Animal Body Parts
Time: 2 hours
Focus:
The purpose of th this lesson is to elementary to year three school students vocabulary for describing animals.
Preparation:
The teacher will need to print off the following worksheets:
Animal Body Parts Introduction Sheet
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As well, the teacher should make 1 set of Animal Body Parts Cards for every 4-5 students that are in the class.
Hour One
Tell the students that you will be describing animals. Handout the introduction sheet. Explain each term one by one and ask students to provide a few examples of animals that have each characteristic. Practice the pronunciation of each term.
Break the students up into groups of 4-5 and play the animal body parts card game. This should take over 30 minutes. Review the vocabulary items.
Hour Two
Ask the students if they remember the animal body parts that they studied in hour one. Briefly review them. Then go over the worksheet "Name That Animal".
Play the card game again. After the card game is finished. Go over the "Odd Animal Out" worksheet.
As an optional review you can do the Describing Animals Crossword or you can play the Describe, Compare, and Contrast Animals Game.
There are also worksheets on this topic for younger learners at:
Further Lesson Ideas for Animal Parts
Sent in by Stewart Clarke
Target Language:
Vocabulary Items:
antlers, claws, fins, fur, gills, hooves, horns, paws, scales, shells, spots, stripes, tentacles, tusks, wings
Structure:
with~
An animal with horns
An animal with tentacles.
