The document summarizes a puppet play based on the children's book "The Very Hungry Caterpillar" by Eric Carle. It describes the story of a caterpillar who eats through various foods each day of the week. By Saturday, it has a stomachache. On Sunday, it eats a leaf and feels better. It then builds a cocoon and emerges as a beautiful butterfly. The document provides objectives, contents, values and activities for the puppet play, which aims to teach students about the butterfly life cycle, days of the week, numbers and foods.

1. Practical
Nº 7
Practice II. 2015
Corso Erica.

2. Practice II
Practical N°7
Baldomé,Daiana;Corso,Erica; Irusta,Carla
THE VERY HUNGRY CATERPILLAR
In the light of the moon a little egg lay on a leaf.
One Sunday morning, the warm sun came up and pop! Out of the egg
came a tiny and very hungry caterpillar. (The caterpillar looks at the
audience and says “Hi, kids! I’m a caterpillar!
He started to look for some food. –“I’msoooo hungry!”
On Monday he ate through one apple, -“Mhh...Delicious (crunch
crunch!)” But, he was still hungry.
On Tuesday he ate through two pears, -“Two pears! One...two (yam
yam!)” But, he was still hungry.
On Wednesday he ate through three plums, -“Plums! My favourite!
One...two...three (om nom nom)” But, he was still hungry. (To indicate
hunger, the caterpillar moves his head backwards and says –“I`m still
hungry!”)
On Thursday he ate through four strawberries, -“Oh, wonderful!
One...two...three...four strawberries! (yummy) But, he was still hungry.
On Friday he ate through five oranges, -“Oh, oranges!
One...two...three...four...five(munch munch) But, he was still hungry.
On Saturday he ate through one piece of strawberry cake, one piece of
ice cream cone, one lollipop, and one slice of watermelon (chomp
chomp)
That night, he had stomach-ache. (The caterpillar bends over to show
pain and says –“Ohhhh, my tummy hurts!”
The next day was Sunday again. The caterpillar ate through one nice
green leaf, and after that he felt much better.
Now he wasn’t hungry anymore, and he wasn’t a little caterpillar any
more. He was a big, fat caterpillar.

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He built a small house, called a cocoon, around himself. He stayed
inside for more than two weeks.
Then, he nibbled a hole in the cocoon, pushed his way out and ………
He was a beautiful butterfly! (He flies and lands on a flower)
PUPPET PLAY: “The Very Hungry Caterpillar”
Topic: The metamorphosis of butterflies.
Objectives
 To revise the days of the week.
 To revise numbers, mainly from one to five.
 To revise and/or learn different types of food.
 To revise present simple.
 To learn past simple.
 To learn about the butterfly life cycle (how a caterpillar goes through some stages until
it turns into a butterfly).
 To make learners aware of the passing of time.
Contents
 Lexis: vocabulary connected to food (fruits, lollipop, cake, ice cream); to the days of
the week; to numbers, from one to five; to the different stages a butterfly goes
through (egg, caterpillar, cocoon, butterfly); to size (big, small); to opposite pairs
(little/tiny/small – big/fat); to synonyms (little, tiny, small).
 Structures: prepositions (in, on); adverbs/adverbial phrases/adverbial clauses to
show the passing of time (now, then, still, that night, in the light of the moon, after
two weeks, next day, one morning, after that); present simple (was/was not); past
simple (regular and irregular past forms of verbs); phrasal verbs (look for, pushed
out, came up).
 Functions: making statements.
Values
 Children can grow up and fly into the world with their talents.
 They can see growing up is a natural gradual process, stage by stage.
 Like the Caterpillar, children are about to embark on a long road through life. At
the moment, they are little and seemdefenseless but curious and eager to learn all
around them.

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Activities
 Before the play, we will show learners flashcards with the different types of food
named in the play, or we can bring in food items (realia), all this to demonstrate
meaning.
 During the play or as soon as the play ends, we can ask learners if they like to eat
fruit, how often they do it, what is their favorite fruit, or if they prefer to eat candy,
cake.
 After the play, we will tell learners to draw what they most liked from the play (the
caterpillar, butterfly, fruit, etc), or tell them to color the following sheet, and
explain in groups the life cycle of the butterfly.
 We can also do interdisciplinary work together with the Natural Sciences’ teacher,
by encouraging students to prepare a butterfly life cycle’s project for a science fair,
or just to show and explain it to other English course at the same school.
Background music: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zdmSiyMVzx8