Grades English Teacher

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Activity 2 Look, listen and put number.
Objectives: to recycle the vocabulary for wild animals; to develop the pupils’ listening and cognitive abilities
First repeat the material about the animals and then go on doing the tasks.
Task 1. Say that an animal has run away from the zoo. Therefore, ask the children to listen to the description of this animal and guess which of the 3 animals among the top pictures it can be. Also ask the pupils to look at the right hand page of the textbook where the pictures of a bear, a monkey and a giraffe is drawn. The first task is to find the animal that has run away.

Read the text 1.

I am small. I am brown. I have 2 hands and 2 legs. I can climb. (Read 3 times)
Then ask the pupils to look at the 3 animals in the pictures at the top of the page and put a tick near the animal which they think has just been described. Ask them not to speak aloud when they put a tick.
Task 2. Say that the task is not finished yet. Draw the pupils‟ attention to the animals in the zoo and ask whether all the animals are clear to them. It appears that there should be a monkey in an empty cage. It has already told about itself. Therefore, there is already number 1 in a small square near the cage with the monkey. Further, read the texts about the other animals from the zoo that spoke about themselves. The children need to listen attentively, guess which of the animals of the zoo is speaking and put a number near this animal.
Text 2 (it is necessary for the children to guess this animal and put number 2 in the square)
I am big. I am brown. I can walk. Answer key: bear

Text 3

I am big. I am yellow and brown. I have four legs. Answer key: giraffe

Text 4

I am big. I am green. I can swim. Answer key: crocodile

Text 5

I am big. I am black and white. I can run. Answer key: zebra