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Learning Guide: Enjoy your free time
Author: Diana del Pilar Barreto Moreno, Carmen Julia Buitrago Escobar, Leidy Milena Camargo Sandoval – Description: This English self-study guide helps you practise vocabulary related to free time activities and express what activities you can do or not during the quarantine. These activities are related to Module 1 // Unit 2// Lesson 2: “Be Smart: Do Exercise!”. You can find it in Way to Go Student Book 7. Firstly, you begin matching some vocabulary with images and slogans. After that, you listen to a friends’ conversation talking about their abilities. You could recognize the modal verb CAN. Then, you will complete a chart with the information of the audio. Finally, you have the opportunity to interview some your family members about what activities they can do or can’t do and what they want to learn how to do in time of covid.
Teaching Guide: Healthy food menu
Author: Olga Yaneth Parra Ramírez – Description: This plan gives the students a chance to know about healthy food and make choices regarding the food they want to eat to be healthy. They can also use their creativity and language skills to design and present a healthy menu to the class.
Learning Guide: Food groups
Author: Ofelia Vargas, Cielo Barreto – Description: This English self-study guide helps you practise expressing information about food groups. All the
activities are related to the topic “Food groups” presented in English Please! Student Book
1, Module 3, Unit 1, Lesson 2. It starts with some vocabulary activities. Then, you have
to read some information about healthy diet and answer some questions, and end up writing a
description of the meals you eat.
Teaching Guide: Recycling
Author: Rocio Camelo Silva – Description: This lesson plan provides students with the chance to talk about different ways of recycling. Even though students are encouraged to develop the four skills, they need to pay special attention to a reading in order to identify recycling tips and they are expected to do a recycling campaign by means of a poster. This lesson plan also gives students the opportunity to assess their peers and self-assess their own learning process.
Why English? Comics for the Classroom – Story 14: Do You Speak English? with Audio and Lesson Plan
Author: American English – Description: In this story, the main character has the dream of becoming a lawyer but isn’t able to get a job after graduation. Read and find out what happens next. 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/
Writing Test A2.2 Set 2
Author: MEN, Pearson and British Council
Description: Writing Exam from the Evaluation Tools designed by MoE, Pearson and British Council.
Adding Variety to Word Recognition Exercises
Author: Michael Crawford – Description: A guide about methodology of reading activities. 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/
Why English? Comics for the Classroom – Story 7: I Need a Bear with Audio
Author: American English – Description: A story: Juan and Diego are alike in many ways except for one little thing: Diego knows English, and Juan doesn’t. When they get lost, one finds a bed, and one finds a bear. Find out how English makes a difference! 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/
The Alphabet Song – Audio, Lyrics, and Poster
Author: American English – Description: An audio of song in English. 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: Free time activities
Author: Madeleine Bravo Alzamora – Description: This plan gives the students a chance to become familiar with new vocabulary and the opportunity to assess your students ́’ level.
Activate: Games for Learning American English – Word Bricks Cards and Instructions
Author: American English – Description: A guide about board games in class. 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: This is my house!
Author: Flor Esmila Pérez Buitrago, Edna Mireya Martinez, Gustavo Buitrago Torres – Description: With this self-study guide you will learn vocabulary related to parts of the house, furniture, and appliances. Also, you will learn how to describe places in a simple way using the expressions “there is and there are” for singular and plural nouns. Finally, you will talk about your own home in a video presenting the parts of it and what you can find there to practice all that you studied in the previous exercises.
Teaching Guide: My Daily Routine
Author: Fernando Casanova Caicedo – Description: This plan can be used in urban & rural areas since I consider every human being has habits as animals as plants. The images of routines are quite useful in order to connect students’ prior knowledge in this way they can associate it with their realities. I use modern music and with the mimic actions acted out by students might emerge dance steps in this way they can enjoy and remember this class forever.
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.
Learning Guide: What do people around me look like?
Author: Mercedes Andrea Dejoy Armero, Gaby Doris Caicedo Parra, Zoila Rosa Melo Guerrero – Description: This guide will help you describe your family and people around you in written form through grammar, vocabulary, reading comprehension and writing activities. First, you will label some images to practice adjectives, then you will check some short readings and answer questions; and finally you will write about your family and best friend. The topic is related to the contents appearing in the English, Please! Student’s book 9, Module 1 Unit 3 Lesson 8.
Learning Guide: My family
Author: Idalith Abondano Rodríguez, Sandra Milena Guerrero Pulido, Juan Carlos Prieto Bilbao – Description: This English self-study guide will help you to practice vocabulary related with family members
and physical appearance using well-structured sentences with the Verb to Be; in addition, this
knowledge will be put into practice in a simple reading, with a specific context. These activities
can be found in the book Way to go 6, Unit 3 Lesson 1, page 32. This will begin with a vocabulary
review activity about family and possessives, then you have to do a short reading handling the
same vocabulary and the grammatical structure of the To Be verb.
Learning Guide: Team work
Author: Wilson Moreno Bustos, Viviana Andrea Sanabria – Description: This self-study guide in English will help you practice using “indirect speech” when someone
says or tells us something.
First, you will know some basic rules that are necessary for the correct use of this subject and
then with practical exercises you will put what you have learned into practice. Are you ready?
Let’s go!
Teaching Guide: Family members
Author: Mayra Ginever Fuentes Perez – Description: This plan gives the students and you the opportunity to learn about family relationships and develop the communicative competence freely since you can get fun during the teaching and learning process. In addition, it lets you know about your students and your own teaching practice progress.
Teaching Guide: Good habits vs. Bad habits.
Author: Martha Patricia Montaña Duarte – Description: This lesson plan focuses on healthy habits. Then, through the activities, students raise awareness on the importance of having good habits and practicing them every day. Students also analyse results, which provides them with statistical tools to report.