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Learning Guide: Discovering amazing natural places

Author: Diego Fernando de la Portilla Guerrero – Description: Dear students: In this guide you will learn about landforms and the use of a graphic organiser to write simple, complete paragraphs in English. Sometimes writing appears to be difficult for us, but using this technique will help you to understand the organisation of a paragraph in English. You will also have to use your abilities to complete a crossword and identify a place in our country you will have to write some lines about. You will spend about one hour completing this task that will help you to learn new vocabulary and practice your writing skills.

Learning Guide: One world

Author: Zaide Milena Díaz, Lorena Patricia Mendez, Julieth Rangel – Description: This English self-study guide helps you learn vocabulary about countries and nationalities, descriptive adjectives and the use of adjectives . All the activities are connected to the reading in Way to Go Student Book and workbook 6th Module 4 Unit 1 (page 46 workbook ). It starts with some vocabulary activities. Then, you have to read a text and work on some activities about it, then you will discover how to describe places and use the topic study. Finally you will design a poster about your favorite city in the world; that poster will be shared with your teacher and classmates.

Learning Guide: Here’s where I live!

Author: Jhon Jaiver Ladino, María Mónica Timaná, Rodrigo Chaguala – Description: Dear students, this self-study guide will give you enough input and practice about the topic: “Describing Places” which is necessary for you to talk and describe the place where you live. By means of completing this guide, other students from Colombia and your classmates will have the chance to learn about your town, city or department. At the end of this guide, you will also have the opportunity to self-assess your progress and performance while doing all the activities. Enjoy it!

Teaching Guide: Personality traits

Author: Alex John Mosquera Angulo – Description: This plan gives to teachers the opportunity to follow in an easy and structured way the step by step in each activity. Students can speak freely about people appearance and traits since it is a familiar topic for them.

Teaching Guide: Caquetá is wonderful!

Author: Linsay Stefany Doncel Castaño – Description: This plan includes some activities that allows students to describe touristic places in Colombia through practicing abilities like reading, speaking, writing and listening. It includes a game in order to make groups of work.

Teaching Guide: Touristic places

Author: Ricardo Yepes Carmona – Description: This task plan focuses on describing cities around Colombia. It also looks towards raising awareness on the variety of cities Colombia has. T can integrate social studies to make students identify key aspects about Colombia. Finally, this plan incorporates peer assessment techniques that make students provide feedback to other peers.

Teaching Guide: Describing people and places

Author: María Velez Bolaño – Description: This plan is useful to introduce the topic “comparative and superlative” in a dynamic way and to motivate our students to use and learn this grammar topic in an implicit way within an appropriate context as it is “Our world”

Teaching Guide: Past events

Author: Mireya Esther Dominguez Gomez – Description: This plan allows the students to improve their communicative competences through an effective process of scaffolding, such as modelling the writing process, eliciting vocabulary meaning and noticing grammatical structures, involving them in an enrichment and meaningful experience, learning about their own town and culture through cooperative work. It also gives the teacher the opportunity to assess students’ strengths and weaknesses. Besides, technology is implemented in the class by useful tasks.

Teaching Guide: Creating Monsters

Author: Marlon Méndez – Description: This task plan integrates literature and Arts. Students have the opportunity of developing creative thinking and team work to create a monster. This is a plan that motivates students to read and enjoy literature.

Teaching Guide: Fashion

Author: Dubys Arroyo – Description: This plan guides students to participate in a project and work cooperatively by developing different entertaining activities about fashion. It also allows students to learn different vocabulary and expressions related to fashion.