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Why English? Comics for the Classroom – Articles, Notes, and Answer Keys
Author: American English – Description: Two articles about the use of comics to learn languages.
Teaching Guide: Classroom language
Author: TERESA MERCEDES CHACON RODRIGUEZ – Description: This plan is a great way to start the school year. The idea is to provide language to be used for classroom management throughout the rest of the lessons.
Teaching Guide: How to be a good citizen
Author: Claudia Raquel Tabares Ortega – Description: This plan will be useful for helping students to reflect upon their citizenship, considering their duties and rights (rules) for being part of a community. In this lesson plan the teacher will find strategies to promote ideas sharing regarding citizenships themes.
Learning Guide: Sports and free time activities
Author: Alejandro David Julio Rhenals, Jhonny Alberto Lemos Garcia, Gloria Inés Padilla Uribe – Description: This English self-study guide helps you practise giving instructions in written form. All the activities are related to the topic of sports and free time activities presented in English Please Fast Track 2 Module 1 Unit 1 Lesson 1. It starts with some vocabulary revision activities. Then, you have to answer some questions about a reading activity related to Parkour and some grammar sections about the use of gerunds and infinitives, and end up writing about your favorite sport/activity.
Learning Guide: This is my house
Author: Wendy Johanna Salcedo, Virginia Patricia Buelvas, Arnulfo del Toro Alarcón – Description: The intention of this learning guide is to help your kid to talk about his/her hourse and its parts in order to ask and give information about it. To reach that aim, the students will develop some grammar and vocabulary activities. The idea is that at the end of the learning guide, the students will be able to make a short written description of his/her own house making use of the elements provided throughout this learning guide. We expect you enjoy this journey!
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.
Teaching Guide: Parts of the body
Author: Luciola Pareja Cardona – Description: This activity plan gives the students a chance to know about their body. It also gives you a valuable opportunity to assess your students’ level. It can also be a useful and productive activity class to check students drawing talents.
Learning Guide: Protecting the Earth
Author: Eliecer Díaz, Julio Dario Vega – Description: This English self-study guide helps you learn expressions related to the environment and how to take good care of it. All the activities are connected to the reading in English, Please 1 Module 4 Unit 1 Lesson 2 (pages 128, 129 & 130). 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 tell people what to do and NOT to do. Finally, you will design a poster where you tell people what to do and NOT to do to save water; that poster will be presented to your teacher through a video.
Teaching Guide: Colombian food
Author: Carlos Hernando Gallego Arias – Description: This plan guides students to learn and practice about countable and uncountable nouns, some containers, and quantifiers through meaningful and fun activities that allow them to put into practice their listening, speaking and writing skills.
Teaching Guide: Beautiful landscapes
Author: Willy Reyes – Description: This plan is intended to be used as a vocabulary building activity through a task. For students to be able to perform well in this task, they should have already practiced using comparatives.
Writing Test A2.1 Set 1
Author: MEN, Pearson and British Council
Description: Speaking Exam from the Evaluation Tools designed by MoE, Pearson and British Council.
Learning Guide: Colombia: A natural and cultural paradise
Author: Rocio del Pilar Velasco Beltrán, Judith Cardona Gallego – Description: This English self-study guide will help you to reinforce and improve your English skills to talk
about your experiences with nature, culture and tourism. The chosen activities are related to
practicing the present perfect tense in the book English Please No. 2 Module 8. The first
activity is related to the vocabulary about tourism and nature. Then in activities 2,3 and 4 you
can improve your reading and listening skills, and finally through the fifth activity you will
share a real experience you have had with nature. The main objective of this self guide is
review and practice the present perfect tense.
Why English? Comics for the Classroom – Story 16: Friki with Audio
Author: American English – Description: In this story, the main character uses his love of video games to learn 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/
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
Teaching Guide: Daily routine and Healthy habits
Author: Ingrid Bibiana Castillo Plazas – Description: This plan gives the students the chance to exchange information about their daily activities, to know about their teacher strategies and also allows teacher to assess her students’ level through meaningful communicative activities. It can be useful if teacher adapts activities according to the students´ context and interests.
Learning Guide: My Family
Author: Erika Quintero,Dario Rojas, Flor Andrea Uribe Mora – Description: This English self-study guide helps you practise to give opinions in written form. All the
activities are related to the topic related to family members in English please Student Book 9
module 1. It starts with some vocabulary revision and activities based on family members. Then,
they have to answer some questions about the language used and write a text about their family,
using vocabulary related to family members, possessive adjectives and possessive ‘s. You can use
the text “My Lovely Family” as a reference.
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.
Learning Guide: Urban tribes
Author: Fanery Patricia Hidalgo Benavides, Marisol Vallejo Narváez, Silvana Yamile López Muñoz – Description: This self-study guide helps you practise describing Urban Tribes in written and spoken form. All the activities are related to the English, please! Fast Track – Student’s Book 10, Module 1, Unit 1, Lesson 2, Pages 14, 15 and 17. It starts with some vocabulary revision activities. Then, you will read the texts and work on some comprehension questions. After that, you will discover how to use the gerund as a verb. Finally, you will write a description about your favorite urban tribe and the same information will be shared through a 1-minute audio in the English group via WhatsApp.
