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Animals
Student’s Book pp. 90–91
GoalName 10 animals and describe them with “big / small”.
New words
elephant · fillion · shermonkey · maymungiraffe · jirafa
Explanation
Animals: bird, crocodile, elephant, giraffe, hippo, lion, monkey, snake, spider, zebra. We describe them: “Elephants are big.” “Spiders are small.”
Worked examples
Hippos are big. Birds are small.
Mini chant: “Lion, zebra, monkey, too — come and see them at the zoo!”
Class activity
“At the zoo”: the teacher names an animal and children act it out: for a big animal they stretch their arms wide, for a small one they crouch down, saying “Big!” or “Small!”
Practice
1
How do you say sher in English?
lion
2
Are elephants big or small? Say it in English.
Elephants are big.
3
Name an animal with no legs.
snake