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Going Online

• guess, imitate and act out zoo animals,
• read and solve the word puzzle about zoo animals and create one on
their own.
Procedure:

1. Greet the learners and put on the table next to you your favourite
stuffed (plush) animal (so that YL may see it on their screens). Ask them
which animal they see. Tell them it is your favourite plush animal. Then,
share some pictures of animals from the zoo on the screen and ask
learners to give their names and their favourite zoo animal (pre-select
some zoo animals from the Peppa Pig cartoon and the e-games learn-
ers played before the lesson).
2. Before the lesson, the teacher downloads the photos of stuffed (plush)
animals, the learners (with their parents’ support) download the pho-
tos to their e-notebooks (which the teacher has access to). The teacher
shares the photos on the screen but only some parts of the animals can
be seen.
Present parts of the animals in the photos and encourage learners to
guess them by asking questions: ‘What is it?, Is it a tiger or a panda?’
3. Share your screen with the learners. Together watch the second part
of the video Learn Zoo Animals for Kids (which YL used in the previous
lesson, only the first minute). Watch the video for the second time and
make a pause where learners have to imitate animal movements pre-
sented in the video (e.g. eat like a crocodile, hop like a rabbit). In the
last part of the video some zoo animals are presented. Together ob-
serve them and pronounce their names.
4. Callindividuallearnersandencouragethemtochooseoneanimalfrom
the video clips and imitate it. The other learners observe his/her move-
ments on the screen and try to guess what animal (s)he is imitating.
5. Use the online Word search maker¹ and create your own word puzzle
of zoo animals (see example below). Use the vocabulary learners have
practiced during the lesson(s). Let learners solve the puzzle on their
own, or share your screen and do the task together.
6. Share the Word search maker link with learners. Explain to the pupils
how to use it. Encourage them to create their own puzzle. Some of
them can share their screens and others try to solve their puzzles.

¹ E.g. https://thewordsearch.com/maker/

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