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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.
Teaching Guide: Healthy Physical Routine
Author: Alix Yakelinne Chavarro Gómez – Description: This lesson plan gives the students the opportunity to talk about his/her daily routines; and it also lets to describe his/her favourite superhero´s routines.
Students can assess their language level and performance through a rubric; which helps to the teachers monitors their students learning and progress.
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: Knowing my family
Author: Jorge Leonardo Vargas Renza, Elkin Mauricio Quintero García – Description: Hello dear student. I am glad to know you are doing a great job and you will keep doing your best. In this learning guide you will practice your reading, writing, and speaking skills, and the vocabulary and grammar we already worked on in the last sessions which is related to family members. I am going to guide you through this learning guide in order to make your work easier.
Writing Test A1 Set 2
Author: MEN, Pearson and British Council
Description: Writing Exam from the Evaluation Tools designed by MoE, Pearson and British Council.
Teaching Guide: Environment
Author: Lilian Yiced Arango Muñoz – Description: This lesson plan, though intended for 9th graders, can be implemented from 8th to 11th grade since what is challenging for students is not the topic, but the reading strategies they must develop. First of all, according to standardized tests (SABER) inferential reading it is one of the toughest strategies and, in this lesson plan, the teacher does not give the answers but tools for them to improve. Second of all, it provides different ways to assess the learner’s competence. Moreover, it is designed to lower the affective filter and use ICT resources to trigger self-learning and, eventually, transform the students into critical thinkers.
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.
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.
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: 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.
Why English? Comics for the Classroom – Story 19: Learning English Whenever I Can with Audio
Author: American English – Description: In this story, learn how the narrator, with the help of his cousin, practices all four skills (reading, writing, speaking, and listening) to learn English. His hard work is rewarded in the end. 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/
Why English? Comics for the Classroom – Story 10: English in the Countryside with Audio
Author: American English – Description: A story: How are sheep and English related? Find out in the story about sheep that help keep people around the world warm. 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: 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.
Learning Guide: Jobs and Occupations
Author: Andrés Felipe Muñoz Cortés, Margarita María Montes Montoya – Description: This English self-study guide helps you practise the description of different professions and
occupations in written form. All the activities are related to the topic of jobs presented in Way
to Go Student Book 6, Module 3, Unit 3, Lesson 1. Besides, you will be able to gain some
practice on your interactive skills with the App Be (the)1 challenge.
Learning Guide: Free time Activities
Author: Yaneth Rodríguez Rodríguez, Andrés Felipe Gómez Restrepo, Jorge Enrique Sanchez, Alfredo Mejía Valencia – Description: This English self-study guide helps you describe what people do in their free time. All the activities are related to the topic of free-time activities presented in Way to Go Student Book 7 Module 1 Unit 1 Lesson 1. It starts with some vocabulary revision activities. Then, you have to answer some questions about a reading and the language used in the text. Then, you end up writing a paragraph to describe a relative’s free-time activities.
Teaching Guide: Habitual Actions/Daily Routine
Author: Marcos Lay Urrea Galeano from Quindío
Description: This plan will help you have the chance to reinforce your Ss knowledge about a very common topic: “daily life actions”. The teacher who wants to use this lesson plan has to take into account that this lesson plan has to be done at the end of the period because it is designed to review the present simple, the adverbs of frequency and the time.
Learning Guide: Food for a balanced diet
Author: Nury Basto Cerinza , Fabián Gildardo Santiago Moreno, Elsa Cristina Molina Cruz – Description: This English self-study guide helps you practise vocabulary about food and improve your lexical,
reading and writing skills. All the activities are related to the topic of food, likes, dislikes and
healthy diet presented in English Please 1 Student book page 86, exercise 1 and page 91,
exercise 4. It starts with some vocabulary, then you have to write sentences about your likes
and dislikes and end up reading a short text about a healthy diet and check your comprehension
about it.
Teaching Guide: Places in the town
Author: Yaiser Miguel Deluque Pacheco – Description: This plan helps students to know some locations about their town or city, and what they can find there; moreover, it gives the chance to practice pronunciation among them.