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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.

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Teaching Guide: Saving Planet Earth – Dangers of plastic

Author: Diana Escobar Garzón – Description: This plan gives the students the chance to talk about the problems related to environment. It also gives you a valuable opportunity to teach new vocabulary while practicing the four communicative skills involved in a very interesting topic of study: “Saving planet Earth”.

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Teaching Guide: Daydreaming on the future / Future expectations

Author: Deisson Erney Murillo Aluma – Description: This plan provides students with useful expressions and insights to help them reflect about their future dreams and expectations. As students at this grade are concerned about their future ahead once they finish high school, it could be a good opportunity to help them to express their desires, concerns or expectations regarding their life after school.

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Teaching Guide: Giving advices to live a healthy

Author: Yullys del Carmen Alvarino Ochoa – Description: This lesson plan helps students to think about different real life situations they have to deal with. And at the same time gives them the opportunity to use the modal verb “should / shouldn´t” for giving advices or recommendations. Also, it presents a wide variety of activities and assessments which result valuable for teachers and students alike. The most of the activities were taken from EP! Student Book Fast Track 11grade.

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Teaching Guide: Having healthy practices

Author: Ana Ismenia Gutiérrez Salas – Description: This project plan offers the teachers the possibility to know about their students’ healthy habits. It is also flexible for different language levels. In this case, it is planned for challenging the students to use English in outdoor contexts around the school. I hope you enjoy this adventure and learn a lot during the road.

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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: Social Media Etiquette

Author: Martha Cecilia Castro Lozada – Description: This plan will provide students relevant ideas and activities related to how they can recognize themselves as digital citizens in today’s globalized world. Moreover, they can identify the norms and behaviours needed to interact properly in the world wide web.

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Teaching Guide: Eco-tourism

Author: Maria Eugenia Oviedo Bocanegra – Description: This project  plan engages the students in a variety of activities related to tourism and eco-tourism, so that these activities can be adapted to the student’s surroundings.  The lesson enhances students interaction in the foreign language, since they are exposed the receptive and productive skills. Teachers can also find different ways of assessing the students from a formative assessment perspective.

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Teaching Guide: Having fun using comparatives

Author: Martin Mosquera Vivas – Description: This activity plan is very useful if you as a teacher wants to make young learners to explain ideas presented in an oral or written text about topics of interest thot that are familiar though the use of previous knowledge, inferences or interpretations

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Teaching Guide: Clothes and styles

Author: Carolina Villamil Rincon – Description: This plan shows how students can work in an English class doing easy exercises and assessing themselves throughout their process.  It also includes some ideas of other cultures around the world and the concept that beauty has for individuals and cultures. It involves likes and dislikes about clothes, styles, looks and fashion.

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