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Learning Guide: Animal trafficking

Author: Ferney Ríos Castro, Karen Lizeth Henao, Juan Camilo Vasquez – Description: This English self-study guide helps you practise presenting your opinions in written form. All the activities are related to the topic of ideal world presented in English Please! Book 2 Module 5 Unit 2 Lesson 5. It starts with some vocabulary revision activities. After that, you have to answer some questions about the language used to make passive voice sentences. Then, you have to read a short text and answer some questions in order to improve your reading skills and end up writing about some solutions for each animal trafficking situation.

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Learning Guide: Food and nutrition

Author: Carolina Triviño Giraldo, Carolina Jaramillo – Description: This English self-study guide helps you practise giving instructions in written form. All the activities are related to the topic of food presented in English Please Student Book 9 Module 3 Unit 1 Lesson 1. It starts with some vocabulary revision activities. Then, you have
to answer some questions about the language used to describe routines (Third person rules) and other questions about a specific reading. After that, you end up writing a paragraph describing a relatives’ day.

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Learning Guide: Camping trip

Author: Wilson Aguirre – Description: This English self-study guide helps you practice vocabulary about camping and scouting. It starts with
some vocabulary activities, then there is a reading text and three comprehension exercises. The
listening activity offers the grammar structure in context and some questions about it. Then, there is a
speaking activity in which you will make a video about survival tips in the forest.

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Learning Guide: Helping the environment

Author: Cindy Stefani Rivera Miranda – Description: Students, welcome to this self-study guide where we will learn some vocabulary related to environmental problems and some ways to protect our environment. Please, follow instructions. First you have to practice a vocabulary about environmental problems, then you have to read a text finding strategy to answer specific and inferential questions. And then, you have to ask some partners about some ways they could use to protect their environment, but using demonstratives adjectives explained in this self-study guide.

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Learning Guide: Typical Food

Author: Jhonny Lemos, Alfredo Mejía Valencia, Jorge Sánchez Marín – Description: This self-study guide will take you through a series of activities which aim to improve your vocabulary in terms of a healthy lifestyle. It starts with a vocabulary review, then you have to match the names of some fruits and their definitions, then you will work on grammar by using quantifiers to complete the activities. After that, you will read a text about some Colombian dishes and you will complete some charts with the information from the texts. Finally, you will create a new chart to describe a Colombian dish and foreign dish. The information can be found on Módulo 3, unidad 1, lección 1 en página 86-88 from the English please Student’s Book 9h grade.

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Learning Guide: My ecological footprint

Author: Luz Miryam Montilla Montaña – Description: This English self-study guide helps you create an action plan to take care of the environment. All the activities are related to the topic “My ecological footprint” presented in Way to Go Student Book, Module 1 Unit 2. It starts with some vocabulary revision activities. Then, you have to answer some questions about the language used to describe plans (gerunds), do some tasks related to an article and end up writing an action plan to save the planet.

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Learning Guide: Healthy lifestyles

Author: Diego Fernando Cardona Valencia, Luz Adiela Arias Valencia, Fernando Monsalve López, Jhon James Arroyave Guazarabe – Description: This self-study guide helps you learn vocabulary related with healthy lifestyles such as healthy food, quantities, countable and uncountable food, and to ask for quantities of food by using how much/ how many. All the activities are taken and adapted from Module 3, Unit 1, lesson 2, from the textbook English Please! Fast track 1, pages 87, 91 and 92. It starts with some vocabulary revision activities. After that, you have to complete some reading exercises with multiple choice option, similar to the ones in Pruebas Saber. Finally, you will design a short survey related to eating habits at the school restaurant.

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Learning Guide: Eating disorders

Author: Humberto Uchima Tasama, Diego Alejandro Ospina Cardona, Maria Isabel Utima Gaviria – Description: This English self-study guide helps you learn and practice frequency adverbs and how they are used to express symptoms of eating disorders and the illness such disorders could lead to. The activities in this guide are related to the topic of eating disorders proposed in Way to go students’ book 8th grade, Module 2, Unite 1: lesson 1. It starts with some vocabulary activities. Then, you are asked to analyze the way frequency adverbs are used. Finally, you have some exercises to listen and use the vocabulary learned to talk about eating disorders throughout a survey.

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Learning Guide: This is my house!

Author: Flor Esmila Pérez Buitrago, Edna Mireya Martinez, Gustavo Buitrago Torres – Description: With this self-study guide you will learn vocabulary related to parts of the house, furniture, and appliances. Also, you will learn how to describe places in a simple way using the expressions “there is and there are” for singular and plural nouns. Finally, you will talk about your own home in a video presenting the parts of it and what you can find there to practice all that you studied in the previous exercises.

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Learning Guide: What do you do?

Author: Sandra Guerrero Céspedes – Description: This English self-study guide helps you practise the written description of your daily routine and
makes you able to ask and answer questions about the things you do. All the activities are
aimed at improving your understanding of the topic “what do you do?” presented in Way to Go
Student Book 6, module 1, unit 2, page 20. First of all, you will find some vocabulary revision
activities; secondly, you will read some descriptions and answer specific questions to verify your
reading comprehension. Finally, you will have a chat to introduce yourself, describe your routine
and ask some questions to your teacher and partners.

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Learning Guide: WE PROTECT THE ENVIRONMENT

Author: Laura Estupiñán Molina, Paola Triviño Cortés. Mara Sterling Yepez – Description: This self-study guide revises the lexical competence related to environment protection. For
developing this guide, you need to explore the page 93, module 3 of the textbook “Way to Go”,
6th grade. Read carefully the instructions for each activity and notice the new expressions in
context. Besides, you could explore the other resources listed at the end of the document.

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Learning Guide: My classroom

Author: Ana Piñeros, Andrés Uyabán Moreno – Description: This English self-study guide helps you practice vocabulary related to objects in the classroom
in order to write a descriptive paragraph of your own school environment. All the activities are
related to the topic of objects in the classroom presented in the Way to Go Student Book 6,
Module 1 Unit 1 Lessons 1 and 2. The guide starts with some vocabulary practice activities.
Secondly, you have to analyze the use of indefinite articles in singular and plural. Then, you will
find a template as a basis for you to write a descriptive paragraph of your own classroom. And
finally, you will have the possibility of self-assessing your performance.

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