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Teaching Guide: Urban Tribes

Author: María Cristina Valdés Páez – Description: This lesson plan was created for 10th graders in order to allow them to express their opinion about urban tribes and compare them with their fashion style, music, common interest, ideology and activities they do.

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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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Teaching Guide: Different cultures, Different traditions

Author: Lizeth Catalina Murillo Urrego – Description: This plan gives students the chance to approach to other cultures from an intercultural perspective while developing their ability to recognize, accept and respect others. In addition, students will have the opportunity to express their personal opinion by observing different examples of structures and by using uncommon adjectives in order to expand their vocabulary. In the same way, they will have the possibility of establishing relationships of difference and similarity taking into account their own context.

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Teaching Guide: Money makes the world go round

Author: Maria Consuelo Amaya Sanches – Description: This lesson plan has been designed to allow students improve their reading skills, identify important information related to spending money and present it to the class. Students have the opportunity to work in groups, interact with other students, make decisions, come up with conclusions and present factual relevant information to the class.

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Teaching Guide: Human body

Author: CECILIA GARCIA MEJIA – Description: This plan helps raise student’s interest in English language learning, use vocabulary in context and make the class more active.

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Teaching Guide: Conservation

Author: Magda Vasquez Ramirez – Description: This lesson plan gives the students a chance to know more about the biodiversity that Earth has. It also encourages students to take actions, no matter how small are. It includes interactions among Ss and they could share many thoughts as well as practicing about interesting topics.

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Teaching Guide: Personal care activities

Author: Olga Lucia Montealegre Granados – Description: This plan gives the teachers an opportunity to know their students’ lifestyles and to help them reflect on other possibilities to have better life conditions in terms of health, habits and leisure activities. It promotes students’ interactions by asking and answering questions and also, the development of basic reading strategies.

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Teaching Guide: A Place for Everything

Author: Yelithza Cedeño Salcedo – Description: This task plan gives the students a chance to have self-efficacy when doing a specific task whose main purpose is to make students be able to create reusable or recyclable things for environmental conservation in the community. It has a warm up which helps students to predict what the topic is by playing a nice game. The pre-task is made up of a short reading which objective is to clarify the difference of the three Rs, which is also supported with a video-listening exercise and a unscramble game that emphasise on the use of modal should to give recommendations and suggestions for preserving our environment. The while-task consists on a collaborative work in which students have to decide how to create a reusable or recyclable thing together by using some follow up questions. This will give them the chance of learning by doing. The Post-task consists on the presentation of each collaborative group to the whole group. All these activities are centred on students.

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Teaching Guide: Lifestyles

Author: Alvaro Villota Villarreal – Description: This plan is designed to provide students a context to practice adverbs of frequency in a meaningful and entertaining way. The idea is to bring them a familiar story so they can relate.

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Teaching Guide: Colombia a Country of Wonders

Author: Clara Inés Azuero Bernal – Description: This lesson plan gives the students the opportunity to expand structures and vocabulary related to nature: weather, touristic places, food, activities to do, flora, wildlife, culture, advice to protect these places through nice activities in a real context. It can also be useful to promote tourism in Colombia- specially in Huila

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Teaching Guide: Countries and Nationalities

Author: Danna Marylin Cordoba Oviedo – Description: This lesson plan allows students understand and know about the world. Students have the opportunity to create short conversations and put in practice the used vocabulary through communicative activities and different games

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Teaching Guide: Health Education

Author: Lina Constanza Home Gutierrez – Description: This plan gives the students an opportunity to review vocabulary related to free time activities and express their likes and preferences with their classmates. This lesson plan lets rural students not only reinforce what they probably know about the topic but also learn more in a meaningful way when they use their real context.

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