Lesson Series: All about animals 1

• Engels
• Middelbare school
• havo
• Leerjaar 2

ALL ABOUT ANIMALS

The upcoming classes we will:

• Not do any work from the BOOK, but there will be a lesson series about animals
• Make sure you take a fully charged laptop to each class

GOALS

1. At the end of this class, you can answer the question: Do animals have language?
     a. use the videos for the assignments.

     b. you know how animals 'talk' (communicate)
2. At the end of this class, you understand the difference between communication and language 

    

How do animals communicate?

Let's predict: Do you think animals have a language to communicate?

1. Yes
2. No

Listening activity

We are going to listen to and watch the next part of the video.

Fill in the table (on paper) while you are watching. 

Compare your filled in table with your neighbour's

Compare your filled in table with your neighbour's. 

Are your answers the same?

 

Try to see if you can get all the answers right together. 

You have one minute. 

Discreteness

Grammar

Productivity

Displacement

Description A

Description A

Description C

Description D

OW eerst...

Volgende week ga ik...

nagellakflesje

De hond bijt/ik bijt

So, which characteristics do we need to have language?

1. Discreteness
2. Grammar
3. Productivity
4. Displacement

Listening activity

We are going to listen to and watch the next part of the video. 

You will hear for multiple animals what way of communication they have.

On your paper, fill in the language characteristics that each animal has. 

Answers to the exercise

A. Crabs & cuttlefish = 7

B. Bees = 4 & 6

C. Prairie dogs = 2

D. Great apes = 1 & 3

E. Dolphins = 5

After watching the video, let's answer
the question again:
Do animals have language with all four characteristics?

1. Yes
2. No

However, we saw that even without language, 

animals were able to communicate. 

So... what is the difference between
language and communication?
(antwoord in NL of EN)

GAME!
Let's see how well we can
communicate without language:
Write down a job!