Here We Go! 01 Teacher's Guide Unit 1

5 Strategies are clearly identified in every lesson of the Student’s Book and worked upon in the Teacher’s Guide. General learning strategies included in HWG Direct Memory • Creating mental linkages • Applying images and sounds • Employing action Cognitive • Practicing • Receiving and sending messages • Analyzing and reasoning • Creating structure for input and output Compensation • Guessing intelligently • Overcoming limitations Indirect Metacognitive • Centering your learning • Arranging and planning • Evaluating your learning Affective • Lowering anxiety • Encouraging yourself Social • Asking questions • Cooperating with others • Empathizing with others ♦ Cross-Cultural Approach: Throughout the program, students will get in touch with different cultures (including their own), not only the American or British ones. Thus, they will be more culturally sensitive and socially aware as they develop an understanding of the value of living in a diverse society. ♦ ♦ Task-Based Approach: Carrying out tasks helps develop comprehension and production skills. When students think of meaningful topics and use the language to perform a specific task, they learn more effectively than just by repeating or learning structures in isolation. In Here We Go! , projects are considered a means by which students can use their prior knowledge, combined with what they have recently learned in order to reach a meaningful goal: in this case, a product. In the process, theywill learn tonegotiate and collectively solveproblems through interacting with classmates. ♦ Total Physical Response (TPR): This method helps students understand instructions and learn vocabulary while developing listening skills. In HereWe Go! , songs, rhymes and chants are often accompanied by body movements, allowing children to have fun and learn more effectively. ♦ 21st Century Skills: among other sections, the projects also foster the mastery of skills that students need in order to face the challenges of today’s world, as proposed by the Consortium for 21st Century Learning: 21st Century Skills Knowledge and related skills Learning and innovation skills Information, media and technology skills Understanding of academic content Creativity Information literacy Global awareness Critical thinking and problem solving Media literacy Health literacy Civic literacy Communication and collaboration ICT literacy Environmental literacy