The document provides an outline for an English lesson plan on animals for a Pre-Intermediate level class. It includes timing for different lesson sections like vocabulary building, pronunciation focus, listening exercises, grammar presentation and exercises. Sample discussion questions, vocabulary lists for different types of animals, reading passages and answers to exercises are also provided. The lesson focuses on teaching the second conditional through examples about animals.

1. English file Pre-
Intermediate
Unit 9A – Second conditional

2. • Lead in – pictures showing animals (5 mins)
• Discussion questions – animals in our lives (10 mins)
• Vocabulary building – different noises (5 mins)
• Vocabulary building – different animals (5 mins)
• Pronunciation focus – syllable stress (5 mins)
• Speaking practice – discussing animals (10 mins)
• Listening – dangerous animals – ordering (5 mins)
• Listening – dangerous animals – gap fill (5 mins)
• Game / filler (10 mins) 60
• Reading – Animal situations – matching (10 mins)
• Reading – Animal situations – vocabulary (5 mins)
• Reading – Animal situations – Final part (5 mins)
• Grammar - second conditional – highlighting (5 mins)
• Grammar - second conditional – Presentation (5 mins)
• Grammar - second conditional – exercises (10 mins)
• Speaking practice – second conditional situations (15 mins)
• Vocabulary from the class quiz (5 mins)

4. • What animals are common in your country but
not in the UK?
• How important are animals to us? Why?
• Have you ever seen a dangerous animal? Where
and when?
• Which animal would you like as a pet if you could
have any pet?

5. Insects
1. mosquito
2. butterfly
3. wasp
4. Spider
5. bee
6. fly

6. Farm animals
7. goat
8. bull
9. sheep
10. chicken
11. pig
12. cow
13. horse

7. Wild animals
14 camel
15 giraffe
16 bat
17 elephant
18 bear
19 monkey
20 lion
21 bird
22 kangaroo
23 mouse
24 tiger
25 rabbit
26 crocodile
27 rat
28 deer
29 snake

8. Sea animals
30 jellyfish
31 whale
32 dolphin
33 shark

12. A snake (the adder)
cows
red deer

13. dogs
wasps and bees

15. A snake (the adder)
cows
red deer
one metre
step on
every year
walking dogs
summer
100 kilos
autumn
50,000

16. dogs
wasps and bees
Very few
their owners
five
Wasps bees

19. The saltwater crocodile can grow up to 7 metres long and weigh up to
______ KG and holds the record for the strongest bite ever recorded:
3,700 pounds per square inch (psi). That’s comparable to a T. Rex!
A) 250 B) 600 C) 1000
1000

20. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RXn1g0xt
UMk

22. Hippos weigh up to 3,000 lbs, can run up to 30 km/h over short distances.
They kill approximately _ _ _ people per year in Africa, mostly by
overturning boats and drowning or crushing their victims
A) 250 B) 500 C) 750
500

23. Poison dart frogs have evolved brightly coloured skin to let predators
know that while they may be small, they can kill up to _ _ adults with their
poisonous toxins, so a mere touch is all it takes to kill.
A) 10 B) 20 C) 30
20

24. The black mamba’s bite, called the “kiss of death,” contains enough venom
to kill 10 healthy adult humans. If antivenom isn’t administered within the
first _ _ minutes, the bite of the black mamba is almost 100% fatal.
A) 10 B) 20 C) 30
20

25. The mosquito, through its transmission of diseases and parasites like
malaria, zika, West Nile virus, and Dengue fever, indirectly kills up to a
million people per year; a child dies from malaria every 30 __________.
A) seconds B) minutes C) hours
seconds

26. Pufferfish contain tetrodotoxin, a poison that is _____ times more lethal
than cyanide! Nonetheless, pufferfish are considered a delicacy, and in
Japan several people die each year from improperly prepared pufferfish.
A) 100 B) 500 C) 1200
1200

27. Read through the
examples
We’ll check the vocabulary first

32. dog
bee
wasp

33. snake
cows

34. jellyfish
shark

35. shout /ʃaʊt/ = to say something in a loud voice
keep still /kiːp stɪl/ = not move
wave /weɪv/ = to move your hand or arm from side to side in
the air, in order to attract attention, etc.
suck /sʌk/ = to take liquid, air, etc. into your mouth with your lips
tie /taɪ/ = to fasten something with string, rope, etc.
rub /rʌb/ = to move your hand backwards and forwards over a
surface while pressing firmly
float /fləʊt/ = to stay on the surface of water
Shout Wave Tie float
Keep still suck rub

43. They are all about an imagined future situation.
The tense of the verb after if is the past simple.
The other form is would + infinitive.

47. E
D
C
F
G
B

48. would get* had
tried ‘d like
wouldn’t buy didn’t like
hired could
‘d see lived
wouldn’t go were
‘d learn did
‘d cycle wasn’t
Would work found
wouldn’t
be
had to

52. 1. chicken (or hen)
2. horse
3. monkey
4. snake
5. cat
6. dog
7. lion
8. bull