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Teaching Guide: HEALTHY EATING HABITS

Author: ADRIANA ISABEL MENESES GUALDRON – Description: This plan gives the students a chance to express what they like and dislike eating. It is a good opportunity to have students talk about one of their favourite topics. This plan can also give ideas for schools’ projects about promoting healthy eating habits.

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Teaching Guide: Sport and hobbies

Author: Vilma Cancimancy – Description: This activity plan gives the students an opportunity to make a presentation about likes and hobbies, and to exchange information in an easy way. This activity challenges students to speak in another language in a stress-free environment.

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Teaching Guide: Local cultures

Author: Margarita Archila Velandia – Description: This plan is a good opportunity for students to talk about their past experiences in a free and spontaneous way. Also, it is convenient for teachers as it provides the chance to make students remember their personal past experiences and use the wh-questions.

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Teaching Guide: Healthy daily habits

Author: Mary Rusell Melo – Description: This activity plan helps to consolidate the topic of routines, interests and hobbies. It gives students the opportunity to be aware of writing coherent sentence expressing their present lives.

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Teaching Guide: Healthy and Unhealthy Food

Author: Beatriz Elena Giraldo Serna – Description: This This lesson plan gives SS a chance to know about harmful and healthy food so that they make choices about the food they are eating and how it benefits/harms their health. Also, they can practice a grammar form: should and shouldn´t.

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Teaching Guide: Recycling

Author: Rocio Camelo Silva – Description: This lesson plan provides students with the chance to talk about different ways of recycling. Even though students are encouraged to develop the four skills, they need to pay special attention to a reading in order to identify recycling tips and they are expected to do a recycling campaign by means of a poster. This lesson plan also gives students the opportunity to assess their peers and self-assess their own learning process.

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Teaching Guide: Natural wonders in Colombia

Author: Maria Consuelo Galindo Bahamon – Description: This lesson plan is about the wonderful places that Colombia has and why tourists should visit. In this plan, students check some vocabulary related to geographical accidents, activities and object to take to a specific place. In addition, some games are proposed to make the class fun.

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Teaching Guide: Bullying

Author: Leonor Diaz Laverde – Description: This plan allows students to think about bullying and the way can face it, giving suggestions and making recommendations.

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Teaching Guide: Traditional Games are funny!

Author: Jhonn Fredy Mora Restrepo – Description: This lesson plan is very useful for teacher and students, it gives the students the opportunities to know vocabulary related to traditional games and learn about present simple tense. Likewise it allows students to talk about an interesting topic how it is, number of players, what it needs to play and so on. Also it makes a reflection to get practice in some traditions that we are leaving thanks to new trends such as; social networks, video games and apps.

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Teaching Guide: Top 10 places in Colombia

Author: Gustavo Antonio Herrera Cardona – Description: This activity plan focuses on biodiversity in Colombia through a Reading activity. This topic raises awareness about the actions we can take to protect our landscapes in the country.

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Teaching Guide: Health education: eating habits

Author: Maria Elizabeth Mariño Camargo – Description: This plan has been designed for seventh grade students who have A1 level in an urban area who come from different places around the municipality, having very little knowledge of English. In this lesson plan you will find some activities to improve your students’ reading and writing skills. They will interact with their peers, they will do collaborative work, they will use all their creativity and the teacher will be attentive all the time to give them the necessary support. This is a different class where students will learn enjoying everything they do and I am sure they will feel more motivated in their real life situations.
I invite you to implement this new strategy, which can be very useful in your classes.

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Teaching Guide: Personal Care Habits

Author: Maritza Cáceres Zárate – Description: This lesson plan has been designed for seventh grade students who have A1 level in an urban area away from the city, who come from rural sites with very little knowledge of English language. In this lesson plan you can find step by step activities that will lead students to practice speaking, which they will practice at all times with the pair work. In this plan, the students will learn by themselves, they will be the most important actors in the class and as a teacher I will only be a guide waiting to give feedback when necessary. Finally, with this lesson plan we leave the traditional class and focus on more dynamic activities, which lead students to be motivated with the practice of English. This can be a very useful and productive class if you want to put it into practice with your students.

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