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Teaching Guide: Healthy food menu
Author: Olga Yaneth Parra Ramírez – Description: This plan gives the students a chance to know about healthy food and make choices regarding the food they want to eat to be healthy. They can also use their creativity and language skills to design and present a healthy menu to the class.
Why English? Comics for the Classroom – Story 19: Learning English Whenever I Can with Audio
Author: American English – Description: In this story, learn how the narrator, with the help of his cousin, practices all four skills (reading, writing, speaking, and listening) to learn English. His hard work is rewarded in the end. 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: The future is in your hands
Author: Marcela Martínez Granada – Description: This English self – study guide helps you to recognise your abilities and to what extent they may influence your future decisions. You can also learn some insights from an entrepreneur and influencer. You will use some useful resources presented in Student’s book English Please 3 Module 1 unit 1. It starts with a vocabulary exercise in which you find the word that does not match with the others.
Then, watch a video and answer some questions about it. You will also get some pieces of
advice about your future decisions from an expert. Finally, you will write a short paragraph that will help you to clear your mind about your strengths, skills, abilities and guide your next steps. It is necessary to spread the word. That is why, share your insights in your self-assessment will help you to listen to reinforce your plans.
Learning Guide: enviroment
Author: Saul enrique santos vital – Description: This self-study guide will help you to practice present perfect tense,modals should, shouldn’t ,
must, also allow you to relate with natural places and know their species, resources, location.
All activities are related to the topic modals should, shouldn’t, presented in the book way to
go fast track 7 module 3 unit 1, student book pages 90, 91 and 93.
The following activities will strengthen writing and reading skills.
Teaching Guide: Environment
Author: Andrés Augusto Ibarra Montenegro – Description: This lesson plan gives the students the opportunity to explore the animals’ world and the environment, it also gives them the chance to practice the English language through dynamic activities which they will enjoy. It will be useful to motivate students who love the nature toward the learning and practice of the English language
Learning Guide: My daily routine
Author: Tránsito Berónica España Mueses – Description: This English self-study guide helps you practice vocabulary about daily routines and the present simple tense. All the activities are related to the English, Please! Fast Track 9 page 49. You will answer some vocabulary review activities about daily routines. Then, you will listen to an audio and answer some questions about it. After, you will discover the uses of the present simple tense through some questions, and finally you will write short sentences to describe your routine following the example given. Have fun and learn a lot doing all the activities in this guide!
Learning Guide: Favorite dishes
Author: Juanita Ponce de León, Morlin Córdoba – Description: This self-study guide allows you to practice talking about the different ways in which you can know how we live. The activities you will find here are based on the book English Please! 9th Grade, Module 3, Unit 1, pages 86 – 90. The guide starts with some images where you must fill in spaces with the correct word, then continues with countable and uncountable nouns to complete the sentences with a/an/some/any. After this, there is a reading exercise about different traditional food in our country. And then you will prepare your favorite food with the ingredients you have in your refrigerator and, finally, you will complete some sentences and prepare a video with your favorite food at home.
Activate: Games for Learning American English – Name 3 Game Board
Author: American English – Description: The Board game, Name 3. It is a game that promotes discussions about knowledge. 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: My daily routine
Author: Jhon Miguel Rosero, Pastora Alicia Unigarro, Yanneth Mercedes Guerrero – Description: This English self-study guide helps you to describe your daily activities in written form. All the
activities are related to the Way to Go Student’s Book 6 Module 1 Unit 2 Lesson 1. It starts with a video and a practice about vocabulary related to daily activities you do every day. Then, there is a survey to answer about your daily routine. After that, you have to answer some questions about the language used to write sentences for describing daily routines; then you are asked to read and complete a short text about a daily routine; and it ends up asking you to write your own daily routine.
Teaching Guide: Tourist places
Author: ROCIO ELIZABETH NARANJO ARTEAGA – Description: This plan gives the students the opportunity to know more about the tourist places near to where they live and to share this information. It also allows students and teachers to work collaboratively and transversally considering the topic and the development of different skills in different subjects.
Learning Guide: Here’s where I live!
Author: Jhon Jaiver Ladino, María Mónica Timaná, Rodrigo Chaguala – Description: Dear students, this self-study guide will give you enough input and practice about the topic: “Describing Places” which is necessary for you to talk and describe the place where you live. By means of completing this guide, other students from Colombia and your classmates will have the chance to learn about your town, city or department. At the end of this guide, you will also have the opportunity to self-assess your progress and performance while doing all the activities. Enjoy it!
Teaching Guide: Landscapes
Author: Diego Luis Sandoval Bayona – Description: This lesson plan has been designed for seventh grade students who have A1 level and come from an urban area in Venezuela. The English language of this group is poor because for many of them it is the first formal contact with a foreign language in a classroom.
Teaching Guide: Duties as a citizen
Author: Carlos Alberto Gonzalez Ramirez – Description: This lesson plan highlights the importance of being a good citizen. Students are asked to think of behaviour that shows good citizenship in different places that are meaningful to them. On the other hand, The Exit Ticket, as a Formative Assessment Technique is suggested to check students’ learning.
Teaching Guide: This is me and my community
Author: Diana Rocío Muñoz Hernández – Description: This lesson plan gives students the opportunity to foster cultural knowledge of the world throughout the creation of videos. Besides, it gives teachers a chance to integrate English grammar topics to the students’ real life throughout meaningful projects. All in all, this lesson plan is a simple and fun way to have the students engaged with the learning process while interacting and knowing their own community.
Teaching Guide: This is My neighbourhood
Author: María Alejandra Mosquera Ledezma – Description: With this lesson plan you can learn how to give directions, Identify the places of a town, use the prepositions of place appropriately, to know your community.
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.
Writing Test A2.2 Set 2
Author: MEN, Pearson and British Council
Description: Writing Exam from the Evaluation Tools designed by MoE, Pearson and British Council.
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.
