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Unit8  Animals, birds and insects

Exercise 1: Name these animals, birds and
insects
Look at the pictures above. Point to each
animal, bird or insect and say its name.

Start like this: This is a….

Unit 8 Animals, birds and insects

Exercise 2: Say yes or no
Look at the pictures above. Answer the
question below each picture.

Say: Yes, it is. or No, it isn’t. It is a ___.

8.2 Saying what animals can do

Exercise 3: How do these animals move?
Answer the questions.
1. Can snakes fly?
2. Can snakes run?
3. Can eagles fly?



Exercise 4: What sounds do these animals
make?
1. Sing the Old MacDonald song.
Old MacDonald had a farm
Ee-i-ee-i-oh!
And on that farm he had some
chickens,
Ee-i-ee-i-oh!
With a cluck-cluck here, and a
cluck-cluck there,
Here a cluck, there a cluck,
everywhere a cluck-cluck!
Old MacDonald had a farm
Ee-i-ee-i-oh!
2. Now make up more verses about other
animals and their sounds. The picture

will help you


Exercise 5: Fill in a tick chart
1. Talk about
what animals
can and
cannot do.
2. Fill in the
chart.
3. Talk and write
about the

chart.

Exercise 6: Play a guessing game
Guess the name of the animal and point at
the picture.
1. This animal has a
long tail and can
climb trees.
2. This animal has a
long neck.
3. This animal has tusks
and a long trunk.
4. This animal has spots
and can run very fast.



8.3 What do animals eat?
Learning box
What do these animals eat?
Some animals eat
grass and leaves.
Examples are buck,
rabbits, cows and
zebras.
Some animals eat
other animals.
Examples are lions,
leopards, snakes,
hyenas and
vultures.

Exercise 7: Group animals
1. Draw two circles in your exercise book.
Write the word meat
in one circle and
grass in the other.
2. Write in each circle the names of

animals that eat that type of food.

8.4 Where do animals live?
Some animals live only in certain parts of
the world. Some elephants live in Africa.

Some seals live in Antarctica.

Exercise 8: Use the map above
The teacher gives learners a copy of a
world map. On the map,the learners write
the name of the place where these
animals live.
1. polar bears  2. gorillas
3. kangaroos  4. llamas
5. elephants  6. tigers

7. pandas        8. lions

8.5 Animal colours
The special colours of animals help to protect

them in their natural homes.

Exercise 10: Write riddles
Write riddles about animals. Mention their
colour, food, what they can do and where
they live. Let your classmates guess what
the animal is.
Example
What has black spots, eats meat and

runs very fast? Answer: a cheetah

8.6 Describing pictures of animals
Look at what the animals in the pictures are doing.


Learning box
Describe what is happening right now
We use the word is or are and add -ing to
the doing word.
Examples: The dog is barking.
The monkeys are not eating.
Exercise 11: Describe what the animals are
doing
Describe what the animal
in each of the pictures above is doing.

Use words that end in -ing.

8.7 Types of animals

We can divide animals into groups.

Exercise 12: Fill out a chart
Copy the chart below into your exercise
book. The teacher reads a story about
animals. Listen to the story and fill in
the chart.


8.8 Review
1. Name the animal.
a. It has black and white stripes and
eats grass.
b. It has a long neck and a skin which
has dark brown patches with light
brown patches.
c. It has a very long trunk and tusks.
2. Rearrange the letters to write the names
of animals.
a. keymon  b. llgoria
c. rohse        d. nsaek

3. Look at the pictures. Fill in the chart