Animals - Farm, Wild, Sea & Insects (A2 Vocabulary)

A2 VOCABULARY · ANIMALS

Your Animal Stories

PICTURE

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"Bees and wasps sting, mosquitoes bite, and monkeys... negotiate."

Farm / wild / sea / insects; bite or sting?; strange plurals

Listening

Speaking

LEAD-IN

The four-column race

Two minutes, in pairs: write as many animals as you can under four headings.

FARM

WILD

SEA

INSECTS

One point each; three points for an animal no other pair has.

BEFORE YOU LISTEN

Your animal stories

You will hear a radio phone-in: "Your animal stories" - three callers.

PREDICT

1. Which animals make the best stories? Write three guesses.

2. Listen: did any of yours call in?

PICTURE

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LISTEN

Audioscript: "Your animal stories"

Nadia and Piotr call in

PRESENTER ...and today we want your animal stories! First caller - Nadia, hello!

NADIA Hi! So, last summer at the beach, I was swimming and suddenly - ow! A jellyfish. It stung me on the leg. My little brother said, "At least it wasn't a shark."

PRESENTER So helpful. Did it hurt for long?

NADIA A day. But now I check the water like a crocodile is coming.

PRESENTER Thanks, Nadia. Next - Piotr!

PIOTR Hi. My story is from my kitchen. In November I heard a noise at night. A mouse. Then two mice. My cat watched them with zero interest. In the end we caught them in a box and took them to the park. My cat slept through everything.

PRESENTER A true lion.

LISTEN (continued)

...and Grace

PRESENTER Last one - Grace, quickly!

GRACE OK - on holiday, a monkey took my sunglasses. Right off my head! It sat in a tree and looked at me. A man said, "Give it a banana." So I did - and the monkey took the banana AND kept the sunglasses.

PRESENTER Smart business! Remember, listeners: bees and wasps sting, mosquitoes and spiders bite, and monkeys... negotiate. More of your stories after the news.

UNDERSTANDING

Answer the questions.

1. Match the caller to the animal:

Nadia

Piotr

Grace

monkey

jellyfish

mice

2. True or false?

a) The jellyfish story happened in a pool.

b) Piotr's cat caught the mice.

c) The monkey returned the sunglasses.

d) The banana plan failed.

QUICK TALK

Animal stories

Discuss in pairs.

1. Which caller had the worst experience? Rank them.

2. Have you ever seen a jellyfish, a monkey or some mice in real life?

3. What is your animal story? (Everyone has one - even "a wasp at a picnic".)

PICTURE

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FIND THE WORDS

Look at the show again.

1. Which seven animals are named in the show?

2. Which animals sting, and which bite?

3. Piotr says "a mouse... then two mice." What is strange about this plural?

HOW IT WORKS

Animal groups

FARM

bull, chicken, cow, goat, horse, pig, sheep

WILD

bat, bear, bird, camel, crocodile, deer, elephant, giraffe, kangaroo, lion, monkey, mouse, rabbit, rat, snake, tiger

SEA

dolphin, jellyfish, shark, whale

INSECTS & FRIENDS

bee, butterfly, fly, mosquito, spider, wasp

bite or sting? Venom insects sting (bees, wasps, jellyfish). Mosquitoes, spiders and snakes bite.

Strange plurals: one mouse / two mice · one sheep / two sheep · one deer / two deer (never "deers").

PRACTICE

A, B & C

A - Odd one out, and say why:

1. cow · goat · tiger · sheep

2. shark · whale · dolphin · camel

3. bee · wasp · mosquito · rabbit

4. mouse · deer · sheep · pig

B - bite or sting?

a wasp ____ · a mosquito ____ · a snake ____ · a jellyfish ____ · a bee ____

C - Write the plural:

one mouse, two ____ · one sheep, five ____ · one deer, three ____ · one fly, lots of ____ (spell it!)

FREER

The line-up

In groups of three, rank eight animals twice - you must agree as a group:

• most dangerous to humans (1-8)

• most useful to humans (1-8)

8 ANIMAL PHOTOS

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Compare with another group - argue only where your rankings differ by 3 places or more.

HOMEWORK Write your own animal story to read aloud next lesson.

TEACHER'S REFERENCE · HIDE OR DELETE BEFORE CLASS

Answer key

Understanding. 1 Nadia - jellyfish, Piotr - mice, Grace - monkey 2 a F (the sea/beach) b F (the humans did) c F d T-ish (banana eaten, glasses kept).

Find the words. 1 jellyfish, shark, crocodile, mouse/mice, lion, monkey (accept six) 2 sting: bees, wasps, jellyfish; bite: mosquitoes, spiders 3 irregular plural.

A - Odd one out. 1 tiger (wild) 2 camel (not sea) 3 rabbit (not insect) 4 pig (regular plural)

B. stings · bites · bites · stings · stings

C - Plurals. mice · sheep · deer · flies