Starters 2 Lesson Plan 3_In the wild 2

 Read an information text and find key facts

Main aim (SWBAT)  Identify short vowel sounds and patterns
 Understand the use of Are there any …? + short answers
 Vocabulary: twenty, thirty, forty, fifty, seventy, eighty, ninety, a hundred, centimeters, forty-two, pack,
sixty-five, scary
Objectives  Additional vocabulary: fish, tortoise, worm
 Sounds and letters words: cat, cub, dog, fig, pen
 Grammar: Are there any …? + short answers
Time 45 minutes
Level CEFR A1

Procedure

Stage Time Description (Beginner) Description (Inter-mediate) Description (Advanced) Reference

Warm up 2’
- Watch a video about wolves (from 0:00 until 2:07)
Watch a 2'
- Ask S what animal they are and if he/she likes wolves.
video 20h02’
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YXMo5w9aMNs&ab_channel=NatGeoWILD
Review 3’
- Show different puzzles and have S open 5 random pieces in each one. Ask What is this? and elicit
1’
Vocabulary answers from S. Slides
20h03’
- You should choose the words which S seemed to have difficulty remembering in the previous lesson
- Have S write a big Yes and a big No on two pieces of paper
- Read out some sentences about animals and their countries according to the picture on the slide, e.g.
2’ There are some pandas in India. There are some bears in Russia. There are some crocodiles in Australia. S
Grammar Slides
20h05’ shows the correct piece of paper.
- You can reintroduce the negative by confirming S’s No answers, e.g. Well done! There aren’t any pandas in
India.
Stage Time Description (Beginner)
Reading 18’
- Refer S to the numbers
on the slide. Point to
the numbers and read
them out in order. Then,
do it again and have S
repeat.
- Point to the numbers
3’
Pre-reading and have S read them
20h08’
out, first in order, then
in random order.
- Refer S to the photos
and ask What’s this
animal? (wolf). Introduce
the plural wolves.
-
- Play the audio of the
text and listen together
While- 5’
- Give S time to read the
reading 20h13’
text carefully
- -
Post-reading 7’ - Now have S scan the
20h20’ text to find the
information and
complete the facts.
Then, call out the
headings and have S
Description (Inter-mediate)
- Refer S to the numbers on
the slide. Point to the
numbers and read them out
in order. Then, do it again and
have S repeat.
- Point to the numbers and
have S read them out, first in
order, then in random order.
- Refer S to the photos and ask
What’s this animal? (wolf).
Introduce the plural wolves.
- Elicit S’s ideas on wolves and
list them on the slide. Prompt
as necessary with photos and
questions about color,
countries, food, etc.
- Play the audio of the text and
listen together
- Give S time to read the text
- Play the audio of the text and listen
carefully
- Now have S scan the text to
find the information and
complete the facts. Then, call
out the headings and have S
read out his/her answers.
- Clarify the meaning of the
Description (Advanced) Reference
- Refer S to the numbers on the slide.
Point to the numbers and read them
out in order. Then, do it again and have
S repeat.
- Point to the numbers and have S read
them out, first in order, then in random
order.
- Slides
- Refer S to the photos and ask What’s
this animal? (wolf). Introduce the plural
wolves.
- Elicit S’s ideas on wolves and list them
on the slide. Prompt as necessary with
photos and questions about colors,
countries, food, etc.
- Have S read the text quickly to check
his/her ideas. Ask which information
from his/her ideas was mentioned. Tick
off those points on the slide.
- Slides
together
- Give S time to read the text carefully
-
- Now have S scan the text to find the - Slides
information and complete the facts.
Then, call out the headings and have S
read out his/her answers.
- Clarify the meaning of the
abbreviations (centimeters, kilometers
Stage Time Description (Beginner) Description (Inter-mediate) Description (Advanced) Reference
read out his/her
answers.
- Clarify the meaning of
the abbreviations
abbreviations (centimeters,
(centimeters, kilometers
kilometers per hour) and have per hour) and have S repeat the
per hour) and have S
S repeat the numbers and the numbers and the measurements.
repeat the numbers and
measurements. - S tells some facts that he/she
the measurements.
- S tells some facts that he/she remembers from the text.
- S tells a fact that he/she
remembers from the text. - Give S some quiet thinking time before
remembers from the
- Give S some quiet thinking asking his/her opinions about wolves.
text.
time before asking his/her Point out he/she can choose more than
- Give S some quiet
opinions about wolves. Point one answer.
thinking time before
out he/she can choose more
asking his/her opinions
than one answer.
about wolves. Point out
he/she can choose
more than one answer.
- Show the 4 first sentences of the text on the slide. Have S read the sentences out loud.
- Start making words disappear from the slide. For example, the sentence This is my family. I have got
Game: brothers and a sister. Becomes: This _____ family. I _____ brothers _____ sister. Have S read the sentences
3’
Disappearing again including the disappearing words. - Slides
20h23’
sentences - Make more words disappear and have S read the text again.
- Finally make everything disappear (or maybe leave in a word or two for longer sentences) and have S
“read” the text from a (nearly) empty slide.
Sounds and
3’
letters
1’
Pre-teach - Refer S to the pictures. Elicit or explain the meaning of the words. - Slides
20h24’
Teach 1’ Listen and say. Complete -
20h25’ - Play the audio for S to repeat the words chorally. Then, point to the a in the word cat. Ask What’s this
Stage Time Description (Beginner) Description (Inter-mediate) Description (Advanced) Reference
sound? (/æ/) What’s the word? (cat)
- Continue by pointing to the space in each of the words. Have S repeat the sound and the word before
he/she completes the words in his/her notebook.
Listen and say the chant.
1’
Practice - Play the chant and have S follow in the slide. - Slides
20h26’
- Play the chant again and have S join in with the gapped words.
Learning to
4’
learn

