Stage Two: Wild Animals Activity Plan
Introduction to Wild Animals
In this activity plan you will learn to teach the names of wild animals while promoting in-group interactions through choral dialogue. The activities include performance elements, movement to music, singing and circle time and project activities.
Below are a list of aims and materials that will be required for this suggest activity.
| Language Aims | Vocabulary: names of wild animals; In-group interaction through choral dialogue. |
| Performance Aims | Improvisation; Expressive movement and mime; Conveying meaning through facial expressions; Using music to convey mood and atmosphere; Use of costumes or masks [optional]. |
| Materials required for this activity | Pictures or flash cards of the wild animals you wish to teach. |
Tips for using this Activity Plan: Notes about timing:
- With any improvisation activities, it is hard to be exact about timing as the children may get very involved and want to continue for longer, or may not respond as you expected. However as a rough guideline, you could spend approximately 15 minutes on each activity. With very young learners it is better to do a little and often.
- When rehearsing for a performance, spend at least one lesson making sure everyone knows where to move and when.
- For Trinity Stage Two, performances should last from 10-20 minutes.
Getting Started..
These concepts will be introduced over the following sections of the activity plan. To begin click on the next button at the bottom of the page.