Mice

Pre Reading Activities

1.       We are going to learn something about mice.

Do you know something about them? Have you ever seen a mouse? Where?

Do you remember any famous mouse that appears in cartoons, movies, etc.?

How is it?

 

2.       Look at these pictures and try to guess what types of mice are.

- Jumping mouse       - Dormouse        - Harvest mouse        - House mouse       - Pigmy mouse

 

 

 

 

During Reading Activities

1.     Firstly, you have to read the text as quickly as possible. Did you understand something? What? Discuss with your partner.

2.     Read the text again. Meanwhile you are reading the text, fill the following table.

I have discovered the meaning of this word/expression…	through my knowledge of languages.	through the context.	I have read this word in another story.	I have found the meaning of the word in the dictionary.

 

Monsters activity

An after listening activity, during listening activity and before listening activity related with the picture of the aliens/monsters.

A)     Pre-listening activity

The teacher realizes an “alphabet soup” with the topic he/she wants the students learn (in this case, the parts of the body: legs, arms, eyes, head, etc.). In this way, the teacher prepares the alphabet soup and in the bottom of the document the teacher draws pictures of the parts of the body that are included in the alphabet soup. It’s important to write down the name of each part of the body next to the picture.

 

For example…

 

F          A          L          T          A         U        Q

C          I           G         E          R         C         S

D        M         N          L          G         Y         L

A         S          M         G         P          S         A

H         E          A          D         E          S         R

R         E          Y           E         S          R         M

J          G         A           F         N         S          S

 
 

B)     While-listening activity

The teacher, who has given a copy of the document to each student, explains to the pupils that he is going to describe all the monsters that appear in the picture, and they (the students) have to order with numbers. The descriptions of the different monsters have to have the same structure.

 

For example…

“The first monster has one leg; Also, he has three eye; Also, he has one head; Also, …”

“The second monster has four legs; Also, he has one eye; Also, he has two heads; Also,…”

 

 

C)      Post-listening activity

The teacher writes down in the blackboard the following sentence:

 

¿How it would be your ideal monster?

 

Then, the students have to draw in their notebooks their ideal monster and when they finish, they have to describe the monster to their partners and the partners have to draw the monster that their partners are describing.

Activity handout page 29

A before listening activity related with these activities:

A)     Look at these pictures. What do you think the song is about?

(In this part of the exercise, you find some pictures and you have to predict what the song talking about).

B)      Listen and check your predictions.

C)      Look at the lines from the lyric. Do any of the final words rhyme with final words in another line?

D)     Listen and put the lines in order. Then listen to check.

(Here you find some lines to the song and you have to put in order remembering the letter of the song).

 

My own activity

 

E)      Create another pictures thinking about a song you like (maximum 4 pictures). Then, show your pictures at your partner. Can your partner chew the song? Can you chew the song of your partner?

 

For example…

 

 

1º 

 

 

2º 

3º 

  

 

 

Título de la canción: Tengo una muñeca