Robot at the zoo. Contents. Language Analysis

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1 Year 4 Lesson65 Robot at the zoo. Skills Aims Reading a story Contents Grammar Present simple Vocabulary polar bear shark throw hungry bamboo leaves Checklist 2 individual handouts: word completion and sentences in the present simple Language Analysis Vocabulary: The polar bear is a big bear that lives within the Arctic Circle, encompassing the Arctic Ocean, its surrounding seas and surrounding land masses. It s in many ways similar to the brown bear.

2 Procedure Warm-up Off the screens 1. Give out Handout Ask your students to make words and phrases by completing the letters. 3. Check with the class. 1 Sharks eat fish. 2 The animals aren t happy. 3 They re hungry. 4 The panda eats bamboo leaves. 5 The lions and tigers eat meat. 6 The parrot and the monkey eat fruit. 7 The kangaroos eat grass. 8 Now the animals are happy!

3 Screen 2 Audio 1: Robot is helping at the zoo. What do the animals eat? Robot reads. Sharks eat fish. Audio 2: Robot throws some fish to the sharks. But... oh dear... Audio 3: The animals aren t happy. They re hungry. Robot calls Lucy. Audio 4: The panda eats the bamboo leaves. The lions and tigers eat the meat. The parrot and the monkey eat the fruit. Audio 5: The kangaroos eat the grass. And the big white polar bear eats the fish Now the animals are happy! Exploit the scene by asking the Ss to describe what they can see. Then listen and watch the animation. Ask some questions to check understanding. Additional activity 1. Give out Handout Ask your students to match the animal pictures to their food.. 3. Check if they have matched the pictures correctly. 4. Ask them to make true sentences about the animals and their food. 5. Ask representatives to read out their sentences.

4 1 c Sharks and dolphins eat fish. 2 a Cows and kangaroos eat grass. 3 e Pandas eat bamboo leaves. 4 b Tigers and lions eat meat. 5 d Bears eat leaves and fish.

5 Screen 3 Audio 1: Robot is helping at the zoo. What do the animals eat? Robot reads. Sharks eat fish. Audio 2: Robot throws some fish to the sharks. But... oh dear... Audio 3: The animals aren t happy. They re hungry. Robot calls Lucy. Audio 4: The panda eats the bamboo leaves. The lions and tigers eat the meat. The parrot and the monkey eat the fruit. Audio 5: The kangaroos eat the grass. And the big white polar bear eats the fish Now the animals are happy! Additional activity: The focus is on reading but students can also listen while they read. Screen 3 Robot is helping at the zoo. Sharks eat fish. Robot throws some fish to the sharks. The animals aren t happy. They re hungry. Robot calls Lucy. The panda eats the bamboo leaves. And the big white polar bear eats the fish. Now the animals are happy!

6 Screen 5 1 The panda eats the bamboo leaves. 2 The tigers eat the meat. 3 The parrot and the monkey eat the fruit. 4 The kangaroos eat the grass. 5 And the big white polar bear eats the fish. Screen 6 1 children 2 fish 3 Alex 4 flowers 5 vegetables 6 leaves 7 black Give the Ss these instructions for the Read and listen activity. 1. Tell your students to look at the picture. Tell them it s the same story they heard before, but some words are different. 2. Ask your students to mark these words. 3. Repeat the recording, pause before a changed word, elicit the word from the class. Now it s your turn Get students to practise the language in pairs.

7 Handout 1 1 Shark_ eat fi_h. 2 The animals aren t h py. 3 They re h gry. 4 The panda eats bam o le es. 5 The l ns and t ers eat m t. 6 The par t and the monk eat fr t. 7 The kang _os eat grass. 8 N_w the animals are happy!

8 Handout 2 1. a. 2. b. 3. c. 4. d. 5. e.