This lesson plan is for a 4th grade English class and focuses on teaching vocabulary about zoo animals. The plan includes singing a song about animals, introducing new words like chimpanzee and seal, having students match animal parts and habitats, and acting as zookeepers to teach each other about different animals. The goals are to develop students' speaking, listening, reading, and vocabulary skills through interactive activities.

1. Lesson plan
Teacher: Vikukel Zsófia
Teacher helper: Nádor Liza
Class/ Level: 4/ Starter D
Subject: English
Course book: Tom Hutchinson: Project 1, Third Edition 2008, OUP
Topic: Animals in the zoo
Lesson’s material: learning/practising the Safari song, teaching new vocabulary: chimpanzee, seal, sloth, savannah .; practising expressions: It
lives, It has got... , revision, reading comprehension, speaking
Long-term goals: to encourage speaking, to enlarge vocabulary, to develop listening, speaking and reading skills and fluency
Aims: to develop speaking skills by introducing a chant, a guessing game, asking questions, learning new words, acting
to develop listening skills by following T’s instructions, listening to each other talking
to develop memory, cooperation
to expose learners to more interactions in English
to raise motivation
to create a safe learning environment

2. Activities Aims Language input Grouping/aids Time
Greetings
T and Ls greet each other.
Warmer
T ask the Ls to sing the Safari song again from the previous
lesson.They sing and act it out together again.
Motivate, introduce the
next topic
T: Good morning children!
Ls: Good morning!
T: My name is Zsófi and
today we are going not to
the Safari but somewhere
else.
But first let's sing the
Safari song. Repeat it after
me.
Jungle Safari Huh. Hah. 2x
Look at the animals
everywhere.
Listen to the animals'
sounds in the air.
Huh Hah huh.
Can you hear the
monkeys?
ooh,ooh, aah,aah
Can you hear the lions?
roar, roar.
Can you hear the hippos?
stomp, stomp, stomp
Can you hear the
elephants?
trumpet, trumpet.
Can you hear the giraffes?
chomp,chomp, chomp.
Can you hear the snakes?
ssssssssss
Jungle safari huh hah huh
Fw
1'
2'

3. Zoo introduction
T introduce the topic of the lesson.
Asks Ls to tell animal names.
Seeking parts of the animals: revision
Animal pictures are in the board. But their parts are missing. Ls
have to find their parts all over the classroom. They can put the
part on the animal if they say a sentences with it.
Revise vocabulary
3x. And freeze in the last
"huh".
T: Today, after being in the
Safari we are going to the
zoo. I like very much the
Budapest Zoo.
Could you tell me some
animals from the zoo?
L: lion, giraffe...
T: Look at these pictures
of the animals. ( name
them). Their parts are
missing. Find the parts
of them in the
classroom quickly.
Now, say a sentences
with the part you have
found.
The____(animal) has
got______(part).
L: The monkey has got
fur.
Fw , animal pictures (
Bogi's) and the parts
hidden in the classroom.
2'
5'

4. Animal habitats activtity
Ls are going to to hear three sounds: jungle, savannah, water.
Three cards are placed on the walls. When teacher says an
animal Ls have to run to the correct living place. One L have to
make a whole sentence with the animal and its habitat.
New words are matched with their pictures: sloth, chimpanzee,
seal
Zoomap: Who lives in the cage?
T shows a map with the animal cages . Ls have to discover
which animals lives in which cage by reading helping sentences.
New vocabulary learning
Reading
comprehension,revising
vocabulary
T: What did you hear?
Savannah, jungle, water .
Now, on the walls there
are these living places. I'm
going to say animals and
you have to decide where
does that animal live. Here
are the animals ( opens
the board) .
T:Lion/giraffe/chimpanzee
Why did you run here?
L: Because the lion lives in
the savannah etc...
T: Sloth. Look at the
board. ( puts the word
next to the animalpicture)
T: Take a look. What is it?
L: a map
T: Yes, it is the zoomap.
your task is to find out
who lives in the cages! You
are going to receive a
minizoomap where you
can write your answers.
Savannah,Jungle, Water
cards
Animal pictures on the
board
New wordpapers:
chimpanzee, sloth, seal
Pw
Big zoomap in the board
with cages.
4 sheets with tiny map+
sentences
3'
8'

5. Checking: on the board in the big zoomap.
T asks to read out the sentences and put the animals in the
right cage according to their answers.
Zookeeper task
T ask Ls to make pairs ( 3 pairs + 1 group of three)
Makes them pull from the animals: each pair 2 animals.
T demonstrates the task on 1 animal (parrot)
Ls stick the animals on their sheets. Find sentences about the
animal on the board.
Then they introduce them and stick them back to their cages
with the information sheet.
Speaking, practicing
animals' description
T: Let's check your
answers.
T: Today you are going to
be zookeepers.
Firstly, make pairs
Then pull to see, which
animals are going to be
yours ( 2)
You have your sheet.
Take the animal from the
cage stick it on your sheet.
And on the board search
for :
the Name of the animal.
and 5 sentences
Demonstration:
It is a ....
It lives....
It has got....
It can....
It .....
When you are ready read
it and prepare to present
your animals, and stick
them back to their cages.
Sheets to make the notes.
Sentences on the board.
15'

6. When the music stops- game
Ls listen to a music when the T stops it they pull from a bag a
sentence. They have to figure out which animal is it about.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mrOWDPkYyP0
OR
Animalbingo
Teacher reads sentences about animals and wons who has 3
animals: vertical, diagonal
Evaluation
T: it is going to be a music
game. You pass a bag to
each other, when the
music stops the one who
has the bag has to pull
from it.
eg: It is an animal which
lives in the savannah and
it has got hooves and
black and white fur.
5'
3'