Lesson Plan: Fun Animals (60 minutes)
Level: A1-A2
Target Age: 6-11 years old
Create: - Teaching slides with visual & media support.
- In-class game.
- Homework.
1. Warm-Up (10 minutes)
Objective: Engage students, build rapport, and introduce the theme.
Activities:
Greeting and Introduction (3 minutes):
o Ask students to share their favorite animal (e.g., "What’s your favorite animal?") to spark
interest.
Game: Animal Sounds Tick Game (7 minutes):
o Setup: Prepare a slide with images of animals (lion, monkey, parrot, plus others like dog,
cat, elephant).
o How to Play:
Show an animal image and make its sound (e.g., roar for lion, chatter for monkey).
Students guess the animal by typing in the chat or raising their hand to answer.
Award a virtual "tick" (e.g., a star or emoji) for correct answers. Use a shared
whiteboard to track ticks.
To make it interactive, ask students to mimic the animal sound after guessing (e.g.,
"Let’s all roar like a lion!").
2. Main Lesson (30 minutes)
Expanded Vocabulary:
Animals: lion, monkey, parrot, elephant, giraffe, zebra.
Actions: jump, roar, talk, climb, swing, eat, run.
Breakdown:
Vocabulary Introduction (10 minutes):
o Listening and Speaking: (Using GIFs for animated animal actions)
This is a lion. The lion is big and loud.
This is a monkey. It can climb and it can swing from trees.
The parrot is colorful. It can talk.
This is an elephant. It is big and it can eat a lot!
This is a giraffe. It eats leaves from tall trees.
The zebra has black and white stripes. It can run fast!
Grammar: Present Continuous (20 minutes):
o Explanation (5 minutes):
Introduce Present Continuous with a simple formula: Subject + is/are + verb-ing.
Example: "The monkey is jumping. The lion is roaring."
o Practice (15 minutes):
Listening and Speaking (5 minutes): (Using GIFs for animated animal actions)
This is a lion. The lion is big and loud. Look! It is roaring.
This is a monkey. Look! It is climbing a tree.
The parrot is colorful. Look! It is talking.
This is an elephant. It is big and it can eat a lot! Look! It is eating!
This is a giraffe. Look! It is eating leaves from a tall tree!
The zebra has black and white stripes Look! It is running fast!
Reading and writing (5 minutes):
Welcome to the jungle! It is a sunny day, and the animals are busy.
The lion is roaring loudly. "Roar!" he says, showing his big teeth. The monkey is swinging
from tree to tree. A happy elephant is eating green leaves. She is walking slowly with her
big feet. The parrot is flying above the trees. "Hello my friends!" she says in a colorful
voice.
Suddenly, the monkey jumps to the ground. He sees a shiny fruit and runs to get it, but the
lion is faster and gets the fruit before him. The parrot says "Share the fruit, friends!". They
all sit together, eating and laughing in the sunny jungle.
Writing questions: Fill in the blanks with the correct form of the present continuous
(without showing the reading passage)
1. The lion ________ (roar) loudly.
2. The parrot ________ (fly) above the trees.
….
Reading questions: Answer the following questions
1. What is the elephant doing in the jungle?
2. Who gets the shiny fruit first?
3. What does the parrot say at the end?
3. Game and role-play (20 minutes)
a. Game: Animal Quiz
Kahoot, Blooket,…
b. Animal Charades
Assign one student to act out an animal or action (e.g., roaring like a lion, swinging like a monkey) on
camera. Others guess by typing in the chat or saying: "It’s a lion!"
4. Wrap-Up and Homework (10 minutes)
Review (7 minutes):
o Ask: "What animals did we learn today?" and "What actions can they do?"
o Show a quick slide with animal images and ask students to describe them using Present
Continuous (e.g., "What is the lion doing?").
Homework Assignment (3 minutes)
