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Teaching Guide: Social values

Author: Carolina Sánchez Pulido – Description: This activity plan focuses on Social values as 11th graders are finishing High School. This planning also promotes reading comprehension about the topic. Finally, the Classroom Assessment Technique (Application Cards) that is suggested provides teachers with information that will show them whether the students have just memorized the material or if they know how they could use it.

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Teaching Guide: Countries

Author: Yara Marcela Chaparro Velasco – Description: This lesson plan gives the students tools to learn more about the world, and the differences between countries. It also helps students improve vocabulary and use of dictionary.

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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: Likes and Dislikes food

Author: Carmen Judith Rodríguez Longaray – Description: This plan provides to the teacher clear objectives that helps him to develop student´s own abilities for learning English. The student has the opportunity to work with organized activities, feeling motivation to improve the use of communicative English skills according to his level.

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Learning Guide: Daily routines

Author: Margoth Johana Ruales Tabla, Guillermo Javier Enríquez León – Description: This English self-study guide helps you practise the description of your daily routine in written form. All the activities are related to this topic which is presented in the Way to Go Student’s Book 6 Module 1 Unit 2 Lesson 1. It starts with some vocabulary revision activities. Then, you have to answer some questions about a short reading and finally, you must produce a short written text using the present simple to talk about a routine.

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Learning Guide: Here’s where I live!

Author: Jhon Jaiver Ladino, María Mónica Timaná, Rodrigo Chaguala – Description: Dear students, this self-study guide will give you enough input and practice about the topic: “Describing Places” which is necessary for you to talk and describe the place where you live. By means of completing this guide, other students from Colombia and your classmates will have the chance to learn about your town, city or department. At the end of this guide, you will also have the opportunity to self-assess your progress and performance while doing all the activities. Enjoy it!

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Activate: Games for Learning American English – Name Your Favorite Game Board

Author: American English – Description: The Board game, Name Your Favorite. It is a game that promotes discussions about your favorites. 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/

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Teaching Guide: Making peace through Words and Actions

Author: Astrith Maria Bolaño Mancilla – Description: This plan will allow teachers to talk to the students on the role of language (positive and negative) in the construction of peace in the community. Reinforce vocabulary, mechanize structures and evaluate students’ progress in relation to the topic and their feelings about the activities and techniques developed.

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Teaching Guide: Natural Landscapes

Author: Nayire de Jesús Cárdenas Bermúdez – Description: This lesson plan gives the students a chance to become familiar with vocabulary about geographical features, in addition they have the opportunity to describe landscapes in Colombia or places they know.

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Teaching Guide: Family

Author: Gladis Robira Muñoz Rosero – Description: This activity plan helps students to describe their family in written and orally. They also learn vocabulary related to professions. This plan might encourage your students to choose a profession.

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Learning Guide: What do people around me look like?

Author: Mercedes Andrea Dejoy Armero, Gaby Doris Caicedo Parra, Zoila Rosa Melo Guerrero – Description: This guide will help you describe your family and people around you in written form through grammar, vocabulary, reading comprehension and writing activities. First, you will label some images to practice adjectives, then you will check some short readings and answer questions; and finally you will write about your family and best friend. The topic is related to the contents appearing in the English, Please! Student’s book 9, Module 1 Unit 3 Lesson 8.

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Teaching Guide: GLOBAL ISSSUES

Author: Julia Inés Barrios Rodríguez – Description: This plan gives students the opportunity to talk about global problems in our community and the world. Students are encouraged to propose possible solutions to these global issues.

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Learning Guide: Biographies About Amazing People

Author: Natalia Isabel Quinto Cervantes,
Olga Lucia Gómez Plata – Description: This English self-study guide helps you strengthen listening skills. All activities are related to the biography about Amazing people, past tense, regular and irregular verbs and reading comprehension about Amazing People presented in Way to go Student Book 7 Module 2 Unit 2 Lesson 2. It starts with a listening activity. Then, you have to develop some activities to practice listening, pronunciation and verbs regular and irregular verbs and end up reading comprehension about other biography.

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Teaching Guide: Daily routines

Author: Diana Amparo Zuluaga – Description: This lesson plan can help other teachers to organise their own daily routine in order to do a better pedagogical class. When a teacher is organised, she can help students to get good things for their life.

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Learning Guide: Healthy and Unhealthy Food

Author: Eliecer Díaz, Julio Dario Vega, Yasmin del Carmen Arteaga – Description: This English self-study guide helps you talk about food preferences and how to find out about each other’s eating habits, you will be able to talk about healthy and unhealthy diets presented in English, Please! 1. Students’ book Module 3 Unit 1 Lesson 1. It starts with some vocabulary. Then, you have to answer some questions about language used to describe what food or drink you like and dislike and what is healthy or unhealthy and end up writing short paragraphs you usually eat for breakfast, lunch and dinner.

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Why English? Comics for the Classroom – Story 17: Studying English is Good with Audio

Author: American English – Description: In this story find out all the ways that English helps the main character. 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/

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