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Teaching Guide: Family Life

Author: Norma Constanza Silva Cubillos – Description: This plan is useful because it has been designed as a guide that shows step-by-step significant activities that allow students to acquire easy, fun, interesting, motivating and contextualized learnings. It has been prepared in accordance with the guidelines of the Suggested Curriculum Structure and Basic Learning Rights. The purpose is that Colombian teachers can find a model that allows them to improve the preparation and presentation of their classes.

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Teaching Guide: Professions occupation, vocation and life plan

Author: Esteban Carvajal Ocampo – Description: This plan is a good way to assess ss level while they think which professions they like the most and which ones are not appealing for them. This is a good strategy to connect and anchor new vocabulary and language skills with their daily life, motivations, vocations, expectations, likes and dislikes. Ss are able to express and communicate their likes and dislikes regarding professions to their classmates.

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Teaching Guide: Knowing the city

Author: Carlos Mario Pacheco Martinez – Description: This lesson plan allows ss to enjoy sharing with partners, which helps them to be aware of the importance of group work and relationships. It also provides ss the freedom to speak about their daily context and the places and activities they really like.

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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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Teaching Guide: School habits

Author: Olga Mayorga Saenz – Description: This plan provides teachers and students with time to talk about habits specifically at school or classes. It makes students reflect upon how good habits at school can help them to have better academic results and better coexistence at school. Besides, it gives teachers some strategies to assess students’ level.

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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: 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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