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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.

Teaching Guide: Coexistence in the classroom

Author: Jorge Eduardo Cardona Arias – Description: This lesson plan is a good opportunity for the students to raise awareness about the positive language in the class and how it helps to sort out problems concerning connivance.

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.

Teaching Guide: Coexistence in the classroom: What can you do to help?

Author: Luz Dary González López – Description: This plan allows students to be aware of the importance of community help and volunteering work. This is a great opportunity for the teacher to foster interaction and emotional skills, emphasizing on the importance and the good feeling behind helping others.

Teaching Guide: Healthy physical routine

Author: Luz Elena Hurtado Giraldo – Description: This plan is useful for teachers because they can use it when the head English teacher is absent, so another teacher can give it to students. It gives teachers an opportunity to assess students` level in a transversal way and make the learning process more attractive.

Teaching Guide: Environment: What’s up with and in the water?

Author: Laura Cristina López Blandón – Description: This plan gives the students a chance to learn about the importance of preventing water pollution. Students will also review vocabulary about aquatic animals and, most important, students will practice their reading skills.

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.

Teaching Guide: Parts of the body

Author: Shirley Constanza Martinez – Description: This plan allows you to enhance the four skills in English while students describe parts of the body. Ss will learn the topic with interest and motivation since the methodology is very flexible and the activities promote the use of different intelligences: linguistic, interpersonal, musical and kinesthetic. That is why Ss are expected to have fun and learn at the same time.

Teaching Guide: Daily Routine

Author: Nataly Loaiza Grisales – Description: This Lesson plan gives students the opportunity to learn the daily routines in a visual and dynamic way, in which it is taken into account a routine based on their context. Through the class, students will have the opportunity to interact with different language skills based on their communicative level.

Teaching Guide: Family members

Author: Mayra Ginever Fuentes Perez – Description: This plan gives the students and you the opportunity to learn about family relationships and develop the communicative competence freely since you can get fun during the teaching and learning process. In addition, it lets you know about your students and your own teaching practice progress.

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.

Teaching Guide: Daily Activities

Author: Luz Mila Puentes Camargo – Description: This lesson plan gives Ss the opportunity to talk about other people’s daily activities, and it gives them the chance to assess themselves on the use of the language. It can also be a useful and productive lesson to stimulate students’ production.

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