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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.
Teaching Guide: Vacation activities
Author: Marcela Monterrosa Romero – Description: This task plan gives the students a chance to talk about how they feel about vacation activities as well as their likes,
dislikes and preferences in their daily lives. It also gives you a valuable opportunity to assess your students´ level,
strengths and weaknesses during the teaching and learning process, using two different types of CATs (Classroom
assessment techniques)
Learning Guide: My Country’s Cities
Author: Teresita Hurtado Osorio, Edgar Fernando Riascos – Description: This English self-study guide helps you write about remarkable characteristics of landmarks using superlatives. All the activities are related to the topic of The World presented in Way to Go Student Book 7 Module 4 Unit 1 Lesson 1. It starts with some vocabulary revision activities. Then, you will listen to a recording and will recognize some places people talk about. Then, you will listen to more details to fill in some gaps. Right after you will notice, focus and practice a grammar aspect you need in the final task which consists of writing a paragraph about the best characteristics of town or city.
Teaching Guide: A normal day in a life
Author: Yolima Posada Salgado – Description: This lesson focuses are on daily routines activities, in a normal day of their life. Using the present simple in the first and third person. Firstly, students will review the days of the week. Language to describe routine activities will be introduced, and students will answer questions about their own daily routines and find out about their classmates’ routines.
Teaching Guide: Environment
Author: Maria Alejandra Cabrera Tovar – Description: This lesson plan gives the students a chance to recognize themselves as a part of the nature or ecosystem, and it also provides the opportunity to identify or explore nature around the community, with their friends and family members.
ECO English for Colombia – Big Book
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 Big Book.
Teaching Guide: Talking about my plans
Author: Francia Elena Mendez Arrieta – Description: This plan is very useful for teachers and students who want to take express their future plans. Teachers can use this plan as an excuse to teach 1 conditional as well. In this lesson, Teachers can learn how to assess their ss in a different way. For example, self-assessment, Classroom assessment techniques and formative assessment.
Teaching Guide: Environment: Past tense
Author: Andrés Grisales Gómez – Description: This plan permits students and teachers to reflect upon some of the actions they have done in the past from an environmental perspective. Thus, this helps them to build a new action plan towards conservation and environmental consciousness.
Activate: Games for Learning American English – Name Your Favorite Game Board
Author: American English – Description: The Board game, Name Your Favorite. It is a game that promotes discussions about your favorites. 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/
Learning Guide: Health Issues
Author: Fredy Ticora y Johanni Naranjo – Description: This English self-study guide helps you describe eating disorders and identify general and specific
information in a short text. All the activities are related to eating disorders. It is presented in Way
to Go Student Book 8, Module 2 unit 1 Lesson 1 page 50 Exercise 1, and page 51 Exercises 4 and
5. Also, in Way to Go Workbook 8, Module 2 unit 1 Lesson 1 page 17 exercises 1-2. It starts with
an activity of vocabulary. You must match some pictures with some signs of possible eating
disorders. Then, there is a listening exercise with the vocabulary seen. Then, you must look at the
information and label the photos. After that, you must read the last information and complete the
text with an eating disorder. Later you must describe an eating disorder using the photos, the
useful expressions and the vocabulary Study. There is also a reading about the topic with questions related
with the text. Finally, you must evaluate your work.
Learning Guide: Discovering amazing natural places
Author: Diego Fernando de la Portilla Guerrero – Description: Dear students: In this guide you will learn about landforms and the use of a graphic organiser to write simple, complete paragraphs in English. Sometimes writing appears to be difficult for us, but using this technique will help you to understand the organisation of a paragraph in English. You will also have to use your abilities to complete a crossword and identify a place in our country you will have to write some lines about. You will spend about one hour completing this task that will help you to learn new vocabulary and practice your writing skills.
Speaking Test A2.1 Set 2
Author: MEN, Pearson and British Council
Description: Speaking Exam from the Evaluation Tools designed by MoE, Pearson and British Council.
Learning Guide: Typical Food
Author: Jhonny Lemos, Alfredo Mejía Valencia, Jorge Sánchez Marín – Description: This self-study guide will take you through a series of activities which aim to improve your vocabulary in terms of a healthy lifestyle. It starts with a vocabulary review, then you have to match the names of some fruits and their definitions, then you will work on grammar by using quantifiers to complete the activities. After that, you will read a text about some Colombian dishes and you will complete some charts with the information from the texts. Finally, you will create a new chart to describe a Colombian dish and foreign dish. The information can be found on Módulo 3, unidad 1, lección 1 en página 86-88 from the English please Student’s Book 9h grade.
Teaching Guide: Children’s Duties and rights
Author: Yamile Lobo Lechuga – Description: This plan is designed for teachers who need to guide their students in the recognition and distinction between rights and duties in their home and school by using the modal verb can.
Learning Guide: Daily Routines
Author: María Elena Erazo, Aura María Palacios, Robinson Manrique Claro – Description: This English self-study guide helps you practise
daily activities, habits, and routines. All the activities are
related to the topic daily routines in simple present tense. It will help to improve different skills: writing, listening, and
Learning Guide: Every Job is Important
Author: Edna Lucy González Jácome – Description: This English self-study guide helps you practise the present simple tense of verbs related to professions and occupations in written form. This topic is related to the page 111, exercise 3 of your Way to go 6 student’s book, Module 3, Unit 3, Lesson 1. It starts with vocabulary revision activities. Then, you have to answer some questions about the activities of those professions, and end up writing about the professions and occupations of your family.
