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Pre-listening

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Set the scene: Introduce a friend - Prince Froggie. Students will meet him and his animal friends and learn more about animals.
Revise animal words to activate prior knowledge.

To familiarise students with the context and purpose
To activate prior knowledge

Teacher using picture cues to activate prior knowledge

While-listening
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2-3	Pre-teach new animal words, and comparatives and superlatives . Give a prelude to a story about animals in the textbook. Listen to the story. Answer a range of questions, including questions on inference skills after listening. Listening materials used: Ready-made audio CD which comes with the textbook (recorded by native speakers)	To improve inference skills through stories To enable students to listen and give written responses
4	Pre-teach animal types. Listen to animal poems (1) (2) (3) (4) and guess which animal is being described by completing a worksheet . Listening materials used: Tailor-made poems recorded by secondary school students	To improve students' skills in handling more than one chunk of information through identifying key words To enable students to listen and give written responses
5	Revisit animal words, comparatives and superlatives. Set the scene: Prince Froggie's teacher has visited the Science Museum. There is an exhibition about animals. Listen to her talking about the visit. Then, complete a TSA-formatted worksheet with a range of questions to address students' needs. Listening materials used: Tailor-made audio clip recorded by the NET	To build confidence in using a familiar format To improve exposure using a variety of question types To improve students' skills in handling more than one chunk of information through identifying key words To improve students' skills in distinguishing confusing words (e.g. thirty, thirteen) To enable students to listen and give written responses

Post-listening

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Debrief students by showing the questions and transcripts of the task done in the previous lessons.
Students re-read instructions and questions to reflect upon question requirements.
Students analyse the transcripts of the spoken texts and spot key information.

To raise awareness of features of written and spoken texts

Students finding key words in the transcripts

Extended tasks
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7-8	Students take part in a form competition. Set the context: Your animal friend Panda is lonely. Prince Froggie and you would like to introduce friends to him. Have a form activity in the hall. Listen to the teachers' instructions and make responses. Listen and act: Students follow teachers' instructions to meet animal friends. They do different actions e.g. jump, walk to the taller desk, etc. Guess animal friends: Students listen to teachers' descriptions of various animal friends. They have to find and hold up the right animal pictures, read aloud or write down animal words. Listening materials used: Instructions given by English teachers	To improve students' skills in handling more than one chunk of information through identifying key words To enable students to listen and give written, verbal and non-verbal responses Students listening and responding to spoken texts in a form competition
9-10	Write about an animal and present the writing. Students evaluate their own presentations. They also ask their friends and parents to give comments. (Worksheet and feedback form)

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