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Learning Guide: Natural Resources
Author: SANDRA OSORIO, WILSON HUEPENDO – Description: Dear student, this Self-study guide will help you to learn vocabulary about natural resources. You are going to match pictures with the vocabulary. All the activities are related to the module 3 unit 1 lesson 1 page 90 and 91 from the Way to go student book 7. You will read and write the natural wonders in the correct places on the Colombian map. You will improve your writing skills by making a poster giving suggestions and inviting people to visit a natural place in Huila, and you are going to develop your listening skills with track 37 where you have to complete the missing information with the words from the word bank. Finally, you will work on your speaking skills by making a video with a short presentation about 1 of the natural wonders of Colombia that you read about in exercise 2.
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.
Teaching Guide: Frequent activities
Author: Ricardo Consuegra Martínez – Description: This plan enhances the use of adverbs of frequency at the moment of describing different activities like going to the supermarket. In other words, it helps ss enrich their expressions related to daily activities by adding the frequency with which they develop such activities.
Teaching Guide: Healthy daily habits
Author: Mary Rusell Melo – Description: This activity plan helps to consolidate the topic of routines, interests and hobbies. It gives students the opportunity to be aware of writing coherent sentence expressing their present lives.
Learning Guide: Body and mind connection
Author: Roger Ricardo Guerra, Angelica Maria Argel, Delys González – Description: Welcome to this English self-study guide our dear students, it will help you practise vocabulary
related to feelings and emotions and all the activities are related to this interesting topic
presented in the book Way to Go 3, pages 70 and 72. The first activity is based on vocabulary
and then on reading comprehension with some questions about the text Leonardo`s letter and
ends up creating a mini cartoon.
We invite you to develop all the activity with enthusiasm and a very positive attitude!
Teaching Guide: Touristic places
Author: Ricardo Yepes Carmona – Description: This task plan focuses on describing cities around Colombia. It also looks towards raising awareness on the variety of cities Colombia has. T can integrate social studies to make students identify key aspects about Colombia. Finally, this plan incorporates peer assessment techniques that make students provide feedback to other peers.
ECO KIDS EPISODE 1: Here is the radio!
Author: MEN and British Council
Description:
Here is the radio! Episode 1:
Irene, Ramón, Maxi and their British friend they start an adventure called ECO Kids.
Learning Guide: Natural disasters
Author: MARYI LORENA MONJE ARAUJO, MARIA ALESKSANDRA MUÑOZ LOZANO – Description: This English self-study guide helps you to practice natural disasters vocabulary. In addition, you can reinforce reading, listening, writing and speaking skills and pragmatic competence. These activities are taken from “English Please.St.9th , unit 2 lesson 5”. It starts with two revision vocabulary activities about the most common natural disasters vocabulary. In the first activity, you will look for natural disaster’s vocabulary in the crossword, then write the vocabulary above the picture.
In the Reading task, you read the text and answer the four multiple choice questions and choose the correct option. (Icfes test). Then, you must read the text again and answer True or False in the sentences given.
For the language task, you must write a short description about what is happening in the five pictures given. Use your notebook and write down your answers.
In the Listening task, you will listen to a conversation and match the words above the pictures according to the audio given. Then, you must listen to a conversation and complete the sentences with missing words given.
In the writing task, you should describe what happens during an earthquake. And, what can you do in case of an earthquake?
Finally, you should make a recording or video describing what to do in case of an earthquake. Record your video using an application-WhatsApp or cellphones. When you finish the activity, send me the pictures of the activities and the audio or video. If you have questions, please text me or call me.
Raggedy Ann Stories: Chapter 1 with Audio
Author: Johnny Gruelle
Description: Raggedy Ann Stories, one of 13 chapters of the short story about a rag doll and her friends, illustrations, picture glossary, questions; language simplified for high-beginning level English language learners; appropriate for young learners. A 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.
Teaching Guide: Past events
Author: Mireya Esther Dominguez Gomez – Description: This plan allows the students to improve their communicative competences through an effective process of scaffolding, such as modelling the writing process, eliciting vocabulary meaning and noticing grammatical structures, involving them in an enrichment and meaningful experience, learning about their own town and culture through cooperative work. It also gives the teacher the opportunity to assess students’ strengths and weaknesses. Besides, technology is implemented in the class by useful tasks.
Learning Guide: Nutrition and Health
Author: Luz Miriam Cabarcas, Esmeralda Córdoba, Edilbis Flores. – Description: This english Self- Study guide helps you practise giving instructions in written form. All
activities are related to the topic of Nutrition and Health presented in Way to GO 8° Student
Book Module 2 Unit 2 Lesson 1. It starts with some vocabulary revision activities, five group
food, nutrients, vitamin.
Activate: Games for Learning American English – Teacher’s Manual and Templates
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: Physical appearances
Author: Deysi Yaneth Calpa Guancha – Description: This plan is intended to be used as a vocabulary building activity to engage and provide a meaningful experience for learners to acquire language.
Teaching Guide: Avoiding bullying and conflicts
Author: María Rosa Matallana Pérez – Description: This lesson plan allows you to work different expressions students should / Shouldn´t use to avoid bullying and conflicts within the classroom. Also, it opens the possibility to forgiveness and reconciliation since there are many socio-emotional elements that will take place in this lesson.
Learning Guide: Traditional Games
Author: Noralba Correa Suarez, Maria Alma Lenny Sierra Echeverry, Jorge Augusto Cardona Osorio – Description: This English self-study guide helps you to write about traditional games, describe them and talk about the rules, objects that you need and the places where you can play. All the activities are related to the topic of “enjoy your free time!” presented in Way to Go Students and Workbook 7, Modulo 1 unit 1 lesson 3. It starts with some vocabulary revision activities. Then, you have to complete some sentences taking into account that you have to be careful on how to write the main verb (simple present tense) and end up answering questions about some traditional games.
Learning Guide: Biographies About Amazing People
Author: Natalia Isabel Quinto Cervantes,
Olga Lucia Gómez Plata – Description: This English self-study guide helps you strengthen listening skills. All activities are related to the biography about Amazing people, past tense, regular and irregular verbs and reading comprehension about Amazing People presented in Way to go Student Book 7 Module 2 Unit 2 Lesson 2. It starts with a listening activity. Then, you have to develop some activities to practice listening, pronunciation and verbs regular and irregular verbs and end up reading comprehension about other biography.
Learning Guide: Eco friendly house to take care of the environment
Author: Martha Mojica, Leidy Rodriguez, Dorelibeth Manrique – Description: This English self-study guide helps you learn vocabulary about objects and actions in the house to help the environment. All the activities are connected to the reading in Way to Go Students Book 6 Module 3 Unit 1 (Page 93). It starts with some vocabulary activities. Then, you have to read a text and work on some activities about actions you can do in the house to help the environment, and you will design a poster about objects that should turn in a traditional house and actions you can do in your house to help the environment.
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.
Teaching Guide: School life and people
Author: Alexander Jaramillo Blandón – Description: This lesson plan gives the students a chance to describe themselves physically. They are exposed to read descriptions about famous people. It can also be a useful and productive class since students are able to produce questions and answers which are typically asked in interviews
Learning Guide: My body is an Amazing Machine
Author: Luz Adriana Uran, Dora Cecilia Uribe, Maira Alejandra Parrado – Description: This English self-study guide helps you practice giving instructions in written form. All the activities are related to the topic My body is an Amazing Machine presented in Way to Go workbook 6; module 2, Unit 1, lesson 1. It starts with some vocabulary revision activities. Then, you have to answer some questions about a reading activity about body parts and physical characteristics.
