Teaching Guide: DESCRIBING PEOPLE: PERSONALITIES
Author: Margarita Rosa Díaz Gamarra – Description: This plan will be useful for students to get to know more about their classmates and identify those characteristics that make them unique.
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Teaching Guide: Having fun free time activties
Author: Edna Teresa Ruth Lancheros Guerrero – Description: This lesson plan gives the students the opportunity to work and be involved in an interactive class. Students can enhance the four communicative language skills. It helps the teacher to have a better classroom management. Also, it makes students to be feel confident and motivated towards the lesson.
Teaching Guide: Natural parks in Colombia
Author: Luz Marina Cipagauta Siabato – Description: This lesson plan gives the students the opportunity to look for new information related to natural parks in Colombia and present it by means of a role play. It is good that students can practice asking and answering questions as this simulates a real life situation. This fosters students’ communicative skills.
Teaching Guide: Learning about fair trade products
Author: Aydee Barrera Plazas – Description: This lesson plan strengthens students’ communicative skills because the development of the activities makes students feel active and motivated. The topic encourages students to appreciate farmers´ labor and how fair trade may help them.
Teaching Guide: Traditional celebrations
Author: Claudia Rocio Castro Jaimes – Description: This lesson plan gives the students the opportunity to express their ideas about their own cultural traditions, presenting a celebration they like at home. Students can improve their listening and speaking skills along with social skills, related to team work and decision making.
Teaching Guide: Social values
Author: Carolina Sánchez Pulido – Description: This activity plan focuses on Social values as 11th graders are finishing High School. This planning also promotes reading comprehension about the topic. Finally, the Classroom Assessment Technique (Application Cards) that is suggested provides teachers with information that will show them whether the students have just memorized the material or if they know how they could use it.
Teaching Guide: Basic human rights and duties
Author: Marcela del Pilar Chacón Calvo – Description: This lesson plan gives the students the opportunity to think about relevant information related to their role as citizens, their rights and duties in different areas of their lives. Students will be working in groups and they will have to use their social skills to negotiate and come to agreements to present important information to the class.
Teaching Guide: Environment / Eco-destinations
Author: Viviana Andrea Castañeda López – Description: This lesson plan gives the students the opportunity to learn about different places in the world and Colombia known as eco-destinations. Through the description and characterization of these eco-destinations the students can talk about them, make plans and imagine situations as well as developing the four language skills.
Teaching Guide: Urban Tribes
Author: María Cristina Valdés Páez – Description: This lesson plan was created for 10th graders in order to allow them to express their opinion about urban tribes and compare them with their fashion style, music, common interest, ideology and activities they do.
Teaching Guide: Teen Culture
Author: Melba Sofía Cifuentes Rodríguez – Description: This plan will enable students to reflect on the characteristics they consider important in a role model giving them the opportunity to express their point of view and to talk about important roles for them. The lesson presents useful vocabulary in a context that creates a good speaking framework then, students will be able to enhance their communicative skills.
Teaching Guide: Different cultures, Different traditions
Author: Lizeth Catalina Murillo Urrego – Description: This plan gives students the chance to approach to other cultures from an intercultural perspective while developing their ability to recognize, accept and respect others. In addition, students will have the opportunity to express their personal opinion by observing different examples of structures and by using uncommon adjectives in order to expand their vocabulary. In the same way, they will have the possibility of establishing relationships of difference and similarity taking into account their own context.
Teaching Guide: Money makes the world go round
Author: Maria Consuelo Amaya Sanches – Description: This lesson plan has been designed to allow students improve their reading skills, identify important information related to spending money and present it to the class. Students have the opportunity to work in groups, interact with other students, make decisions, come up with conclusions and present factual relevant information to the class.
