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Teaching Guide: HEALTHY EATING HABITS

Author: ADRIANA ISABEL MENESES GUALDRON – Description: This plan gives the students a chance to express what they like and dislike eating. It is a good opportunity to have students talk about one of their favourite topics. This plan can also give ideas for schools’ projects about promoting healthy eating habits.

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Teaching Guide: Recycling

Author: Rocio Camelo Silva – Description: This lesson plan provides students with the chance to talk about different ways of recycling. Even though students are encouraged to develop the four skills, they need to pay special attention to a reading in order to identify recycling tips and they are expected to do a recycling campaign by means of a poster. This lesson plan also gives students the opportunity to assess their peers and self-assess their own learning process.

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Teaching Guide: Natural wonders in Colombia

Author: Maria Consuelo Galindo Bahamon – Description: This lesson plan is about the wonderful places that Colombia has and why tourists should visit. In this plan, students check some vocabulary related to geographical accidents, activities and object to take to a specific place. In addition, some games are proposed to make the class fun.

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Teaching Guide: Bullying

Author: Leonor Diaz Laverde – Description: This plan allows students to think about bullying and the way can face it, giving suggestions and making recommendations.

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Teaching Guide: Top 10 places in Colombia

Author: Gustavo Antonio Herrera Cardona – Description: This activity plan focuses on biodiversity in Colombia through a Reading activity. This topic raises awareness about the actions we can take to protect our landscapes in the country.

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Teaching Guide: Health education: eating habits

Author: Maria Elizabeth Mariño Camargo – Description: This plan has been designed for seventh grade students who have A1 level in an urban area who come from different places around the municipality, having very little knowledge of English. In this lesson plan you will find some activities to improve your students’ reading and writing skills. They will interact with their peers, they will do collaborative work, they will use all their creativity and the teacher will be attentive all the time to give them the necessary support. This is a different class where students will learn enjoying everything they do and I am sure they will feel more motivated in their real life situations.
I invite you to implement this new strategy, which can be very useful in your classes.

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Teaching Guide: Living my city

Author: Juan Diego Vanegas Marin – Description: This plan is going to be helpful for those teachers that want their students to keep motivated with English through topics of their interests. The topic “Living the city” pretends to engage the students with topics as simple present, descriptive adjectives, there is/there are and quantifiers based on touristic places and plans they do or they can do in their own city (Medellin).

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Teaching Guide: Bullying and conflict

Author: Valentina Correa Zacipa – Description: This plan is designed to work one of the most common problems in Colombian classrooms: bullying, through the vocabulary related to this topic. Students can work on what bullying is, why people bully and how to deal with bullying.

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Teaching Guide: Construction of Citizenship

Author: Cludia Yanet Aristizabal – Description: This plan can inspire other teachers to improve their classroom practices and coexistence by socializing vocabulary related to emotions and feelings. Social and emotional skills are fostered.

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Teaching Guide: Environment

Author: Piedad Patricia Padilla Pineda – Description: In this lesson plan students will have the opportunity to express ideas about what should and should not be done for the conservation of the environment. Assessment activities are carried out in order to check students understanding.

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Teaching Guide: Let’s take care of our Beautiful Natural World

Author: Andrea Moreno Pereira – Description: This lesson plan gives the students a chance to learn about to take care of the natural resources and provides students with new environment vocabulary. It can also be a useful and productive class if students learn to become more conscious about the world they live and start implementing good actions in real live.

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