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Teaching Guide: Experiences
Author: Jonathan Jovanni Moreno Ramirez – Description: This plan gives students a chance to express something they have been doing for a while using the present perfect progressive, which is a complex structure that students need to practise a lot before mastering. It has different activities that will help students use the structure properly in a fun way.
Teaching Guide: Self-introduction
Author: Gonzalo González Varón – Description: This plan is focused on self-introduction, in order to get students’ interest and to help them to improve their English level and knowledge. It is perfect for the first day of class!
Learning Guide: Daily Routines
Author: Nadia Milena Hoyos Cortina – Description: This self-study guide helps you to learn new vocabulary related to free time activities and daily routine activities. Also you will learn the positive and interrogative structures in Present Simple tense to create sentences expressing a daily routine. All the activities are from the book English Please, pages: 48, 49, 50. It starts with a reading activity, then with a vocabulary activity where you must match pictures with some words and finally you have to create your own sentences according to your daily activities.
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.
Swing Low, Sweet Chariot – Song with 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/
Learning Guide: I’m going to have fun!
Author: Yuliana Katherine Delgado Goyes, Gloria Esperanza Ceballos Reina, Cristian Gabriel Coral Benavides – Description: This English self-study guide will help you to practice vocabulary related to free time activities and talk about your plans for the future. For this, you will use the Way to Go student’s book 7 page 13 exercise 7. This guide starts with some vocabulary activities. Then, you will read a text and answer some questions about it. Later, you will identify and analyse how to use the “be going to” to talk about future plans and finally, you will write a short text about your plans for the next weekend.
Teaching Guide: Places in the town
Author: Yaiser Miguel Deluque Pacheco – Description: This plan helps students to know some locations about their town or city, and what they can find there; moreover, it gives the chance to practice pronunciation among them.
Teaching Guide: My city
Author: María Ximena Vargas Barbosa – Description: This plan helps students to know more about their city and how to describe their neighbourhoods. Students have the opportunity to practice writing and speaking skills.
Learning Guide: Another day
Author: Didnory Aguirre – Description: This English self-study guide helps you practice understanding about daily routine in a written
form. All the activities are related to the topic of another day presented in Way to Go Student
Book 6 Module 1 Unit 2 Lesson 1. It starts with some vocabulary revision activities. Then, you
have to answer some questions about the way sentences in English are constructed and end
up reading a paragraph of a person who tells you his/her personal daily routine and there are
some multiple choice questions you have to answer base on the text.
Why English? Comics for the Classroom – Story 16: Friki with Audio
Author: American English – Description: In this story, the main character uses his love of video games to learn 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/
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.
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.
Why English? Comics for the Classroom – Story 11: A Modern World’s Language with Audio
Author: American English – Description: Want more reasons to learn English? This comic outlines facts about English and offers advice on how to help you learn the language. 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: My last vacation
Author: Jimmy Alexander Gaviria Delgado – Description: This self-study guide will give you some orientation about how to describe past events like your last vacation or your last birthday. The activities presented here are based on the Way to go student’s book 7, Module 2, Unit 2. Lesson 1. It starts with a matching exercise, then you have to answer some grammar questions (verbs in past form and the auxiliary verb used to ask questions), later you read and answer some comprehension questions, and finally you find a writing activity about your last vacation.
Learning Guide: Feelings and emotions
Author: Yuber Palacios Córdoba, John Jairo Navarro Jaramillo, Francelina Palacios Berrio – Description: The purpose of this self-study guide is to help you learn to describe people, animals, things and to express feelings and emotions as well. You will also get the opportunity to talk about your daily life and some cultural issues in your country. You will find 8 activities which will help you to improve different language skills, such as: vocabulary, writing, listening and reading comprehension. Students can find information in the student’s book Way to go page 147.
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.
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.
