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Learning Guide: Healthy food
Author: David Antonio Cordero, Marco Antonio Gómez, Laura Mejia – Description: This English self-study guide helps you practise giving instructions in written form. All the activities are related to the topic of healthy or unhealthy food in English Please Student Book 9 Module 3 Unit 1 Lesson 1. It starts with some vocabulary revision activities. Then, you have to answer some questions about a reading end up writing a text about your healthy habits
Teaching Guide: Ideal leaders
Author: Amparo Suarez Barrera – Description: This plan is intended to give context and meaning to language to describe personality traits and use the modal verb should. Ss will discuss and decide what characteristics a class president should hold. The idea is to also make students aware of their responsibility as citizens.
Learning Guide: The future is in your hands
Author: Marcela Martínez Granada – Description: This English self – study guide helps you to plan your future decisions and our next after high school, you will also understand and express possible and imaginary situations using vocabulary related to your near future. How can you plan, set goals and take action. You will use some useful resources presented in Student’s book English Please 3 Module 1 unit 1.
It starts with a vocabulary exercise in which you choose the correct word for each sentence. Then, answer some questions about the language used. You will also improve your listening skills and will get some pieces of advice about your future decisions from an expert. Finally, you will design an unconventional mind map that will help you to clear your mind about your next steps. It is necessary to spread the word. That is why, share your insights in your self-assessment will help you to listen to reinforce your plans.
Learning Guide: My family
Author: Alejandro Cárdenas – Description: This self-study guide helps you review vocabulary related to professions and the present simple
form of the verb to be. All the activities are related to the topic My family presented in English
Please 1, module 1, unit 2, lesson 6. It starts with some vocabulary revision activities. Then you
have to answer some multiple choice questions about the text in exercise 5. After that you have
to write an email to a friend carrying out the steps given in the exercise. Finally, you have to
answer some questions in order to evaluate the guide.
Teaching Guide: Our colourful fruit dish
Author: Alexandro Hernandez Rodriguez – Description: This lesson plan gives students a chance to use English to interact with other classmates and work as a team. In this grade, they have their first contact with English so this lesson provides them with opportunities to get interested in using it as a communication tool and at the same time have fun.
Teaching Guide: Landscapes
Author: Jorge Andrés Molina Tovar – Description: This lesson plan gives the opportunity to work on a topic that we can relate to objects that we see every day, which are the parts of the landscapes. The activities written here allow the teacher to introduce vocabulary and language functions in a way that is not boring to the students through the use of creative activities. Besides, at the end we also include an activity for researching about national parks in Colombia, in this way, they can learn about their own country in a different language.
Teaching Guide: Fast Fashion and Urban tribes
Author: Sandra Milena Restrepo Solarte – Description: This plan gives the opportunity to explore students’ own culture and learn from others’ regarding fast fashion habits and some urban tribes; it is a valuable tool to let students know other cultures, points of view and helps them be tolerant and respectful acknowledging we are all different.
Learning Guide: Protecting the Earth
Author: Eliecer Díaz, Julio Dario Vega – Description: This English self-study guide helps you learn expressions related to the environment and how to take good care of it. All the activities are connected to the reading in English, Please 1 Module 4 Unit 1 Lesson 2 (pages 128, 129 & 130). It starts with some vocabulary activities. Then, you have to read a text and work on some activities about it. After that, you will discover how to tell people what to do and NOT to do. Finally, you will design a poster where you tell people what to do and NOT to do to save water; that poster will be presented to your teacher through a video.
Learning Guide: My feelings
Author: Ledys De Vega, Leonidas Brito, Adalinda Sarmiento – Description: To identify and label body parts
To identify words that describe body
parts
Learning Guide: Celebrations and festivals
Author: Andrés Bermúdez Duque, Astrid Elena Lopera Lopera, Elmer Antonio Córdoba Mosquera – Description: This English self-study guide helps you practise describing traditional Colombian celebrations. All the activities are related to the topic of celebrations and festivals presented in English Please Student’s Book Fast Track 9th grade, Module 2, Unit 3, Lesson 7. It begins with a vocabulary task, a matching exercise, and writing about celebrations. Then, it asks you to complete some sentences about celebrations and customs. Next, do a multiple choice exercise about wh- question words. Finally, do a reading exercise and comprehension activity. At the end, there is a class project to do during the term to be presented at the end of it.
Teaching Guide: Describing people
Author: Sandra Lucía Narváez Coral – Description: This plan is a fun and engaging activity to get SS to use new vocabulary in a meaningful way. It would fit perfectly in the middle of the unit to help build vocabulary for a larger task after it.
Teaching Guide: Construction of peace
Author: Carlos Eduardo Marín Orozco – Description: This plan helps students to use the integrated skills (speaking, reading, listening and writing) as well as new vocabulary related to the construction of democracy and peace through positive facts. It also allows students to improve their self-esteem, to see other´s qualities and values, and to reinforce their knowledge about previous topics already taught in class.
Learning Guide: Family members
Author: Héctor Jesús Lombana Córdoba – Description: Dear student, through this guide you will practice vocabulary related to members of the family and you will be provided with some activities that you will develop based on the English book English, please 1, module 1, unit 2, lesson 4. It starts with some review activities about family members. Then, you have to read 4 short texts and answer some questions about them, related to Genitive case (’s) and end up writing some simple sentences comparing family members.
ECO KIDS EPISODE 4: An afternoon in Rio Claro
Author: MEN and British Council
Description:
An afternoon in Rio Claro. Episode 4:
Chefs, gastronomic photographers, reporters, organizers … many people behind the best gastronomical events in Colombia.
Lesson Plan: Amazing Animals
Author: Najat Saad Al-Kuwari – Description: A lesson plan about animals. 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: Places in a town
Author: Gladys Rodriguez Vergara – Description: This plan provides opportunities and activities to mention the main parts of a city and what you can or can’t do there. It is fun and enjoyable opportunity to use L2 inside of the classroom.
Oh! Susana – 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: Stairs to peace
Author: YENDY GRANADOS ARANZALEZ – Description: This is a task-based lesson plan designed with the purpose of developing values and cooperative practice in the classroom. It can be adapted; if you do not have internet access, you could read them a story, or show them magazines and newspaper articles. Teachers may change the topic according to students’ level, context and needs, such as; values, arts or social studies.
Learning Guide: Jobs
Author: Alberto Navia, Pablo Felipe Ordoñez – Description: Hello, in this guide we are going to use the present continuous tense to describe activities that are happening at this moment. You will find vocabulary, grammar, reading and writing tasks which help you to practise the present continuous tense. At the end, you will send an email to your best friend telling him/her about what you’re doing during the pandemic.
Learning Guide: MY BODY IS AN AMAZING MACHINE
Author: Carlos Bermúdez Cifuentes – Description: This English self-study guide helps you practice the parts of the body in a written way. All the activities are related to the topic of the parts of the body presented in Way to Go Student Book 6 Module 2 Unit 1 Lesson 1.
