Almost a third of the planet is covered in woodland, so although a child’s idea of a wood may be vastly different around the world, the concept of a forest or wood will be familiar to most.
At Planet POP we love the outdoors, so we’ve created a lesson plan that looks at the vocabulary needed to talk about woodland and forest areas. Our lesson provides fun ideas to learn the English language and to boost your class’ confidence when using words in conversation.
Here goes!
Lesson Objectives
Learn 20 words linked to forests and woodlands.
Children should be able to respond orally to the question: “If you go down in the woods today, what could you see?”
Children should be able to recall and write the names of 20 animals or plants that can be found in woodlands and forests all over the globe.
The children should be able to understand how to use the sentence structure required and vocabulary after a 45-minute lesson.
Nature Vocabulary
NOTE: There are more than 20 words here, but some of the animals may or may not be relevant to the woods and forests in your region. Take a moment to go through the list and remove any that your class won’t recognise! Maybe even add some of your own (we've left some space for you).
Lesson Plan
First of all, tell your class that today you’ll be focusing on woodlands and forests. Ask them if they can think of any words that relate to the theme already and discuss them if they do.
Then introduce the new vocabulary with the help of visual aids. This could be with flashcards or by using images on the interactive whiteboard. Say the words aloud as a class to model the pronunciation and, as confidence within the class grows, hide the text to make the task more challenging.
Task 1
For the first task, focus on using the new vocabulary in a spoken activity.
To do this, you will need:
1. to make sure that the key vocabulary is available to your pupils, so that they can refer to it during the exercise. You could have it on the board for everyone to see, or print some copies for everyone (or for groups), whichever is easier!
2. a picture of the forest with contents that the class will recognise. We have chosen the one below, but a quick search of the Internet will uncover many others.
As a class, the pupils are going to look at the picture of the forest and respond to your question: “What can you see?”
The pupil response should be in the form: “I see …” or “There is/are …”. For example, they could say “I see a stream” or “There are three badgers”.
See how far you get, but don’t feel you have to do everything that features. It’s a very busy picture!
Task 2
For the second activity, we are going to ask the children to draw a forest scene of their own, and label it in English. Let’s see how many things they can draw in their pictures!
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We hope your class enjoyed our lesson plan about forests, and the fun, practical activities helped your pupils commit the new vocabulary to memory.
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