Using Information Technology in Teaching

and Learning of English

• Level : P.1
• Module : Connecting with the natural world
• Unit : Animals
• Task : Writing animal riddles
• Teacher : Lai Fung Ying
 Using Information Technology in Teaching
and Learning of English
• Level : P.1
• Module : Connecting with the natural world
• Unit : Animals
• Task : Writing animal riddles
• Language Functions and Focus :
– Use nouns to identify animals A panda has a short tail.
– Use the simple present tense to express simple truths An elephant has big ears.
– Use adjectives to describe animals An elephant has big ears.
– Use nouns to identify body parts An elephant has big ears.
– Use pronouns to identify animals It has a long nose.
– Use modals to talk about ability It can fly.
– Ask simple questions to obtain ‘yes/no’ responses Is it a panda?
– Language Skills
– 1. Listening : Identify main ideas
– 2. Speaking : Use modelled phrases and sentences to communicate
with teachers or other pupils
– 3. Reading : Recognise common abbreviations and contracted forms
– 4. Writing : Develop written texts by adding personal ideas and
information when a model or framework is provided
• Teaching Procedures :
• A. Motivation :
• Ask pupils to bring in some toy animals. Revise the names of the animals using the wall
picture, flash cards or the toys. ( a panda, a tiger, a bird, a hippo, a monkey, an elephant)

• B. Revision :
• Revise the words tail, ears, nose, legs, beak, wings by pointing to the toys or pictures.
• Revise the adjectives big, small, long and short by talking about the body parts of
different animals.
• Revise can by demonstrating that the teacher can run, swim and climb. Write on the
blackboard I can run. I can’t swim. Etc. Then talk about the animals’ abilities e.g. A
tiger can run.
• Demonstrate that the teacher cannot fly. Write on the blackboard I can’t fly. A bird can
fly. Practise can and can’t using the toys or pictures.
• C. Powerpoint Presentation :
• Set up ‘Powerpoint’ to ‘Animal Riddles’.
• For each Powerpoint, the sentences describing the animal will be appeared one
by one. Encourage pupils to guess what the animal is.
• Pupil: Is it a/an __________?
• Teacher: Yes, it is. / No, it isn’t.
• The picture of the animal will be appeared at the end ie when all the sentences
have already shown. Hence pupils know the answer.
• Pupils read aloud the animal riddle.
• Four Powerpoint will be shown in the same way so as to make pupils
familiarize how to write an animal riddle.
• D. Task (Writing animal riddles)
• Ask pupils to write an animal riddle.
• They ask and answer in pairs using the structure Is it a _________? Yes, it is. /
No, it isn’t.
• Remind pupils not to let their friends see the answer.

• E. Post-task Activity
• Pupils draw pictures of the toy animal they have brought to class or some
pictures have been printed out in advance. On a separate piece of paper, they
write a riddle about the animal.
• They put the picture on the notice board.
• The riddle they wrote is read out. If someone guesses the animal correctly, the
riddle is pinned up under the picture.
 An Animal Riddle
• It is small.
• It has a long beak.
• It has two wings.
• It can fly.
• It can’t swim.
 An Animal Riddle
• It is small.
• It is green.
• It has four long legs.
• It has a big mouth.
• It can jump.
• It can live on land and
in water.
 An Animal Riddle
• It is big.
• It is brown.
• It has a big mouth.
• It has a big nose.
• It can run.
• It is the King of
Animals.
 An Animal Riddle
• It is big.
• It is thin.
• It has two small ears.
• It has four legs.
• It has a long tail.
• It can run very fast.