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Teaching Guide: Traditional Games are funny!

Author: Jhonn Fredy Mora Restrepo – Description: This lesson plan is very useful for teacher and students, it gives the students the opportunities to know vocabulary related to traditional games and learn about present simple tense. Likewise it allows students to talk about an interesting topic how it is, number of players, what it needs to play and so on. Also it makes a reflection to get practice in some traditions that we are leaving thanks to new trends such as; social networks, video games and apps.

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Teaching Guide: Health education: eating habits

Author: Maria Elizabeth Mariño Camargo – Description: This plan has been designed for seventh grade students who have A1 level in an urban area who come from different places around the municipality, having very little knowledge of English. In this lesson plan you will find some activities to improve your students’ reading and writing skills. They will interact with their peers, they will do collaborative work, they will use all their creativity and the teacher will be attentive all the time to give them the necessary support. This is a different class where students will learn enjoying everything they do and I am sure they will feel more motivated in their real life situations.
I invite you to implement this new strategy, which can be very useful in your classes.

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Teaching Guide: Personal Care Habits

Author: Maritza Cáceres Zárate – Description: This lesson plan has been designed for seventh grade students who have A1 level in an urban area away from the city, who come from rural sites with very little knowledge of English language. In this lesson plan you can find step by step activities that will lead students to practice speaking, which they will practice at all times with the pair work. In this plan, the students will learn by themselves, they will be the most important actors in the class and as a teacher I will only be a guide waiting to give feedback when necessary. Finally, with this lesson plan we leave the traditional class and focus on more dynamic activities, which lead students to be motivated with the practice of English. This can be a very useful and productive class if you want to put it into practice with your students.

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Teaching Guide: Living my city

Author: Juan Diego Vanegas Marin – Description: This plan is going to be helpful for those teachers that want their students to keep motivated with English through topics of their interests. The topic “Living the city” pretends to engage the students with topics as simple present, descriptive adjectives, there is/there are and quantifiers based on touristic places and plans they do or they can do in their own city (Medellin).

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Teaching Guide: Landscapes

Author: Diego Luis Sandoval Bayona – Description: This lesson plan has been designed for seventh grade students who have A1 level and come from an urban area in Venezuela. The English language of this group is poor because for many of them it is the first formal contact with a foreign language in a classroom.

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Teaching Guide: Sharing our Habits, Likes, Hobbies and Interests

Author: Yorlady Loaiza Martínez – Description: This plan provides some ideas to teach hobbies, likes and personal integral care and also gives you different options to assess your students focusing in a formative way; besides, it is also useful to allow students to express their feelings and likes, and the most important, they make aware of the importance of personal care.

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Teaching Guide: Ideal leaders

Author: Amparo Suarez Barrera – Description: This plan is intended to give context and meaning to language to describe personality traits and use the modal verb should. Ss will discuss and decide what characteristics a class president should hold. The idea is to also make students aware of their responsibility as citizens.

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Teaching Guide: This is my classroom

Author: María Eugenia Martínez Tabares – Description: This plan presents to you important information about the environment and the use of prepositions of place and different activities for working with students of seventh grade in this topic. This is effective to become aware of the environment and order in different places.

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Teaching Guide: Avoiding bullying and conflicts

Author: María Rosa Matallana Pérez – Description: This lesson plan allows you to work different expressions students should / Shouldn´t use to avoid bullying and conflicts within the classroom. Also, it opens the possibility to forgiveness and reconciliation since there are many socio-emotional elements that will take place in this lesson.

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Teaching Guide: Bullying and conflict

Author: Valentina Correa Zacipa – Description: This plan is designed to work one of the most common problems in Colombian classrooms: bullying, through the vocabulary related to this topic. Students can work on what bullying is, why people bully and how to deal with bullying.

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Teaching Guide: Conservation

Author: María del Pilar Gutiérrez García – Description: This task plan has been created to introduce seventh grade students to vocabulary related to recycling as an environmental issue that students need to be aware of. It is also helpful when teaching should-shouldn’t grammar form.

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