DIDACTIC UNIT:’AMAZING ANIMALS’

TIMING: 5 SESSIONS

DIDACTIC SEQUENCE OF ACTIVITIES.

FINAL TASK

- Dramatization : Pupils have to prepare a role-play which situation is a tale

‘Where’s the crocodile?’.

SESSION 1.

- SURVEY. The pupils ask their classmates about if they have or have not pets.

They practice the following structures ‘Have you got a cat/ dog/ horse/

bird?’’I have....’.

- LISTEN AND POINT. First pupils listen and repeat the new vocabulary, and

after they listen to it again and have to point the animals’ flashcards. (The

teacher will put the flashcards around the classroom).

- STORY-TELLING ‘WHERE IS THE CROCODILE?’The pupils listen to the

tale while the teacher shows the flashcards.

WHERE’S THE CROCODILE?

Once upon a time, a little yellow canary was flying near a lake, when she met a

beautiful blue butterfly.

‘Where’s the crocodile?’

‘I don’t know’, said the butterfly.

Then a pink flamingo arrived.

‘Where’s the crocodile?’, asked the canary and the butterfly.

‘I don’t know’,said the flamingo.

Then a duck arrived.

‘Where’s the crocodile?’,asked the canary, the butterfly and the flamingo.

‘I don’t know’,said the duck.

Later, a dragon-fly arrived.

‘Where’s the crocodile?’, asked the canary, the butterfly, the flamingo and the

duck.

‘I don’t know’, said the dragon-fly

And then a little green frog jumped up.

‘Where’s the crocodile?’, asked the canary, the butterfly, the flamingo, the duck

and the dragon-fly.

‘I don’t know’, said the frog.

‘Nobody knows!’,said the canary, the butterfly, the flamingo, the duck, the

dragon-fly and the frog.

‘HERE I AM!’,snapped the crocodile.

‘And where’s the canary and the butterfly, the flamingo, the duck, the dragon-

fly and the frog?’, asked the crocodile.

- READ AND WRITE. The pupils listen to the tale again and they have to

complete the story with the name of the characteres.( dunk, flamingo,

dragon-fly, frog, canary and so on).

- WRITE.

ANIMALS COLOUR LIVE EAT HAVE GOT

Brown and

yellow

grasslands leaves A long neck

Grey Lakes and

rivers

Grass A big mouth

Grey grasslands Fruits A trunk

yellow grasslands animals A long tail

Lions Elephants Giraffes Hippos

SESSION 2.

- GUESSING GAME. A pupil hides a animal’ flashcard and the classmates

have to guess what the animal is. They practice the following structure ‘Is

it ...? .

- LISTEN ‘TRUE OR FALSE’. The pupils work in pairs. A pupils makes a

sentence for example ‘There is one yellow butterfly’ and the classmate

answeres ‘True or false’.

- RHYME. The pupils listen and say the rhyme.

RHYME

Eeny, Meeny, Myney, Mo

Eeny, meeny, miney, mo

Catch a tiger by the toe

If he roars, let him go.

Eeny, meeny, miney, mo

- CROSSWORDS. The pupils find the names of twelve animals and write them

below.

SESSION 3.

- SPELL ANIMAL WORDS. A pupil spell an animal word and the rest of

pupils have to guess what the animal is. The winner will spell the next

animal word.

- LISTEN AND REPEAT. The pupils listen descriptions about animals and

after they repeat it.

- READ AND WRITE. The pupils read a text and they have to complete it.

- READ AND CHOOSE. The pupils read and put the letter in the box.

SESSION 4.

- THE ANIMAL GAME. The pupils ask some questions to guess what the

animal is.

- LISTEN, READ AND SAY THE ANIMALS. They read a text and say the

animals. After they work in pairs and ask different questions about the text,

for example ‘How tall is the giraffe?’’It’s 5 metres tall’. The teacher helps to

pupils to make the questions.

- MATCH AND WRITE. The pupils find the animal after they read small

descriptions and write the names.

SESSION 5.

- STORY-TELLING AGAIN. The pupils listen the story telling again and show

animals’ flashcards when they listen it.

- ANIMALS IN DANGER. They listen and read a text about animals in danger

and after the teacher ask them some questions.( for example, ‘Where do

tigers live?’’How long is a tiger?’...).

- YOUR ‘ZIG-ZAG STORYBOOK’. They make their own ‘zig-zag storybook’

and after they work in group and practise the story.

SESSION 6.

- WARMING-UP. BINGO. Pupils have a board with pictures related to

animals organised in lines. So, as I say the different words aloud, they will

have to check if they correspond to the words they have. When they get all

the pictures ticked they have to say BINGO!.

- DRAMATIZATION. ACTING OUT ‘Where’s the crocodile?’. Each group

show a zig-zag and they represent the story, each pupil is a character.

REINFORCEMENT ACTIVITIES:

- PLAY THE GAME. The pupils work in pairs, a pupil think an animal and another

pupil ask him/her to guess what the animal is.

- LISTEN AND WRITE. They have small descriptions about animals and they

have to write the necessary words in the text.

EXTENSION ACTIVITIES.

- MAKE A POSTER. They have to make an animal poster, they have to draw

an animal and make a small descriptions after they wiil present it to the

classroom.

- DESCRIPTIONS. They write one sentence about each animal.