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2 Grade Unit 1:
People and animals

The Creature

DISEO
La pgina est dividida en 10 filas. Cada fila tiene una oracin con lneas suficientemente
grandes como para que el alumno escriba en ellas. Debajo de esas lneas, en un tamao de
fuente ms pequeo, se especifica el tipo de palabra que se debe escribir sobre la lnea.
ACTIVITY:
The creature

Group work: writing
TIME:
25 min
AIM:
To describe the appearance and (in)abilities of an imaginary creature
LANGUAGE: Functions 1.1
Expressing (in)ability in the present
and 1.2
Describing people and animals
Grammar:
Modal
can
, Present simple tense
 OPTION: If you
want to
practice
descriptions
only, you can
cut out the
PROCEDURE Before class: Make one copy of the last paragraph
and make
worksheet for every 10 students. rows of nine
students only.
POSSIBLE FOLLOW UP: You can have students draw the monster they liked best and encourage
them to write more about it. You can recycle structures and vocabulary learnt in first grade by
giving them a questionnaire about its

How old is it?, Where does it live?, Does it have a family/a pet/a hobby?, Whats its
favorite sport/dish?, What time does it wake up?, What does it like doing at the
weekend?, etc.
IDEAS FOR EVALUATION: You can use either the original description or the follow up
composition to evaluate students written on some features such as the use of personal
pronouns and possessive adjectives, the correct order of adjectives and the correspondence
between subject and verb. If you use the original description, have your students work together
with the rest of their row and make any necessary corrections as well as to elaborate in order
This creature is short, plump and green with purple spots. It has four long arms on each
to produce a final extended version. For example:
side of its body, with three small fingers each. Its legs are long, thin and yellow with a
fat, big, red toe, etc.