1. LESSON PLAN Nº 3
School: Bilingual
Class: 4th Form
Teacher: Espósito Florencia; Paslawski Elisa
Date: Thursday, June 9th
Time: 40 minutes
Communicative Goal: Talking about animals’ characteristics. (Revision)
Grammar Focus: Describing animals. (can/ can’t; have/ has got/ haven’t/ hasn’t
got)
Recycled Language: continents (Asia, Africa…); different habitats (jungle…);
parts of the body (neck, legs…)
ACTIVATION (5 minutes)
The teacher will make the students take out different animals from a bag and
they will have to make sentences: “(snakes) can ------. They can’t --------. They
have got ------. They haven’t got ------.”
APLLICATION (30 minutes)
Activity 1
Focus: Speaking
Grouping Scheme: Pairs
Time: 5 minutes
Brief description: The children will have to make questions (Can lions swim? Yes,
they can/ No, they can’t) and answers and they will have to complete the chart
with a cross:
Lions Elephants Anteaters Snakes Birds Butterflies Horses Gorillas Koalas Fis Squirrels Camels Rhinos Giraffes Tigers
h
Fly
Run
Swim
Climb
trees
Jump
high
Eat
leaves
Sleep
Eat
fruit
Eay
grass
Sleep
in
nests
in the
trees

2. Activity 2
Focus: Reading, speaking and writing.
Grouping Scheme: Two Groups
Time: 10 minutes
Brief description: The class will be divided into two groups (boys against girls).
The children will have to guess which animal is and they will have to complete
the corssword. “Guess who the animal is”
file:///D:/INFORM%C3%81TICA/Hot%20potatoes/cossanimalguess.htm
Activity 3
Focus: Reading and speaking.
Grouping Scheme: two gropus
Time: 5 minutes
Brief description: The children will have to do different activities related to the
animals that they have been studying during the unit. (guess the animal, guess
their abilities, description of animals) “Animal guessing game”
file:///D:/INFORM%C3%81TICA/Hot%20potatoes/quiz%20animal%20guessing
%20game.htm
Activity 4:
Focus: Speaking
Grouping Scheme: two groups
Time: 10 minutes
Brief description: The teacher will say: “Any place where plants and animals live
is a habitat.The forest, desert, ocean and jungle are all habitats. Each habitat is
different. I’ll ask the questions. From the answers you give, I’ll guess who you are
and then where you live.” Then the teacher will write the questions that the
children will have to ask so as to guess the animal and the habitat.
Questions:
- What do you look like?
- What can you do?
- What can’t you do?
- What do you like to eat?
- Is your habitat hot or cold, wet or dry, sunny or dark?
REFLECTION (5 minutes)
The teacher will write on the board some sentences and the children will have to
decide if they are correct or not:
Lions have got long necks.
Elephants have got long truncks.
Snakes can hide.
Birds can’t swim