Unit 6- Farm Animals

FARM ANIMALS 

OBJECTIVES 

• EFL/ESL young learners will learn the names of farm animals in English.
• To build an essential vocabulary of animals that are common to a child´s world.

AGENDA 

1. Warm-up: "Old MacDonald song" 
2. Use farm animal plastic toys for "playtime"
3. Introduce the vocabulary
4. Play "Flashcard touch" and "The missing flashcard" game
5. Do "Match the animals"
6. Clouser: Homework

WARM-UP

USE FARM ANIMAL PLASTIC TOYS FOR "PLAYTIME"

If you have a small class, start off sitting together playing with the farm animals and any other farm toys to go with them (buildings and barns, tractors, pens, other animals, etc.). For larger classes, if you have enough sets you can put the class into groups with the animal toys to play with. At this stage, you don’t need to do any direct teaching – just play with the animals and have fun together!

If you don´t have a plastic toy, ask the students to draw their favorite animal.

INTRODUCE VOCABULARY 

As you are playing, start saying the animal vocab and animal sounds. E.g. "This is a pig –oink, oink!". As you and your students play with the animals tell them the animal names and sounds in English.

PLAY "FLASHCARD TOUCH" AND "THE MISSING FLASHCARD" GAME 

Put the animal toys away. Keep the flashcards on the floor. Tell your students to sit around the flashcards on the floor (or on a table) and to put their hands up in the air. Say a flashcard (e.g. "pig") and students have to quickly touch the correct card. Play a few rounds. After that, tell your students to close and to cover their eyes. Turn over one of the cards. Say “Open your eyes”. The students have to shout out the missing card.

            

DO "MATCH THE ANIMAL"

CLOUSER 

Homework: Students draw a farm with their favorites animals and decorate it.