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This paper describes the internship, which was carried out at the educational institution Victoria Manzur, located south of Monteria city. It was carried out with the 11th graders of this place in a the completely virtual way during an academic semester, throughout this process three main steps were developed, the first one was to diagnose the level of literacy that the students had at the beginning of the process, the second one was working with them using the Reading to learn approach to improve their levels of literacy, the third one, was to find results that showed a significant change in the literacy of 11th-grade students. This process faced many pitfalls, especially because this internship was developed virtually in an unexpected way due to the COVID-19 pandemic, which caused the students to start classes with little technological tools to work comfortably and learn in a better way. Regardless of the difficulties, all these events were part great experiences that enriched the teaching experience, which will be immensely valuable for future projects. Working with youngsters in a new reality for teachers promotes reflection about how challenging can be fulfilling the goal of teaching a foreign language such as English when teaching virtually.

The purpose of this report is to highlight the positive and negative aspects of my professional and personal experiences obtained during an internship process at the Cristóbal Colón School located in Monteria-Córdoba as an English teacher. This internship intended to enhance sixth grader's vocabulary and oral competence through different approaches and strategies, Using a WhatsApp group, online classes through different apps, and the institutional platform. The approaches/strategies implemented were communicative language teaching, flipped learning, gamification, and task-based language teaching. Additionally, a lesson plan is described. To finish, this report highlights conclusions, the recommendation and limitations of the whole experience.