A1 Movers Reading and Writing Part 3

A1 Movers Reading and Writing Part 3
Description
This lesson plan has been designed to help students prepare for A1 Movers Reading and Writing Part
3. This lesson plan can be delivered face to face or online. The ‘online options’ column gives
teachers ideas how the stages could be adapted for teaching online.
In this lesson, students complete a Reading and Writing Part 3 task (gapped text). They review and
practise vocabulary to describe animals to prepare for this.
Time required: 45 minutes (can be extended or shortened as required)

Materials  A1 Movers sample task (see below - sent to parents in advance and
required: printed if possible)
 Prepared presentation/PowerPoint slides
 If you are going to do the drawing activity, ask parents to provide
children with scrap paper, and coloured pencils if possible.
Aims:  to review and practise vocabulary to describe animals
 to complete a practice A1 Movers Reading and Writing Part 3 task
Procedure
Lesson Stages Online options
Greet the students as they arrive. Check they know how to
switch their audio and
video on.
Warmer
Play the online game “Animal silhouettes” (if necessary, wait for the ad to Share your screen and
disappear): show the silhouettes one by one for children to guess the animal. sound.
Alternatively, you can find pictures of animal silhouettes on the internet.
Ask children: “What’s your favourite animal? Why?”
Vocabulary – describing animals
Choose an animal and keep it secret. Describe the animal, revealing one piece of
information at a time, and encourage children to guess the animal. For example:
“I’m long and thin. I don’t have any legs. I make a hissing noise.” (snake)
Give students a couple of minutes to think of an animal and get ready to play.
Divide them into groups of 3 or 4. They take it in turns to describe their animals and
guess.
For extra support, write sentence starters on the board. For example:
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I’m… If you can monitor
I have… students safely, put them
I live in…. in breakout rooms. If not,
I eat… do the activity as a whole
I can... class, with children taking
it in turns to describe their
You could also elicit and write useful vocabulary on the board for children to choose
animal.
from. For example:
Adjectives: friendly, dangerous, beautiful, ugly, strong, big, small, long, thin,
brown, slow
Parts of an animal: tail, teeth, legs, neck, ears, nose Share your screen.
Things animals can do: fly, run, swim, hop
Younger children could also act out animals and make animal noises for their
classmates to guess.
To add challenge, children could make yes/no questions to ask in order to guess
the animal. For example, “Do you have four legs? Do you have a tail? Do you eat
meat?”
Reading and writing
Display the text of the sample task (see Materials). Tell students that it is about two Share your screen.
children, Jane and Paul who are learning about animals in the school library.
Send the worksheet to
‘Meeting’ the text parents in advance to
print/open on the students’
Ask children to quickly look at the text and circle the animals. You could do this as
screen.
a whole class by displaying the text and asking children to call out the animals that
they see (bear, fish, lion, kangaroo).
Vocabulary You could cover the words
by drawing boxes in
Use the sample task to elicit/check understanding of vocabulary. You could cover
PowerPoint or Annotate.
the words and ask children “What’s this?” For extra support you could reveal the
first letter of each word.
Reading and writing task
Read aloud the first sentence and show how the example word library is from the Share your screen and use
vocabulary page. your mouse to point.
Read the next part of the text: “Last Friday, Jane’s teacher told the class to find
pictures of animals.”
Point to the vocabulary and ask “Where can they look to find pictures of animals?”
(website). Point to the words in turn and reject them (“Look on the hopping? No!
Look on the cleverest? No! Look on the website? Yes!”) Write website in the gap.
Set the task: “Write the correct words.” Children work individually, then check their Use breakout rooms for
answers with a partner. the pair check.
For extra support, limit the number of choices for each gap (1-5). Children select
the correct option.
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Answers
You/your students could

write answers on the
screen using Annotate, or
in the chat.
Choose the title
Point to question 6. Read the titles aloud. Ask: “Which is best?” If children have
different ideas, support them by pointing to the whole text, asking “Is it all about
that?”
Answer A lesson about animals
Optional extensions – choose one or more of the following activities

Song
If appropriate to the age of your students, play the song At the zoo for children to Share your screen and
listen and sing along to. You could add some actions too (looking, jumping, sound.
sleeping, swimming) if students need to move.
Make your own animal
Use Switchzoo, or a similar app, to make a crazy animal. Ask children questions
so that they make decisions about the animal. For example: “What kind of head
does it have? What about the tail?” Encourage students to think of a name for the
new animal they create – maybe they could make names like “A polar rabbitfish” or Children hold up their
“a hippobirddog”. pictures to their cameras to
Describe and draw – crazy animals compare drawings.
Ask children to draw a crazy animal, and keep it secret. They take it in turns to
describe it to the rest of the class who listen and draw. Then students hold up their
pictures to compare. They could use colour too, if they have coloured pencils.
Homework
You could share the link for this game with parents for children to practise
vocabulary (in the library).
Children could draw and write about their favourite animal, or write about their
crazy animal – using the sentence prompts you introduced earlier.
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Materials
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