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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: 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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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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Learning Guide: Tolerance

Author: Martha Carolina Carvajal, Omar Orlando Peña, Omayra Rubiela Criollo – Description: This English self-study guide helps you in reading comprehension. The activities are related to a reading about tolerance in English, Please Student Book 10 Module 3 Unit 2 Lesson 5. It starts with some vocabulary revision activities. Then, you have to answer some questions about the text.

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Learning Guide: Having fun

Author: Katherine Cortes Alarcón – Description: This English self-study guide helps you to practice describing sports and hobbies in written form. All the activities are related to the topic “having fun” presented in English, please! Student book 2, module 1 unit 1 lesson 1. It starts with a revision of vocabulary about sports and hobbies, then it presents some adjectives to describe a sport/hobby. It ends with writing the description of a sport or hobby.

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Learning Guide: Saving water

Author: Norbelly González Plaza
Janett Guzmán Cortés
Aranza Cathalina Laiseca Campos – Description: This English self-study guide helps you reinforce vocabulary related to saving water and how to use imperatives to give instructions and suggestions through the reading, writing and speaking skills. You will find 5 main activities:
-Activity 1 Vocabulary: Fill in the blanks with the words and phrases given
-Activity 2 Language awareness: Identify and write down statements instructing someone to do and Not to do something in order to protect natural resources.
-Activity 3 Reading: Match the words with the pictures and then read the text and answer some questions. Finally, identify problems, reasons and green solutions by classifying phrases in the corresponding column.
-Activity 4 Writing: Use imperatives to write at least four ideas about saving water and make a poster with them.
-Activity 5: Record a video where you present your poster about tips for saving water.
Once you have finished, do not forget to assess your performance in the self-assessment section.

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Learning Guide: My Hiking Trip

Author: Jimmy Alexander Gaviria Delgado – Description: This self-study guide will give you some orientation about how to talk about facts that are always true using zero conditional and some vocabulary for a hiking trip. The activities presented here are based on the English Please, Fast Track 10th student’s book, Module 2, Unit 3, Lesson 7. It starts with some vocabulary review activities, then you will read and answer some reading comprehension questions about a hiking talk. After, you will discover the uses and structure of the zero conditional, and finally, you will design a poster to talk about a hiking trip with your friends.

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Learning Guide: Sports and hobbies

Author: Gloria Adriana Bolaños Escobar, Jhoana Rocío Paz Guerrero – Description: This English self-study guide helps you practise vocabulary related to sports, hobbies and leisure activities as well as the uses of the verb “can” to express abilities and possibilities. All the activities are based on the English, Please! Student’s Book 2 Lesson 1 page 12. It starts with an activity to review vocabulary. Then, you will answer some reading comprehension questions and analyse the uses and structure of the verb “can”, and end up writing about your abilities related to sports, hobbies and leisure activities and those of your best friend.

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