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Teaching Guide: Social Problems

Author: Edith Cecilia Larios Montes – Description: This plan is very useful for those teachers who want to improve students’ oral skills because they have to express points of view, agreement or disagreement on some opinions about social problems that affect their community. Also, you can have transversality with other subjects like Maths, Biology and Computer/technology because they might have to do survey tabulation and propose solutions. The topic of this lesson is meaningful and applicable to any rural or urban contexts.

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Teaching Guide: Likes and Dislikes food

Author: Carmen Judith Rodríguez Longaray – Description: This plan provides to the teacher clear objectives that helps him to develop student´s own abilities for learning English. The student has the opportunity to work with organized activities, feeling motivation to improve the use of communicative English skills according to his level.

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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: Teen culture

Author: Denys Sandoval – Description: This plan aims at improving students oral, listening and written skills based on the topic Teenagers, their culture and social problems. This class gives the teachers a good opportunity to identify the abilities of their students to express their ideas, tips and suggestions and work on the practice of reading comprehension.

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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: We are all different

Author: Luisa Fernanda Tapasco Garay – Description: This plan reinforces the communicative competence in students and also it gives useful vocabulary to talk about events in present and past time, on the other hand it lets to the teacher the opportunity to assess students in a clear and meaningful way.

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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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Teaching Guide: My life with social networks

Author: Nancy Maria Cabarcas Mantilla – Description: This plan guides students to recognize the advantages and disadvantages of social networks in their life and provide advice to have a healthy management of them. It also gives teachers the chance to bring interesting and meaningful topics and activities that allow students to have fun while learning.

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Teaching Guide: I was sick

Author: Erika Insignares Barrios – Description: This plan guides students to find out more about common diseases and communicate the possible ways to prevent or cure them. It also allows teachers to have the students practice present perfect and past simple through different group and individual work activities, while practicing their reading and writing skills.

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Teaching Guide: Environment

Author: Lilian Yiced Arango Muñoz – Description: This lesson plan, though intended for 9th graders, can be implemented from 8th to 11th grade since what is challenging for students is not the topic, but the reading strategies they must develop. First of all, according to standardized tests (SABER) inferential reading it is one of the toughest strategies and, in this lesson plan, the teacher does not give the answers but tools for them to improve. Second of all, it provides different ways to assess the learner’s competence. Moreover, it is designed to lower the affective filter and use ICT resources to trigger self-learning and, eventually, transform the students into critical thinkers.

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Teaching Guide: Don´t waste water

Author: Marco Tulio Jurado Flórez – Description: This lesson plan gives the students a chance to know about water and the different ways to save it and also invites to reflect about how to protect water sources like rivers, ponds and lakes.

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