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Teaching Guide: After school club

Author: Doris Elena Villamizar Villamizar – Description: Collaborative work is the best tool to increase student’s participation and share outcomes. Therefore, constant feedback is a key to generate confidence in the development of skills by using progressive methods like teamwork and formative assessment to check understanding through dialogue between SS-T.

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Teaching Guide: Greetings around the world

Author: Emilio Criado Rocha – Description: Through this activity plan you can see how each one of the stages lead your students to practice writing and speaking in different moments throughout the lesson. Besides, in this plan, students can learn by themselves, because they ́ will be the main actors in the class and you will only be a guide waiting to give feedback when necessary. And finally, with this activity plan you can forget the traditional English grammar classes and produce more dynamic and participative classes, which motivate students to be interested in learning of conversational English and work real themes that are more appropriate for discussions.

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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.

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Teaching Guide: Amazing people

Author: Nancy Camargo Rodelo – Description: This plan gives the teachers the opportunity to teach in an effective and different way considering the different learning styles while engaging the students in multiples tasks. It integrates the four skills, so they can write, listen, read and speak about events related to their biographies. It also allows you to have an out-of-the-ordinary class by incorporating new strategies to assess the students’ performance and the class itself leading to improvement in classroom management and increasing motivation.

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Teaching Guide: Describing what you see

Author: Johny Barrera Tafur – Description: This plan is framed within the scope of the suggested English curriculum for Module 4: Globalization, in which students can discover different cultural aspects of various countries in terms of body language communication. Students have the chance to work individually and in groups in order to achieve the expected goals in this lesson.

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Teaching Guide: The value of our local Context: Our school

Author: Vanessa Del Rocío Celis Villamil – Description: This lesson plan gives the students a chance to locate themselves, other people and objects in their own school. It can also be useful to compare their school with other schools in Colombia or abroad, in that way they can learn more vocabulary and reflect about different contexts. By using students’ own context, it makes the class easiest, funniest and real.

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Teaching Guide: Value of Local Cultures

Author: Liliana Patricia Gomez Briceño – Description: This plan gives students the opportunity to learn about basic math vocabulary and some prepositions of place. It also gives you a useful tool to assess your students by implementing self-assessment and peer- assessment. Moreover this project plan is a nice option to apply the interdisciplinary knowledge between Math and English to sixth graders. In addition, in here you will find how CAT strategies are used as well as and some suggestions to teach English outdoors.

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Teaching Guide: Describing people in my community

Author: Leonor Alvarez Franco – Description: This plan guides students to work on describing physical and personality features of people through different fun and innovative activities that allow students to practice adjectives, Wh questions and simple present and present progressive tenses.

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Teaching Guide: Why do I learn English?

Author: Liliana Paternina Soto – Description: This lesson plan gives the students a chance to increase their metacognitive strategies by reflecting why they need English in their lives. Moreover, it is a meaningful lesson because it makes students embrace a growth of mind-set of consciousness on their own necessities and shows them how English can help them to reach their goals.

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