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Teaching Guide: Social Leaders in Colombia
Author: José Alexander Arcila Valencia – Description: This plan is an opportunity to have your students put into practice grammatical knowledge they have gained in previous classes (past simple). It also helps them gain new vocabulary, develop teamwork skills, and most importantly, it helps your students to be aware of the difficult reality of social leaders in our country.
Teaching Guide: Describing jobs
Author: GABRIELA COTAMO – Description: This plan will help beginners to start reading in English by using strategies to help them develop reading skills to better cope with written texts. Students will also have a chance to practice language in a meaningful and contextualized way.
Teaching Guide: Taking care of our health
Author: Daniel Alexander Cendales – Description: This task plan focuses on fitness and provides students with a healthy activity (workout) that can be done every class to contribute to the students’ physical care. The activity then raises awareness on the importance of practicing exercises and keeping a healthy lifestyle. Students create a routine by using the correct vocabulary (workout) and grammar (imperatives).
Learning Guide: Bullying and conflict
Author: Milena Baquero Morales, Andrea Pinzón Garzón – Description: Hi, my dear student. Welcome to our autonomous English learning guide. In this guide you can
learn about feelings and emotions in simple present tense. These activities are in the book
Way to go 7 student book module 2 unit 1, you can reinforce vocabulary and develop writing,
reading and speaking activities expressing feelings and emotions of their own and of other
people.
Teaching Guide: Talking about past experiences
Author: Olga Rocío Rojas Porras – Description: This plan can help students develop skills in the use of simple past tense to narrate a trip’s events, through cooperative work and a pleasant and motivating learning environment where they can assess during class, their skills, strengths and advances.
Teaching Guide: Talking about daily routines
Author: María Fernanda Luna – Description: This plan gives students tools to talk about their daily activities, know about their classmates´, and make some comparisons
Teaching Guide: Eco-tourism
Author: Maria Eugenia Oviedo Bocanegra – Description: This project plan engages the students in a variety of activities related to tourism and eco-tourism, so that these activities can be adapted to the student’s surroundings. The lesson enhances students interaction in the foreign language, since they are exposed the receptive and productive skills. Teachers can also find different ways of assessing the students from a formative assessment perspective.
Using Letters to Tell Stories in the EFL Classroom
Author: Dario Luis Banegas – Description: Activities with letters you can use in classes. 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: Tell your story
Author: Roger Ricardo Guerra, Angelica Maria Argel, Yasmin Del Carmen Arteaga – Description: This English self -study guide helps you learn vocabulary about Expresing past experience . The activities are connected to the readingAy to Go Student Book 7 Module__ unit ___ (Page 60). It starts with some expression and vocabulary activities. Then you have to read a text and work some activities about it, then you wiil how to express abilities. Finally, you will create a Messenger for you best friend or your family.
Teaching Guide: Describing people physical appearance
Author: Rodrigo Armando Argote Peinado – Description: This plan provides both teacher and students with the opportunity to get involved in a lesson that implies vocabulary to talk about them. Students will discover and use new vocabulary through video and practical activities that allow them to foster their communicative skills.
Teaching Guide: Everybody has the right to…
Author: Vanessa Alejandra Claros – Description: This activity plan provides teacher ideas about Human Rights. Students develop creativity and critical thinking because they design a Bill of Rights. Additionally, this activity plan incorporates Formative Assessment by using the Feedback Sandwich technique that promotes peer assessment.
Teaching Guide: We are all different
Author: Paola Andrea Restrepo Marin – Description: This lesson plan is very useful if you as a teacher wants to make your students able to compare and contrast different traditions in Colombia.
Learning Guide: Cooking Methods
Author: Milena Patricia Parra, Stiwar Yeferson Mena, Gloria Rubide Cabrera – Description: This English self-study guide will help you to learn about cooking methods, taking into account your general grammar of the simple present for working on reading, listening, writing and speaking skills when following instructions. These activities are related to the theme of cooking methods, recipes, and ingredients found on pages 65-67 in the “Way to Go Student’s book 2 Module Unit 2 lesson 2 and 3”. This begins with a vocabulary revision activity and some opinion questions about the topic. Next, you must do a matching activity. Then, read the two girls’ dialogue about empanada and write the description of your favorite traditional food, and also take a photo of it. Later, answer the two questions and listen to the nutritionist Lorie (track 30), take notes of the quantities, and number the photos in the correct order. Finally, think about a recipe for a healthy snack; make a list of the ingredients with the correct quantity, write the instructions to make the snack, and create some pictures for the instructions. Then, record a video explaining step by step your recipe and send the video through WhatsApp to your teacher. Lastly, solve the exercises 1, 2, and 3 on the Workbook, Page 2,2 and do the self-assessment.
Michael, Row the Boat – 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/
Teaching Guide: Who I am and who are they?
Author: Xilena De Jesús Gutierrez Barraza – Description: This plan guides students to practice asking and giving personal information by developing different activities that help them develop the fours skills.