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FARM AND WILD ANIMALS
ANT1. PROJECTEsther Dalmau
Level: 1st and 2ndUNIT OF STUDY: The animals
Learning objectives:- Identify and recognize some farm animals.- Identify and recognize some wild animals.- Recognize some of the criteria to classify animals.- Distinguish farm from wild animals.- Classify the animals into groups depending on their characteristics.- Dramatize a story using oral and corporal skills.- Sing and learn a song.- Memorize a dialogue.- Describe an animal by its characteristics.- Participate and enjoy in the games.- Use different expressions to say hello and goodbye. The use of the
greetings.
Competencies involved:Linguistic competenceLearn to learnTCILearn and interact with the physical worldArtistic
See the lesson plan here
SESSION 1:Activity 1. Farm and wild animals We talk about the farm and the animals that we can find.Using real images projected we learn their names and we talk about their different characteristics. (How many legs? Do they have tail...)Have you ever seen a real…?We do the same with the wild animals
We have watched and talked about the different animals projected. First with the farm animals and secondly with the wild ones, using the material prepared. They all know lots of things about animals and they speak in Catalan more than I wish. I correct and translate at the time they say the different characteristics. I've asked them about the body parts, colours and actions that the animals could do and they answered me as well as they could. (How many legs has got the…? Can they fly, jump…? What colour is…?)
REFLECTING....
Activity 2. The COW’S BODYI’ve added a shorter activity in order to remember some vocabulary using a big poster with a big cow where they had to stick the different names of its body parts.
Activity 3. Describe an animalIn pairs they describe a farm animal.
WORKING IN
PAIRS
GUIDE PICTIONARY FOR THE WRITTEN TASK
REFLECTING....
THE
DESCRIPTIONS
During the writing activity, the CLUES given on a sheet and also the COW’s poster have been a good resource.Initially I thought to make a big poster with the clues to the written task but finally I did one little card for each pair.They have done their animal's description using the clues given and I think it has been really interesting to see how they work into pairs in a writing task. Some of them are able to work alone but other not, some don’t help their partners, others help a lot and some others helps more than the needed. It has been a nice experience for me and for them. During the writing activity, the CLUES given on a sheet and also the COW’s poster have been a good resource.
SESSION 2:
ACTIVITY 1.Showing our descriptionsThen in pairs they have practiced how to explain to the rest of the class their own animal. Then in pairs they've read their description as a riddle and at the end they asked to the rest: What animal is it? The rest of the class had to guess the animal. It has been a good activity and they like to show their works.
Listen one of our descriptions
They have difficulties to read in English (remember they’re on the 1st and 2nd level) and I had to help them reading and memorizing the description.REFLECTING....
ACTIVITY 2.Online activities.1. What animals is this?
2. Wild animals quiz.
When we finished the descriptions, we practiced with the online activities. They enjoy with all the computers activities and the activity was as I expected. But we don’t have an Interactive Whiteboard and for these kinds of activities it should be better.
REFLECTING....
ICT resourceshttp://www.eslgamesplus.com/farm-animals-vocabulary-game-for-esl-teaching-and-learning/
http://www.anglomaniacy.pl/wildAnimalsQuiz.htm
http://learnenglishkids.britishcouncil.org/es/word-games/find-the-pairs/farm-animals
http://www.anglomaniacy.pl/wildAnimalsMatching.htm
