Subject:

English

Topic / Unit / Theme:

Unit 10: ‘Creatures Big and Small’ PETS Coursebook 2B

Theme - The World of Nature

Level:

To enhance pupils’

• Listening and reading skills
• Interest and enjoyment of the story / stories to be read
• Ability to predict a sequence to an interesting part of the story and outcome
• Ability to recognise important icons so as to better access the programme

Lesson Duration:

Title of Courseware / Publisher:

1. ‘Sitting on the Farm’ by Bob King
2. ‘My First Incredible Amazing Dictionary’ (for worksheet printouts)

Summary:

Interesting features galore eg. Illustrated with beautiful pictures.

Other options include opportunity to read aloud; sing-a-long; and writing of parallel stories etc.

Discussion with pupils: The different homes of animals – ‘Useful Words and Ideas’.

To inform pupils that they are going to listen to the story about a girl and her animal friends.

PETS Coursebook 2B

Pupils to switch on the computer, load the CD-Rom and access the programme by typing their name.

Demonstrate the following:

• Click on the Listen-Along to listen to the story
• Click on the Read-Along to read the story.

Demonstrate other Programme Options on the CD-Rom

• Squirrel Animation
• Vocabulary Labels
• Magnified Animal Animations

Projection Screen

CD-Rom

Pupils to

• Practice using the mouse to start the story
• Listen to the story once through
• Read along with the reader
• Note the many animals that come to lunch
• Discuss the type of food each animal eats

Tell pupils to look at Worksheet 1 and read the story a second time.

Ask pupils to take turns to:

• Practice using the mouse to start the story
• Listen to the story once through
• Read along with the reader
• Note the many animals that come to lunch
• Discuss the type of food each animal eats

Worksheet 1

CD-Rom:

Ask pupils to list other animals they know, where they live and what they eat.

A few children to read out their list to the class.

Children are to complete Worksheet 2 – Creatures in the Wild