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Teaching Guide: Eco-friendly Homes

Author: José Ignacio Rojas Vera – Description: This lesson plans focuses on sustainability since students are given the opportunity to analyse the actions that affect the environment. Additionally, this lesson plan promotes critical thinking since students also suggest actions to protect the environment. Formative Assessment techniques are suggested to make learning more meaningful to students.

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Learning Guide: Natural disasters

Author: MARYI LORENA MONJE ARAUJO, MARIA ALESKSANDRA MUÑOZ LOZANO – Description: This English self-study guide helps you to practice natural disasters vocabulary. In addition, you can reinforce reading, listening, writing and speaking skills and pragmatic competence. These activities are taken from “English Please.St.9th , unit 2 lesson 5”. It starts with two revision vocabulary activities about the most common natural disasters vocabulary. In the first activity, you will look for natural disaster’s vocabulary in the crossword, then write the vocabulary above the picture.
In the Reading task, you read the text and answer the four multiple choice questions and choose the correct option. (Icfes test). Then, you must read the text again and answer True or False in the sentences given.
For the language task, you must write a short description about what is happening in the five pictures given. Use your notebook and write down your answers.
In the Listening task, you will listen to a conversation and match the words above the pictures according to the audio given. Then, you must listen to a conversation and complete the sentences with missing words given.
In the writing task, you should describe what happens during an earthquake. And, what can you do in case of an earthquake?
Finally, you should make a recording or video describing what to do in case of an earthquake. Record your video using an application-WhatsApp or cellphones. When you finish the activity, send me the pictures of the activities and the audio or video. If you have questions, please text me or call me.

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Learning Guide: Personal identification

Author: Emilce Baron Pulido, Sandra Maria Martinez – Description: This English self-study guide helps you to give practice in introducing yourself and another person. All
the activities are related to the topic of greeting and basic personal information presented in Way to go!
Student Book 6 Module 1 Unit 1 Lesson 1. It starts with some vocabulary revision activities. Then, you

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have to ask and answer personal information questions. After that you have to write your own school ID
card, read a text and analyze some sentences. It ends up listening to an audio that helps you to answer
for the true or false information.

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Learning Guide: Natural Resources

Author: SANDRA OSORIO, WILSON HUEPENDO – Description: Dear student, this Self-study guide will help you to learn vocabulary about natural resources. You are going to match pictures with the vocabulary. All the activities are related to the module 3 unit 1 lesson 1 page 90 and 91 from the Way to go student book 7. You will read and write the natural wonders in the correct places on the Colombian map. You will improve your writing skills by making a poster giving suggestions and inviting people to visit a natural place in Huila, and you are going to develop your listening skills with track 37 where you have to complete the missing information with the words from the word bank. Finally, you will work on your speaking skills by making a video with a short presentation about 1 of the natural wonders of Colombia that you read about in exercise 2.

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Learning Guide: Talking about our life event and other lives

Author: Rocio del Pilar Velasco Beltrán, Judith Cardona Gallego – Description: This English self-study guide will help you to reinforce and improve your English skills to talk
about past events using regular and irregular verbs. The chosen activities are related to
practicing the simple past tense included in the book “Way to go seventh grade” Module 2.
The first activity is related to the vocabulary about verbs. Then in activities 2,3 and 4 you can
improve your listening and reading skills, and finally through 5 and 6 activities you will try
your writing and speaking skills expressing your knowledge about famous characters and their
importance around the world. The main objective of this self study guide is review and practice
the simple past tense.

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Learning Guide: Learning of the past

Author: Patricia Rubio G. – Description: This English self – study guide helps you practise the four skills writing, reading, speaking and
listening. Also you will be able to speak and describe past experiences and situations.
The activities are related to the topic learning of the past presented in Wat to go 7° in Unit 2

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module #2. In this guide there are 5 activities: First activity is a language task, here you have
to look at the time table and answer about what María did before the lockdown. Then you have
to write questions in the past and listen to audio and complete the speech bubbles. After you
have to read the Turing’s biography and match the column B with column C. Then in the
speaking task you have to practise asking and answering questions with a partner and end up
doing the auto-assessment.

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Learning Guide: Let’s celebrate!

Author: Avendaño Gracia Ana
Yamile, Hurtado Abril Marisel,Escobar Alvarez Judith
Esperanza,Medellín Herrera Andrea
Consuelo – Description: This English self-study guide lets you learn vocabulary about traditions, celebrations and
customs in Colombia and other countries.
All the activities are related to “Way to Go 1” student’s book, Module 4, Unit 3, lessons 1 and
3 pages 150, 152, 158 and 167. At the beginning you are going to find vocabulary about
celebrations, traditions and custom where you practise with some exercises, after that, you
continue with listening exercises, there are two tracks for reinforcing listening skill.Then you
do a reading for understanding the grammar structure like simple present, in addition, you can
practise some exercises about “Pruebas Saber 11”. Finally, you will do your own diagram.
Don’t forget to develop your self assessment because it can identify your learning process and
the advantages in a foreign language.

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Learning Guide: My Health Care Routine

Author: Fernando Mahecha Triana – Description: Dear students
During the development of this self-study guide we will work on topics such as:
a. Usual routines
b. Words related to frequency
c. Healthy habits
d. Some important verbs to express routines
We will have listening exercises, reading activities and short speaking activities. We’ll use Way to
go! Workbook 6th, module 2, unit 3, pages 25,26, 27.
Finally, you will learn how to create a visual resource using calameo, a website to publish them
(or you can be creative and design your own material)

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Learning Guide: The Biggest Cities

Author: ALEXANDER ESPINOSA RAMÌREZ, ERIKA RUBIANO TRUJILLO, LUZ ESTHER QUINTO WALDO – Description: This English self-study guide helps you reinforce vocabulary related to adjectives comparing some characteristics of cities. It starts with some vocabulary activities. Then, you must answer some reading, writing and grammar tasks. After that, you will find some exercises to practise listening skills and at the end record yourself answering three questions about some characteristics of your town.
Click on the blue link to download the audio file (listening part-track 63).

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Learning Guide: Daily routine

Author: Viviana Mosquera Suaza – Description: This home self-study English guide aims to strengthen the vocabulary used to write a daily routine, it also reviews the forms of the present simple,
This guide takes as reference the student’s book Way to go 6 module 1 unit 2 lesson 1. It begins with vocabulary activities, then reading and ends with a writing and self-evaluation activity.

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Learning Guide: Introductions and routines

Author: Jose Wilson Calderon Trujillo – Description: This English self-study guide helps you practise listening skills. You will:
• read a short dialog about Wilson then answer some questions and next listen and repeat track one to become familiar with the intonation and pronunciation.
• match the numbers from one to twenty, then complete a word grid with the numbers and listen to track 2 to repeat the dialog, after that, read the same questions and answer with your information.
• with the alphabet, study the corresponding symbols for pronunciation, after that, listen to complete the table with the people’s names, and finally complete the introduction with your own name.
• record an audio greeting, saying about your name, your last name, age, place where you were born, spelling your full name and a farewell and send it to me by WhatsApp.

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Learning Guide: My body is an amazing machine

Author: Jorge Reyes – Description: This self-study guide helps you to practice the vocabulary about “the body” in written and oral form. All
the activities are related to the topic “My body is an Amazing Machine”, presented in Way to Go 6
Module 1 Unit 1 lesson 1. It starts with some vocabulary revision activities. Then, you have to answer
some questions based on a reading and the language awareness and it ends up with speaking and
writing activities.

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