CHILDREN AS A LANGUAGE LEARNERS: UNIT 2

E-TIVITY 5: OPTIMAL CONDITIONAL AND ACTIVITIES FOR YOUNG L2 LEARNERS.

LINDA EVELIN RAMIREZ

ACTIVITY NAME: Living And Non-Living Things in my school.

TARGET LEARNERS’ 7-8
AGE:
TEACHING CONTEXT CLIL
(EFL OR CLIL):
DESCRIPTION OF THE AIM:
ACTIVITY:  Identify animals, people and plants as living things.
 Classify living things and non-living things according their characteristics.

Warm up:
The teacher introduces the topic shows some pictures about animals, plants, people and
different objects, she asks students about their characteristics, for example: let`s talk about
plants, students can describe them with colors, sizes. The teacher explains how plants, animals
and people grow up, teacher makes comparisons among them and the objects.

Follow up:
On the whiteboard teacher draws two circles the first one is for living things and the second
one is for non-living things. Teacher takes one picture of a plant and pastes on the circle for
living things, she explains, plants are living things because they grow up, feed and suffer
changes. Then she takes an object and pastes it on the circle for non- living things and say it is
a non-living thing because it doesn`t have life, it doesn`t grow up and feed. Teacher call
some students in front of the board to paste some pictures in the correct circle. If students
make mistakes is necessary to explain the characteristics of the living things; born, grow up,
feed ECT.

Wrap up:
The teacher invites students to take a walk to park or natural place in the school in order to
look for living and non-living things, teacher distributes plastic bags and divide the group into
2 small groups, the first is in charge of looking for and finding living things in the nature and
the second one is in charge of looking for non-living things. When everybody come back
they classify these elements in living and non-living things in two different bowls.
THIS ACTIVITY IS This class is suitable for young learners because it involves variety of activity, the first one is
SUITABLE FOR supporting with visual material as flashcards or colorful pictures from magazines, it involves
LEARNERS OF THIS naturalistic and mathematic intelligence for making the classification according to the
AGE BECAUSE… characteristics of each group. In the first activity teacher uses MODEL strategy to present the
topic and explains how make each activity. The third activity involves kinesthetic, special and
interpersonal intelligence, when students have to go out and make contact with nature, tree,
plants animals, ants, insects and sharing ideas with their peers they active these intelligences.

THIS ACTIVITY CAN This activity can be adapted for a project students cut out some pictures from magazines and
BE ADAPTED FOR make a BIG -book about living and non-living things they must paste pictures showing the
DIFFERENT difference between them. Or they can paste the natural elements what they found after the
LEARNERS BY walking making an interactive book with real ants, insects, plants, leaves, papers ect.