Domestic animals - presentation of new vocabulary

This is a lesson in the second grade. The lesson aim is presenting the vocabulary for domestic animals.

You can start the lesson by presenting the target vocabulary. For this activity you can make some paper plate animals. Since visual is crucial for young learners, making these types of learning materials can help a lot in achieving the goal of the lesson. You can browse on the Internet and get endless ideas on paper plate animals. Show the animals to the students and ask them to repeat after you several times. Then put the animals in a line on the board, point to the animals and ask students to repeat after you and then ask them to say the words on their own.

For the next activity you can use some flash cards. Put them on the board and ask students to come out in pairs. Give them paper balls and ask them to try and hit the animal they hear. The teacher says the animal and the two students throw the paper ball at the same time. The student who hits the correct animal or hits closer gets one point.

To practice pronunciation of the new words you can print some pictures of the animals you intend to teach on this lesson. Make sure to put a number next to each animal. Put the pictures on the floor, Ask the students to stand in a circle around the pictures. You can use the same paper balls from the previous activity. Ask students to throw the ball and see where it stops. They should say the name of the animal as many times as the written number on that picture. Make sure to help them out with the words and the pronunciation in case some of the students find it too difficult.

For the next activity you can ask students to watch a video. Their task is to watch the video, listen and repeat the words and try to remember which animals they see on the video. After they watch it give them a handout with some pictures of animals. Their task is to circle the animals from the video. After they finish with the task revise the words and check their answers. This is the link from the video I used but of course you can find many more on youtube.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Izl0vz4Km7w

To extend the activity you can prepare small strips of paper with the names of the animals and ask students to glue the words under the correct picture.

For the last activity you can use the song Old McDonald had a farm. I used this version of the song.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nFX98pqzb3o

You can make a poster of a farm with all the animals that are mentioned in the song. Ask students to listen to the song carefully and number the animals in the order they hear them. You can also write the noise that each animal makes and refer to it while listening and singing the song to help students with recognizing the animals.