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Teaching Guide: The family

Author: Flor Isenidh Avendaño Avendaño – Description: This lesson plan gives the students the opportunity to talk about their family, to know about their classmates’ families, to share relevant information with other students in class, and to play and enjoy when learning.

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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: Daily Routines

Author: Sandy Giovanna Hurtado Gomez – Description: Even though this plan is for eighth grade, the level of difficulty is adapted for a very basic A1 level which is the current situation of my students. The idea is to use music as a strategy to motivate and engage in learning.

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Teaching Guide: Stairs to peace

Author: YENDY GRANADOS ARANZALEZ – Description: This is a task-based lesson plan designed with the purpose of developing values and cooperative practice in the classroom. It can be adapted; if you do not have internet access, you could read them a story, or show them magazines and newspaper articles. Teachers may change the topic according to students’ level, context and needs, such as; values, arts or social studies.

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Teaching Guide: A Greener lifestyle

Author: Ana Elizabeth Parra Blanco – Description: This task is an alternative activity to be used with an audio from the series Way to go 8th grade. It is designed to help students better understand an audio and to develop more listening for details skills.

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Teaching Guide: Daily routines

Author: Cristian Jahir Méndez Castro – Description: This plan is designed to help students acquire vocabulary through listening. The activity is developed step by step to allow students to listen for more detailed information as they go through the activities. Even though it is designed for eighth grade, my students are only developing level A1, that is why I am using the sixth-grade content from the suggested curriculum.

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Teaching Guide: How to be a good citizen

Author: Claudia Raquel Tabares Ortega – Description: This plan will be useful for helping students to reflect upon their citizenship, considering their duties and rights (rules) for being part of a community. In this lesson plan the teacher will find strategies to promote ideas sharing regarding citizenships themes.

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Teaching Guide: Animal Care

Author: Boris Yamit Perez Ortega – Description: This plan fosters the student communicative English skills. Also, it helps students become familiarized with animal vocabulary and how to care for them.

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Teaching Guide: Natural parks in Colombia

Author: Luz Marina Cipagauta Siabato – Description: This lesson plan gives the students the opportunity to look for new information related to natural parks in Colombia and present it by means of a role play. It is good that students can practice asking and answering questions as this simulates a real life situation. This fosters students’ communicative skills.

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Teaching Guide: Traditional celebrations

Author: Claudia Rocio Castro Jaimes – Description: This lesson plan gives the students the opportunity to express their ideas about their own cultural traditions, presenting a celebration they like at home. Students can improve their listening and speaking skills along with social skills, related to team work and decision making.

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Teaching Guide: Environment / Eco-destinations

Author: Viviana Andrea Castañeda López – Description: This lesson plan gives the students the opportunity to learn about different places in the world and Colombia known as eco-destinations. Through the description and characterization of these eco-destinations the students can talk about them, make plans and imagine situations as well as developing the four language skills.

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Teaching Guide: CELEBRATIONS IN MY COUNTRY AND AROUND THE WORLD

Author: Claudia Patricia Olarte Suárez – Description: This lesson plan gives the students language tools to talk about not only Colombian Celebrations but also celebrations around the world. It is also a great opportunity to do jigsaw reading activities with students to promote more interaction and involvement with the topic of the lesson.

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