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Teaching Guide: My Family

Author: Selene Candela Sanz – Description: This plan gives students the opportunity to ask for and provide information regarding their families. Moreover, it gives them the chance to ask their classmates about their families` likes and dislikes. Finally, at the end of this class, students will be able to interact with each other by describing their family members.

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Teaching Guide: Environment

Author: Lilian Yiced Arango Muñoz – Description: This lesson plan, though intended for 9th graders, can be implemented from 8th to 11th grade since what is challenging for students is not the topic, but the reading strategies they must develop. First of all, according to standardized tests (SABER) inferential reading it is one of the toughest strategies and, in this lesson plan, the teacher does not give the answers but tools for them to improve. Second of all, it provides different ways to assess the learner’s competence. Moreover, it is designed to lower the affective filter and use ICT resources to trigger self-learning and, eventually, transform the students into critical thinkers.

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Teaching Guide: Don´t waste water

Author: Marco Tulio Jurado Flórez – Description: This lesson plan gives the students a chance to know about water and the different ways to save it and also invites to reflect about how to protect water sources like rivers, ponds and lakes.

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Teaching Guide: Problems and Solutions

Author: Adriana Ordoñez Trochez – Description: This project plan is very useful if you as a teacher wants to improve Students’ awareness about the environment. It is very complete and will allow you to assess your learners through different stages.

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Teaching Guide: Likes and Dislkes

Author: Beatriz Elena Ramirez Londoño – Description: The actual lesson plan allows current teachers to help out students become conscious of the paramount importance of acquiring a healthy and balanced diet through the identification of food group’s benefits and the establishment of wise eating choices.

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Teaching Guide: Landscapes

Author: Jorge Andrés Molina Tovar – Description: This lesson plan gives the opportunity to work on a topic that we can relate to objects that we see every day, which are the parts of the landscapes. The activities written here allow the teacher to introduce vocabulary and language functions in a way that is not boring to the students through the use of creative activities. Besides, at the end we also include an activity for researching about national parks in Colombia, in this way, they can learn about their own country in a different language.

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Teaching Guide: Making peace through Words and Actions

Author: Astrith Maria Bolaño Mancilla – Description: This plan will allow teachers to talk to the students on the role of language (positive and negative) in the construction of peace in the community. Reinforce vocabulary, mechanize structures and evaluate students’ progress in relation to the topic and their feelings about the activities and techniques developed.

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Teaching Guide: Body Parts and Injures

Author: Carolina Ferrucho Sánchez – Description: This lesson plan gives both students and teachers the opportunity of giving suggestions to different types of injuries. Additionally, the use of graphic organisers help students organise their ideas before speaking. Finally, this lesson plan includes Formative Assessment Techniques that permit teachers and students to keep track of the learning process.

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Teaching Guide: Globalization Problems

Author: Andrés Fabián Rivera Zapata – Description: This lesson plan helps students to know about reading strategies such as SCANNING. It also lets them know about its use in increasing reading skill levels and, in the same way, it will be a good way to assess students´ level of reading comprehension and a good chance to apply some Classroom Assessment Techniques and check their effectiveness. 

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Teaching Guide: Daily routines

Author: Sandra Castro Soto – Description: This plan gives the students the possibility to talk about healthy daily habits that relate to the present time, and it also gives teachers a valuable opportunity to assess their Ss’ knowledge about the simple present tense to talk about daily routine. Finally, Formative Assessment Techniques are suggested to raise awareness of the importance of keeping track of the students’ learning process.

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Teaching Guide: My last weekend

Author: Milagros Gomez Romaniz – Description: This plan is appropriate to help ss use the simple past tense in a contextualised way and without being exposed to explicit grammar explanations. It is also contextualised in the urban area of Barranquilla since it mentions the pier, the zoo and some other remarkable places of our city.

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Teaching Guide: Eating habits and food groups

Author: Mariel Elena Guzman Maury – Description: This lesson plan guides students from rural and urban areas to identify and distinguish the different food groups through the development of oral and written activities. Also, it provides different assessment techniques that allow teachers to have a follow up of the students’ understanding and performance throughout the lesson.

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