Five-Minute Activities for Young Learners

Box 10
Questions about animals
Sample questions
Sentence stems
1 Do you live near water?
Do you live . . .
2 Do you eat grass?
Do you eat . . .
3 Do you give milk to your babies?
Do you give . . .
4 Can you fly?
Do you have . . .
5 Can you swim?
Can you . . .
Are you . . .
Follow-up
Encourage the children to include classification terms in their questions, e.g.
Are you a mammal? See Box 7 for animal classification terms.
1.10 Personal animal recount
Level
**
Language focus
Personal recount, simple past tense
Skills focus
Writing
Thinking focus
Sequencing
Teaching approach
Promote creativity – accept errors
Interaction
Individual work, suitable for large classes
Procedure
1 Ask the children to choose an animal and think about the things that this
animal does during the day.
2 Draw a timeline on the board and write some time markers on the
timeline, e.g. 8 am, 10 am, 12 noon. See Box 11.
3 Ask the children to copy the timeline.
4 Then ask the children to write in the things that their animal might do
during the day, taking care to write the verb in the past tense. The
completed timelines are then displayed in the classroom.
Animals
19

---