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Teaching Guide: GENDER EQUALITY

Author: Franquelina Cepeda Alza – Description: This lesson plan allows students the opportunity to use the language to learn not only about the gender equality but also to work on language skills. It also provides a good scaffolding to guide teachers throughout the lesson.

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Teaching Guide: GLOBAL ISSSUES

Author: Julia Inés Barrios Rodríguez – Description: This plan gives students the opportunity to talk about global problems in our community and the world. Students are encouraged to propose possible solutions to these global issues.

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Teaching Guide: Social values

Author: Carolina Sánchez Pulido – Description: This activity plan focuses on Social values as 11th graders are finishing High School. This planning also promotes reading comprehension about the topic. Finally, the Classroom Assessment Technique (Application Cards) that is suggested provides teachers with information that will show them whether the students have just memorized the material or if they know how they could use it.

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Teaching Guide: Common preventable diseases

Author: Adriana Ojeda Alvarez – Description: This lesson plan provides a path to practice vocabulary regarding diseases in context. It also fosters vocabulary acquisition to convey meaning and understanding in the basis of task-based approach. Thus, it is useful to contextualize students based on their own real situation to achieve meaningful learning. Moreover, it gives support in terms of assessing as an ongoing process that has been grounded in formative practices.

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Teaching Guide: Basic human rights and duties

Author: Marcela del Pilar Chacón Calvo – Description: This lesson plan gives the students the opportunity to think about relevant information related to their role as citizens, their rights and duties in different areas of their lives. Students will be working in groups and they will have to use their social skills to negotiate and come to agreements to present important information to the class.

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Teaching Guide: Environment / Eco-destinations

Author: Viviana Andrea Castañeda López – Description: This lesson plan gives the students the opportunity to learn about different places in the world and Colombia known as eco-destinations. Through the description and characterization of these eco-destinations the students can talk about them, make plans and imagine situations as well as developing the four language skills.

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Teaching Guide: CELEBRATIONS IN MY COUNTRY AND AROUND THE WORLD

Author: Claudia Patricia Olarte Suárez – Description: This lesson plan gives the students language tools to talk about not only Colombian Celebrations but also celebrations around the world. It is also a great opportunity to do jigsaw reading activities with students to promote more interaction and involvement with the topic of the lesson.

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Teaching Guide: Urban Tribes

Author: María Cristina Valdés Páez – Description: This lesson plan was created for 10th graders in order to allow them to express their opinion about urban tribes and compare them with their fashion style, music, common interest, ideology and activities they do.

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Teaching Guide: Teen Culture

Author: Melba Sofía Cifuentes Rodríguez – Description: This plan will enable students to reflect on the characteristics they consider important in a role model giving them the opportunity to express their point of view and to talk about important roles for them. The lesson presents useful vocabulary in a context that creates a good speaking framework then, students will be able to enhance their communicative skills.

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Teaching Guide: Human body

Author: CECILIA GARCIA MEJIA – Description: This plan helps raise student’s interest in English language learning, use vocabulary in context and make the class more active.

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Teaching Guide: Different cultures, Different traditions

Author: Lizeth Catalina Murillo Urrego – Description: This plan gives students the chance to approach to other cultures from an intercultural perspective while developing their ability to recognize, accept and respect others. In addition, students will have the opportunity to express their personal opinion by observing different examples of structures and by using uncommon adjectives in order to expand their vocabulary. In the same way, they will have the possibility of establishing relationships of difference and similarity taking into account their own context.

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