PRE - SHOW ACTIVITIES
Basic vocabulary Elicitation & Revision:
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Animals
Colours
Numbers
Feeling
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Fruits
Parts of the body
Actions
Likes & Dislikes
ANIMALS & ENVIRONMENT
FOR YOUNGER KIDS
a Brainstorming: Which animals can you find in the jungle?
→Ask the children to play charades or imitate each of the animals mentioned.
→As animals are mentioned, categorize them using a spider web or a chart, according to size,
number of legs, colours, actions they can do (fly, run, crawl).
b Play “I Can Spy with My Little Eye”
Version 1: The teacher shows a picture of the jungle with animals. One player says, "I spy,
with my little eye, something beginning with A [or any other letter of the alphabet]". The
other player(s) look at the picture and try to guess what the animal beginning with A might
be. (It needs to be something that is actually present and that everyone can see.) The kid
who guesses correctly chooses something else for the other players to guess.
Note: Suggested book→ “Rumble in the Jungle” by Giles Andreae & Davis Wojtowycz (Scholastic). On p.2 you`ll find a nice picture of a jungle setting with hidden animals.
Version 2: The teacher gets pictures of jungle animals + a piece of paper of a bigger size with
a hole in the middle of it. Teacher places the paper on top of the picture and moves it around
so children can spy and guess which animal is covered.
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ANIMALS & ENVIRONMENT
FOR ELDER KIDS
a
Brainstorming:
→ Which animals can you find in the jungle? As animals are mentioned, categorize
them using a spider web or a chart, according to size, number of legs, colour, ways in
which they move (fly, run, crawl, jump). Venn diagrams are highly suggested.
→ In which countries do we find jungle environments? Using a map, children can
place jungles around the world.
→ Group Work. Forming groups, the students describe a jungle. With the aid of a
chart or spider web and the different characteristics mentioned before, students can
either draw a jungle and then talk about it, or write sentences, phrases or words to
describe jungles.
→Extension: It is important for students to respect Nature, the environment, and the
creatures living in it. Trees and plants give us shade and air to breathe. Animals can
teach us principles and become our friends. Students can prepare “Show and Tell”
sessions and talk about animals in danger of extinction. Students can also plant and
water plants at School, simply including small plant pots by your classroom window.
Contact associations such as Greenpeace or Vida Silvestre to find more about
creatures and what we can do for them.
b
Read and Write:
→ Find the names of animals and write the words.
Version 1:
TIGERSERPENTMONKEYBEARGORILLAPANTHER
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Version 2:
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COLOURS
FOR YOUNGER KIDS
read and colour
PURPULE
ORANGE
YELLOW
GREEN
RED
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FOR ELDER STUDENTS
a
→ Play “Spin, Match, Read, & Write!”:
Students create two spinners with a piece of cardboard in an octagonal shape and divide
them in 8 sections each. Then, they draw:
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Spinner 1: In each section, (animals or fruits) in black and white.
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Spinner 2: In each section they write the name of a colour.
Finally, they pass a pencil through a hole made in the centre of each spinner. Students spin
each spinner at the same time and frame sentences according to what they can read in
each of them. Then, they write sentences like:
“My apple is blue.” Or any other structure you would like to work on.
b
→ Follow the Maze. Pair / Group work.
The teacher explains the aim of this game. The aim is to to find a path from the entrance in
the top left side of the maze to the exit in the bottom right. The teacher gives each
student/pair/team one maze. Students can move from one square to the next by following
colours horizontally or vertically. When students have finished, one team can check the
other one’s route.
