This story
can be listened and acted out, or rewritten by young learners and can inspire children’s
imaginative additions and creations
Level: Beginners
Age: 9 to 10
Time: 3 times 45 minutes.
Language: animals, pets,classroom objects, colours, see, next to,
Preparation: Make bingo cards – colours, animals (words, pictures). Collect
songs concerning animals, colours. Make a scratch book
In Class:
The story is about animals and colours. There are pictures of different animals
(they are all of different colours)
1. Before reading introduce an easy chant about animals:
Listen, listen!
Bow, wow, wow, wow,
What's this?
Bow, wow, wow, wow,
What's this?
Bow, wow, wow, wow,
What's this?
It's a DOG!
(mime the actions, students follow you)
Change the animal and go on with the song (bird, cat, cow). Later pupils join in.
Sing a song - Colours.
Red and yellow,
Blue and green, blue and green, blue and green,
Red and yellow
Blue and green, black and white and brown. |
The story:
1st reading
Children after two examples try to join in and guess the animals and colours.
2nd reading
Say: Children, Children! What do you see?
They answer:
I see a _______ next to me.
(Here you can use different instruments to stress the rhythm.)
Post-reading activities
1. A memory game
Pair work: They ask each other
questions about animals like:
What colour is the _____? It's _______ .
They sing and call out names of
classmates like:
Anna, Anna!
What do you see?
I see a book next to me.
They name classroom or school objects.
2. Coloured cards
(4 red, 4 blue, 4 green, 4 orange)
each with animal on them (like: a green, red, blue, orange cat, dog, horse, bird, mouse).
You can play different games with them.
Each pupil gets 4 different cards.
1. Find a green cat (pupils take the right card)
2. Have you got a red mouse? Yes, I have. (they show it)
3. Show them a card and say: Tine, Tine! What do you see? I see a blue dog looking at me.
4. Make a graph:
My favourite animal is: They stick their favourite animal on the board and at the end they
report about the class animals.
One child likes ___, two like ____ etc...
3. Than play Bingo – colours or
animals either with pictures or words on it.
They also make their own bingo cards. One calls out the animals, the others cover them
with tokens. The winner is who first covers all the animals .
4. Students match pictures with words. (option - computer
interactive exercise made with Hot Potatoes
software.)
Colours
4. Play a guessing game:
What is it? Is it a …. Think about an animal and students guess what it is.
Project work
They draw their favorite animals and
they colour them. They write simple sentences.
I like dogs. My dog is red.
Class exhibition of their books and projects . |
