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Teaching Guide: Places of the neighbourhood

Author: Juan Carlos Sierra Villarraga – Description: This lesson plan provides students with the chance to talk about places of the neighbourhood and its corresponding location. Even though students are encouraged to develop the four skills, they need to pay special attention to a conversation in order to locate places and they are expected to describe their neighbourhood by creating a model scale made with disposable material. 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: Physical description

Author: Liliana Patricia Vera – Description: This plan will help you teach physical description adjectives and make students reflect upon the fact that all of us are different. It is a way to remark the importance of otherness and diminish bullying in our classrooms. If we teach something like that, we are contributing to our peace.

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Teaching Guide: Environment: Past tense

Author: Andrés Grisales Gómez – Description: This plan permits students and teachers to reflect upon some of the actions they have done in the past from an environmental perspective. Thus, this helps them to build a new action plan towards conservation and environmental consciousness.

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Teaching Guide: Making requests at school

Author: Johana Marcela Rodas Buitrago – Description: This plan will be helpful for teachers because it allows the tracing of student´s levels. Teachers can assess the students step by step in different ways, until they reach the main concepts of the topic. Besides, this plan allows you to make harmony grows within your class.

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Teaching Guide: Coexistence in the classroom

Author: Lina Clemencia Romero – Description: This plan is an opportunity for SS to tolerate each other’s differences and live in coexistence in the foreign language classroom. Here, the activities are centred on all the skills to obtain a written product that shows the importance of solving conflicts in a peaceful way.

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Teaching Guide: Actions for protecting the environment

Author: María Angélica García Mora – Description: This plan is mainstreamed with the area of Natural Sciences. The subject is about the Environment. This lesson plan gives different strategies for improving meaningful learning. It contents different activities for obtaining the knowledge and encouraging the participation. It also has assessment strategies that allow knowing the progress of students in learning. The students show acquired knowledge by using the imperative form and vocabulary related to environment, the elaboration of posters about protecting the environment and the participation in the different activities.

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Teaching Guide: Describing my family

Author: Juan David Ramírez Hincapié – Description: This plan allows you to work family members recognition and daily activities. It represents a great opportunity for students to express feelings about things they like and dislike. Several activities can be done through this plan.

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Teaching Guide: Saving Energy

Author: María Isabel Gamboa Corrales – Description: This lesson will provide a non-conventional way to work with students on a relevant topic as it is saving energy; it will also reveal diverse ways of assessing students’ progress and understanding. In addition to the previous, it contains different moments which approach the diversity in the classrooms. The steps are given sequentially, so the different moments of the lesson are very clear and connected with the previous parts.

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Teaching Guide: Personality traits

Author: Alex John Mosquera Angulo – Description: This plan gives to teachers the opportunity to follow in an easy and structured way the step by step in each activity. Students can speak freely about people appearance and traits since it is a familiar topic for them.

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Teaching Guide: Physical description

Author: Ana Yurleivis Robledo – Description: This plan gives the students skills to describe a person physically and also in term of personality traits. It gives them enough vocabulary (adjectives) to defence themselves at the moment of providing a detailed description of any person.

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Teaching Guide: This is my home!

Author: Neify Yineth Olmos Valderrama – Description: This lesson plan provides students with vocabulary to describe their houses. Teacher personalises the topic so that students find it more meaningful. Formative Assessment techniques are suggested to check the progress.

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