Five-Minute Activities for Young Learners

1.8 What animal am I?
Level
**
Language focus
Information report: simple present tense, adjectives
Skills focus
Writing
Thinking focus
Classifying
Teaching approach
Promote creativity – accept errors
Interaction
Whole class, suitable for large classes
Preparation
On the board, draw the grid with headings, questions, and
sentence stems. See Box 8.
Procedure
1 Ask the children to write the name of a favourite animal.
2 The children use the headings, questions and sentence stems on the board
to write clues about their chosen animal. Examples of clues are in Box 9.
3 Select one child to read out his/her clues.
4 The first person to guess the animal has a turn to read out his/her clues.
Box 8
Animal features
Description Habitat