Instructions for the teacher are provided in the ‘notes’ section. Curriculum Overview & Lesson Objectives P2 Places Learn new vocabulary: Australia Reading: animals, people and geography. Writing: write about Australia Single and plural forms Activities & Scary! Afraid of and must be Reading: Adventure sports Writing: write their own text. Compare More and less, er (smaller, bigger) National animals Writing excercise: compare the animals. Festivities Party Time! Birthday text. Read and undestand the text. Student writes their own birthday diary. Instructions for the teacher are provided in the ‘notes’ section.

Read and complete the texts with must be or afraid of My name is Ben Morgan. I live in Canada. My favourite adventure activity is snowboarding in the mountains. I’m not __________________ falling over. It __________________ fantastic to snowboard down the Rocky Mountains. I’m Chris Smith. I live in Sydney, Australia. My favourite adventure activity is snorkelling. It __________________ great to see a shark. I’m not __________________ sharks. My name is Jane Kennedy. I live in Cardiff in Wales. My favourite adventure activity is canoeing. I’m a good swimmer so I’m not __________________ capsizing. It __________________ fantastic to race in a canoe slalom. Once they have completed the text they will need to write their own. The blue box gives them some structure. Help the student to write down their thoughts. Match the text to the pictures I’m afraid of I’m not afraid of It must be great to ride a horse Spiders / riding a horse

More, Less, er The panda has more feet. The kangaroo has less feet. The panda has a smaller tail. The kangaroo has a larger tail. Student completes a writing activity to compare the differences between the two animals. Examples are given in the blue box. You can add more ‘er’ examples to the table if the student already knows them. Kangaroos are from.......................... Pandas are from............................... Small Big Large Long Short Tall Smaller Bigger Larger Longer Shorter Taller

Come to Australia People and Animals The kangaroo has got a long tail, short front legs and a big pouch. In the pouch there’s a baby kangaraoo! It’s called a ‘joey’. This is a boomerang. The first in habitants of Australia, called aborigines, used this to hunt. Now they are just for fun! The aboriginal culture represents nature. They have a traditional instrument called the didgeridoo. The koala lives in the forest. Its name is an aborigine word, it means ‘no water’. Koalas don’t drink, but they eat lots of eucalyptus leaves! Koalas sleep for about 18 hours a day!

Come to Australia Geography Sydney is a big multiculural city. This is the famous opera house. Come to Australia Geography Uluru (Ayres Rock) is a magnificent rock which changes colour during the day. It’s pink, orange, red, brown.... On the Great Barrier Reef you can see lots of colourful fish and coral. Canberra is the capital of Australia Tasmania is a beautiful island. The capital is Hobart. You can visit beaches, national parks and mountains The Pinnacles Desert is in Western Australia

Party Time! It’s my birthday today! I’m eleven! Yipee! Read Jane’s diary. What’s her favourite drink? Jane makes her own drink. It’s called a “Sunny Milkshake” Make a drink with your teacher! What’s in the drink? April 20th It’s my birthday today! I’m eleven! Yipee! I’ve got some fantastic presents and we’ve got some wonderful food for my party. We haven’t got any popcorn, but we’ve got hamburgers and crisps and my huge chocolate birthday cake! And there’s my favourite drink – Sunny Milkshake. It’s milk with some oranges, bananas and ice cream in it. It’s delicious! I want to play my favourite picture and word game with my friends at the party. After that, we can dance to some amazing music because I’ve got three new CDs. Wow! I’m so excited! Complete the sentences. Jane is excited because Jane is There’s ice cream in Jane’s favourite partY game, Jane and her friends can dance 1 it’s her birthday today, 2 eleven years old now, 3 her favourite drink, 4 people write and draw pictures, 5, to her new CDs