The Best Pet A1 - Activity 4 - BOOST

The Best Pet A1 – Activity 4

The Best Pet A1 – Activity 4

Aim of Activity

45 minutes

To practice grammar, vocabulary and speaking.

Steps for Students

Choose any pet/animal
Go to National Geographic website
Look up as much information as you can
Make an Animal Profile using CAN/HAS/IS
Present your animal

Learners choose any pet or animal and make a profile using as much information as possible including verb phrases CAN/HAS/IS and adjectives. They may use the internet to look up some interesting facts.
Use the National Geographic website and go to ANIMALS
Learners individually present their Best Pet to the class

Must-use-words: verb phrases IS/CAN/HAS

TIP!

According to the learners´ level the Animal Profiles should include:

animal type (mammal, bird, fish, reptile, amphibian)
appearance – colour, body covering (hair, fur, scales, feathers)
size
diet
where it lives (habitat)
length of life
some surprising information

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The BOOST Project (Building Open Online Series for Teaching) aims to improve the digital readiness of teachers of English as a foreign language to students aged 8 -14 by providing an open-access series of engaging native-speaker content videos linked with a Resource Pack of ready-made activities to stimulate production of the language in online learning.

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