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Learning Guide: How do you dress for the weather?

Author: Gaby Doris Caicedo Parra
Mercedes Andrea Dejoy Armero
Zoila Rosa Melo Guerrero – Description: Dear student, this English self-study guide will help you to practice vocabulary about the weather and clothes. All activities are related to the English, Please! Fast track student’s book 9. First of all, you will review some vocabulary related to clothes and the weather. Then, you will read some descriptions about the weather in other countries, and answer some reading comprehension questions. Later, you will discover the uses of adverbs of frequency and the present simple tense, and finally you will design a flyer to illustrate the weather in your town/city and the clothes you use accordingly. I hope you have fun developing the activities!

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Learning Guide: What are you wearing today?

Author: Deicy Mercedes Eraso Burbano, Paulo César Guerrero Pabón, María Fernanda Insuasty Cortés – Description: This English self-study guide helps you practise vocabulary about weather and clothes, as well as the uses of the present continuous tense. All the activities are connected to the Way to Go Student’s Book 6 Module 4 Unit 2 (pages 143-144). It starts with some vocabulary activities. Then, you will read a text and work on some comprehension questions about it; later you will discover how to describe what you are wearing and doing according to the weather. Finally, you will record a 1-minute video or audio. Follow the instructions given in the exercise J and be ready to share it with your teacher and classmates.

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Learning Guide: Let’s see the world

Author: John Jorge Ortega, Liceth Karine Oyola, Martha Milena Rodelo – Description: This English self-study guide helps you to compare weather and seasons in different countries. All the activities are related to the topic “Let’s see the world” presented in Way to go 7, Module 4, Unit 1 (page 131). It starts with some vocabulary activities. Then, you will read a text and work on some activities about it. After that, you will discover some knowledge about comparatives and superlatives. Finally, you will end up comparing and contrasting things among Colombia, Egypt and China.

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Teaching Guide: Let’s travel around Colombia

Author: Carmen Teresa Morales Marulanda – Description: This plan helps teachers who want to make the students become aware of the tourist places in Colombia and their most important aspects by providing them with a variety of activities that gradually take them to practice vocabulary and the uses of the modal verb “can”.

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Teaching Guide: Around the world

Author: Lady Astrid Garcia Romero – Description: This lesson plan helps to identify vocabulary about the weather, season and activities through flashcards and simple activities to improve speaking in our students.

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Teaching Guide: Showing the touristic places of our city

Author: Dilsa Judith Calderón Zubieta – Description: This task plan gives the students the role as a central part of the class, it allows students work with their context so they can find the usefulness of English in real life. In addition, it allows you to create a good teaching-learning atmosphere in which interaction is the clue (teacher-students, students-students, students-community). It gives the students the opportunity to know more about them, their context and more about you as their teacher.

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Teaching Guide: Environment

Author: Jorge Eliecer Cardona Cardona – Description: This plan provides students a chance to know about reading strategies such as SCANNING and its usefulness in increasing reading skill levels. It can also be a good way to assess students´ level of reading comprehension. In addition, it is a good chance to apply some of Classroom Assessment Techniques learnt throughout the Inspiring Teachers workshop and check their effectiveness in empowering teacher´s lesson planning.

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Teaching Guide: Environment

Author: Lilian Yiced Arango Muñoz – Description: This lesson plan, though intended for 9th graders, can be implemented from 8th to 11th grade since what is challenging for students is not the topic, but the reading strategies they must develop. First of all, according to standardized tests (SABER) inferential reading it is one of the toughest strategies and, in this lesson plan, the teacher does not give the answers but tools for them to improve. Second of all, it provides different ways to assess the learner’s competence. Moreover, it is designed to lower the affective filter and use ICT resources to trigger self-learning and, eventually, transform the students into critical thinkers.

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