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Teaching Guide: Eight laws of health
Author: Jennifer Galeano Palencia – Description: This plan guides students to practice simple present and modal verbs in through different activities that allow students to practice listening, writing and reading. This lesson is also useful if you want the students to find out more about health issues.
Learning Guide: Taking care of myself and of others.
Author: Diana del Pilar Barreto Moreno, Carmen Julia Buitrago Escobar, Leidy Milena Camargo Sandoval – Description: This English self-study guide helps you practise vocabulary related to Feelings and Emotions in time of Covid. These activities are related to Module 1 // Unit 3//: “Taking Care of Myself and of Others”. You can find it in Way to Go Student Book 7 and Way to Go Work Book. Firstly, you begin searching emotions on a cross puzzle. After that, you read the reasons why the people feel stressed (a-f). Here you can recognize the Simple Present Tense in affirmative form. Then, you will answer some questions about feeling stressed when you have bad relationships by using a vocabulary box. Moreover, you need to read the story of a student who is stressed because of pressure in school and underline the way the carácter reacts to stress, write True or False and correct the False ones.
In the writing tasks, you write 6 sentences about how the stress can affect you. Using the following vocabulary, Read a paragraph and make an outline with your own ideas about how you deal with a stressful situation and at the end, you write an email to your teacher expressing how you deal with stressful situations using the word bank.
Finally, the student must self evaluate his/her performance during the development of this self Study Guide.
Learning Guide: Benefits of eating healthy
Author: Yurani Paola Osorio Herrera, Lizeth Paola Trujillo Cuellar, Jarlinton Benedo Torres – Description: This English self-study guide helps you learn vocabulary about food and the benefits of eating well. All the activities are connected to the reading in Way to Go Student Book 7, Module 1, Unit 2 (page 21). It starts with some vocabulary activities. Then, you must read a text and work on some activities about it, then you will discover how to write routines. Finally, you will design a poster for talking about the importance of food; it will be shared with your teacher and classmates.
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 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 and finally, you should write some steps to dance a rhythm that you like, you need to use the sequential linking words.
Teaching Guide: This is My neighbourhood
Author: María Alejandra Mosquera Ledezma – Description: With this lesson plan you can learn how to give directions, Identify the places of a town, use the prepositions of place appropriately, to know your community.
Teaching Guide: Colombia a Country of Wonders
Author: Clara Inés Azuero Bernal – Description: This lesson plan gives the students the opportunity to expand structures and vocabulary related to nature: weather, touristic places, food, activities to do, flora, wildlife, culture, advice to protect these places through nice activities in a real context. It can also be useful to promote tourism in Colombia- specially in Huila
Home on the Range – 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: Past Experiences
Author: Angel Gomez Acosta – Description: This plan offers the students the opportunity to see the class in a different form, to see the teacher as a facilitator who wants to show them several forms to express their ideas and abilities. On the other hand, it may be useful and meaningful if you use it as a way to connect with your students.
Teaching Guide: Health
Author: Eylin Carolina Díaz Torres – Description: This plan provides the students a funny way to recognize body parts using monsters as models. It also encourages students to talk about the number of parts each monster has. This plan also could be useful if you want to expand it as a transversal project.
Teaching Guide: Natural parks in Colombia
Author: Luz Marina Cipagauta Siabato – Description: This lesson plan gives the students the opportunity to look for new information related to natural parks in Colombia and present it by means of a role play. It is good that students can practice asking and answering questions as this simulates a real life situation. This fosters students’ communicative skills.
Teaching Guide: Free time activities
Author: Madeleine Bravo Alzamora – Description: This plan gives the students a chance to become familiar with new vocabulary and the opportunity to assess your students ́’ level.
Reading Test A2.2 Set 2
Author: MEN, Pearson and British Council
Description: Reading Exam from the Evaluation Tools designed by MoE, Pearson and British Council.
Learning Guide: Describing people
Author: Didnory Aguirre – Mauricio Castrillón – Description: This English self-study guide helps you learn vocabulary about adjectives and parts of the body.
All the activities are connected to the reading in Way to Go Student Book 6 Module 1 Unit 3 (pages 33,
34). It starts with some vocabulary activities. Then, you have to read a text and work on some activities
about it, then you will discover how to describe a person. Finally, you will design a poster about your
favourite person to show your friends his or her characteristics; that poster will be shared with your
teacher and classmates.
Learning Guide: Safe schools
Author: César Augusto Cristancho, Cristiam André Torres Osma, Cruz Marily Rentería García. – Description: This English self-study guide helps you learn vocabulary about safety at the school. All the
activities are connected to the reading in Way to Go 6 Student Book pages 56-57. It starts with
some vocabulary activities. Then, you have to read a text and select if the statements are true
or false according to the text.
Finally, you will write a set of instructions to prevent COVID-19.
Yankee Doodle – 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/
ECO English for Colombia – Poster – Weather and Clothes
Author: MEN – Description: The ENGLISH FOR COLOMBIA or ECO program aims to progressively and cumulatively develop the four basic communication skills: listening, speaking, reading and basic writing to achieve an A1 level based on the Common European Framework (CEF). This is the complementary poster.
Teaching Guide: My Superhero
Author: Jonathan Ramos – Description: This plan gives the students a chance to learn about how to use the verb can to express abilities. It is a great way to encourage your students to practice speaking in class throughout a nice topic: famous superheroes. They will have fun talking about the abilities of their favourite superheroes.