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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.
Learning Guide: Sports and hobbies
Author: Liliana del Rosario Calpa Burbano, Jhoana Rocío Paz Guerrero, Gloria Adriana Bolaños Escobar – Description: This English self-study guide helps you practise vocabulary related to sports, hobbies and leisure activities in the development of different exercises. All the activities are related to the topic of sports and hobbies presented in the English, Please! Student’s Book 2 Module 1 Unit 1 Lesson 1. It starts with some vocabulary revision activities. Then, you have to answer some comprehension questions related to a text and end up writing about your favorite sports, hobbies and leisure activities and those of your best friend.
Learning Guide: Typical Food
Author: Jhonny Lemos, Alfredo Mejía Valencia, Jorge Sánchez Marín – Description: This self-study guide will take you through a series of activities which aim to improve your vocabulary in terms of a healthy lifestyle. It starts with a vocabulary review, then you have to match the names of some fruits and their definitions, then you will work on grammar by using quantifiers to complete the activities. After that, you will read a text about some Colombian dishes and you will complete some charts with the information from the texts. Finally, you will create a new chart to describe a Colombian dish and foreign dish. The information can be found on Módulo 3, unidad 1, lección 1 en página 86-88 from the English please Student’s Book 9h grade.
Teaching Guide: Saving the earth
Author: Valentina Arango – Description: This lesson plan helps teachers to make students more conscious about environmental problems, and how they can help to reduce damage in nature.
Speaking Test B1 Set 2
Author: MEN, Pearson and British Council
Description: Speaking Exam from the Evaluation Tools designed by MoE, Pearson and British Council.
Reading Test A2.2 Set 2
Author: MEN, Pearson and British Council
Description: Reading Exam from the Evaluation Tools designed by MoE, Pearson and British Council.
Learning Guide: People around me
Author: Camila González Plata, Javier Luis Pérez Pino, Elizabeth Jaramillo Bedoya – Description: This English self-study guide helps you to practice describing people in written and oral form. All the activities are related to the topic of people around me presented in the Way to Go Student book 6, page 33, exercise 1, and page 34, exercise 4. It also asks you to create a video describing a superhero in which you can improve your oral skills and practice the vocabulary you have learned. You should watch the videos created by at least three of your classmates and give them feedback as well as you do your self assessment.
Teaching Guide: Parts of the body
Author: Shirley Constanza Martinez – Description: This plan allows you to enhance the four skills in English while students describe parts of the body. Ss will learn the topic with interest and motivation since the methodology is very flexible and the activities promote the use of different intelligences: linguistic, interpersonal, musical and kinesthetic. That is why Ss are expected to have fun and learn at the same time.
Head, Shoulders, Knees, and Toes with Audio, Lyrics and Poster
Description: A song in
Learning Guide: MY CITY, MY TOWN
Author: John Jairo Preciado Barrios , José Alexander García Latorre, Claudia Camacho – Description: This self-study guide is designed to reinforce reading and speaking skills through some exercises
based on vocabulary for describing places and knowing our country. Activities here are related
in Way to Go Workbook Unit 2 – Module 4, Lesson 3. It starts with an explanation about
comparatives and superlative grammar, then some vocabulary (adjectives) in order to be used
in 7 practice exercises, finally it presents a specific instruction to make a little speech (to train
fluency, coherence and cohesion)
Learning Guide: Sports and hobbies
Author: Elizabeth Moreno García. Paola Azucena Rojas Muriel, Sandra Patricia Agudelo Acero – Description: This English self-study guide helps you express your likes and dislikes about sports and hobbies in a written form. The activities are related to the topic “That’s interesting to me” presented in Way to Go Student Book 6 Module 2 Unit 2 Lesson 1. It includes vocabulary on sports and hobbies and expressions to give reasons about your likes and dislikes. You are going to have examples about people’s interests and, finally, you are invited to think and write about your own interests. Enjoy expressing what you like the most.
Teaching Guide: Animals
Author: Evelia Guerra Barajas – Description: This lesson plans helps students to make comparison through the topic of animals. They have the opportunity to create a quiz to test their partners’ knowledge.
Activate: Games for Learning American English – Have you Ever? Oh, When? Game Board
Author: American English – Description: The Board game, Have You Ever? Oh, When?. It is a game that promotes discussions. 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/
Why English? Comics for the Classroom – Story 17: Studying English is Good with Audio
Author: American English – Description: In this story find out all the ways that English helps the main character. 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: Emerita Useche- Carlos Alvarez – Description: This self-study guide helps you to learn vocabulary about feelings and emotions and ask and answer
question with (Why) and (because). All activities are related to the book Way to Go 7 Unit 2 module 1,
Pages 49 – 52. It starts with the vocabulary activity, then a text and its reading comprehension exercises;
the language awareness section will help you discover the grammar and it ends up with a writing exercise.
Finally, the assessment task will help you check your progress.
Teaching Guide: Daily activities
Author: Yani Milena Cordoba Mosquera – Description: This plan is designed to help students talk about their daily life activities and to ask other people for their information regarding their daily life activities, as well.
Learning Guide: My People
Author: Patricia Carolina Ramírez Ardila – Description: 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 about new vocabulary to describe people. Then, you must read some texts in order to match with the description of some people. After that, you have to read an article related to a Volleyball team from Kansas to complete the chart according to the information from that text and end by making a writing plan related to the description of a friend or a family member.
Learning Guide: Meeting the challenges of the modern world
Author: Liced Yamile Rodriguez Martinez – Description: This self-study guide will help you with your English skills, through the topic related to
community or voluntary work. This guide presents different activities to provide input and help
you by writing a text about a person who has worked or created a voluntary organization. You
can also have feedback from your partners. This self-study guide was done based on the book
English, Please! Fast track 11th grade and it presents activities such as: vocabulary tasks, where
you can recognize words related to voluntary work; reading comprehension which refer to short
posts about voluntary activities; use of language in which you can find the contrast between
past simple and present perfect; listening activities also related to voluntary work and finally,
it presents the writing task with examples and tips to elaborate a good text, by drafting and
correcting until the last version of it. In this self-study guide self-assessment is also relevant,
which allows you to evaluate yourself.
Teaching Guide: Value of Local Cultures
Author: Liliana Patricia Gomez Briceño – Description: This plan gives students the opportunity to learn about basic math vocabulary and some prepositions of place. It also gives you a useful tool to assess your students by implementing self-assessment and peer- assessment. Moreover this project plan is a nice option to apply the interdisciplinary knowledge between Math and English to sixth graders. In addition, in here you will find how CAT strategies are used as well as and some suggestions to teach English outdoors.
