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Learning Guide: Discovering amazing natural places

Author: Diego Fernando de la Portilla Guerrero – Description: Dear students: In this guide you will learn about landforms and the use of a graphic organiser to write simple, complete paragraphs in English. Sometimes writing appears to be difficult for us, but using this technique will help you to understand the organisation of a paragraph in English. You will also have to use your abilities to complete a crossword and identify a place in our country you will have to write some lines about. You will spend about one hour completing this task that will help you to learn new vocabulary and practice your writing skills.

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Learning Guide: From Day to Day

Author: Janeth Lago Romo, Ana Cecilia Moreno, Campo Hugo Barrera – Description: This self-study guide will help you to practice vocabulary about time, actions, frequency adverbs, and other expressions. Also, you will describe and write about activities you do every day and enjoy doing a role play and a report about partner’s routine. Besides, you will check the progress with the App Be (the)1:Challenge. Finally, you will assess all your job.

These activities are related to the Book “English Please” 9, Fast track 1, Module 3. Now! Enjoy it learning English!

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Learning Guide: Healthy and Unhealthy Food

Author: Eliecer Díaz, Julio Dario Vega, Yasmin del Carmen Arteaga – Description: This English self-study guide helps you talk about food preferences and how to find out about each other’s eating habits, you will be able to talk about healthy and unhealthy diets presented in English, Please! 1. Students’ book Module 3 Unit 1 Lesson 1. It starts with some vocabulary. Then, you have to answer some questions about language used to describe what food or drink you like and dislike and what is healthy or unhealthy and end up writing short paragraphs you usually eat for breakfast, lunch and dinner.

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Learning Guide: Music

Author: Ingrid Lizeth Campos, Constanza Barco Suarez, Yurani Paola Osorio – Description: This English self-study guide helps you practice giving comments about your likes and dislikes in written form. All the activities are related to the topic ‘Music’ presented in “English Please 9°” student book, Module 2, unit 6, lesson 6. It starts with some vocabulary about musical genres. Then, you must read a text about likes and dislikes and answer some questions. Finally, you must write a short text about your likes and dislikes in relation to music.

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Learning Guide: Traditional Masks from Putumayo

Author: Orlando Peña Camelo, Omayra Criollo Escobar, Carolina Carvajal Niño – Description: This English self-study guide helps you learn vocabulary about how to make a Jean and Putumayo handcraft like masks. All the activities are connected to the reading in English, please! Student Book 10th grade, Module 2, Unit 2, lesson 6 (page 68). It starts with some vocabulary activities. Then, you have to read a text and work on some activities about it, then you will discover how to express abilities. Finally, you will design a brochure about Putumayo Masks, that brochure will be shared with the teacher and classmates in an oral presentation.

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Learning Guide: How do you spend your free time?

Author: Yasmín del Rocío Armero Cabrera,
Johanny Katherine Quiroz Rosero,
Rocío Chalapud Velasco,
Román Rodrigo Bolaños Carlosama – Description: Welcome dear student! This English guide helps you to practice how to talk about free time activities using the simple present and the auxiliary verb do and does. You will find some activities to review vocabulary, a short reading and some comprehension questions about it. Also, you will answer some simple questions to discover the uses of the simple present and finally, you will make a short interview to a family member and report his/her answers in a short paragraph following the model given.

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Learning Guide: My daily routine

Author: Tránsito Berónica España Mueses – Description: This English self-study guide helps you practice vocabulary about daily routines and the present simple tense. All the activities are related to the English, Please! Fast Track 9 page 49. You will answer some vocabulary review activities about daily routines. Then, you will listen to an audio and answer some questions about it. After, you will discover the uses of the present simple tense through some questions, and finally you will write short sentences to describe your routine following the example given. Have fun and learn a lot doing all the activities in this guide!

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Learning Guide: Helping the environment

Author: Nubia del Socorro Cuaspa Miramá, Oscar Hernán Ayala Chávez – Description: This English self-study guide will help you to practice how to give advice and suggestions using the modal verb Should. The vocabulary is related to actions in order to save the environment with activities from the English Please Student’s Book 9 Module 3, unit 2 lesson 5. The main emphasis of this lesson is on giving recommendations to care for the environment using should and shouldn’t.

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Learning Guide: Healthy Life

Author: Luz Elena Rivadeneira Miranda, Liliana del Rosario Calpa Burbano, Oscar Roberto Hernández Pantoja – Description: This English self-study guide helps you practice vocabulary about healthy lifestyle. All the activities are connected to the reading in English Please 9, Unit 1 Module 3 lesson 2 Page 91. It starts with some vocabulary revision activities. Then, you will read a text and work on some questions about it, then you will discover how to express possibilities. Finally, you will design a poster about healthy habits to invite your family to be conscious about a healthy lifestyle, which will be shared at home.

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Learning Guide: Changing lifestyles

Author: Dexy Barros Fontalvo, Manuel García Ortíz – Description: This English self-study guide will help you practice to make suggestions in writing form to take
care of our environment. All of the activities are related to the topic of changing lifestyles
presented in the Way To Go students book 8 module 1 unit 2 lesson 2.
Pay attention what you have to do:
● It starts with some vocabulary activities.
● Then you have to read a text and answer some questions
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● Read the text again and find about the languages used to make suggestions.
● After that, you’ll write sentences making suggestions to people to take care of the
environment.
● Finally you will design an information leaflet with at least three suggestions to improve
our environmental practises.
● At the end you can check your progress by putting (X) if you consider you did it very
well, quite well, or if you have to review your activities.

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Learning Guide: Cooking Methods

Author: Milena Patricia Parra, Stiwar Yeferson Mena, Gloria Rubide Cabrera – Description: This English self-study guide will help you to learn about cooking methods, taking into account your general grammar of the simple present for working on reading, listening, writing and speaking skills when following instructions. These activities are related to the theme of cooking methods, recipes, and ingredients found on pages 65-67 in the “Way to Go Student’s book 2 Module Unit 2 lesson 2 and 3”. This begins with a vocabulary revision activity and some opinion questions about the topic. Next, you must do a matching activity. Then, read the two girls’ dialogue about empanada and write the description of your favorite traditional food, and also take a photo of it. Later, answer the two questions and listen to the nutritionist Lorie (track 30), take notes of the quantities, and number the photos in the correct order. Finally, think about a recipe for a healthy snack; make a list of the ingredients with the correct quantity, write the instructions to make the snack, and create some pictures for the instructions. Then, record a video explaining step by step your recipe and send the video through WhatsApp to your teacher. Lastly, solve the exercises 1, 2, and 3 on the Workbook, Page 2,2 and do the self-assessment.

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Learning Guide: I can take care of my body

Author: Juan Carlos Sánchez, John Arley Murillo, Irma Mercedes Guacas – Description: This English self-study guide will help you describe actions or events at a time before now. The topic is related to places in the city.
First of all, you will have to relate some words to their respective description; then you will answer some questions about a short text, and finally, you will have to do the first mission in the App Bethe1challenge, and share your opinions with your classmates.

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