Load the What can it be song. Review body parts of people and animals and do the pre-song matching activity together. Play Simon Says (e.g. Simon Says touch your head, flap your wings, etc).
Listen and watch the song. Give Ss page 1 of the activity sheet and they complete. Listen again to check.
Play the song and the Ss sing along, with their activity sheets to help them if necessary.
Ss work in pairs and quiz each other, using the activity sheet, e.g. What has a minotaur got? or It's got a man's body and a bull's head - what is it?
Ss design and write about their own creature on page 2 of the activity sheet.
Ss add more verses to the song, based on the creatures they designed in the previous stage. Then sing the song again with the new verses!
Submitted by TE Editor on 11 December, 2011 - 13:46
There are lots of Christmas activities on the British Council’s site for young learners - LearnEnglish Kids - which you can use with your students during the festive season.
Submitted by Sally Trowbridge on 4 October, 2011 - 13:01
This lesson is about portraits and drawing. Students do a running dictation in pairs, listen to and respond to a partner’s instructions to draw a face together, and then take part in a group discussion.
Submitted by Sally Trowbridge on 5 September, 2011 - 18:42
British kids are having problems at school. In this lesson, students read about a TV chef who wants to improve education in Britain. They invent their ideal school and then present their ideas to their classmates.
The following activities are designed to get everyone talking. They can be used with all levels because the language required to communicate is determined by the students.
Submitted by chrisbaldwin on 31 March, 2010 - 11:01
This activity is a 'Picasso dictation' where the teacher describes a picture and the students draw it. This is based on Salvador Dali’s 1937 surrealist painting “Swans Reflecting Elephants”. It can be adapted for the language and artistic skills of your students.
