Podcast: Animal noises

• Listen the Following Podcast.

http://learnenglish.britishcouncil.org/sites/podcasts/files/elementary-podcast-s03-e20-high.mp3

• Do the following activities:

Activity 1: True or False

1. Carolina likes the animals. 

 

 2. English sheep and Venezuelan sheep

say the same thing.

 

3. English cows and Venezuelan cows say

the same thing. 

 

4. Jamie is in a band called 'The Language

of Cows'.

 

5. There's a café at the city farm.

 

6. Carolina and Jamie are going to a

restaurant tonight. 

 

7. Emily is going with them. 

 

8. Carolina and Jamie are pleased to hear

Emily's news. 

 

 

   Activity 2  Vocabulary. Put the words in the right places to make sentences 

 

a) allowed

e) allowed

b) cute

f) news

c) frighten

g) speak

d) invited

h) touch

 

1       1. Can I _______ him? Am I _______?

        2. You can touch him - _______ his back. Pigs like that.

        3. Look at the sheep - aren't they _______!

        4. So animals _______ different languages

        5. Cameron _______ me out and I said yes.

        6. Calm down. You'll _______ the animals.

       7. That's great _______, Emily. 

 

 

Activity 3 – Match the animal to the noise

that it makes - in English!

 

 

a) baa

e) oink oink

b) cluck cluck

f) quack quack

c) heehaw

g) woof woof

d) meow 

h) moo

 

1. a dog

5. a donkey

2. a cat

6. a duck

3. a pig

7. a chicken

4. a sheep 

8. a cow  

Activity 4-Put the conversation in order. The first line is at the top. 

 

 

Jim: What are you doing this weekend?

a) Jim: And I'm taking my car so I can give you a lift home.

b) Jim: Saturday. We're meeting at half seven for a drink.

c) Jim: Well, I'm having dinner with some friends. Why don't you join us?

d) Jim: Well, we're going to that new Indian place. Meet us there. The table's booked for nine.

e) Tom: Oh no, I can't - I'm working until eight on Saturday.

f) Tom: Oh, I'm not doing anything special.

g) Tom: OK. Perfect. See you on Saturday.

h) Tom: OK. Thanks. Nine o'clock's fine.

i) Tom: That sounds nice. Thanks. Which day?

 

animal noises

Wiki

Go and sing in on our wiki:

https://englishclass4grade.wikispaces.com/

in the wiki you will find the projec "WebQuest" and the discuss about Traditions

WebQuest: Animals

Following the tracks. Eeach team has to discover what animal we are talking about. Then the team has to find information on the web, and finally make a power point presentation for you classmates.

First step: Guess the animal

•   Blue Team: It can swim, walk and fly. There are a lot of types of species. In parks, people usually feed them by throwing bread to the lakes.

• Green Team: it is the unique mammal that can fly. It is blind.

• Red Team: It is the unique mammal that has peak and it born inside eggs.

•  Yellow Team: It lives in the sea. People usually are scared when they find one. One of them is called as a hammer. 

Second step: Find information about the animal

• ·         Type of animal
• ·         What kind of food does it eat?
• ·         Where does it live?
• ·         Its size
• ·         What thing does the animal usually do?
• ·         A curiosity you want the say about the animal
• -    Final step: Presentation
• -    Make a presentation using power point, but if you want to use another program you can do it.

Extra information: you can search information in any web, but here are some webpages that can help you.

http://www.sciencekids.co.nz/sciencefacts/animals.html

http://a-z-animals.com/

http://www.softschools.com/facts/animals/

http://www.animalfactguide.com/animal-facts/

http://www.thejunglestore.com/Animal-Facts-and-Information

http://www.kidsplanet.org/factsheets/map.html

http://www.planetozkids.com/oban/animals/weird.htm

Video: What food do you like?

Animals in danger

learn a little about some animals in danger.

click here:  

 http://www.xtec.cat/~ihidalgo/gueb/anact/animal5.htm

 

Game

Animals Game:

http://www.vedoque.com/juegos/juego.php?j=arbol-letras

Nursery rhyme: "humpty dumpty"

Song: humpty dumpty