Five-Minute Activities for Young Learners

Box 17
Advertising for an animal owner
WANTED
Clean, warm, quiet home
for a friendly young cat
Owner must supply my favourite food
and
interesting toys
© Cambridge University Press 2007
Follow-up
Children decorate their advertisements and display them in the classroom.
Five-Minute Activities for Young Learners
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1.16 Animal conversations
Level
***
Language focus
Conversation, question forms
Skills focus
Speaking
Thinking focus
Imagining
Teaching approach
Promote creativity – accept errors
Interaction
Pairwork, suitable for large classes
Preparation
Write the sentence stems on the board. See Box 18.
Procedure
1 Ask the children to imagine a farm horse. This horse has a relative who is
a race horse. The farm horse decides to visit the race horse. What would
they say to each other?
2 Ask the children, in pairs, to list some of the questions and topics the
animals might talk about. Some topics of conversation, along with some
questions, are in Box 18.
3 One partner then takes on the role of a farm horse and the other takes the
role of a race horse. They create a conversation between the two animals,
using the sentence stems from the board.