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Learning Guide: My personal care routine

Author: Ricardo Homero Arciniegas Erazo – Description: This English self-study guide helps you recognize and practice some vocabulary and expressions related to personal hygiene habits as well as the present simple tense and the adverbs of frequency. The activities presented in this guide are related to the Way to go student’s book 7, module 1, unit 2, page 27. First, you will find some vocabulary revision activities. Then, you will listen to an audio and answer some questions. Later, you will discover the uses of the present simple tense and the frequency adverbs through some true/false questions, and finally you will design some cards to invite others to have good personal hygiene routines.

Learning Guide: Nutrition and health

Author: Enzo Pacheco Castro – Description: This English self-study guide helps you practise giving instructions in written form. All the
activities are related to the topic healthy food choices presented in “Way to Go Student Book
8”, Module 2, Unit 2, Lesson 1. It starts with some vocabulary revision activities. Then, you
have to use ‘should’ and ‘shouldn’t’ to give advice about the healthy food habits.

Teaching Guide: Health

Author: Carmen Libia Beltrán Bravo – Description: This plan helps students to recognize positive and negative eating habits. By implementing it, you can share with the students new strategies for them to learn. This plan also provides tools to improve the learning and knowledge.

Teaching Guide: Good citizen

Author: Carmen Libia Beltrán Bravo – Description: This plan helps students to recognize characteristics of a good citizen. By implementing it, you can share with the students new strategies for innovating your English Class. This plan also provides tools to improve the learning and knowledge.

Teaching Guide: Environment

Author: Oscar Javier López – Description: This lesson plan was based on the textbook Way to Go 8, allowing teachers to use it as a resource in their classes. On the other hand, it does not dependent on it, as activities are well explained and can be adapted at schools that don’t have it. The lesson is part of the unit 1 and it’s about those environmental concerns that have a big impact on the environment.

Teaching Guide: Solving problems

Author: Robin Yovanni Millán – Description: This activity can be useful because in all social status of our daily lives, people are getting stressed without any reason and this leads them to get involved in conflict. For this reason, students and teachers must be prepared or at least have strategies inside their classroom to mediate with these situations. In addition, students can develop a sense of self-awareness so as not to get involved in conflicts. Moreover, students feel comfortable writing their feelings and emotions and learning to express their ideas and confront others in a conflict mediation.

Teaching Guide: Cultural Colombian groups

Author: Jennifer Cuellar Cuellar – Description: This lesson plan encourages students to use English in different interactions in order to promote production, critical thinking and teamwork, with the topic: learning about cultural Colombian groups. At the end, a strategy is suggested to assess your student`s progress.

Teaching Guide: Environmental problems

Author: Oscar Javier López – Description: This lesson plan was based on the textbook Way to Go 8 allowing teachers to use it as a resource in their classes. On the other hand, it does not dependent on it, as activities are well explained and can be adapted at schools that don’t have it. The lesson is part of the unit 1 and it’s about things people would like to do to reduce the impact of human actions polluting the environment.

Teaching Guide: My Memories

Author: María de los Ángeles Perdomo Perdomo – Description: This lesson plan focuses on memories students have about their past experiences. Additionally, this lesson plan fosters creative thinking since students create a book. It also integrates literature and art to make learning more meaningful. Some formative assessment techniques are suggested.

Teaching Guide: Duties as a citizen

Author: Carlos Alberto Gonzalez Ramirez – Description: This lesson plan highlights the importance of being a good citizen. Students are asked to think of behaviour that shows good citizenship in different places that are meaningful to them. On the other hand, The Exit Ticket, as a Formative Assessment Technique is suggested to check students’ learning.

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.

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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