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Learning Guide: Saving water

Author: Maritza Cardozo, Diana Rodriguez – Description: This English self-study guide helps you learn vocabulary about saving water. All the activities are connected
to the reading in English please fast track Student Book 9, unit 1 Module 4 lesson 2 (page
128,129,130,131). It starts with some vocabulary activities. Then, you have to read a text and work on
some activities about it, and then you will discover how to give advice to save water. Finally, you will
design a poster about giving advice to your friends and relatives to save water; that poster will be shared
with your teacher and classmates.

Learning Guide: Feelings and emotions

Author: Emerita Useche- Carlos Alvarez – Description: This self-study guide helps you to learn vocabulary about feelings and emotions and ask and answer
question with (Why) and (because). All activities are related to the book Way to Go 7 Unit 2 module 1,
Pages 49 – 52. It starts with the vocabulary activity, then a text and its reading comprehension exercises;
the language awareness section will help you discover the grammar and it ends up with a writing exercise.
Finally, the assessment task will help you check your progress.

Learning Guide: The Weather

Author: Genyvel Díaz Traslaviña, Adriana Martínez Torres, Luz Bibiana Lazo Esquivel, Olga Cecilia Gutiérrez Méndez – Description: This English self-study guide will help you describe what people do according to the weather. All of the activities are related to the topics of the weather, clothes, adverbs of frequency and some of the activities you can do depending on the weather. Besides, the activities are based on the English Please, Student’s book, pages 64 ,66 y 67. This guide aims to develop reading and writing skills, grammar and vocabulary. By the end of the guide the student will be able to write an email to a friend saying what the weather’s like, what people wear in that type of weather and what they usually do.

Learning Guide: Animal trafficking

Author: Ferney Ríos Castro, Karen Lizeth Henao, Juan Camilo Vasquez – Description: This English self-study guide helps you practise presenting your opinions in written form. All the activities are related to the topic of ideal world presented in English Please! Book 2 Module 5 Unit 2 Lesson 5. It starts with some vocabulary revision activities. After that, you have to answer some questions about the language used to make passive voice sentences. Then, you have to read a short text and answer some questions in order to improve your reading skills and end up writing about some solutions for each animal trafficking situation.

Learning Guide: Camping trip

Author: Wilson Aguirre – Description: This English self-study guide helps you practice vocabulary about camping and scouting. It starts with
some vocabulary activities, then there is a reading text and three comprehension exercises. The
listening activity offers the grammar structure in context and some questions about it. Then, there is a
speaking activity in which you will make a video about survival tips in the forest.

Learning Guide: Eating disorders

Author: Alejandro David Julio Rhenals, Yaneth Rodríguez Rodríguez, Andrés Felipe Gómez Restrepo, Gloria Inés Padilla Uribe – Description: Hello Students. This English self-study guide gives you the sequence you need to identify should and shouldn’t, use and apply them in reading comprehension and writing activities. All the activities are related to the topic eating disorders in Way to Go Student Book 8 Module 2 Unit 1. It starts with some relevant vocabulary about the topic. Then, you have to answer and read using should or shouldn’t and finish writing a plan for healthy eating habits.

Learning Guide: Helping the environment

Author: Cindy Stefani Rivera Miranda – Description: Students, welcome to this self-study guide where we will learn some vocabulary related to environmental problems and some ways to protect our environment. Please, follow instructions. First you have to practice a vocabulary about environmental problems, then you have to read a text finding strategy to answer specific and inferential questions. And then, you have to ask some partners about some ways they could use to protect their environment, but using demonstratives adjectives explained in this self-study guide.

Learning Guide: Typical Food

Author: Jhonny Lemos, Alfredo Mejía Valencia, Jorge Sánchez Marín – Description: This self-study guide will take you through a series of activities which aim to improve your vocabulary in terms of a healthy lifestyle. It starts with a vocabulary review, then you have to match the names of some fruits and their definitions, then you will work on grammar by using quantifiers to complete the activities. After that, you will read a text about some Colombian dishes and you will complete some charts with the information from the texts. Finally, you will create a new chart to describe a Colombian dish and foreign dish. The information can be found on Módulo 3, unidad 1, lección 1 en página 86-88 from the English please Student’s Book 9h grade.

Learning Guide: Healthy lifestyles

Author: Diego Fernando Cardona Valencia, Luz Adiela Arias Valencia, Fernando Monsalve López, Jhon James Arroyave Guazarabe – Description: This self-study guide helps you learn vocabulary related with healthy lifestyles such as healthy food, quantities, countable and uncountable food, and to ask for quantities of food by using how much/ how many. All the activities are taken and adapted from Module 3, Unit 1, lesson 2, from the textbook English Please! Fast track 1, pages 87, 91 and 92. It starts with some vocabulary revision activities. After that, you have to complete some reading exercises with multiple choice option, similar to the ones in Pruebas Saber. Finally, you will design a short survey related to eating habits at the school restaurant.

Learning Guide: My ecological footprint

Author: Luz Miryam Montilla Montaña – Description: This English self-study guide helps you create an action plan to take care of the environment. All the activities are related to the topic “My ecological footprint” presented in Way to Go Student Book, Module 1 Unit 2. It starts with some vocabulary revision activities. Then, you have to answer some questions about the language used to describe plans (gerunds), do some tasks related to an article and end up writing an action plan to save the planet.

Learning Guide: This is my house!

Author: Flor Esmila Pérez Buitrago, Edna Mireya Martinez, Gustavo Buitrago Torres – Description: With this self-study guide you will learn vocabulary related to parts of the house, furniture, and appliances. Also, you will learn how to describe places in a simple way using the expressions “there is and there are” for singular and plural nouns. Finally, you will talk about your own home in a video presenting the parts of it and what you can find there to practice all that you studied in the previous exercises.

Learning Guide: What do you do?

Author: Sandra Guerrero Céspedes – Description: This English self-study guide helps you practise the written description of your daily routine and
makes you able to ask and answer questions about the things you do. All the activities are
aimed at improving your understanding of the topic “what do you do?” presented in Way to Go
Student Book 6, module 1, unit 2, page 20. First of all, you will find some vocabulary revision
activities; secondly, you will read some descriptions and answer specific questions to verify your
reading comprehension. Finally, you will have a chat to introduce yourself, describe your routine
and ask some questions to your teacher and partners.

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