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Teaching Guide: Abilities

Author: Carlos Alberto Portilla – Description: This lesson plan gives the students a chance to recognize their own skills and the skills of their partners; it also gives a teacher the opportunity to recognize student’s English skills, and their social skills. It is a very productive class in which students will be able to interact among themselves with simple phrases

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Teaching Guide: Common preventable diseases

Author: Adriana Ojeda Alvarez – Description: This lesson plan provides a path to practice vocabulary regarding diseases in context. It also fosters vocabulary acquisition to convey meaning and understanding in the basis of task-based approach. Thus, it is useful to contextualize students based on their own real situation to achieve meaningful learning. Moreover, it gives support in terms of assessing as an ongoing process that has been grounded in formative practices.

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Teaching Guide: Talk about habits and routines

Author: Edgar Alfredo Muskus González. – Description: This plan provides to the teacher several tasks to describe what a typical day is like in your home, giving opportunities to students that use the language in real situations and to assess in different ways.

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Teaching Guide: What we eat

Author: Adalberto Delgado Claro – Description: The present Project aims to reinforce the four English foreign language skills, which are reading, writing, oral comprehension and speaking. Through each step, you will find some activities or tasks that focus on the communicative approach.
This project will empower the students to have good eating habits and healthy gastronomic customs to develop mind and body. It also leads the learner to understand the importance of having healthy diets and share it with others. In this Planning teachers can find many relevant and important tasks which let participants understand the language and manage a classroom in order to be a truthful leader.

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Teaching Guide: Healthy food menu

Author: Olga Yaneth Parra Ramírez – Description: This plan gives the students a chance to know about healthy food and make choices regarding the food they want to eat to be healthy. They can also use their creativity and language skills to design and present a healthy menu to the class.

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Teaching Guide: Sharing our Habits, Likes, Hobbies and Interests

Author: Yorlady Loaiza Martínez – Description: This plan provides some ideas to teach hobbies, likes and personal integral care and also gives you different options to assess your students focusing in a formative way; besides, it is also useful to allow students to express their feelings and likes, and the most important, they make aware of the importance of personal care.

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Teaching Guide: Daily routines

Author: Damaris Obregón – Description: This lesson plan gives students the opportunity to know about themselves, to interact with each other, and to talk about their environment and routines. It also provides a valuable opportunity for the teachers to assess the level of their students. Besides, it can be a tool for a useful and productive class.

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Teaching Guide: Personal Care Habits

Author: Maritza Cáceres Zárate – Description: This lesson plan has been designed for seventh grade students who have A1 level in an urban area away from the city, who come from rural sites with very little knowledge of English language. In this lesson plan you can find step by step activities that will lead students to practice speaking, which they will practice at all times with the pair work. In this plan, the students will learn by themselves, they will be the most important actors in the class and as a teacher I will only be a guide waiting to give feedback when necessary. Finally, with this lesson plan we leave the traditional class and focus on more dynamic activities, which lead students to be motivated with the practice of English. This can be a very useful and productive class if you want to put it into practice with your students.

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Teaching Guide: Health education: eating habits

Author: Maria Elizabeth Mariño Camargo – Description: This plan has been designed for seventh grade students who have A1 level in an urban area who come from different places around the municipality, having very little knowledge of English. In this lesson plan you will find some activities to improve your students’ reading and writing skills. They will interact with their peers, they will do collaborative work, they will use all their creativity and the teacher will be attentive all the time to give them the necessary support. This is a different class where students will learn enjoying everything they do and I am sure they will feel more motivated in their real life situations.
I invite you to implement this new strategy, which can be very useful in your classes.

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Teaching Guide: Traditional Games are funny!

Author: Jhonn Fredy Mora Restrepo – Description: This lesson plan is very useful for teacher and students, it gives the students the opportunities to know vocabulary related to traditional games and learn about present simple tense. Likewise it allows students to talk about an interesting topic how it is, number of players, what it needs to play and so on. Also it makes a reflection to get practice in some traditions that we are leaving thanks to new trends such as; social networks, video games and apps.

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Teaching Guide: Healthy and Unhealthy Food

Author: Beatriz Elena Giraldo Serna – Description: This This lesson plan gives SS a chance to know about harmful and healthy food so that they make choices about the food they are eating and how it benefits/harms their health. Also, they can practice a grammar form: should and shouldn´t.

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