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Teaching Guide: Saving Energy

Author: María Isabel Gamboa Corrales – Description: This lesson will provide a non-conventional way to work with students on a relevant topic as it is saving energy; it will also reveal diverse ways of assessing students’ progress and understanding. In addition to the previous, it contains different moments which approach the diversity in the classrooms. The steps are given sequentially, so the different moments of the lesson are very clear and connected with the previous parts.

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Teaching Guide: My Daily routine Habits

Author: Abel Andrés Periñán Morales – Description: This lesson plan gives students the chance to deepen their knowledge about daily routine activities. This planning allows the students to strengthen their autonomy and group work because the suggested activities are Learner Centred. Students will also get a sense of assessment in a relaxed way, which helps them be more aware of how they and their peers learn and how the teacher teaches.

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Teaching Guide: The perfect profession for me!

Author: Lina Patricia Váquiro Rondón – Description: This plan includes activities that promote creative writing based on a model. Additionally, teacher can raise students’ awareness regarding community workers. Finally, Formative Assessment techniques are suggested in different stages of the lesson.

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Teaching Guide: Taking care of our homes

Author: Miguel Ramírez – Description: This task plan focuses on describing the house. Additionally, it integrates Arts because students use origami to create a paper house. This activity promotes creativity and production skills. Finally, students can find it very meaningful because they will be talking about their houses.

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Teaching Guide: Touristic places

Author: Ricardo Yepes Carmona – Description: This task plan focuses on describing cities around Colombia. It also looks towards raising awareness on the variety of cities Colombia has. T can integrate social studies to make students identify key aspects about Colombia. Finally, this plan incorporates peer assessment techniques that make students provide feedback to other peers.

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Teaching Guide: Teenagers

Author: Yasmira Díaz Yepes – Description: This lesson plan is designed to develop communication skills in students, specifically reading, writing and speaking skills. This plan has as its central theme some problems that young people face today, such as bullying, smoking, and drug use. The general objective is for students to learn to give advice on these problem situations.

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Teaching Guide: Daily routines

Author: Maira Alejandra Anchico – Description: This plan gives you a chance to assess your students’ understanding about how to build basic simple tense sentences talking about daily activities. It also includes some extra activities so the teacher can select the most appropriate ones, for the context.
At the end of each stage, there are some spaces in which the teacher can write some notes, related to self-reflection, after each activity.

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Teaching Guide: Location

Author: Sandra Milena Lozano – Description: This lesson plan shows the previous work or introduction in a topic that includes prepositions in my neighbourhood, town, city or place where the students live.

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Teaching Guide: Self-introduction

Author: Gonzalo González Varón – Description: This plan is focused on self-introduction, in order to get students’ interest and to help them to improve their English level and knowledge. It is perfect for the first day of class!

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Teaching Guide: After school club

Author: Doris Elena Villamizar Villamizar – Description: Collaborative work is the best tool to increase student’s participation and share outcomes. Therefore, constant feedback is a key to generate confidence in the development of skills by using progressive methods like teamwork and formative assessment to check understanding through dialogue between SS-T.

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Teaching Guide: Greetings around the world

Author: Emilio Criado Rocha – Description: Through this activity plan you can see how each one of the stages lead your students to practice writing and speaking in different moments throughout the lesson. Besides, in this plan, students can learn by themselves, because they ́ will be the main actors in the class and you will only be a guide waiting to give feedback when necessary. And finally, with this activity plan you can forget the traditional English grammar classes and produce more dynamic and participative classes, which motivate students to be interested in learning of conversational English and work real themes that are more appropriate for discussions.

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Teaching Guide: A typical day at my job

Author: Eddy Seley Parra – Description: This plan is intended to be used at the end of a series of lessons on daily routines and jobs. It is a fluency practice lesson so in order for students to be able to perform, they should have already learned some of this language.

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