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Animals
This topic is broken into 5 subtopics – click on a link to see the activities in each subtopic:
In each subtopic, students:
- listen, look, read and talk to establish familiarity with the context
- are introduced to 20 target words
- practise recognising and producing the written and spoken forms of each word
- relate form and meaning
- practise recognising the environment in which the words usually occur
- use the words in new contexts.
Topic objective
- Recognise and use specialist and general vocabulary relevant to the description of special features of common animals, particularly mammals, birds, insects and molluscs.
- Read, understand and respond to simple information reports about animals.
- Listen to, understand and respond to simple information reports about animals.
- Speak about animals.
- Write a simple information report about animals.
What you need
- Audio player
- Scissors
- Felt pens or coloured pencils
- Glue
- Poster paper
- A quiet space where students feel comfortable listening and speaking
- A range of easy factual readers
- Bilingual dictionaries
- Grammars and dictionaries for teacher reference
Monitoring and recording student progress
You can monitor and record student progress using the examples of good assessment practice in ESOL Funding - English Language Learning Progressions (ELLP) record of progress or ELLP Pathway record and the English language learning progressions.
Published on: 08 Jan 2018