- Read the Learning to

- Read the Learning to learn box
learn box together.
together. When you read out - Read the Learning to learn box together.
When you read out the
2’ the words thirty, forty, etc, When you read out the words thirty,
Teach words thirty, forty, etc, - Slides
20h28’ use a gesture to draw forty, etc, use a gesture to draw
use a gesture to draw
attention to the ending each attention to the ending each time.
attention to the ending
time. -
each time.
-
-

- Encourage S to add some

more words with the same
- Encourage S to add some more words
pattern (e.g. twenty, eighty,
- Encourage S to add with the same pattern (e.g. twenty,
ninety)
some more words with eighty, ninety)
2’ - Ask S what he/she can see in
Practice the same pattern (e.g. - Ask S what he/she can see in the next - Slides
20h30’ the next group of words (-er).
twenty, eighty, ninety) group of words (-er). Have S circle the
Have S circle the er in each
- Have S circle the word er in each word. Ask S what other
word. Ask S what other
with a different pattern. words S can add with the same pattern
words S can add with the
(e.g. father, mother, under, flower)
same pattern (e.g. father,
mother, under, flower)
Language in
12’
use
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- Play the audio and have S follow in the slide.

5’
Teach - Play the audio again and have S repeat each question and answer. - Slides
20h35’ - Elicit the question for a yes or no answer. (Are there any …?) Elicit the question for a number answer. (How
many … are there?)

Work in pairs

- Refer S to the photos and elicit the names of the objects

Controlled 7’ - Read out the example dialogue with S. Point out that the question and answer are the same as in Listen
and say, but the blue word is changed for an item in the box. - Slides
practice 20h42’
- Point to the number under the photo and elicit the next line of the dialogue from S (Let’s see. There are …
sixty insects)
- Perform the dialogues with S
- Have S do some extra exercises (p.13 – WB) for more practice if necessary.
Review 3’
3’
Review - Review the lesson - Slides
20h45’