Teacher's Guide
Unit Two: Animals Brainstorming:
Elicit Ss to mention all the animals they know in English. Make a list on the board of the animals they call out. Ask for all the characteristics, animals have. Introduce new vocabulary: legs, fur, scales, stripes, colors, etc.
Explain the difference between vertebrates and invertebrates. Make a list of vertebrates and invertebrates from the animals they mentioned before. Ask Ss what are their favorite animals? why? Ask them about what animals can do. Example: Eagle: they have a powerful sight.
Unit Two: Animals Test your knowledge:
Before they start doing the test, it is important to identify the new words for them. Focus on the word hatch and explain them. Ask them to call out the names of some insects.
Oviparity is the property of these animals where the fertilization may be external or internal, but the young ones are always hatched out of the body. Oviparous animals include most fishes, amphibians, reptiles, and even birds. Some invertebrates like insects are also oviparous.
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Unit Two: Animals How are animals born?
Oviparous animals are animals that reproduce by laying eggs. This is how most fish, amphibians, reptiles, insects, and arachnids reproduce. All birds and monotremes also reproduce like this. The eggs that of most animals that live on land are protected by hard shells.
Explain very well these two concepts:
Animals that give birth to offspring are called viviparous. In viviparous animals, both fertilization, as well as the development of the embryo, takes place inside the female reproductive system. Once the fetus development is complete, the mother delivers the baby.
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invertebrate vertebrate
Unit Two: Animals Animals Classification:
Explain Ss the difference between vertebrates and invertebrates animals, then make them draw a simple chart with 6 categories.
What is an aquatic animal for kids? Aquatic animals are animals that live in the water. They either live in fresh water, such as lakes, rivers, and ponds, or salt water, like the ocean. Most people only think of fish when asked about aquatic animals.
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Unit Two: Animals Kind of animals
Elicit students to participate by asking them for sea animals they might know. Include another vocabulary related to sea animals: coral. crab dolphin, jellyfish, octopus, sea cucumber, sea star/ starfish, shrimp, squid, walrus.
Terrestrial animals spend most of or their entire life span on land, in contrast to animals that live predominantly in water. Examples of terrestrial animals include cats, ants, dogs, raccoons, spiders, kangaroos, tigers, lions, mice, bats, bulls, oxen, leopards, elephants, and many more.
Explain very well these two concepts:
Animals that give birth to offspring are called viviparous. In viviparous animals, both fertilization, as well as the development of the embryo, takes place inside the female reproductive system. Once the fetus development is complete, the mother delivers the baby.
Match words and pictures
Extra Activity:
Write the words (more than 1 answer possible)
Draw your favorite sea animal:
Extra activitiy for students
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Unit Two: Animals Domestic Animals:
Make a list of the most common pets: dog, cat, parrot, lizard, hamster, etc. Ask them whether they have a pet? What is its name? What color is it? What do they like about their pets?
Wild Animals: Ask Ss which wild animals they can mention and write the wild animals' names on the board. :
FOCUS ON THE CORRECT PRONUNCIATION OF THESE WORDS:
ANSWERS MAY VARY
Unit Two: Animals What do animals eat?
Write on the board the names of these animals and make Ss think about what these animals eat: then write down the question: Which of these animals does not eat grass?
Oviparous viviparous Terrestrial Acuatic
Unit Two: Animals Evaluation unit two
Make sure Ss can review the vocabulary from the unit by eliciting them to recycle the words seen through the unit.