guide: Healthy and Unhealthy Food
Author: Beatriz Elena Giraldo Serna – Description: This This lesson plan gives SS a chance to know about harmful and healthy food so that they make choices about the food they are eating and how it benefits/harms their health. Also, they can practice a grammar form: should and shouldn´t.
Teaching Guide: Frequent activities
Author: Ricardo Consuegra Martínez – Description: This plan enhances the use of adverbs of frequency at the moment of describing different activities like going to the supermarket. In other words, it helps ss enrich their expressions related to daily activities by adding the frequency with which they develop such activities.
Teaching Guide: Top 10 places in Colombia
Author: Gustavo Antonio Herrera Cardona – Description: This activity plan focuses on biodiversity in Colombia through a Reading activity. This topic raises awareness about the actions we can take to protect our landscapes in the country.
Teaching Guide: Let’s travel around Colombia
Author: Carmen Teresa Morales Marulanda – Description: This plan helps teachers who want to make the students become aware of the tourist places in Colombia and their most important aspects by providing them with a variety of activities that gradually take them to practice vocabulary and the uses of the modal verb “can”.
Reading Test B1 Set 2
Author: MEN, Pearson and British Council
Description: Reading Exam from the Evaluation Tools designed by MoE, Pearson and British Council.
Learning Guide: Natural resources
Author: Elsa Diaz
Paola Manjarrés
John Murillo – Description: This self-study guide allows you to practice talking about the different ways in which you can
express comparisons. The activities you will find here are based on the book English please 9! Student book 1, Module 2, Unit 5, page 64 and Module 4, Unit 1, page 126.
The guide starts with a puzzle chart to find some opposite words to help you remember some vocabulary. Then, it continues with a matching exercise. After that, you will demonstrate your understanding about the way the adjectives are written, when making comparisons and answering some questions.
In addition, you must complete the sentences with the suitable adjective form. Also, you must listen to an audio about weather and landscape to choose the correct options for the worksheet.
Finally, choose two cities in the world, where you would like to go in order to compare them.
Learning Guide: Having a good life
Author: Guillermo Javier Enríquez León, Diana Yazmín Arboleda Piedrahita, Víctor Ernesto Yepez Araujo, Mary Luz Muñoz Cárdenas – Description: This English self-study guide helps you practice vocabulary about good and/or bad habits to care for your health. All the activities are connected to the reading in Way to Go Student’s Book 6, page 26, exercise 1. It starts with a vocabulary activity. Then, you will to listen and read a text and work on some activities about it; then you will discover how to express frequency through some concept questions. Later, you will design a poster about your good and bad habits, and finally you will present it in a short video to share it with your teacher and classmates
Learning Guide: Natural Resources
Author: SANDRA OSORIO, WILSON HUEPENDO – Description: Dear student, this Self-study guide will help you to learn vocabulary about natural resources. You are going to match pictures with the vocabulary. All the activities are related to the module 3 unit 1 lesson 1 page 90 and 91 from the Way to go student book 7. You will read and write the natural wonders in the correct places on the Colombian map. You will improve your writing skills by making a poster giving suggestions and inviting people to visit a natural place in Huila, and you are going to develop your listening skills with track 37 where you have to complete the missing information with the words from the word bank. Finally, you will work on your speaking skills by making a video with a short presentation about 1 of the natural wonders of Colombia that you read about in exercise 2.
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.
Activate: Games for Learning American English – What you Might Game Board
Author: American English – Description: The Board game, What You Might Find. It is a game that promotes discussions about specific locations. 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/
Learning Guide: Healthy routines.
Author: Aura Cardoza Aguirre
Robin Alexis Clavijo
Adolfo Rivera Cabrera – Description: Dear student, this English self-study guide helps you recognise some vocabulary about healthy routines
and the language necessary to express them. You will find three main activities related to the topic of
personal health care routine presented in Way to Go Student Book 6 Module 3 Unit 2 Lesson 1,
Way to Go Workbook 6 page 25 Exercise 1-2, and Way to Go Workbook 6 page 27.
It starts with some health care routines vocabulary matching words, as well as, complete paragraphs and
complete a chart. After that, you have to read a short paragraph and match the image and answer the
questions about Roberto’s routine. Finally, you are going to write and speak about your healthy daily
routines using the vocabulary and language function learnt in this guide.
Teaching Guide: Teen culture
Author: Denys Sandoval – Description: This plan aims at improving students oral, listening and written skills based on the topic Teenagers, their culture and social problems. This class gives the teachers a good opportunity to identify the abilities of their students to express their ideas, tips and suggestions and work on the practice of reading comprehension.
Listening Test A1 Set 1
Author: MEN, Pearson and British Council
Description: Protocols for the English Exam designed by MoE, Pearson and British Council.
Teaching Guide: Daily routines
Author: Sandra Castro Soto – Description: This plan gives the students the possibility to talk about healthy daily habits that relate to the present time, and it also gives teachers a valuable opportunity to assess their Ss’ knowledge about the simple present tense to talk about daily routine. Finally, Formative Assessment Techniques are suggested to raise awareness of the importance of keeping track of the students’ learning process.
Twenty Questions
Author: Maria Snarski – Description: A fun question activity. 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/
Teaching Guide: My health care routines
Author: Enith Del Carmen Lambraño Castillo – Description: This plan gives the students the opportunity to learn about healthy habits and personal care routines, it also gives them the chance to interact and exchange information related to habits and routines.
Teaching Guide: Value of Local Cultures
Author: Liliana Patricia Gomez Briceño – Description: This plan gives students the opportunity to learn about basic math vocabulary and some prepositions of place. It also gives you a useful tool to assess your students by implementing self-assessment and peer- assessment. Moreover this project plan is a nice option to apply the interdisciplinary knowledge between Math and English to sixth graders. In addition, in here you will find how CAT strategies are used as well as and some suggestions to teach English outdoors.
Teaching Guide: Sharing our Habits, Likes, Hobbies and Interests
Author: Yorlady Loaiza Martínez – Description: This plan provides some ideas to teach hobbies, likes and personal integral care and also gives you different options to assess your students focusing in a formative way; besides, it is also useful to allow students to express their feelings and likes, and the most important, they make aware of the importance of personal care.
