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Animals in a book
Connect Primary 1, Term 2: Unit 14 At the library
GoalName five animals and say what they are with It’s a …
New words
camel · an animal with a hump that lives in the desertelephant · a very big animal with a long nosesnake · a long animal with no legslion · a big wild catmonkey · an animal that climbs trees
Explanation
Books show us many animals. Point to a picture. Ask: What is it? Answer: It’s a camel. It’s a lion. It’s a monkey. We say an before the sound e: It’s an elephant.
Worked examples
Mariam
Seif, look at this page. What is it?
Seif
It’s a camel.
Mariam
Yes! Camels live in the desert. And what is this?
Seif
It’s an elephant. It is very big!
Tap the cards and say each animal.
Now you. Choose an animal. Say: It’s a … . Your friend says the next animal.
Class activity
Animal mime. A grown-up says an animal and you act it: camel (walk slowly), elephant (swing your arm like a trunk), snake (wiggle), lion (roar), monkey (scratch and jump). Then you mime and the grown-up guesses: ‘It’s a monkey!’
Practice
1
Listen. What is it? Say the animal.
…
A lion.
2
Look. What is it?
It’s a snake.
3
Look. What is it? Say a or an.
It’s an elephant.
4
Which animal has a hump and lives in the desert?
A camel.
5
Write: It’s a camel.
The child copies the sentence.