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Why English? Comics for the Classroom – Story 11: A Modern World’s Language with Audio

Author: American English – Description: Want more reasons to learn English? This comic outlines facts about English and offers advice on how to help you learn the language. 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/

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Learning Guide: Daily Life

Author: Alejandra María Angulo, Ingrid Lizeth Campos, Lilia Oliva López – Description: In this guide you will find a new topic: Daily Life. This time, you will learn new vocabulary related to your daily routine. Most of the activities are taken from the book Way to go 6, Module 1, Unit 2. Remember to use your notebook and present your answers to the teacher.

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Teaching Guide: Earth Day

Author: Gleiber Martínez Arias – Description: This activity plans raises students’ awareness on positive actions to take care of the environment. It also provides students with some vocabulary about environment. Finally, teachers can use Classroom Assessment techniques to check that students have learnt some vocabulary.

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Teaching Guide: Environment

Author: Piedad Patricia Padilla Pineda – Description: In this lesson plan students will have the opportunity to express ideas about what should and should not be done for the conservation of the environment. Assessment activities are carried out in order to check students understanding.

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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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Learning Guide: Healthy life

Author: Jairo Antonio Torres Méndez from Neiva
Description: This guide will help you to reinforce your Reading and writing skills. You will understand a little better the factors of a healthy life and I hope you understand the importance of acquiring healthy habits in your daily life. First, you will find a vocabulary activity that consists of a crossword. For this activity I suggest using a dictionary. Then, you have the text. Please, read it carefully and make notes, draw a chart of a mind map in order to understand it better

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Teaching Guide: My people (people I admire)

Author: Cristian Camilo Moncada García from Armenia

Description: This plan is a useful tool for catching the students’ interest in writing graphic organizers; specifically mind maps about celebrities or family topics. The way this lesson plan is created, gives students the opportunity to learn how to organize ideas properly about people generating impact positively from the individual learning to the collaborative work based on the ZPD theory. In other words, there is a multifunctional purpose in the application of this lesson plan that can be worthy for other subjects and contexts students will face.

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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: 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.

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Learning Guide: My Daily Routine

Author: Gloria Ceballos Reina, Cristian Gabriel Coral, Yuliana Katherine Delgado – Description: This English self-study guide helps you practise vocabulary related to daily routines and the adverbs of frequency, time and sequence. All the activities are related to the topic of daily routines presented in “Way to Go 6” Student’s Book and workbook. It starts with some vocabulary revision activities. Then, you have to read and choose the best options and end up writing about your daily routine habits.

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Learning Guide: Saying No! to bullying

Author: Natalia Cardozo Durán/ Natalia Méndez Lugo – Description: This English self-study guide helps you learn vocabulary related to bullying and types of bullying. Additionally, this guide helps you give suggestions to people experiencing bullying. The activities in this guide are connected to the reading in Way to Go Student Book 7 Module 2 Unit 3 (page 76). It starts with some vocabulary activities. Then, you must read a text and do some activities about it; then, you will discover how to give suggestions. Finally, you will make an informative flyer giving some suggestions to those experiencing bullying. That flyer will be shared with your teacher and classmates.

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Teaching Guide: Healthy Physical Routine

Author: Alix Yakelinne Chavarro Gómez – Description: This lesson plan gives the students the opportunity to talk about his/her daily routines; and it also lets to describe his/her favourite superhero´s routines.
Students can assess their language level and performance through a rubric; which helps to the teachers monitors their students learning and progress.

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Teaching Guide: INTRODUCING OURSELVES

Author: Eddy Julieth Garcia Mendivelso – Description: This plan will help students to know more about themselves and others. Through different exercises students will learn how to introduce themselves. It is a great opportunity to start the new school year using English in real situations.

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Learning Guide: Discovering amazing natural places

Author: Diego Fernando de la Portilla Guerrero – Description: Dear students: In this guide you will learn about landforms and the use of a graphic organiser to write simple, complete paragraphs in English. Sometimes writing appears to be difficult for us, but using this technique will help you to understand the organisation of a paragraph in English. You will also have to use your abilities to complete a crossword and identify a place in our country you will have to write some lines about. You will spend about one hour completing this task that will help you to learn new vocabulary and practice your writing skills.

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Learning Guide: Physical and psychological effects of stress

Author: Juanita
Montaño,Maria Tilcia
Neuta Gonzalez,Lenin Chala
Mendoza,Yolanda
Jimenez Rodriguez – Description: This English self-study guide helps you learn vocabulary about stressful situations and their effects.
Students can also describe states of health. All the activities are connected to the reading in Way to Go
Student Book 7 Module 1 Unit 2 (page 31). It starts with some vocabulary activities. Then, you have
to read a text and work on some activities about it. After that, you will discover how to express stressful
situations, beliefs, emotions and states of health.

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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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