Activity:
Endangered species
Population: High
intermediate EFL students
Duration: 45
minutes
Material:
computer, Microsoft PowerPoint presentation tool
Prerequisites:
Students are supposed to know how to use PowerPoint.
Objective: On
completion of the activity, students will be able to:
·
Create a document with specific information
intended to be presented by using PowerPoint.
·
Understand and use animals-related vocabulary.
·
Be informed about a global problem: the
endangered species.
Instructions for the
students
Endangered species are animals that are in danger of
extinction (animals that may disappear from the planet earth) if actions are
not taken to protect them.
Select one of the animals in the box below.
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Panda, Asian elephant, Blue whale,
Chimpanzee, Black rhino, Cross river gorilla, African wild dog, California
tiger salamander, Goliath frog, Loggerhead sea turtle.
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Use the Internet to check information related to the animal
you’ve chosen. You can visit the following website: www.en.wikipedia.org/wiki/endangered_species
, www.endangeredspecies.com , www.worldwildlife.org/species/directory?sort=extinction_status...desc
, www.animal.discovery.com/guides/endangered/endangered.html
. But don’t limit your search to these websites.
Create a 5 slide PowerPoint presentation document. Your
slides should be titled as follows:
1st slide: Description
On this slide you should include the name of the animal, and
its physical aspect, its group (is it a mammal, a bird…)
2nd slide: Place and Habitat
Where does it live, on what continent, country, does it live
in forests, on mountains, in rivers?…
3rd slide: Diet
What does it eat?
4th slide: Behavior
How does it live, hunt, how does it catch its prey?
5th Population
How many of its kind are still alive?
You may include pictures and even graphs. When you finish
email your document to the teacher, he will email it to one of your peer for
review.
Teachers guide
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Have students work individually but encourage
them to ask for the help of their peers or the teachers when needed, especially
with technical problems.
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Tell them they have to keep track of the time;
you may change the activity duration if you deem right to do so.
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Tell them they may use dictionary in case they
don’t get the meaning of some words or expression.
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Go around the class as students are doing the
activity in order to check how they are doing it, and provide help when
necessary.
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Redistribute students’ documents to their peers
for review.
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Have some of them, or all of them (if it’s a
small class) present their work to the class.
