Baby Animals on the Farm Objective: To learn the words for baby animals.

Target language: Puppy, lamb, piglet, duckling, kitten, calf, foal, chick. The children will already need to know dog, sheep, pig, duck, cat, cow, horse, and chicken.

1. Revise the words for the animals with flashcards and/or by singing Old MacDonald.
2. Tell the children they are going to learn the words for the baby animals. Hold up flashcards of the grown animals and say, 'A baby pig is called a piglet', etc. 3. Give the children a copy of the Baby animals on the farm worksheet. Tell them to do the maze to see how the words are written, and then complete the sentences. If there is time, they can draw a picture of the baby animals in the square boxes. 4. Children who finish early can be given a dictionary and told to look up the following words to find out which animals they are the babies of: calf, foal, chick. 5. When everyone has finished, play a class game to practise saying the words. Divide the class into two teams. Ask one child out from each team and whisper a baby animal to them to draw on the board. The first team to guess what the animal is from either team's drawing wins a point. Young MacDonald Objective: To match verbs and nouns. Target language: These activities largely practise language the children probably already know but focus on recognizing and matching verbs and nouns. Nouns ball, pen, pencil, book, glue, knife, television, radio, chair, car, soap, and bed. Verbs write, stick, cut, bounce, draw, read, watch, listen, sit, drive, wash, and sleep. 1. Ask the children to tell you what a verb is and what a noun is. Ask them to give you some examples of each and put them in two separate columns on the board. 2. If 'book' is not on their list, say it. Ask for a verb that can go with book, e.g. 'read'. Do the same with some other words, e.g. scissors cut; song sing. 3. Explain to the children that you are going to sing them a verse of a song about Old MacDonalds son and sing the verse on the Young MacDonald worksheet. 4. Give the children a copy of the worksheet. Ask them to join the nouns and verbs on the worksheet and to use this list to write a new verse for Young MacDonald. Your most able students may have ideas that are not on the lists. 5. When they have finished, ask if anyone would like to sing their new verse. 6. Children can continue with the worksheet and write verbs to go with the nouns listed (suggested answers can be found in the 'target language' listed above). 7. For fast workers, write the following verbs on the board and ask children to think of at least one noun to go with the verbs: eat, drink, ride, climb. Answers could include: food, bread, drinks, milk, bicycle, horse, mountain, and stairs.