The wild Animals vocabulary

Date: Tuesday, September 13^th, 2016

Topic: Wild animals

Framework: PPP

Skill: Vocabulary.

Teachers’ name: Juan Jose Menjivar

Andrea Leiva

In this lesson teachers could start a new unit that was about the animals especially the wild animals. They taught vocabulary and it was a really nice experience for them.

T Juan began the class checking the attendance while T Andrea was giving a name tag to each student. Then, he taught some commands that students were supposed to use in the class. For example: raise your hand, May I go to the bathroom, please, etc.

 Later, Ss had a surprise. T explained them that they were going to do an evaluation, a short quiz that will help them to identify the progress of the previous unit that was about family members. The exam was provided to the students and they did it easily, except two boys that had problems when identifying what they had to do. Both teachers were monitoring their students and clarifying doubts about the exam.

In the warm-up stage, T Juan asked Ss to form a line in the middle of the space they had. There were pasted two colored papers in the floor (one black and the other yellow). When the teacher said yellow all the students had to move to the black paper, but if T said black they moved to the black one. T started to say the color quickly and when one student made a mistake he returned to his desk. Four students were the winners and they receive a sticker as a prize.                                                                            

Later on, T asked students to sit down and he started to teach the wild animals (gorilla, lion, panther, elephant, giraffe, crocodile, tiger, and bear). T presented the animals with disposable plates that were like a mask. He took the disposable, ask Ss what the animal was, mention the name of the animal, and ask students to repeat the word. After presented the masks he was pasting them in the board. T asked Ss to practice pronunciation one more time.

In the practice, T Andrea gave Ss a worksheet. The activity consisted in cross out a line between the animal and the word that corresponded to it, so they could match them. All the students did it easily because they could identify the animals quickly. T were monitoring and checking Ss answers.

Next, Ss stood up. They made two lines and worked with the person that was in front of them. A mask was given to each Ss, so they had to imagine that were in the jungle and say to the other what animal he/she was. For example: “I am a lion”. Ss should have used the phrase and the animal that they were supposed to have.

In the last activity, T Andrea asked Ss to pass a ball that she provided. The students who had the ball when T stopped counting passed in front of the class, took a mask and finally said the phrase “I am a__”.

Finally, a snack was given to the kids, so they could enjoy it in their return to the school. 

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