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Teaching Guide: Conservation
Author: Magda Vasquez Ramirez – Description: This lesson plan gives the students a chance to know more about the biodiversity that Earth has. It also encourages students to take actions, no matter how small are. It includes interactions among Ss and they could share many thoughts as well as practicing about interesting topics.
Teaching Guide: What about you?
Author: Mriangela Hinojosa Barrios – Description: This plan lets students to participate in the class in a creative way and to share their experiences among them
Teaching Guide: Personality traits
Author: Alex John Mosquera Angulo – Description: This plan gives to teachers the opportunity to follow in an easy and structured way the step by step in each activity. Students can speak freely about people appearance and traits since it is a familiar topic for them.
Teaching Guide: Value the role of globalization in the use of everyday products.
Author: Gloria Amparo España Garcia – Description: This plan gives the students an emphasis on the fact that the presence of everyone is important. Every student makes significant contributions to the class, so respecting everyone’s point of view is essential.
Learning Guide: Meeting the challenges of the modern world
Author: Liced Yamile Rodriguez Martinez – Description: This self-study guide will help you with your English skills, through the topic related to
community or voluntary work. This guide presents different activities to provide input and help
you by writing a text about a person who has worked or created a voluntary organization. You
can also have feedback from your partners. This self-study guide was done based on the book
English, Please! Fast track 11th grade and it presents activities such as: vocabulary tasks, where
you can recognize words related to voluntary work; reading comprehension which refer to short
posts about voluntary activities; use of language in which you can find the contrast between
past simple and present perfect; listening activities also related to voluntary work and finally,
it presents the writing task with examples and tips to elaborate a good text, by drafting and
correcting until the last version of it. In this self-study guide self-assessment is also relevant,
which allows you to evaluate yourself.
Teaching Guide: CELEBRATIONS IN MY COUNTRY AND AROUND THE WORLD
Author: Claudia Patricia Olarte Suárez – Description: This lesson plan gives the students language tools to talk about not only Colombian Celebrations but also celebrations around the world. It is also a great opportunity to do jigsaw reading activities with students to promote more interaction and involvement with the topic of the lesson.
Learning Guide: Helping the environment
Author: Cindy Stefani Rivera Miranda – Description: Students, welcome to this self-study guide where we will learn some vocabulary related to environmental problems and some ways to protect our environment. Please, follow instructions. First you have to practice a vocabulary about environmental problems, then you have to read a text finding strategy to answer specific and inferential questions. And then, you have to ask some partners about some ways they could use to protect their environment, but using demonstratives adjectives explained in this self-study guide.
Learning Guide: What does a Japanese Citizen do on a normal day?
Author: Giovanni Alejandro Martinez – Description: This English self-study guide helps you understand the way we can write about our daily activities. You will learn to use the simple present and vocabulary to describe daily activities and read and write a description of daily activities.
Teaching Guide: Healthy and unhealthy food
Author: JULIO CESAR ROSERO MOREANO – Description: This plan gives the students a chance to reflect on the food they like and dislike and how this might be good or bad for their health. It also allows the students to practice collaborative work and to construct with others ideas on the importance of taking care of their health.
Teaching Guide: Amazing people
Author: Nancy Camargo Rodelo – Description: This plan gives the teachers the opportunity to teach in an effective and different way considering the different learning styles while engaging the students in multiples tasks. It integrates the four skills, so they can write, listen, read and speak about events related to their biographies. It also allows you to have an out-of-the-ordinary class by incorporating new strategies to assess the students’ performance and the class itself leading to improvement in classroom management and increasing motivation.
Teaching Guide: Holiday
Author: Soneska Herzog Herrera – Description: This lesson plan gives students different strategies to learn new vocabulary and grammar structures in context. Students can describe their feelings and emotions
Using Favorite Songs and Poems with Young Learners
Author: American English – Description: A guide on songs in the classroom. 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/
English, Please! 1 Teacher Book
Author: MEN
Description: This textbook series is formulated as a language level acceleration strategy for those adolescents and young people in grade 9, 10 and 11 who range from A0 to B1, regardless of their school level.
Learning Guide: Feelings, emotions and values.
Author: Clyde Jensen, Edgar Augusto Loaiza, Juan David Jiménez – Description: This English self-study guide helps you practise describing feelings, emotions and values in written form. All the activities are related to the topic of feelings and emotions presented in Way to Go Student Book 7, Module 2, Unit 1, Lessons 1, 2, 3. It starts with some vocabulary revision activities. Then, you have to complete some sentences about feelings and emotions and end up writing the description of a sportsperson.
Teaching Guide: Knowing my body from head to toe
Author: Lorena Bula Vásquez – Description: This lesson plan has been designed following the Suggested English Curriculum. It will give any teacher an easy tool to teach his/her students a useful topic through interesting strategies that will help them in the acquisition of the second Language and the development of their language skills.
Teaching Guide: Caquetá is wonderful!
Author: Linsay Stefany Doncel Castaño – Description: This plan includes some activities that allows students to describe touristic places in Colombia through practicing abilities like reading, speaking, writing and listening. It includes a game in order to make groups of work.
Lesson Plan: A Tale of Two Animals
Author: Veronica L. Diptoadi – Description: A lesson plan about animals with a skit. 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: Classroom Items
Author: Yenny Naranjo – Description: This English self-study guide helps you practise reading literal texts. All the activities are related to the topic
objects in the classroom in Way to Go Student Book 6 Module 1 Unit 1 Lesson 2. It starts with some vocabulary
revision activities. Then, you have to answer some questions about the language used to write singular and
plurals (some/a/an) and end up Reading a text to answer multiple choice questions.
Learning Guide: My home
Author: Martha Mojica, Leidy Rodriguez, Dorelibeth Manrique – Description: This English self-study guide helps you practice about describing your house by using there is and there are in written form. All the activities are related to the topic of parts of the house presented in Way to Go Student Book 6, Module 3, Unit 1 Lesson 1, page 90. It starts with some vocabulary revision activities. Then, you have to answer some questions about the language used to describe houses, after that you write a short description of your ideal house and make a plan of it.