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RED
BLUE
GLUE
RED
RULER
GREEN
RUBBER
PENCIL
YELLOW
BEAR
CAT
ORANGE
SERPENT
WHITE
PURPLE
PINK
GREEN
BANANA
PAPER
APPLE
DOG
YELLOW
BLACK
BROWN
PEN
BALL
SILVER
KITE
JUNGLE
TIGER
PURPLE
BIG
COMPUTER
SMALL
PANTHER
SMILE
LIGHT BLUE
GOLD
MARKER
BROWN
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BABY
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TREE
BLUE
FLOWER
BOOK
FIRE
FUCCIA
GRAY
LIGHT GREEN
ACTIONS
FOR YOUNGER KIDS
a
Elicitation
What would you like to do in the jungle? The teacher can use pictures of actions after
having talked about them. For different actions play: “Flying Swatters”, “Simon Says”,
Guessing Games, Bingo, etc.
FOR ELDER KIDS
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Elicitation
What would you like to do in the jungle? The teacher can use pictures of actions after
having talked about them. For different actions play: Hangman, Guessing Games,
Pictionary, Bingo, Crossword Puzzles, etc.
b
Tongue twisters:
1 → Warm Up: The teacher encourages students to say these famous tongue twisters
faster and faster:
"She sells seashells down by the seashore."
"Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers."
"How much wood would a wood chopper chop if he chopped so much wood?"
2 → Create your own tongue twisters: Instructions
2.1 → Choose a letter to work with (b, d, l, m, p, s, or t are the easiest ones)
2.2 → Now choose one of the names to us letter e for this activity.
2.3 → Now students work in groups of three. Dictionaries are allowed!
Write one answer for each of the following questions, using the chosen sound
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What is s/he doing?
Where?
When?
Why?
2.4 → You should have lots of different answers from all the different groups.
Example:
Moo the Monkey
Is moving amusingly
Among the mango trees
In a magnificent morning
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FRUITS
FOR YOUNGER KIDS
a
Fruit Basket Craft:
After elicitation. Ask students to draw & colour a fruit basket or work on creating a 3D
basket full of different fruits. The teacher can also use pictures from the local market store.
Students can write the first letter of each vegetable inside the picture.
This craft can be used as decoration for the classroom or students can create note holders
to put on refrigerators, adding a magnet sheet to the back of the basket and a post-it note
pad on the front of it.
b
Guessing game:
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Version 1: The teacher shows a picture with fruits for one minute. She then covers it
with a piece of paper. Students try to remember the names of each fruit they have seen.
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Version 2: Play the same game, but this time using real pieces of fruit displayed on
the desk and covered with a piece of cloth.
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Version 3: Place many pieces of each fruit and children try to remember not only
the names of each fruit but how many of them are covered. They can even make a list.
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Recommended book:
“Eating the Alphabet” by Lois Ehlert
This colourful alphabet book shows fruits and vegetables juicy and alive. A great way to get
the children interested in eating their veggies and introducing the alphabet.
FOR ELDER KIDS
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Riddles:
After elicitation, the teacher reads out these riddles. Students try to guess. The
teacher can help with pictures.
I am a fruit that grows on a tree,
I come in many different colours.
My name rhymes with “CHAIR”
And you might need to stand on one
to pick me!
What I am?
I am a tropical fruit.
I am many different colours on
the outside.
To say my name,
say the opposite of
“WOMAN”
and then say the opposite of
“STOP”
What am I?
I am a round fruit with a peel.
I am also a colour.
I have a lot of vitamin C for
your
body,
And you can also drink me!
What am I?
(PEAR)
(MANGO)
(ORANGE)
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I am a yellow fruit
with three letters “A”
In my name.
I have a lot of potassium
To help your muscles work
Much better.
I am tough on the outside and
soft on the inside.
What am I?
I am a fruit that comes
In many colours and many
names.
I grow on trees
And I am also some tasty juice.
Sometimes you may find
Half of a worm inside of me.
What am I?
I am round and red.
Some people think I am a
vegetable
But actually I am a fruit!
People like to have me
In salads.
(BANANA)
(APPLE)
(TOMATOE)
b
Fit the names from the box into the puzzle:
Banana - Apple - Grapes - Orange - Tomatoe Nut - Lemon - Pear - Strawberry - Pineapple Coconut - Mango - Peach
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