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Learning Guide: My People
This English self-study guide helps you practice describing people in written form. All the activities are related to the topic of physical appearance presented in Way to Go Student Book 6 Module 1 Unit 3 Lesson 1. It starts with an introduction of new vocabulary to describe people.
Teaching Guide: Colombia is full of valuable people
Author: Álvaro Andrés Montaño Bustamante – Description: This lesson plan allows the teacher to work on Colombian values through studying important people who have given our country recognition all over the world. It helps the pupils to have positive models of wonderful people to be followed. Finally, it is an excellent resource to learn L2 since it leads students to practice basic tenses through different activities.
Learning Guide: What do they look like?
Author: Mayra Castro Villota, Anna Eduvina Álvarez Morales, Cruz Del Cármen Pérez Sánchez – Description: This English self-study guide helps you check useful adjectives and practice making physical descriptions. All the activities are related to the topic of physical appearance presented in Way to Go 6 Student’s Book, Module 1 Unit 3 Lesson 2. It starts with some vocabulary revision activities. Then, you have to develop some reading comprehension and grammar activities, to finally write some descriptions about people you know.
Learning Guide: Healthy and unhealthy food
Author: Giraldo Alvear Moreno – Description: This English self-study guide helps you strengthen your English knowledge about the use of “there is /there are”, increase your vocabulary about food and drinks and reflect on the benefits of the food groups for your body. All the activities are related to food and eating habits presented in English Please Student Book 9, Module 3 Unit 1. It includes interesting information that shows you why food is important for your body.
Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star – Song with Audio, Lyrics, and Poster
Author: American English – Description: A song in English. These resources were originally created for English language learners and teachers around the world by the Office of English Language Programs in the Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs at the U.S. Department of State. Visit the American English page here: https://americanenglish.state.gov/
Teaching Guide: A Place for Everything
Author: Yelithza Cedeño Salcedo – Description: This task plan gives the students a chance to have self-efficacy when doing a specific task whose main purpose is to make students be able to create reusable or recyclable things for environmental conservation in the community. It has a warm up which helps students to predict what the topic is by playing a nice game. The pre-task is made up of a short reading which objective is to clarify the difference of the three Rs, which is also supported with a video-listening exercise and a unscramble game that emphasise on the use of modal should to give recommendations and suggestions for preserving our environment. The while-task consists on a collaborative work in which students have to decide how to create a reusable or recyclable thing together by using some follow up questions. This will give them the chance of learning by doing. The Post-task consists on the presentation of each collaborative group to the whole group. All these activities are centred on students.
Learning Guide: I belong to a community
Author: Liliana Cecilia Reyes, Nancy Daza – Description: This self-study guide will help you to reinforce the vocabulary related to the neighbourhood. All the activities are based on the textbook Way To Go 6, Module 3, Unit 2, lesson 1, pages 100 and 101. It starts with a vocabulary activity, and then you have to read a map and identify specific information in it. For the speaking activity, you may contact at least 2 of your partners and ask them some questions about places in their community to complete the chart. Finally you are going to use some prepositions of place to indicate where the places are.
Teaching Guide: Music genres in Colombia
Author: Lady Tahnee Ortiz Rondon – Description: This plan guides students to recognize different music genres from different regions of Colombia. Also, this lesson provides teachers a fun and engaging way to have students practice the four skills and tenses.
Learning Guide: Daily life
Author: Elcy Andrea Tovar Torres – Description: Welcome to this work guide, here you will find activities related to the daily activities done at home. It has examples to help you do each one of them. It is very important to read the instructions. I hope that these guidelines help you describe your daily routine and that you enjoy doing them.
Learning Guide: Foreign dishes
Author: Luz Adriana Herrera – Description: This English self-study guide helps you practice asking and giving information. All the activities
are related to the topic of ingredients of food, choices presented in Way to Go Student Book 8
Module 2 Unit 2 Lesson 1, page 60-64 It builds on the vocabulary and language analysis. It
helps you to improve your reading, writing and listening skills.
Teaching Guide: Family
Author: Gladis Robira Muñoz Rosero – Description: This activity plan helps students to describe their family in written and orally. They also learn vocabulary related to professions. This plan might encourage your students to choose a profession.
Red River Valley – Song with Audio, Lyrics, and Poster
Author: American English – Description: An audio of song in English. These resources were originally created for English language learners and teachers around the world by the Office of English Language Programs in the Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs at the U.S. Department of State. Visit the American English page here: https://americanenglish.state.gov/
Password
Author: David Malatesta – Description: A guide for the game, Password. It is an interactive game for learning vocabulary. These resources were originally created for English language learners and teachers around the world by the Office of English Language Programs in the Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs at the U.S. Department of State. Visit the American English page here: https://americanenglish.state.gov/
Learning Guide: Feelings and emotions
Author: Claudia Rojas, María Herrera, Alejandra Marín – Description: This English self-study guide will help you to learn vocabulary about feelings and emotions and how to use it in different communicative situations. These activities are related to the book “Way to Go 7, Module 2, Unit 1, Lesson 1 (pages 50 and 51). The first part is about vocabulary related to feelings and emotions. After that, you must do a short reading exercise where you complete some tasks according to the reading. Finally, you have a speaking exercise where you put in practice what you learnt by asking some questions to a friend or family member about how they feel in some situations. Then, you have to record yourself doing a short presentation about your friend or family member’s feelings. Don’t forget to complete your self-assessment task.
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.
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.
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.
Teaching Guide: What can I do to help?
Author: Jessica Solano Rodríguez – Description: This plan helps other teachers to organize a class taking into account different approaches, the context and students’ needs. This lesson plan will help Ts and Ss to love English and practice it in their daily life.
