House pets
I Have a Pet - Animal Song
Module about pets and farm animals
Overview
This is an online module that focuses on house pets and farm animals. The language level of the students is A1 acoording to CERF.
Introduction
Animals
Introduction:
Humans and animals have always had a close connection. Like humans, most animals can move and they need food and oxygen in order to survive. These living animal species have different characteristcs, sizes, age and interactions within the animal kingdom. Animals are very important and we should protect them in order to maintain the natural order of things. As we already discussed during our lesson, there are some animals that we can have as pets in our house, and some others that typically live in a farm. Based on your knowledge, you are now going to complete some activities to better your understanding of the topic.
Prerequisites: some vocabulary knowledge about animals, understanding the different characteristics each animal has, knowing the names of the most popular pets or farm animals.
Lets start with a song!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pWepfJ-8XU0
Videos about animals
Watch the following videos and answer to the activity bellow.
1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BgHNbUD_Uz0
2. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=veCHAz_HbOY
Activity 1
Look at the pictures and write down the name of the animal.
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Activities part I
Activity 2
Decide if the following sentences are true or false.
1. Dogs and cats can live on a farm as well as in a house. ..........................
2. Snakes don't have legs. ...........................
3. Cats are always friendly with dogs. ...........................
4. Hamsters are as big as dogs in size. ..........................
5. Pigs are a farm animal. .........................
6. Some parrots are very colourful. ............................
7. Fishes live underwater. .............................
8. Cows are only black and white. .............................
Activity 3
Match the animals to their characteristics.
1. A cow a. can fly
2. A fish b. makes milk
3. A turtle c. chases a mouse
4. A cat d. has a poisonous bite.
5. A dog e. wiggles its tail
6. A bird f. lives in a bowl
7. A snake g. is pink
8. A pig h. walks really slow
Activities part II
Activity 4
How many words can you find in the puzzle?
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Activity 5
Place the following words to the category that they belong.
Words: run fast, legs, walk, swim, paws, fly, beautiful, small, big, whiskers, wings, fast, tail, teeth, bite, cute.
An animal can: ....................................................................................................................
An animal is: ........................................................................................................................
An animal has: .....................................................................................................................
Check your answers
Take a look at the correct answers and compare them to your own.
Activity 1
1. Cat 2. Horse
3. Turtle 4. Chicken
5. Rabbit 6. Sheep
7. Pig 8. Snake
9. Dog 10. Parrot
Activity 2
1. True 2. True
3. False 4. False
5. True 6. True
7. True 8. False
Activity 3
1. a 2. f
3. h 4. c
5. e 6. a
7. d 8. g
Activity 4
Horizontally
1. bird 2. pig
3..cat 4. rabbit
5. mouse 6. chicken
7. cow
Vertically
1. horse 2. snake
3. dog 4. fish
Activity 5
An animal can: run fast, walk, swim, fly, bite.
An animal is: beautiful, small, big, fast, cute.
An animal has: legs, paws, whiskers, wings, tail, teeth.
Now, lets find out how well you did!
35 - 40: EXCELLENT
30 - 35: GREAT
25 - 30: VERY GOOD
20 - 25: GOOD
15 - 20: OKAY
If you got under 15 correct answers,focus on the wrong answers and try to complete this online module again. Thank you very much for participating, I now you all tried your best. Now you can rest by playing the following game!
Kahoot Game!
Play the Kahoot Quiz Game with your classmates and let's see who will be the winner!
Follow the link: http://play.kahoot.it/v2/lobby?quizId=d6f3f870-2690-4adc-9e72-83d72b0c0702
Thank you for completing all of the activities, you did great! See you next time!