Unit 10: Look Out!
A Lion’s Coming
Unit Outcomes: Students will be able to describe animals.
Vocabulary: Wild animal vocabulary e.g., elephant, lion, giraffe, hippo, crocodile, hyena, monkey, zebra, camel, adjectives: e.g. long neck, what animals
eat,where animals live etc.
Competency Content/Language item Learning activities and Resources
Students will be able to: A. Listening and Speaking • The teacher says the name of an animal and students point to it in a picture.
• Students mime animals and others guess
• give simple descriptions
• Present simple to • Each student is given the picture of an animal. In turns they describe the animal.
of animals
describe an animal
It lives …
It eats ….
It has …. legs etc?
• ask and answer questions • Yes/no questions • The teacher takes a picture of an animal. Students play a guessing game. They have eight
about animals (present simple) questions to guess the animal. When they have guessed another student takes a picture and
Does it eat grass? the game continues
Does it live in water?
Is it …...?
Negatives –
no, it doesn’t
It hasn’t any….
comparatives (-er) (double • In groups students have 3-4 pictures. They make sentences comparing the animals. When
consonant spelling rule) e.g. they have finished, they swap pictures with another group.
Bigger/fatter • The teacher divides the class into groups depending on which animal they like best. Each
group talks together about why they like their animal and why it is better than the other
• listen to a story and animals. They present their reasons to the class (with a poster – see writing)
answer questions • The teacher tells a traditional tale involving wild animals. The teacher asks the students
questions as he/she goes along.
Pronunciation: revision of • Teacher models rising intonation and students repeat: whole class drill, then drill smaller
• yes/no questions (rising groups of students, finally individual drills.
intonation) • Students listen to verbs and group according to pronunciation of –s; put verbs into columns
• Present simple 3rd person
singular ending e.g. he
goes /z/ [ /s/ /z/ /Iz/
Competency Content/Language item Learning activities and Resources
/s/ /z/ /Iz/
cooks goes finishes
makes does washes
Students practise saying words in groups
• Students match the animals to the sentences
• read words and sentences B. Reading
• animals and sentences
• Students read the passage. In pairs they retell the main details.
• read short paragraph and about them
retell the main details • reading passage about
national parks
• Students spell 5 animal words.
• spell words correctly C. Writing
• 5 animal words • Students take dictation of sentences. They compare their answers with their partner.
• take dictation of short
sentences • dictated sentences about
animals
• write a paragraph of 5 • Students write a short story about an animal or animals, using pictures as stimulus
short sentences • paragraph
Assessment
Speaking and listening
- Students describe the daily routine of an animal.