Meet The Animals!.docx

`Meet the animals!` Time lesson: 60 min. Vocabulary ( Animals ) 1. Match each picture to the words in the box: ( 2 min.) camel / sheep / giraffe / bat / monkey / cow / turkey / duck

2. Look again at the pictures and say whether the animals are wild or domestic. eg. Bats are wild animals. ( 3 min.)

3. Guess the animal! ( 5 min. ) dog / camel / horse / kangaroo / mouse 1. This animal lives in Australia. It is big and very strong and can jump very high. The mother keeps her baby in her pouch. 2. This animal is small. It lives in people’s houses. Some people are afraid of it, but cats are not. 3. This animal is quite big. It is usually brown, but it can also be black, white or grey. It helps farmers to work in the fields. You can ride on its back too. 4. This animal is big. It can walk long distances, in very hot weather, without drinking any water for a long period of time. 5. This animal lives in people’s houses or around them. It barks and people enjoy having one as a pet. Cats are sometimes their big enemies.

4. Match the animals to their natural habitat: ( 5 min.) lizard / squirrel / dolphin / camel / shark / bear / deer / scorpion / whale / chimpanzee / fox / turtle / tiger DESSERT

FOREST

JUNGLE

OCEAN

5. Now say where each of them lives, as in the example: (5 min.) eg. Camels live in the desert.

6. Fill in the right question words, then match the questions to their answers: (3 min.) where / when / what / how many / why 1. ... is the name of this animal? 2. ... does it live? 3. ... does it have a pouch? 4. ... does it sleep? 5. ... legs does it have?

a. During the day. b. A kangaroo. c. In Australia. d. Four. e. To carry its babies.

7. Read and match: ( 2 min.) 1.Mammals; 2. Insects; 3. Reptiles; 4. Birds

a. They are cold blooded animals. Some of them have got four legs and some haven’t got any. b. They have got a pair of legs and a pair of wings. They have got feathers and most of them can fly. c. They can be big or small. They have babies and feed them on milk. d. They are small. Many have three pairs of legs, and some have two pairs of wings.

8. Say which of these are mammals, reptiles, insects or birds: ( 3 min.) ladybird / lion / butterfly / duck / deer / spider / snake / hen / parrot / alligator / mosquito / dolphin / dragonfly / whale / turkey / donkey / lizard / turtle / shark / kangaroo / camel / pigeon / penguin

9. Label each picture using the words below: ( 2 min.) kittens / calves / foals / ducklings / puppies / lambs / cubs / chicks

10. Fill in: ( 5 min.) 1. Cats have _ _ _ _ 2. Horses have ... 3. Dogs have ... 4. Sheep have ... 5. Hens have ... 6. Ducks have ...

7. Cows have ... 8. Tigers have …..

GRAMMAR ( The Plural of Nouns ) 11. Study the table: ( 10 min.) To form the plural: • most nouns take ‘s’: eg. books; dogs; • nouns ending in -s, -ss, -sh, -ch, -x, -o, take ‘es’: eg. buses; brushes; watches; boxes; tomatoes; • nouns ending in consonant + y drop the y and take ‘ies’: eg. countries; ladies; • nouns ending in vowel + y take ‘s’: eg. boys; toys; • nouns ending in -f or -fe take ‘ves’: eg. wolves; wives. There are some irregular plurals: child-children; man-men; woman-women; tooth-teeth; footfeet; mouse-mice; goose-geese.

12. Write in the plural forms of the following nouns: ( 5 min.)      

pillow ... policeman ... shelf ... factory ... watch ... life ...

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tooth ... child ...

13. Write the the plural form of each of the following nouns:

(5 min.)

1. flower 2. man 3. foot 4. baby 5. car 6. monkey 7. church 8. mouse 9. sheep 10. knife 11. box

14. I will give and explain them the homework for the next time: (5 min.)

1. Describe your pet or you favourite animal. ( 4 - 5 lines)

2. Complete the sentences. Write the plural form of the correct word from the word pool in each blank space. brush

city

knife

season

child

fish

leaf

tooth

foot

√ woman

1. There are three men and four __women_____________ in my art class. 2. My neighbors next door have six _____________________. 3. People have two arms, two hands, two legs, and two ____________________________. 4. Humans have 32 _____________________ in their mouths by the time they are adults. 5. The _____________________ of the year are spring, summer, winter, and autumn, or fall. 6. The _____________________ on the trees change color in autumn. 7. There are forks, _____________________, and spoons on the table. 8. There are trees, flowers, and _____________________ outside around my house. 9. Mumbai and Calcutta are two ____________________ in India. 10. My family has several pets. We have a dog, two cats, and five ____________________.