LEARNING_GUIDES

Find below the largest Repository for Teaching and Learning Guides, or study guides. These guides were created by public school English language teachers in Colombia. You can search with key words, grade, skill, or age group to find the right teaching or learning guide for your next class.

Learning Guide: Free time activities

Author: Clyde Jensen, Edgar Loaiza, Juan David Jimenez – Description: This English self-study guide helps you practise describing free-time activities in written form. All the activities are related to the topic of hobbies presented in Way to Go Student Book 7, Module 1, Unit 1 Lessons 1, 2 and 3. It starts with some vocabulary revision activities. Then, you have to complete some sentences about free-time activities and end up writing the description of a traditional game.

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Learning Guide: Solving Problems with others.

Author: Paunny Andrea Portacio Cortes
Karen Margarita Mendoza Gonzalez – Description: This English self-study guide helps you practise giving advice to people when it is needed. All the activities are related to the topic of solving problems with others presented in Way to Go Student Book 8 Module 3 Unit 1 Lesson 1. It starts with a new vocabulary activity. Then you have to do a reading activity, answer some questions before reading and then do a matching activity. Once you finish with that, you have to do a writing activity where you have to think about some other pieces of advice in order to help those people.

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Learning Guide: Human Actions and the environment

Author: Andrés Felipe Muñoz Cortés, Margarita María Montes Montoya – Description: This English self-study guide helps you to describe the human actions that affect the environment and express what you would do to promote the care of it. All the activities are related to the topic of human actions and the environment presented in Way to Go Student Book 8, Module 1, Unit 1, Lesson 1. Besides, you will be able to write about the environmental problems that affect your school or community.

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Learning Guide: Human Actions and the Environment

Author: Andrés Bermúdez Duque, Astrid Elena Lopera Lopera, Elmer Antonio Córdoba Mosquera – Description: This English self-study guide helps you learn vocabulary related to human’s actions and the environment. All the activities are connected to the reading in “Way to Go Student Book 8, Module 1 – Unit 1 (Pages 9, 10, 11, 12) and the “Workbook” (3, 4, 5, 6). It starts with some vocabulary activities. Then you have to read a text and work on some activities about it, then you will discover how to express actions in the present simple. Finally, you will design a campaign inviting your friends to have good environmental habits; that campaign will be shared with your teacher and classmates.

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Learning Guide: Environmental Concerns

Author: Ana Maria Quintero Ortega – Description: This guide helps you improve vocabulary and grammar about the environment. The activities are related to environmental concerns in Way to Go Student Book 8 (Module 1 Unit 1 Lesson 1) and work book 8 (Module 1 Unit 1 Lesson 1). First you are going to a practice listening and vocabulary through a song, then you are going to match the picture with environmental problems (Way to Go Student Book 8, page 10 Exercise 1). Discuss with your partner about the things you would like to do and the things you would not like to do (Way to Go Student Book 8, page 12 Exercise 5). Make full sentences with would like to or wouldn’t like to about each idea (Way to Go WorkBook 8, page 3 Exercise 3).

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Learning Guide: Healthy food choices

Author: Nataly Pezzotti – Description: This English self-study guide helps you learn vocabulary about food, nutrients and eating habits. All the
activities are connected to the reading in Way to Go Student Book 8 Module 2 Unit 2 (page 61). It starts
with some vocabulary activities. Then, you have to listen to an audio and answer some questions about
it, then you will discover how to give orders, commands, warnings or instructions. Finally, you will make
a presentation about your eating habits explaining the benefits for your health.

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Learning Guide: Healthy food

Author: Fredy Ticora – Description: This English self-study guide helps you learn vocabulary about healthy food and giving information
about food. All the activities are related to the topic Healthy food choices presented in Way to Go
Student Book 8 Module 2 Unit 2 Lesson 1 (pages 60-61). It starts with some vocabulary activities.
Then, you have to listen to audio and develop some activities about it (Track 27). After, you have to
read a text and work on some activities about it, then you will discover how to express advice.
Finally, you will describe the food in a short paragraph and you will give advice about healthy food.

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Learning Guide: Free time Activities

Author: Yaneth Rodríguez Rodríguez, Andrés Felipe Gómez Restrepo, Jorge Enrique Sanchez, Alfredo Mejía Valencia – Description: This English self-study guide helps you describe what people do in their free time. All the activities are related to the topic of free-time activities presented in Way to Go Student Book 7 Module 1 Unit 1 Lesson 1. It starts with some vocabulary revision activities. Then, you have to answer some questions about a reading and the language used in the text. Then, you end up writing a paragraph to describe a relative’s free-time activities.

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Learning Guide: Changing Lifestyles

Author: Genyvel Díaz Traslaviña, Adriana Martínez Torres, Luz Bibiana Lazo Esquivel, Olga Cecilia Gutiérrez Méndez – Description: This English self-study guide helps you practise giving instructions in written form. All the activities are related to the topic of the environment presented in Way to Go 8 Module 1 Unit 2 Lesson 1. It starts with some vocabulary revision activities. Then, you have a reading to identify actions to reduce, reuse, recycle and to answer some questions about the language used to describe actions (Gerunds) and end up speaking the actions for reducing the eco-footprint.

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Learning Guide: My Country’s Cities

Author: Teresita Hurtado Osorio, Edgar Fernando Riascos – Description: This English self-study guide helps you write about remarkable characteristics of landmarks using superlatives. All the activities are related to the topic of The World presented in Way to Go Student Book 7 Module 4 Unit 1 Lesson 1. It starts with some vocabulary revision activities. Then, you will listen to a recording and will recognize some places people talk about. Then, you will listen to more details to fill in some gaps. Right after you will notice, focus and practice a grammar aspect you need in the final task which consists of writing a paragraph about the best characteristics of town or city.

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Learning Guide: Amazing Countries

Author: Noralba Correa Suárez – Description: This English self-study guide helps you identify typical characteristics of different countries, compare them and talk about them. You can also practise writing comparisons by writing sentences of places and using the adjectives in the right form.

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Learning Guide: Keeping healthy

Author: Edgar Fernando Riascos Vallejo, Teresita Hurtado Osorio – Description: This English self-study guide will help you talk and write on how to stay healthy. All the activities are related to the topic of taking care of your body and mind presented in the book Way to go Student’s book 7 Module 1 Unit 2 lesson 1. It starts exploring the vocabulary the students already know, then they get familiar with some words. Afterwards, they listen to an expert talking about actions to stay healthy, right after, they notice and deduce a grammar aspect and end up writing an action plan to stay healthy, using the grammar and vocabulary learnt.

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