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Teaching Guide: Health Education

Author: Emilce Lamprea – Description: This lesson plan gives students the opportunity to talk about personal interests such as their favourite dish and to ask for suggestions and recommendations about eating habits.

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Learning Guide: Travelling around Colombia

Author: Juan Pablo Ortega, Miriam Sánchez Rubio, Edgarl Isidro Galviz Gómez – Description: This English Self- study guide helps you learn vocabulary about places in the city and comparing
cities or towns. All the activities are related to the topic of comparison presented in Way to Go
Student Book 7 Module 4 unit 2 lesson 1 (page 141). It starts with some vocabulary revision
activities. Then, you have to listen to an interview and complete the chart and identify familiar
words and unknown words and end up you have to contact a classmate through WhatsApp and
talk about your country or town.

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Teaching Guide: Coexistence in the classroom

Author: Nancy Cerón – Description: This lesson plan gives the students an opportunity to learn more about their classmates since they are sharing information about their families, by practicing speaking and writing. In addition, it allows the teacher to know more about their students’ lives and it helps to build rapport, it is the human part of the teaching practice. According to the SEC, it is 6th grade, but if I am going to apply it in a school like mine, it is 8th grade because of the level of English in each grade.

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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.

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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.

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Learning Guide: Physical descriptions

Author: John Eder Arias Guifo – Description: This English self-study guide helps you practise giving physical description in oral form. All the activities
are related to the topic of Physical Description presented in Way to Go Student Book 6 Module 1 Unit 3 /
Lesson 32. It starts with some vocabulary revision activities. Then, you have to complete the physical
characteristics about the article from Kansas School Newspaper and its volleyball team.

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Teaching Guide: Colombian food

Author: Carlos Hernando Gallego Arias – Description: This plan guides students to learn and practice about countable and uncountable nouns, some containers, and quantifiers through meaningful and fun activities that allow them to put into practice their listening, speaking and writing skills.

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Teaching Guide: Fast Fashion and Urban tribes

Author: Sandra Milena Restrepo Solarte – Description: This plan gives the opportunity to explore students’ own culture and learn from others’ regarding fast fashion habits and some urban tribes; it is a valuable tool to let students know other cultures, points of view and helps them be tolerant and respectful acknowledging we are all different.

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Learning Guide: Jobs

Author: Alberto Navia, Pablo Felipe Ordoñez – Description: Hello, in this guide we are going to use the present continuous tense to describe activities that are happening at this moment. You will find vocabulary, grammar, reading and writing tasks which help you to practise the present continuous tense. At the end, you will send an email to your best friend telling him/her about what you’re doing during the pandemic.

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Teaching Guide: Fast fashion: Clothing and accessories around us.

Author: Carol Patricia Valenzuela Quintero – Description: This lesson plan attempts to help Colombian teachers that explore an easy way to integrate contents of the suggested curriculum and use “English Please book series” as a teaching material for 10th graders. This plan also addresses some tips to create a dynamic classroom environment where teachers’ instructions are more explicit and provide opportunities to lead students’ progress through communicative activities and types of assessments where teachers from their students` particularities may teach a world topic and develop English language skills.

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Teaching Guide: Having fun using comparatives

Author: Martin Mosquera Vivas – Description: This activity plan is very useful if you as a teacher wants to make young learners to explain ideas presented in an oral or written text about topics of interest thot that are familiar though the use of previous knowledge, inferences or interpretations

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Learning Guide: My family

Author: Alejandro Cárdenas – Description: This self-study guide helps you review vocabulary related to professions and the present simple
form of the verb to be. All the activities are related to the topic My family presented in English
Please 1, module 1, unit 2, lesson 6. It starts with some vocabulary revision activities. Then you
have to answer some multiple choice questions about the text in exercise 5. After that you have
to write an email to a friend carrying out the steps given in the exercise. Finally, you have to
answer some questions in order to evaluate the guide.

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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.

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Teaching Guide: Eating habits and food groups

Author: Mariel Elena Guzman Maury – Description: This lesson plan guides students from rural and urban areas to identify and distinguish the different food groups through the development of oral and written activities. Also, it provides different assessment techniques that allow teachers to have a follow up of the students’ understanding and performance throughout the lesson.

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Teaching Guide: Enjoy your free time

Author: Nubia Johanna Florez Monroy – Description: This activity plan gives teachers a chance to know about children’s free time activities and it also gives you a valuable opportunity to assess your students’ level. It can also be a useful and productive class because you can have your students practicing their speaking skills through an interview.

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Learning Guide: Behaviours

Author: Karol Gómez – Description: This English self-study guide helps you to recognize Should as a modal verb used to give advice, practice
some verbs and adjectives. You can find information related to this topic in Way to Go, Students’ Book 7,
Module 2, Unit 3, page 70-71.

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Teaching Guide: Places of the city

Author: Giovanni Alfonso Mendoza Gonzalez from Barranquilla
Description: This plan helps students to recognize and talk about some places in the city by naming and describing them. Students will develop some fun activities to practice this topic. This plan is also useful if you ever find yourself clueless about how to introduce and practice this topic with your class.

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Teaching Guide: Healthy food versus junk food

Author: Isabel Orozco Hernández – Description: This activity could bring the ss the opportunity to know about which nouns have plural or can be counted, and which nouns don’t have plural or can´t be counted; besides to know about healthy and unhealthy food

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