Teaching Guide: How was my life before social networks?
Author: Liseth Patricia Jiménez Arias – Description: This lesson plan is very useful if you are thinking on teaching simple past tense
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Teaching Guide: Describing what you see
Author: Johny Barrera Tafur – Description: This plan is framed within the scope of the suggested English curriculum for Module 4: Globalization, in which students can discover different cultural aspects of various countries in terms of body language communication. Students have the chance to work individually and in groups in order to achieve the expected goals in this lesson.
Teaching Guide: Amazing people
Author: Nancy Camargo Rodelo – Description: This plan gives the teachers the opportunity to teach in an effective and different way considering the different learning styles while engaging the students in multiples tasks. It integrates the four skills, so they can write, listen, read and speak about events related to their biographies. It also allows you to have an out-of-the-ordinary class by incorporating new strategies to assess the students’ performance and the class itself leading to improvement in classroom management and increasing motivation.
Teaching Guide: Why do I learn English?
Author: Liliana Paternina Soto – Description: This lesson plan gives the students a chance to increase their metacognitive strategies by reflecting why they need English in their lives. Moreover, it is a meaningful lesson because it makes students embrace a growth of mind-set of consciousness on their own necessities and shows them how English can help them to reach their goals.
Teaching Guide: Describing people in my community
Author: Leonor Alvarez Franco – Description: This plan guides students to work on describing physical and personality features of people through different fun and innovative activities that allow students to practice adjectives, Wh questions and simple present and present progressive tenses.
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.
Teaching Guide: The value of our local Context: Our school
Author: Vanessa Del Rocío Celis Villamil – Description: This lesson plan gives the students a chance to locate themselves, other people and objects in their own school. It can also be useful to compare their school with other schools in Colombia or abroad, in that way they can learn more vocabulary and reflect about different contexts. By using students’ own context, it makes the class easiest, funniest and real.
Teaching Guide: The future is in your hands – Future dreams
Author: Elizabeth Delgado Medina – Description: With this lesson plan, students have the chance to share their dreams and fears about their future. The teacher can also take advantage of this topic and help students to find out relevant information about their future life projects.
Teaching Guide: My life with social networks
Author: Nancy Maria Cabarcas Mantilla – Description: This plan guides students to recognize the advantages and disadvantages of social networks in their life and provide advice to have a healthy management of them. It also gives teachers the chance to bring interesting and meaningful topics and activities that allow students to have fun while learning.
Teaching Guide: Technology
Author: Rubiana Boom Trocha – Description: This plan gives the students the chance to practice their communicative skills, it will depend on the passion you put on it what will help you to overcome all the troubles that you might find. It can also help you to creative an amazing class since it deals with topics of guys ´ interests and they will be motivated throughout the whole class. So it is easy to adapt it to your students ‘level.
Teaching Guide: Places of the city
Author: Giovanni Alfonso Mendoza Gonzalez from Barranquilla
Description: This plan helps students to recognize and talk about some places in the city by naming and describing them. Students will develop some fun activities to practice this topic. This plan is also useful if you ever find yourself clueless about how to introduce and practice this topic with your class.
Teaching Guide: Colombian Identity
Author: Belinda Ines Angulo Noriega from Barranquilla
Description: This plan guides students to learn more about Colombia and some aspects of its culture by developing a series of activities in group that allow them to practice the simple present tense. It also provides a formative way to assess the students’ performance and the lesson.
