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The goal of this activity is to get children to engage with animals that can be found in the forest and also act those animals out. The students are supposed to think of animals that can be found in the forest. Afterwards those animals will be collected and students have to draw a random animal and act it out infront in front of their peers. When one of their peers guesses an animal they get the card with the animal on it and in the end the student with the most animal cards ist is the “winner” of the activity. Even though winning in this activity is not important, the idea of it can encourage the students to engage more with the activity.

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The target group for this activity are children in 3-4 grade in the best case, where when they are still in the early stages of learning English. It can theoretically also used for higher grades but in that case modifiers can be added to increase the difficulty, like for example not just writing down an animal but also what the animal is doing, so . In this way the acting part becomes more difficult as well as the guessing part of the game. For preparation Preparation and the final acting I would probably take probably one lesson of 45 minutes. This way you can introduce the children to the idea of the task, have a decent time to collect all of their ideas and also act them out after without feeling to rushed about it.

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Instructions to set up the activity

Materials: Paper, some marker markers or penpens, a bowl to collect the animals card, maybe scissors if you don’t feel confident in your ripping abilities.

To start of you need to off, prepare some paper that the students can write down their animals on. After having this the setup is basically done and you can start with the activity.

Letting it run

To start of off, I found it helpful to get the students into an acting mood by doing a little warm up of stretching. What exactly you do is left up to you but the students should be moving in some way so they get prepared for the task. 

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