This document provides details on a lesson plan for a 1st and 2nd grade unit on animals. The objectives are to identify and classify farm and wild animals, distinguish between them, describe animal characteristics, and participate in songs, stories and games related to animals. Two lesson sessions are described. The first involves identifying animal characteristics using images and asking questions. The second has students work in pairs to describe an animal and present to the class, followed by online animal activities. Competencies targeted include linguistic skills, learning abilities, artistic expression, and understanding the physical world.

1. Level: 1st and 2nd
UNIT OF STUDY:
The animals

2. Learning objectives:
- Identify and recognize some farm animals.
- Identify and recognize some wild animals.
- Recognize some of the criteria to classify animals.
- Distinguish farm from wild animals.
- Classify the animals into groups depending on their characteristics.
- Dramatize a story using oral and corporal skills.
- Sing and learn a song.
- Memorize a dialogue.
- Describe an animal by its characteristics.
- Participate and enjoy in the games.
- Use different expressions to say hello and goodbye. The use of the
greetings.

3. Competencies involved:
Linguistic competence
Learn to learn
TCI
Learn and interact with the physical world
Artistic
See the lesson plan here

4. SESSION 1:
Activity 1. Farm and wild
animals
We talk about the farm and the
animals that we can find.
Using real images projected we
learn their names and we talk
about their different
characteristics. (How many
legs? Do they have tail...)
Have you ever seen a real…?
We do the same with the wild
animals
We have watched and talked about the different animals projected. First with the farm
animals and secondly with the wild ones, using the material prepared. They all know lots of
things about animals and they speak in Catalan more than I wish. I correct and translate at
the time they say the different characteristics. I've asked them about the body parts,
colours and actions that the animals could do and they answered me as well as they could.
(How many legs has got the…? Can they fly, jump…? What colour is…?)

5. Activity 2. The COW’S BODY
I’ve added a shorter activity in order to remember some vocabulary
using a big poster with a big cow where they had to stick the different
names of its body parts.

6. Activity 3. Describe an animal
In pairs they describe a farm animal.
GUIDE PICTIONARY FOR THE WRITTEN TASK

7. During the writing activity, the CLUES given on a sheet and also the COW’s poster have been a
good resource.
Initially I thought to make a big poster with the clues to the written task but finally I did one little
card for each pair.
They have done their animal's description using the clues given and I think it has been really
interesting to see how they work into pairs in a writing task. Some of them are able to work alone
but other not, some don’t help their partners, others help a lot and some others helps more than
the needed. It has been a nice experience for me and for them. During the writing activity, the
CLUES given on a sheet and also the COW’s poster have been a good resource.

8. SESSION 2:
ACTIVITY 1.
Showing our descriptions
Then in pairs they have practiced how to explain to the rest of the class
their own animal.
Then in pairs they've read their description as a riddle and at the end
they asked to the rest: What animal is it? The rest of the class had to
guess the animal. It has been a good activity and they like to show their
works.
Listen one of our descriptions
They have difficulties to read in English (remember they’re on the 1st and
2nd level) and I had to help them reading and memorizing the description.

9. ACTIVITY 2.
Online activities.
1. What animals is this?
2. Wild animals quiz.
When we finished the descriptions, we practiced with the online activities. They
enjoy with all the computers activities and the activity was as I expected. But we
don’t have an Interactive Whiteboard and for these kinds of activities it should
be better.

10. ICT resources
http://www.eslgamesplus.com/farm-animals-vocabulary-game-for-esl-
teaching-and-learning/
http://www.anglomaniacy.pl/wildAnimalsQuiz.htm
http://learnenglishkids.britishcouncil.org/es/word-games/find-the-
pairs/farm-animals
http://www.anglomaniacy.pl/wildAnimalsMatching.htm