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Teaching Guide: Talking about my daily routine
Author: Yocabeth Roca Cortina – Description: This plan guides students to identify their own and their classmates’ daily routines by talking about different activities using the simple present tense and some expressions of time. It allows students to work individually and in pairs, which contributes to have variety of interaction. It also guides students to realize about their own level of performance by providing different self-assessment techniques.
Teaching Guide: Going camping
Author: Bertha Cecilia Agreda Peña – Description: This plan can be used in any kind of context. The teacher can adapt and use vocabulary and describe places that are closer to what students know. The idea is to give them a reason to communicate and to get them involved in a real-life task. If it is possible, it would be a great idea to actually plan a picnic or a small trip with your students and really go.
Teaching Guide: This is my home!
Author: Neify Yineth Olmos Valderrama – Description: This lesson plan provides students with vocabulary to describe their houses. Teacher personalises the topic so that students find it more meaningful. Formative Assessment techniques are suggested to check the progress.
Learning Guide: Enjoy your free time
Author: Mauro Suarez from Huila
Description: This English self-study guide helps you practise expressions on what your hobbies and personal preferences are in written form. All the activities are related to the topic of hobbies and personal preferences using the “like, love and enjoy” verbs presented in Way to Go Student Book 7 Module 1 Unit 1 Lesson 1. It builds on the vocabulary, language analysis, reading and writing tasks done in the previous worksheet. It asks you to read and write short expressions and paragraphs in order to understand and express what you and others like to do in their free time.
Learning Guide: Introduce yourself
Author: José Ayala
Edwin Sánchez Quintero
Catalina Manchola Trujillo – Description: In this self-study guide you will reinforce the communicative competences through asking and giving
personal information.
You will find three activities divided by skills, in the language task you will enrich your knowledge with
activities such as completing ID cards, matching and creating questions to certain answers, in writing
task, you will design your own identification card following the instructions given below, lastly, in speaking
task when you have the ID card you will record a video where you introduce yourself to your classmates
and your teacher.
Teaching Guide: Human body
Author: CECILIA GARCIA MEJIA – Description: This plan helps raise student’s interest in English language learning, use vocabulary in context and make the class more active.
Learning Guide: Bullying and conflict
Author: Milena Baquero Morales, Andrea Pinzón Garzón – Description: Hi, my dear student. Welcome to our autonomous English learning guide. In this guide you can
learn about feelings and emotions in simple present tense. These activities are in the book
Way to go 7 student book module 2 unit 1, you can reinforce vocabulary and develop writing,
reading and speaking activities expressing feelings and emotions of their own and of other
people.
Activate: Games for Learning American English – Word Bricks Cards and Instructions
Author: American English – Description: A guide about board games in class. 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: Social Problems
Author: Edith Cecilia Larios Montes – Description: This plan is very useful for those teachers who want to improve students’ oral skills because they have to express points of view, agreement or disagreement on some opinions about social problems that affect their community. Also, you can have transversality with other subjects like Maths, Biology and Computer/technology because they might have to do survey tabulation and propose solutions. The topic of this lesson is meaningful and applicable to any rural or urban contexts.
Learning Guide: Types of music
Author: Jhon James Arroyave Guazarabe, Diego Fernando Cardona Valencia, Fernando Monsalve López, Luz Adiela Arias Valencia – Description: This English self-study guide helps you to express likes, describe famous people, and use some adjectives by using the present simple tense in third person. All activities are taken and adapted from English Please! 1, Module 2 Unit 2 Lesson 6. It starts with some vocabulary revision activities. Then, you continue to read a text related to musical likes, and end up writing about a famous singer’s personal information.
Teaching Guide: Saving Energy
Author: María Isabel Gamboa Corrales – Description: This lesson will provide a non-conventional way to work with students on a relevant topic as it is saving energy; it will also reveal diverse ways of assessing students’ progress and understanding. In addition to the previous, it contains different moments which approach the diversity in the classrooms. The steps are given sequentially, so the different moments of the lesson are very clear and connected with the previous parts.
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: Enjoy your free time
Author: Nubia Johanna Florez Monroy – Description: This activity plan gives teachers a chance to know about children’s free time activities and it also gives you a valuable opportunity to assess your students’ level. It can also be a useful and productive class because you can have your students practicing their speaking skills through an interview.
Learning Guide: This is my house!
Author: Flor Esmila Pérez Buitrago, Edna Mireya Martinez, Gustavo Buitrago Torres – Description: With this self-study guide you will learn vocabulary related to parts of the house, furniture, and appliances. Also, you will learn how to describe places in a simple way using the expressions “there is and there are” for singular and plural nouns. Finally, you will talk about your own home in a video presenting the parts of it and what you can find there to practice all that you studied in the previous exercises.
Learning Guide: The animals in my farm
Author: Javier Elkin Melo – Description: In this guide you are going to check some vocabulary about animals and learn prepositions to describe
positioning in a place. Finally, you will draw your farm and write a description about the animals in it.
Enjoy the activities!
Learning Guide: Water conservation
Author: Nancy Encinales Ardila
Kerly Lorena Morales
Adriana Betancur – Description: In this self-study guide you will find all the activities related to the conservation of the water presented in
Way to go, Student book 7 module #3 Unit 2, page 101. We hope that you, as part of solving
environmental problems, become aware and change your habits toward the environment and share with
your classmates some suggestions about how to save water. This guide allows you to find activities to
improve your vocabulary, reading and writing skills. After that, you will demonstrate your understanding
by creating a poster giving ideas about water conservation.
Teaching Guide: Let’s visit some tourist places
Author: Luz Nelly Ríos Delgado – Description: This plan guides students to get to know more about Colombia while practicing reading, writing and speaking skills. It also allows teachers to motivate students by working on a meaningful topic and assess their performance in different ways. This lesson plan is very useful and easy to implement since it does not require a lot of materials.
Teaching Guide: The weather
Author: Vicky Cantillo González – Description: This lesson plan gives students and teachers the opportunity to verify how the learning process is going and offers chances to learn not only the new language but a meaningful topic (the weather) in a very creative and productive way. Finally, it provides students with enough vocabulary to describe the weather and teachers with a bunch of activities to conduct a meaningful class.
Learning Guide: Saying No! to bullying
Author: Natalia Cardozo Durán/ Natalia Méndez Lugo – Description: This English self-study guide helps you learn vocabulary related to bullying and types of bullying. Additionally, this guide helps you give suggestions to people experiencing bullying. The activities in this guide are connected to the reading in Way to Go Student Book 7 Module 2 Unit 3 (page 76). It starts with some vocabulary activities. Then, you must read a text and do some activities about it; then, you will discover how to give suggestions. Finally, you will make an informative flyer giving some suggestions to those experiencing bullying. That flyer will be shared with your teacher and classmates.
