Animals

OBJECTIVES:
Build your students confidence. Provide play-based learning opportunities. Provide model sentences your students can use in everyday life. Have the students compose their own sentences. Build your students vocabulary of animals, sizes, colors and body parts. Teach the students how to type a text and draw an image using computer programs. Material: -flashcards -crayons or markers -paper -computers

Day 1:
Introduction: Tell your students you will be talking about animals. Using pictures or flashcards, introduce or review the names of 4 to 6 animals depending on the students level. Play some games that will help assess your students level and will get you to know each other.

Game 1: Quick Glimpse!

-Select four or five animal flashcards and hang them on the board using sticky tac. Name the animals on the cards and then have the students to look at the card a few seconds and try to remember all of them. -Ask one student to come to the front of the classroom and to turn around so he/she cant see the cards on the board. -The student must try to name all of the cards. -Ask other students to try. If it is too easy, add more cards. Game 2: Disappearing Words

-Count to three and ask the students to turn around. -While the students cant see you, take away one of the cards. -Count to three and ask them to turn back. -The students have to find what card disappeared. -If they know the game well enough, you can have one of them to come to the front and have him/her to count to three and to take away one card.

If it is too easy, take away two cards and mix the other cards on the board. Game 3: Mime and Guess

*To make sure they understand the game, model it first. - Ask one student to come in front of the board. -Make him/her secretly choose one animal. -He/She must now try to mime the word on the card while others try to guess it. Once the word has been correctly guessed, the following player choose another animal and the game continues.

To go further: Using the same flashcards and your body language, introduce or review the words: big, small, long, short colors body parts actions (run, jump, fly) Write the words on the board and if possible use pictures or flashcards as well. You will now be able to play a few more games to improve your students comprehension and make them use short sentences.

Game 4: Mystery card

-You secretly choose one animal. -Describe the animal to the students using short sentences. (It is small. It is grey) And students have to guess which animal you chose. If the students are more advanced, ask one of them to be the teacher. Game 5: Heads up

-Have a first student to come to the front, facing the rest of the class. -Pick one card, show it to the group and hold it so the class sees it but not the student at the front. -The student has to ask yes or no questions to his/her classmates. (Is it a big animal? Is it brown?) -When the student has correctly guessed the animal, ask another player to come to the front and the game continues.

Game 6: Tic Tac Toe

-Draw a Tic Tac Toe grid on the board and write the sentence My favorite animal is the on top of the grid. (Thai students know that game as O-X) -Tell the girls to use X and the boys to use 0 -One at a time, the students come to the front and say My favorite animal is the then add the name of an animal. -After having said the sentence correctly, they can draw their X or O on the grid. Conclusion: You can finish the lesson by asking the students what word they learned today, if they had fun Extra: Here are the name of some animals in Thai: bird = nok bee = Peung gorilla = king kong turtle = thaw cow = goa fish = plah elephant = chang monkey = ling mouse = noo snake = gnoo

Day 2:
Introduction: Ask the students if they can name the animals you talked about yesterday. As they name the animals, hang them on the board. Introduce 4 to 6 new animals. Put their picture on the board and have the students repeat their names after you. You can now play 1 or 2 games with them to make sure they remember all the animals before you go further. Game 1: Quick Glimpse!

-Select four or five animal flashcards and hang them on the board using sticky tac. Name the animals on the cards and then have the students to look at the card a few seconds and try to remember all of them. -Ask one student to come to the front of the classroom and to turn around so he/she cant see the cards on the board. -The student must try to name all of the cards. -Ask other students to try. If it is too easy, add more cards.

Game 2: Disappearing Words

-Count to three and ask the students to turn around. -While the students cant see you, take away one of the cards. -Count to three and ask them to turn back. -The students have to find what card disappeared. -If they know the game well enough, you can have one of them to come to the front and have him/her to count to three and to take away one card. If it is too easy, take away two cards and mix the other cards on the board.

To go further: Phonetic awareness: Thai students generally have a hard time pronouncing the words correctly. Building their ability to manipulate the sounds and syllables will be helpful. Write the numbers 1 -2 -3 on the board and with the help of flashcards, teach the students how to count the syllables in each animal name (e-le-phant = 3). Hang the flashcards under the right number. This will help them to pronounce double consonant words such as snake. Bigger, smaller than: review with your students the words you saw yesterday (big, small, long). -Then show them a small animal (ex.: bird) they will say it is small. Then show them something smaller (ex.: bee) so you can explain the meaning of the word smaller, Do the same with two big animals to teach the meaning of the word

bigger. -Write is smaller than the on the left side of the board and is bigger than the on the right side. -Put a picture of a medium sized animal in the middle of the board. -Then give a flashcard to a student and ask if the animal on the card is smaller or bigger than the animal you put in the middle. Have them say the whole sentence before hanging their card on the board (ex.: The lion is bigger than the turtle.) -Continue until all the student got a turn. Conclusion: to review these words, you could play Mystery card -You secretly choose one animal. -Describe the animal to the students using short sentences. (It is smaller than a turtle but bigger than a bee) And students have to guess which animal you chose. If the students are more advanced, ask one of them to be the teacher.

Day 3:
Introduction: Review the vocabulary on sizes, colors, body parts Write all the words on the board in different columns and use flashcards if possible. Tell the students they will now invent a new kind of animal. Show them a drawing of an animal you made up (as funny as possible). Task: Students have to draw a new animal. It could have 6 legs, 3 eyes, wings and a tail. Provide crayons or markers that they can share in small groups. When they have finish their drawing, make the students write a few sentences to describe the animal they have created. Model first by writing on the board, with the help of your students, 4 to 6 sentences (or more depending on their level) to describe your animal. Example: My animal is big. It has five green legs. It has two pink wing and a long tail. It can fly and jump. To go further: the students can type their text on the computer, make a drawing using paint program, practice reading it and present their project to the class.

Extra: Five Little Monkeys Jumping on the Bed Five Little Monkeys Jumping on the Bed (jump 1 hand up and down) One fell off and bumped his head, (point to head) Mama called the doctor and the doctor said, (pretend hand is phone to ear) No more monkeys jumping on the bad! (shake fingers as if scolding) Four little monkeys Three little monkeys Two little monkeys One little monkey.