THIRD ACTIVITY

HABITAT

PRE-TASK 

Where the animals live in the story? Students remember the story and review vocabulary of the activities before it. This activity during 15 minutes more or less.

TASK-PREPARATION

After that, the teacher shows the students pictures of different animals. They work this vocabulary with questions. Then, the teacher shows his students pictures, photographs and places where these animals live. But the teacher does mistakes when she put the animals in the incorrect place. For example, she put a parrot in the water. In the photographs shows a parrot, a turtle, a dog, a frog, salmon, deer, bear, a pond, a forest, a cabin, a river, beach…Students in group reflect where the different animals live. After that they discuss it.

This activity lasts 30 minutes approximately.

TASK-REALIZATION

When the children know where is the habitat of the different animal, in groups of five students do a large wall. In this wall the students draw all the habitats of animals worked: a forest, the beach, a cabin, a lake (pond), a river...

This activity lasts 40 minutes approximately.

POST-TASK

After that, the teacher shows his students, picture about other animals that live in the same places that the animals they know.  Then they draw and pain one animal. When the children finish they should put the draws in the wall.

The session finishes when in groups reflects about them learning and ask about this question: which is the thing that they like more? In this activity the teacher try that all his students speak in English and use the vocabulary learned doing these activities. This activity lasts 20 minutes approximately.

FOURTH ACTIVITY

REPRODUCTION

PRE-TASK

The teacher with his students makes a review of all the vocabulary that they have learned in previous activities:

What kinds of animals you know?

Where can they live?

What food can they eat?

Then, they start to talk about types of sexual reproduction of the animals that they studied after. These types of animals are mammals, amphibians, reptiles, fishes and birds.

This activity lasts 15 minutes approximately.

TASK-PREPARATION

Teacher asks her pupils like reproduces the animals of the story. Later she introduces the concepts: oviparous and viviparous with photographies.. Oviparous animals are formed and developed within an egg that has fertilized the male of the species and has been released by the female. Viviparous are the animals that develop inside the mother abdomen. Also, the teacher asks how the dolphins are reproduced and a debate is created.
This activity lasts 30 minutes approximately.

TASK-REALIZATION

Teacher shows photographies of different animals and they classify them all together in viviparous and oviparous. They classify other animals too in groups of pupils. Later the teacher solves doubts.

POST-TASK

The groups show the classification that they done and comment it all together. Finally, the teacher and pupils do a final comment about everything that they have learned during this didactic unit.

CONCLUSION

To complete this learning unit we would finish with a short conclusion. We think that there activities can use in the classrooms because this topic like a lot of children. In addition they can learn English at the same time that they learn natural environment. Finally it must be said that during this project we have difficult in some of the parts because at first not understood too good what we are asking. But once we had the idea the rest was easy, and we had fun doing it!