Practical number 9 - Urbizu & Schneider

Class: 4th grade Students’ age: 9-10 years old Number of students: 21 Class time: 40 minutes Topic: Animal classification (co-working with Natural Sciences) Aims: To teach vocabulary in English related to animal classification. To revise concepts already learned in their L1. To contrast English language to their L1. To teach children express their old ideas in Spanish in English. Teaching points:

Lexis Functions Structure

Vocabulary about animals and their calssification.

Classifying and communicating.

Nouns and adjectives.

Warm up

Game: Four posters corresponding to four classes of animals (mammals, fish, reptiles and birds) will be stuck on the board. The class will be divided into two groups. Each group will be given a set of 10 cards (the same set for both groups). The teacher will explain that she will say a type of animal and the students have to look for one animal that belongs to that class and then stick it to the corresponding poster. The first group to stuck the picture correctly will one point and so on. The group with more points wins.

Practical number 9 - Urbizu & Schneider

Activity 1: The teacher will give the children the following worksheet in which they have to cut and paste the images in the right box. These will reinforce the knowledge revised in the previous exercise (warm up).

Practical number 9 - Urbizu & Schneider

Activity 2: The students will receive a worksheet containing two columns: one with animal classes and the other with characteristics of animals. The teacher will explain to the students: they have to match with an arrow the characteristics from one column to the corresponding class on the other column.

Animal Class Fish Reptiles

Mammals

Birds

Amphibians

Insects

Characteristics Hard skin, can live in the water and

earth. Live in the water and have scales.

Have feathers and can fly.

When they are little they live in the

water, when they are adults they live in the earth.

They have teeth, hair and their mothers

give them milk to help them grow. They are little and can live almost

everywhere (mountains, deserts, trees, sea).

Activity 3: Students will be instructed to choose 2 animals from the previous exercise and write two sentences that include said animals and its characteristics. Evaluation: Due to the short time available (40 minutes) the teachers will be constantly going around the classroom, checking the students’ progress and correcting any mistake found. If the exercise is well done, the teacher will put a seal to the student’s work.