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Lesson objectives
Notice and describe things in English

Lesson 1
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1 Talk about the picture. What can you find?
• Display page 1. Ask the children to look at the picture and
say what they can see. Which of the things do they know
the words for in English?
• Ask the children if they can find and point to any of the
following things: a square, a rectangle, a circle, a triangle
(the robot picture, balls, the bird feeder), any feathers,
anything black, white, brown, or gray.
• In L1, ask what the children in the picture on page 1 are
doing (or have done) to take care of the environment (e.g.,
watering the flowers and not touching the animals).
• Ask the children to find and circle all the things with
stripes in the picture (e.g., the bees, the stones, the zebra,
three of the children’s tops).

Make connections
• Encourage the children to tell you about what they can
see, e.g., I can see an insect. It’s yellow and black. I can see a
bird. It has two wings. It’s black. Ask the children to tell you
about what the bird and the insects in the picture can do.

Ending the lesson

• Point to one of the characters in the picture and have the
children perform an action for that character, e.g., pretend
to look through a magnifying glass. When you have
practiced each action a few times, you can point to the
characters in succession and have the children perform
each action.

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 2 Make your bird feeder.
• Tell the children that they are going to use an egg carton
to make a bird feeder like the one in the picture. Give an
egg carton to each child, pair, or group. Have the children
take some pens or crayons and ask them to decorate
their carton with colored patterns. If you have wooden
blocks and paint available, they can also use these to print
shapes on their carton. If the children are working in pairs
or groups, remind them to be patient and take turns.
• Once the cartons are decorated the children can describe
them, e.g., This is my egg carton. It has stripes and flowers.
They can trace over the first check mark on page 2 to
show they have completed this part of the project.
• Give out the string. Show the children how to feed each
of the ends of the string through the holes. They can say
Prepare Here’s the string. It’s (brown). They trace over the second
check mark.
Lesson objective • Ask the children to turn their cartons upside down and tie
Make a bird feeder the ends of the string together so that the string cannot
slip back up through the holes. Help them with the knot.
Language They can say I can tie the string as they complete this stage
This is my bird feeder. It’s (pink). It has (stripes). and then trace over the third check mark.

Materials 3 Talk about your bird feeder.

Egg carton with six holes (one per pair, group, or child • Ask the individual children, pairs, or groups to take turns
– see note below); String; Colored pens or crayons; to show each other their finished bird feeders. They say,
Wooden blocks (optional); Paints (optional) e.g., This is my bird feeder. It’s green, pink, and orange. It has
stripes, etc.
NOTE: If you plan to hang the finished bird feeders in an • The children trace over the final check mark to show they
outdoor area at the school you can divide the class into have completed their project.
pairs or small groups to make their feeders. If you plan to
have the children take their feeders home with them, they Ending the lesson
will each need a feeder (so one egg carton per child). • Ask the children to think about what birds they see every
day. Where do they see them? Do they know the names
PREPARATION: There may already be a hole at the top of for any of them in L1? Make a list of the birds and keep it
each “spike” in the egg cartons. If there isn’t, make a small for the next lesson.
hole at the top of each one (see the picture on page 2)
for the children to feed string through and hang their
feeders from.

Lesson 2
• Look back at the picture on page 1. Point to the bird
feeder in the tree. Ask the children if they know what it is.
What is it for? Do they know the word for it in L1? Have
they ever seen one in real life? Tell them that in English
this is called a bird feeder. Ask the children to think about
why people might want to feed birds (e.g., to help the
birds to be happy and healthy, or to encourage lots of
different birds to come to a place).

1 Introduce the bird feeder.

• Display page 2. Ask the children to look at the bird feeder.
Tell them that this is a simple kind of bird feeder that
anyone can make. Ask them what they think the feeder is
made from (an egg carton).

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 2 Hang your feeder and put food in it.
• Take the children outside and help them to hang their
bird feeders on tree branches or existing nails or hooks.
Ideally, they should be visible from the classroom, or they
should be in a part of the school that the children can visit
regularly. If there is nowhere to hang the feeders, place
them on the ground, out of the way, and ideally near
some plants so that the birds have a place to seek cover.
If placing the feeders on the ground, tell the children not
to put too much food in them and take them inside at the
end of the day, especially if there is still food in them. This
will prevent nocturnal animals from eating the food.
• Have the children take some seeds and apple chunks and
place them in their feeders.
• Alternatively, give the bird feeders to the children to take
Do home. Provide them with a bag of food to fill the feeder
before they hang it up or place it on the ground.
Lesson objectives
SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT GOALS:
Fill and display your bird feeder
Goal 15 (Life on land)
Well-being: Enjoy taking care of wildlife
Discuss with the children how they are helping nature
SDG focus: Protect life on land with their feeders. (Birds need food to survive, so it is
helpful to feed them, especially at times of the year when
Language it is difficult for them to find their own food.) Ask the
This is my bird feeder! I have (an apple). children what they used to make their bird feeders (egg
cartons) and point out that they are also helping the
Materials planet by upcycling. Discuss what other things they could
Seeds and apples cut into chunks (enough for each do to help birds or other creatures, e.g., make a bird bath
feeder) or nest box, or make a bug hotel for insects.

PREPARATION: If the children are taking their feeders

3 Watch your feeder. Draw, color, and say.
home, put some seeds or apples into bags for each child.
Avoid nuts due to possible allergies and make sure there • Over the next few days, give the class several
are no allergies among the children to apples or the seeds opportunities to sit quietly and watch their feeders. If the
you are using. feeders have been taken home, ask the children to take
some time each day to sit quietly and watch their feeders.
• If birds appear, remind the children not to try to touch
Lesson 3 them. Have regular conversations about whether the
children can see birds at their feeders. Are they any of
Warmer the birds on the class list you made? Are there any birds
• Ask the children if they can remember the names of birds not on the list? Are they big or small? Do they have big
they know in L1 (see the list from the previous lesson). or small wings and tails? What colors are the feathers?
Then have them describe these birds in English. What Do they have stripes?
colors are they? Are they big or small? What features do • Have the children look at the bird outline on the page and
they have? (e.g., wings, feathers, legs, tails, stripes) add the details of one bird that they have seen during
their observation. Have them describe the bird, e.g., It’s a
1 Talk about the picture. What can you see?
black and white bird. It has two wings. It has black and white
• Display page 3. Ask the children to look at the photo and feathers. It has two legs.
tell you what they can see (e.g., a girl, a boy, a bird feeder,
an apple, a bird) and what they think is happening. (The
girl is putting the bird feeder in a tree. The boy is putting
the apple in the feeder for the bird to eat. The bird is
eating from the feeder.)

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