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Teaching Guide: Learning about fair trade products

Author: Aydee Barrera Plazas – Description: This lesson plan strengthens students’ communicative skills because the development of the activities makes students feel active and motivated. The topic encourages students to appreciate farmers´ labor and how fair trade may help them.

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Teaching Guide: Traditional celebrations

Author: Claudia Rocio Castro Jaimes – Description: This lesson plan gives the students the opportunity to express their ideas about their own cultural traditions, presenting a celebration they like at home. Students can improve their listening and speaking skills along with social skills, related to team work and decision making.

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Teaching Guide: Having fun free time activties

Author: Edna Teresa Ruth Lancheros Guerrero – Description: This lesson plan gives the students the opportunity to work and be involved in an interactive class. Students can enhance the four communicative language skills. It helps the teacher to have a better classroom management. Also, it makes students to be feel confident and motivated towards the lesson.

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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.

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Teaching Guide: Different cultures, Different traditions

Author: Lizeth Catalina Murillo Urrego – Description: This plan gives students the chance to approach to other cultures from an intercultural perspective while developing their ability to recognize, accept and respect others. In addition, students will have the opportunity to express their personal opinion by observing different examples of structures and by using uncommon adjectives in order to expand their vocabulary. In the same way, they will have the possibility of establishing relationships of difference and similarity taking into account their own context.

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Teaching Guide: Money makes the world go round

Author: Maria Consuelo Amaya Sanches – Description: This lesson plan has been designed to allow students improve their reading skills, identify important information related to spending money and present it to the class. Students have the opportunity to work in groups, interact with other students, make decisions, come up with conclusions and present factual relevant information to the class.

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Teaching Guide: Teen Culture

Author: Melba Sofía Cifuentes Rodríguez – Description: This plan will enable students to reflect on the characteristics they consider important in a role model giving them the opportunity to express their point of view and to talk about important roles for them. The lesson presents useful vocabulary in a context that creates a good speaking framework then, students will be able to enhance their communicative skills.

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Teaching Guide: Urban Tribes

Author: María Cristina Valdés Páez – Description: This lesson plan was created for 10th graders in order to allow them to express their opinion about urban tribes and compare them with their fashion style, music, common interest, ideology and activities they do.

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Teaching Guide: Children activities

Author: Diana Liz Villalba Antequera – Description: This lesson plan has been designed to facilitate the students’ learning process, so you, as a teacher, must follow each stage carefully, but most importantly, try to keep patient. Always think you as a teacher know what you know, but they as students are just on their way. So, enjoy your work lead them with much patience and love because love conveys happiness. Go ahead! Go step by step for them to reach the goal of talking about their past and their now.

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Teaching Guide: Teenagers

Author: Yasmira Díaz Yepes – Description: This lesson plan is designed to develop communication skills in students, specifically reading, writing and speaking skills. This plan has as its central theme some problems that young people face today, such as bullying, smoking, and drug use. The general objective is for students to learn to give advice on these problem situations.

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Teaching Guide: We are all different

Author: Bienvenida Esther Zambrano Pabób – Description: This lesson plan gives the students the chance to develop their listening, speaking and writing skills in order to improve their English level. It motivates to partners and colleagues because it can show them different sessions. It can be used in any English class to make it better.

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