MICE
Pre-reading activities:
1)
Children have to answer the following questions; they have to work
in groups. Of this form, they can dialogue:
-What
is the meaning of mice and mouse?
-What
is pigmy mouse like?
-What
do you think jumping mouse can do?
-How
do you think that is the house mouse´s house?
-What
is the meaning of harvest?
-What
is a dormouse?
2)
We give our students some pictures of each mouse, they should join each
pictures with the name of the mouse. Then, when they read the text, we check if
they have done well the activity. They have to work in groups.
3)
Students have to guess if the following sentences are true or false. They have
to work in groups.
-Pygmy
mouse makes itself up every morning.
-Jumping
mouse lives in the sea.
-House
mouse can only live in chalets.
-Harvest
mouse lives in the country.
-House
mouse takes a cup of tea every afternoon.
-The Romans
liked to eat dormice.
-Small dormice
are six centimetres long and weigh fifteen grams.
- House mouse can eat soap
and glue and electricity cables.
-Jumping mice
sleep for six to nine months in the year.
-Pygmy mouse lives for
one year.
After reading activities
1)
Children have to answer the following questions:
-What
is the smallest mouse?
-What
is the length of pygmy mouse´s tail?
-How
many metres can jumping mouse jump?
-How
many months dormouse sleeps every year?
-What
does jumping mouse eat?
-What
kind of mouse lives with people?
-What
kind of mouse eats electricity cables?
2)
Students have to fill the gaps doing, if it would be necessary, scanning
lecture to find certain information that they need.
-The
pygmy mouse is ___ _______ mouse.
- It
lives every_____ in the _____ except Antarctica.
- The
jumping mouse has long ____ feet.
- Jumping
_____ sleep for six to nine _____ in the year.
- The
house mouse lives with ______.
- The
harvest mouse ____ climb very _____.
- The
_____ liked to eat dormice.
-They
sleep for seven months _____ year.
3)
Work in groups: we divide the students in five groups of five students, and we
give each group a certain mouse, they have to draw and colour being aware the
different features of the mice.
