Activities to work reading

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.