Year 4
Lesson65
Robot at the zoo.
Contents
Vocabulary
polar bear
shark
throw
hungry
bamboo leaves
Checklist
Grammar
Present simple
Reading a story
Aims
Skills
2 individual
handouts: word
completion and
sentences in the
present simple
Language Analysis
Vocabulary:
The polar bear is a big bear that lives within the Arctic Circle, encompassing the Arctic
Ocean, its surrounding seas and surrounding land masses. It’s in many ways similar to the
brown bear.
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Procedure
Warm-up Off the screens
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Give out Handout 1.
Ask your students to make words and phrases by completing the letters.
Check with the class.
Key:
1 Sharks eat fish.
2 The animals aren’t happy.
3 They’re hungry.
4 The panda eats bamboo leaves.
5 The lions and tigers eat meat.
6 The parrot and the monkey eat fruit.
7 The kangaroos eat grass.
8 Now the animals are happy!
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Screen 2
Audio 1:
Robot is helping at the zoo.
What do the animals eat?
Robot reads. Sharks eat fish.
Audio 2:
Robot throws some fish to the sharks.
But ... oh dear...
Audio 3:
The animals aren’t happy. They’re
hungry. Robot calls Lucy.
Audio 4:
The panda eats the bamboo leaves.
The lions and tigers eat the meat.
The parrot and the monkey eat the fruit.
Audio 5:
The kangaroos eat the grass.
And the big white polar bear eats the
fish
Now the animals are happy!
Exploit the scene by asking the Ss to describe
what they can see. Then listen and watch the
animation. Ask some questions to check
understanding.
Additional activity
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Give out Handout 2.
Ask your students to match the animal pictures to their food. .
Check if they have matched the pictures correctly.
Ask them to make true sentences about the animals and their food.
Ask representatives to read out their sentences.
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Key:
1 c Sharks and dolphins eat fish.
2 a Cows and kangaroos eat grass.
3 e Pandas eat bamboo leaves.
4 b Tigers and lions eat meat.
5 d Bears eat leaves and fish.
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Screen 3
Audio 1:
Robot is helping at the zoo.
What do the animals eat?
Robot reads. Sharks eat fish.
Audio 2:
Robot throws some fish to the sharks.
But .... oh dear ...
Audio 3:
The animals aren’t happy. They’re
hungry. Robot calls Lucy.
Audio 4:
The panda eats the bamboo leaves.
The lions and tigers eat the meat.
The parrot and the monkey eat the fruit.
Audio 5:
The kangaroos eat the grass.
And the big white polar bear eats the
fish
Now the animals are happy!
Key:
Additional activity:
The focus is on reading but students can also listen while they read.
Screen 3
Key:
Robot is helping at the zoo.
Sharks eat fish.
Robot throws some fish to the sharks.
The animals aren’t happy. They’re
hungry.
Robot calls Lucy.
The panda eats the bamboo leaves.
And the big white polar bear eats the
fish.
Now the animals are happy!
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Screen 5
Key:
1 The panda eats the bamboo leaves.
2 The tigers eat the meat.
3 The parrot and the monkey eat the
fruit.
4 The kangaroos eat the grass.
5 And the big white polar bear eats the
fish.
Screen 6
Key:
1 children 2 fish 3 Alex 4 flowers
5 vegetables 6 leaves 7 black
Give the Ss these instructions for the ‘Read
and listen’ activity.
1. Tell your students to look at the picture.
Tell them it’s the same story they heard
before, but some words are different.
2. Ask your students to mark these words.
3. Repeat the recording, pause before a
changed word, elicit the word from the
class.
Now it’s your turn
Get students to practise the language in pairs.
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Handout 1
1 Shark_ eat fi_h.
2 The animals aren’t h_ _py.
3 They’re h_ _gry.
4 The panda eats bam_ _o le_ _es.
5 The l_ _ns and t_ _ers eat m_ _t.
6 The par_ _t and the monk_ _ eat fr_ _t.
7 The kang_ _ _os eat grass.
8 N_w the animals are happy!
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Handout 2
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c.
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d.
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e.
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