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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: This is my home.
Author: Darsy Espinoza Parra – Description: This task plan gives the students a chance to know about themselves, their interest, favourites places and their homes and it also gives you a valuable opportunity to teach vocabulary and grammar in a fun way.
Drawing what they like, to do the topic more appealing and explain their drawing helps to memorize expressions easier.
Learning Guide: Favorite dishes
Author: Juanita Ponce de León, Morlin Córdoba – Description: This self-study guide allows you to practice talking about the different ways in which you can know how we live. The activities you will find here are based on the book English Please! 9th Grade, Module 3, Unit 1, pages 86 – 90. The guide starts with some images where you must fill in spaces with the correct word, then continues with countable and uncountable nouns to complete the sentences with a/an/some/any. After this, there is a reading exercise about different traditional food in our country. And then you will prepare your favorite food with the ingredients you have in your refrigerator and, finally, you will complete some sentences and prepare a video with your favorite food at home.
Teaching Guide: Greetings around the world
Author: Emilio Criado Rocha – Description: Through this activity plan you can see how each one of the stages lead your students to practice writing and speaking in different moments throughout the lesson. Besides, in this plan, students can learn by themselves, because they ́ will be the main actors in the class and you will only be a guide waiting to give feedback when necessary. And finally, with this activity plan you can forget the traditional English grammar classes and produce more dynamic and participative classes, which motivate students to be interested in learning of conversational English and work real themes that are more appropriate for discussions.
Learning Guide: Being clean is cool and fun
Author: Silvia Maria Vital, Nasser Aguas, Hugo Rafel Henandez – Description: This English self-study will help you to recognize different elements and actions to keep you personal hygiene. These activities are related to the ones in the book “Way to go 7th grade, module 1. Unit 2, page 26. The guide starts with some voabulary activities about hygiene elements and actions. Then, you have to read a short text to notice grammar rules. After that, there is an infographic you must complete with the corresponding heading and finally, you will find a production activity, which asks you to make a poster to show you can write about hygiene elements, their uses and why they are important.
Learning Guide: Healthy food choices
Author: Nataly Pezzotti – Description: This English self-study guide helps you learn vocabulary about food, nutrients and eating habits. All the
activities are connected to the reading in Way to Go Student Book 8 Module 2 Unit 2 (page 61). It starts
with some vocabulary activities. Then, you have to listen to an audio and answer some questions about
it, then you will discover how to give orders, commands, warnings or instructions. Finally, you will make
a presentation about your eating habits explaining the benefits for your health.
Teaching Guide: Personal Care Habits
Author: Maritza Cáceres Zárate – Description: This lesson plan has been designed for seventh grade students who have A1 level in an urban area away from the city, who come from rural sites with very little knowledge of English language. In this lesson plan you can find step by step activities that will lead students to practice speaking, which they will practice at all times with the pair work. In this plan, the students will learn by themselves, they will be the most important actors in the class and as a teacher I will only be a guide waiting to give feedback when necessary. Finally, with this lesson plan we leave the traditional class and focus on more dynamic activities, which lead students to be motivated with the practice of English. This can be a very useful and productive class if you want to put it into practice with your students.
Learning Guide: This is my house
Author: Wendy Johanna Salcedo, Virginia Patricia Buelvas, Arnulfo del Toro Alarcón – Description: The intention of this learning guide is to help your kid to talk about his/her hourse and its parts in order to ask and give information about it. To reach that aim, the students will develop some grammar and vocabulary activities. The idea is that at the end of the learning guide, the students will be able to make a short written description of his/her own house making use of the elements provided throughout this learning guide. We expect you enjoy this journey!
Learning Guide: How do you feel?
Author: Dorany Cardona Valencia, Jose Omar Pineda Loaiza, Gilma Lilian López – Description: This English self-study guide helps you to practice how to express thinking in an oral and writing way. All the activities are related to the topic On your marks, presented in a way to go student book module 2, unit 1 , lesson 1. It starts with some vocabulary or adjectives according to this answer, some questions and revision of activities to compose and write. Then compare and compose short texts about language following instructions. Adjectives, ways to question and answer and giving opinions, taking into account some sports contestants.
Learning Guide: What is an eating disorder?
Author: Libia Diaz, Delys González, Oriana Jimenez – Description: This English self-study guide helps you classifying and describe eating disorders, health problems and remedies in oral and written form. All the activities are related to the topic of personal care habits presented in Way to Go Student Book 8 – Module 2 /Unit 1 /Lesson 1. It starts with some vocabulary activities. Then you have to read and answer some questions about a situation. Besides, it asks you to design a brochure based on the vocabulary given.
Learning Guide: Activities to keep fit
Author: Kevin Alexis Ordoñez Ortega – Description: This English self-study guide helps you practise reading, listening and writing skills. All the activities are related to the topic of dances around the globe presented in the English Please Student’s Book 1 Module 2 Unit 2 Lesson 4. It starts with some vocabulary revision activities. Then, you have to answer some literal and inferential questions. After that, you have to listen to an audio in order to answer some questions; then you have to analyze some grammar aspects and finally, you will write some steps to dance a rhythm that you like using sequential linking words.
Learning Guide: My body is an amazing machine
Author: Claudia Inés Barrera Rodríguez, Jorge Omar Barón Hernández, Luz Dary Rodríguez Corredor – Description: This English self-study guide helps you practise body parts in oral form. All the activities are related to the topic “My body” presented in the book Way to Go, Student Book 6, Module 2 Unit 1 Lesson 1. It builds on the vocabulary, language analysis and writing tasks done in the previous worksheet/guide. It asks you to create a video tutorial with a check-up with a doctor and to watch the videos / listen to the audios created by at least 3 of your classmates to give them feedback
Learning Guide: My People
Author: Patricia Carolina Ramírez Ardila – Description: This English self-study guide helps you practice describing people in written form. All the activities are related to the topic of physical appearance presented in Way to Go Student Book 6 Module 1 Unit 3 Lesson 1. It starts with an introduction about new vocabulary to describe people. Then, you must read some texts in order to match with the description of some people. After that, you have to read an article related to a Volleyball team from Kansas to complete the chart according to the information from that text and end by making a writing plan related to the description of a friend or a family member.
Learning Guide: I can take care of my body
Author: Juan Carlos Sánchez, John Arley Murillo, Irma Mercedes Guacas – Description: This English self-study guide will help you describe actions or events at a time before now. The topic is related to places in the city.
First of all, you will have to relate some words to their respective description; then you will answer some questions about a short text, and finally, you will have to do the first mission in the App Bethe1challenge, and share your opinions with your classmates.
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: Healthy and unhealthy food
Author: JULIO CESAR ROSERO MOREANO – Description: This plan gives the students a chance to reflect on the food they like and dislike and how this might be good or bad for their health. It also allows the students to practice collaborative work and to construct with others ideas on the importance of taking care of their health.
Teaching Guide: Taking care of our homes
Author: Miguel Ramírez – Description: This task plan focuses on describing the house. Additionally, it integrates Arts because students use origami to create a paper house. This activity promotes creativity and production skills. Finally, students can find it very meaningful because they will be talking about their houses.
