9th grade – Página 6

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.

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.

Teaching Guide: Describing people and places

Author: María Velez Bolaño – Description: This plan is useful to introduce the topic “comparative and superlative” in a dynamic way and to motivate our students to use and learn this grammar topic in an implicit way within an appropriate context as it is “Our world”

Teaching Guide: Teenagers

Author: Walter Dominguez – Description: This plan lets students know more about you, not as a teacher but as a person, and it also gives the opportunity to check students understanding and know what they do at their homes. It’s one of the biggest opportunities to know your students better, even if you are substituting another teacher or it’s your first class with that course.

Teaching Guide: Daily routines

Author: Carlota Quinto Gómez – Description: This plan allows the students develop and improve their English knowledge, and it also give you the opportunity to know the progress of your students in the English language.

Teaching Guide: Past events

Author: Mireya Esther Dominguez Gomez – Description: This plan allows the students to improve their communicative competences through an effective process of scaffolding, such as modelling the writing process, eliciting vocabulary meaning and noticing grammatical structures, involving them in an enrichment and meaningful experience, learning about their own town and culture through cooperative work. It also gives the teacher the opportunity to assess students’ strengths and weaknesses. Besides, technology is implemented in the class by useful tasks.

Teaching Guide: Frequent activities

Author: Ricardo Consuegra Martínez – Description: This plan enhances the use of adverbs of frequency at the moment of describing different activities like going to the supermarket. In other words, it helps ss enrich their expressions related to daily activities by adding the frequency with which they develop such activities.

Teaching Guide: Food

Author: Sussy Perez Guzman – Description: This plan guides ss to recognise different types of food including what is healthy and what it is not by identifying the benefits of fruits and vegetables and the issues that junk food can have. This plan allows ss to work individually and in groups in order to promote interaction inside the classroom. Additionally, it guides ss to get to know their own level of performance by providing a self-assessment technique.

Teaching Guide: The weather

Author: Vicky Cantillo González – Description: This lesson plan gives students and teachers the opportunity to verify how the learning process is going and offers chances to learn not only the new language but a meaningful topic (the weather) in a very creative and productive way. Finally, it provides students with enough vocabulary to describe the weather and teachers with a bunch of activities to conduct a meaningful class.

Teaching Guide: How was my life before social networks?

Author: Liseth Patricia Jiménez Arias – Description: This lesson plan is very useful if you are thinking on teaching simple past tense

Teaching Guide: Common diseases in my region

Author: Indira Rolong Asuncion – Description: This plan is useful to practice how to give recommendations when talking about the main diseases that affect the region where the students live. It is a topic that can be related to science classes to make transversalization.

Teaching Guide: I was sick

Author: Erika Insignares Barrios – Description: This plan guides students to find out more about common diseases and communicate the possible ways to prevent or cure them. It also allows teachers to have the students practice present perfect and past simple through different group and individual work activities, while practicing their reading and writing skills.

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