VIII nastavna nedelja Unit 2 Animal planet Listening

VIII nastavna nedelja

Unit 2 Animal planet Listening Prior to doing the listening exercise, students are asked to decide whether some statements are fact or myth, thus inviting students to check their knowledge of the animal world and to discuss about it. Students listen to five speaker talking about a conservation project they are currently involved in. Upon listening, students check their understanding of the heard by completing an exercise in which they are supposed to state the purpose of each project and challenges met during the projects. 2

Unit 2 Animal planet Reading Elephants and memory As an introduction to the reading segment of the unit, students discuss how good their memory is. Students read the text and after the reading, they do a multiple choice exercise to check their understanding of the read. They also go over the text to clear any doubts they might have when it comes to the vocabulary. 3

Unit 2 Animal planet Vocabulary Students do a vocabulary exercise to get familiar with the words used to describe groups of animals. Some of the words can also be used to describe groups of people or things. Those words are: flight (of stairs, of birds) colony (of ants, e. g. a former colony of a country) flock (of sheep, of people (religion), flock as a verb) herd (of cattle, talking about people) pack (of wolves, of paparazzi, pack used to express quantity) swarm (of grasshoppers, of bees, of people) 4

Unit 2 Animal planet Vocabulary Students get familiar with vocabulary relating to the animal world. After reading an article, they are supposed to match the terms with the appropriate definitions. venomous rodents amphibians flora and fauna domesticate nocturnal omnivores herbivores skeleton aquatic parasite fossil 5