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Teaching Guide: DESCRIBING TOURISTIC PLACES

Author: Yury Milena Meneses Vera – Description: This lesson plan gives the students a chance to read and find out important information about New York city which is well known as the capital of the world. On the other hand, the students will have the opportunity to write about important places of their region. Students will create a booklet or poster with key information of tourist places from the region.

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Teaching Guide: Learning about fair trade products

Author: Aydee Barrera Plazas – Description: This lesson plan strengthens students’ communicative skills because the development of the activities makes students feel active and motivated. The topic encourages students to appreciate farmers´ labor and how fair trade may help them.

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Teaching Guide: Traditional celebrations

Author: Claudia Rocio Castro Jaimes – Description: This lesson plan gives the students the opportunity to express their ideas about their own cultural traditions, presenting a celebration they like at home. Students can improve their listening and speaking skills along with social skills, related to team work and decision making.

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Teaching Guide: NEW YORK USED TO BE AN ECOSYSTEM

Author: JHON EDWAR FIERRO GONZALEZ – Description: This plan presents reading comprehension activities to work with the habitual past “used to”. It is an opportunity for students to express changes they can perceive in different contexts. In this specific plan student will focus on the City of New York, they will be able to identify how a big city used to be an ecosystem in the past.

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Teaching Guide: GENDER EQUALITY

Author: Franquelina Cepeda Alza – Description: This lesson plan allows students the opportunity to use the language to learn not only about the gender equality but also to work on language skills. It also provides a good scaffolding to guide teachers throughout the lesson.

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Teaching Guide: GLOBAL ISSSUES

Author: Julia Inés Barrios Rodríguez – Description: This plan gives students the opportunity to talk about global problems in our community and the world. Students are encouraged to propose possible solutions to these global issues.

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Teaching Guide: Social values

Author: Carolina Sánchez Pulido – Description: This activity plan focuses on Social values as 11th graders are finishing High School. This planning also promotes reading comprehension about the topic. Finally, the Classroom Assessment Technique (Application Cards) that is suggested provides teachers with information that will show them whether the students have just memorized the material or if they know how they could use it.

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Teaching Guide: Common preventable diseases

Author: Adriana Ojeda Alvarez – Description: This lesson plan provides a path to practice vocabulary regarding diseases in context. It also fosters vocabulary acquisition to convey meaning and understanding in the basis of task-based approach. Thus, it is useful to contextualize students based on their own real situation to achieve meaningful learning. Moreover, it gives support in terms of assessing as an ongoing process that has been grounded in formative practices.

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Teaching Guide: Basic human rights and duties

Author: Marcela del Pilar Chacón Calvo – Description: This lesson plan gives the students the opportunity to think about relevant information related to their role as citizens, their rights and duties in different areas of their lives. Students will be working in groups and they will have to use their social skills to negotiate and come to agreements to present important information to the class.

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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.

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Teaching Guide: CELEBRATIONS IN MY COUNTRY AND AROUND THE WORLD

Author: Claudia Patricia Olarte Suárez – Description: This lesson plan gives the students language tools to talk about not only Colombian Celebrations but also celebrations around the world. It is also a great opportunity to do jigsaw reading activities with students to promote more interaction and involvement with the topic of the lesson.

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