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Teaching Guide: My Daily Routine

Author: Fernando Casanova Caicedo – Description: This plan can be used in urban & rural areas since I consider every human being has habits as animals as plants. The images of routines are quite useful in order to connect students’ prior knowledge in this way they can associate it with their realities. I use modern music and with the mimic actions acted out by students might emerge dance steps in this way they can enjoy and remember this class forever.

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Teaching Guide: Coexistence in the classroom

Author: Nancy Cerón – Description: This lesson plan gives the students an opportunity to learn more about their classmates since they are sharing information about their families, by practicing speaking and writing. In addition, it allows the teacher to know more about their students’ lives and it helps to build rapport, it is the human part of the teaching practice. According to the SEC, it is 6th grade, but if I am going to apply it in a school like mine, it is 8th grade because of the level of English in each grade.

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Teaching Guide: Tourist places

Author: ROCIO ELIZABETH NARANJO ARTEAGA – Description: This plan gives the students the opportunity to know more about the tourist places near to where they live and to share this information. It also allows students and teachers to work collaboratively and transversally considering the topic and the development of different skills in different subjects.

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Teaching Guide: daily routines

Author: Mónica Elizabeth Ortiz – Description: This plan is easy to adapt and requires very little materials and preparation. It is a great plan to practice language already taught and a way to engage students in hands on activities.

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Teaching Guide: What I do in my house

Author: Indira Rosa Sierra Solano – Description: This lesson plan permits that students imagine their dream house, create a model of it and present it to the class. Students can develop their creativity and use language to express things that are relevant to them. It is a good opportunity to learn language in a context that is connected to students’ lives, and thus this opportunity results in memorable and significant learning.

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Teaching Guide: Our colourful fruit dish

Author: Alexandro Hernandez Rodriguez – Description: This lesson plan gives students a chance to use English to interact with other classmates and work as a team. In this grade, they have their first contact with English so this lesson provides them with opportunities to get interested in using it as a communication tool and at the same time have fun.

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Teaching Guide: What can I do to help?

Author: Jessica Solano Rodríguez – Description: This plan helps other teachers to organize a class taking into account different approaches, the context and students’ needs. This lesson plan will help Ts and Ss to love English and practice it in their daily life.

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Teaching Guide: Describing my Family

Author: Camilo Augusto Bautista Rodríguez – Description: This lesson plan is a teacher’s guide for running a lesson, and it includes what the students are supposed to learn, the procedure and a way of measuring how well the goal was reached. It can be used as a guide for class learning.

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Teaching Guide: Talking about my daily routine

Author: Claudia Marcela Gonzalez Vargas – Description: This lesson plan gives teachers the opportunity to have the students practice the present simple tense through different practical activities that motivate sixth graders to talk about their daily routine. Also, this task plan implements different assessment techniques that help teachers to verify the students’ progress at each stage of the class.

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Teaching Guide: Storytelling

Author: Luisa Yina Mosquera Albornoz – Description: This plan helps students to learn how to describe characteristics of people, things and places in the past. By the end of the lesson, students will be able to ask questions and provide information about other people in past tense.

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Teaching Guide: Messages in social networks

Author: Luis Mario Fernández Mohamed – Description: This plan is an invitation for all students to be motivated with new ways of learning and to improve their English skills. This is a great opportunity to grow up as a student and to get a better level for the present and the future.

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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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