Session 22 (25-30 min) Animals

• [Youth]: Say hello to your learner, then ask a few questions about how they’re doing (“How are you doing?” “How is your week going so far?” “Did you have a good day at school/ university today?”)
• [Adults]: Say hello to your buddy, then ask a few questions about how they’re doing (“How is it going?” “How is your week going so far?” “Did you have a good day at work?”, “Is there any news you would like to share?”)
• Ask your learner to greet you and ask you how you’re doing

• Play a Hangman game online to remember the names of some animals and have fun
• Screen share the website and explain the rules of a game: Hangman is a simple word guessing game. Players try to figure out an unknown word by guessing letters. If too many letters which do not appear in the word are guessed, the player is hanged (and loses).
• Take at least 3 attempts.

• Tell your learner that you are going to start by speaking about pets.
• Take turns asking each other the questions on the slides.

• Tell your learner that you will talk about endangered animals.
• First, ensure that your learner knows what endangered animals are (slides 5 & 6).
• Then show the video here. Pre-teach and explain the word “poaching” to your learner.
• Then, take turns asking each other the questions on the slides.

Show slides 5-6

Show the video

Show slides 7-8

You may need to define a “wildlife reserve” for your learner.

• Tell your learner that you will talk about uncommon animals.
• Take turns asking each other the questions on the slides.

• Time to play a game: have your learner look at each picture of animal activities then state whether they’d do it or not.
• Encourage your learner to justify their answers.
• If your learner is struggling, you can answer first.

• Time to play a game: choose an animal from the list on Slide 17, then describe it to your learner.
• Your learner has to guess what animal you picked.
• Now, switch roles with your learner.
• If your learner is struggling, show Slide 18 for phrases.