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Learning Guide: Animal trafficking
Author: Ferney Ríos Castro, Karen Lizeth Henao, Juan Camilo Vasquez – Description: This English self-study guide helps you practise presenting your opinions in written form. All the activities are related to the topic of ideal world presented in English Please! Book 2 Module 5 Unit 2 Lesson 5. It starts with some vocabulary revision activities. After that, you have to answer some questions about the language used to make passive voice sentences. Then, you have to read a short text and answer some questions in order to improve your reading skills and end up writing about some solutions for each animal trafficking situation.
Teaching Guide: Family Members And Relationship
Author: Yarima del Carmen Prens Lara – Description: This plan is focused on the Construction of Citizenship Democracy; this lesson planning is fundamental in the learning process for 6th grade, this lesson plan gives the students a chance to know about the topic family members.
Learning Guide: Daily routines
Author: Stephanie Palomares- Rubén Londoño – Description: This English self-study guide was designed for you to reinforce lexical reading and writing. All
the activities are related to the daily routines, you can find this information and more exercises
in the 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 text and end up with a
writing activity.
Teaching Guide: Colombia is full of valuable people
Author: Álvaro Andrés Montaño Bustamante – Description: This lesson plan allows the teacher to work on Colombian values through studying important people who have given our country recognition all over the world. It helps the pupils to have positive models of wonderful people to be followed. Finally, it is an excellent resource to learn L2 since it leads students to practice basic tenses through different activities.
Speaking Test B1 Set 1
Author: MEN, Pearson and British Council
Description: Speaking Exam from the Evaluation Tools designed by MoE, Pearson and British Council.
Teaching Guide: The emotions
Author: Abel Segund Jaraba Mestra – Description: This plan is very useful to help students to understand each other feelings and emotions. It also will help students to feel compassion and empathy toward others. Students will be exposed to vocabulary and language structures in a very nice and smooth way and they will finally use them in short conversations simulating real life.
Activate: Games for Learning American English – What Do I Know About…? Game Board
Author: American English – Description: The Board game, What Do I Know About…? It is a game that promotes discussions about knowledge. 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: Leisure activities
Author: César Augusto García
Jessica Cedeño
Rosa Mendoza – Description: This English self-study guide helps you reinforce vocabulary related to sports and hobbies expressing likes and dislikes. It starts with some vocabulary activities. Then, you must answer some grammar tasks. After that, you will find some exercises to practice listening skills and finish by recording yourself saying what you like doing, dislike doing and would like to do. The teacher will send you the audio files (listening part) via WhatsApp.
Learning Guide: You can make a difference
Author: Luz Adriana Garcia, Julian Andrés Yaya, Angela Carolina Villa – Description: This self-study guide helps you to strengthen and provide new vocabulary about social troubles
using the second conditional as a tool to express some wishes and hopes that they would want
to happen in a better world. In this self-study guide we use English Please 3 module 3, unit 1 lesson 2.
Teaching Guide: Health education: eating habits
Author: Maria Elizabeth Mariño Camargo – Description: This plan has been designed for seventh grade students who have A1 level in an urban area who come from different places around the municipality, having very little knowledge of English. In this lesson plan you will find some activities to improve your students’ reading and writing skills. They will interact with their peers, they will do collaborative work, they will use all their creativity and the teacher will be attentive all the time to give them the necessary support. This is a different class where students will learn enjoying everything they do and I am sure they will feel more motivated in their real life situations.
I invite you to implement this new strategy, which can be very useful in your classes.
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.
Create to Communicate: Art Activities for the English as a Foreign Language Classroom – Mixed Media
Author: American English – Description: Activities with art 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: Healthy lifestyles
Author: Diego Fernando Cardona Valencia, Luz Adiela Arias Valencia, Fernando Monsalve López, Jhon James Arroyave Guazarabe – Description: This self-study guide helps you learn vocabulary related with healthy lifestyles such as healthy food, quantities, countable and uncountable food, and to ask for quantities of food by using how much/ how many. All the activities are taken and adapted from Module 3, Unit 1, lesson 2, from the textbook English Please! Fast track 1, pages 87, 91 and 92. It starts with some vocabulary revision activities. After that, you have to complete some reading exercises with multiple choice option, similar to the ones in Pruebas Saber. Finally, you will design a short survey related to eating habits at the school restaurant.
Learning Guide: Nature is life
Author: Yolanda Lozano Llanos – Description: recommendations and be aware of your obligations for the care and protection of the environment, through the topic Nature is Life presented in Way to go 7 Students book. Pages: 101 and Way to go 7 Workbook. Pages: 35-37. It starts with three language activities, which help you to improve your vocabulary. Then you have to develop three writing activities to give recommendations and responsibilities to write a final paragraph. Finally, you can choose one of the three options that you think is relevant to your performance in developing the guide.
Teaching Guide: Let’s compare means of transportation
Author: LESLY GISSEL TUAPANTE NARVÁEZ – Description: This plan is a good way to consolidate language already practiced in a controlled way. It will give students a meaningful task to use language in real context and with a real purpose.
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.
Teaching Guide: Local cultures
Author: Margarita Archila Velandia – Description: This plan is a good opportunity for students to talk about their past experiences in a free and spontaneous way. Also, it is convenient for teachers as it provides the chance to make students remember their personal past experiences and use the wh-questions.
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/
Teaching Guide: Learning about fair trade products
Author: Aydee Barrera Plazas – Description: This lesson plan strengthens students’ communicative skills because the development of the activities makes students feel active and motivated. The topic encourages students to appreciate farmers´ labor and how fair trade may help them.