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Learning Guide: Places in my town

Author: Sofía Melissa Mindiola Montero – Description: This English self-study guide helps you know and give information about places in our town. All
the activities are related to the vocabulary about places presented in Way to Go Student Book
6, Module 3, Unit 2, Lesson 1, page 101. At the beginning, there are vocabulary revision activities
from the B the 1
challenge. Then, you should to answer questions related to the vocabulary of
places. Finally, you will talk to the teacher about the place you would like to visit, through a
video call.

Learning Guide: Incredible Places

Author: Juan Carlos Sánchez, John Arley Murillo, María Cristina Rosas – Description: This English self-study guide will help you describe actions or events in a time before now. The topic is related to places in the city. First of all, you will have to relate some words with their respective description, answer some questions about a short text and finally you will have to write down a short text about a trip you have done in the past.

Teaching Guide: Landscapes

Author: Diego Luis Sandoval Bayona – Description: This lesson plan has been designed for seventh grade students who have A1 level and come from an urban area in Venezuela. The English language of this group is poor because for many of them it is the first formal contact with a foreign language in a classroom.

Teaching Guide: My city

Author: María Ximena Vargas Barbosa – Description: This plan helps students to know more about their city and how to describe their neighbourhoods. Students have the opportunity to practice writing and speaking skills.

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.

Teaching Guide: Beautiful landscapes

Author: Willy Reyes – Description: This plan is intended to be used as a vocabulary building activity through a task. For students to be able to perform well in this task, they should have already practiced using comparatives.

Teaching Guide: Caquetá is wonderful!

Author: Linsay Stefany Doncel Castaño – Description: This plan includes some activities that allows students to describe touristic places in Colombia through practicing abilities like reading, speaking, writing and listening. It includes a game in order to make groups of work.

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.

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.

Teaching Guide: Value of Local Cultures

Author: Liliana Patricia Gomez Briceño – Description: This plan gives students the opportunity to learn about basic math vocabulary and some prepositions of place. It also gives you a useful tool to assess your students by implementing self-assessment and peer- assessment. Moreover this project plan is a nice option to apply the interdisciplinary knowledge between Math and English to sixth graders. In addition, in here you will find how CAT strategies are used as well as and some suggestions to teach English outdoors.

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