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Unit 11 – AWESOME ANIMALS Awesome animals
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Achievement objectives
Curriculum link: levels 1 and 2 of The New Zealand Curriculum
In this unit, your students will identify, ask about, and describe animals.
Learning outcomes
Students will:
- name animals
- describe animals
- ask about animals.
Success criteria
The assessment criteria are based on the curriculum achievement objectives for learning languages at levels 1 and 2. These criteria measure the students’ ability to communicate in NZSL.
Language knowledge
Vocabulary
ANIMAL, BIG, BIRD, CARROT, CAT, CHEEKY, CLEVER, COW, DOG, EAR, FAT, FISH, FURRY, GREEDY, PIG, HORSE, LAMB, SMALL, MOUSE, RABBIT, SHEEP, SOFT, STRONG, THIN
Grammar
Descriptive classifiers; adverbial inflection
Sentence patterns
| Do you have any pets? [Gloss: IX-you HAVE ANIMAL; Non-manual signal: y/n q] | Yes, I have a rabbit. [Gloss: IX-me HAVE RABBIT; Non-manual signal: nod] |
| What's your pet like? [Gloss: YOUR ANIMAL TRAIT WHAT; Non-manual signal: whq] | It's grey and white and soft. IX-it GREY WHITE SOFT |
| It likes to eat carrots. IX-it LIKE EAT CARROT | It's got long ears. (animal) IX-it HAVE CL: long-ears |
| My cat is brown and fat. MY CAT IX-it BROWN FAT | It sleeps on my bed every day. EVERYDAY IX-it IX-me BED SLEEP IX-it |
| It likes to play. IX-it LIKE PLAY | |
| What's your favourite animal? [Gloss: IX-you FAVOURITE ANIMAL WHAT; Non-manual signal: whq] | What animal don't you like? [Gloss: IX-you DON'T-LIKE ANIMAL WHICH; Non-manual signal: whq] |
Video clips
Clip 11.1a: Animals Vocabulary
Clip 11.1b: Words to describe animals Vocabulary
Clip 11.2a: Do you have any pets? Sentence patterns
Clip 11.2b: What is your favourite animal? Sentence patterns
Clip 1.1c: Letters in the alphabet Vocabulary
Activities
Activity 11.1 Learning vocabulary and aspects of Deaf culture
Activity 11.2 Describing animals
Activity 11.3 Completing a class survey
Activity 11.4 Assessing progress
Support material
Worksheet 11.1 Animal Vocabulary
Worksheet 11.2 Animal bingo
Worksheet 11.3 Descriptive vocabulary
Worksheet 1.3 The fingerspelling alphabet