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RAPS! FOR LEARNING ENGLISH

Help!
This is an animal house
I said, help!
This is an animal house
I said help me!
Ive got monkeys in my kitchen
Theyre dancing on the floor
Ive got a cheetah in the bathroom
Hes washing his paws!
Ive got beetles in my bedroom
And mice under the stairs
Ive got turtles watching t v
And a hippo in dads chair
Help!
This is an animal house
I said, help!
This is an animal house
I said help me!
Ive got a snake under the sofa
And penguins in the shower
Ive got camels in the garden
And theyre eating all the flowers
Help!
This is an animal house
I said, help!
This is an animal house
Help!
This is an animal house
I said, help!
This is an animal house
I said help me!
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RAPS! FOR LEARNING ENGLISH Animal house

Listen to the rap. Which animals from the rap can you see in the pictures?
Tick ( ) the animals you can see.
monkeys

beetles

turtles

snake

cheetah

mice

hippo

penguins

camel

Read the rap again and answer these questions.

What are the monkeys doing?

What is the cheetah doing?

What are the turtles doing?

Where is the hippo sitting?

What are the camels doing?

Theyre dancing on the floor.

Ive got six more animals in my house! Follow the mazes to find out what they are doing.
Write your answers below.
1
2
3
4
5
6
1

zebras

eating peanuts

elephant

squirting water in the bath

squirrel

watching a video

wolf

sleeping in my bed

pig

doing the washing-up

tiger

digging a hole

The zebras are digging a hole.

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3 .............................................................................................................................................................................
4 .............................................................................................................................................................................
5 .............................................................................................................................................................................
6 .............................................................................................................................................................................

Read the information about the animals in exercise 3 again. Can you match the animals
with the places in the box? Write your answers below.
1

garden

bathroom

sitting room

kitchen

dining room

bedroom

in the garden.

The zebras are ..........................................................................................................

2 The elephant is ........................................................................................................

3 The squirrel is ...........................................................................................................
4 The wolf is .................................................................................................................
5 The pig ........................................................................................................................
6 The tiger .....................................................................................................................

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Teachers Notes
Animal House
Level:
Grammar:

Elementary
Ive got
Present continuous for
actions happening now
Vocabulary: Animals; Rooms in a
house; Furniture;
Prepositions of place

Introduction: Brainstorm as many

animal names as possible onto a list
on the board. Encourage all
suggestions from the students.
Depending on the animal names you
get, you could then ask students to
categorise the animals into: insects,
mammals, amphibians etc. or wild vs
domestic. Ask students to copy the list
into their notebooks.
Before handing out the
worksheet, play the Rap once and ask
students to tick any animals from the
list that they hear.
Hand out the worksheet for
students to check their answers. Play
the Rap again while students read the
lyrics.
Exercise 1: 5 minutes. Students look
at the pictures and tick the names of
the animals. Go through all the
names of the animals in the list. You
could read each animal name aloud
for students to repeat after you,
focussing on the weak ending /?lz/ of
turtle, beetle and camels.
Exercise 2: 10 minutes. This exercise
practises present continuous for
actions happening now. Point out the
difference between the singular form,
e.g. : s washing and the plural form,
e.g.: re dancing and the use of the
contraction: re for are and s for is.
Exercise 3: 5 minutes. Students could
do this fun maze activity in small
groups, racing against each other.
Go round the class, asking different
students to read out each sentence.
Exercise 4: 5 minutes. This activity
could also be administered as a race
between groups. Go through the
words in the box, checking that
students understand the different
words for rooms in a house.
Follow-up: Divide the class into four
groups. Ask each group to choose one
of the three verses, or the chorus
from the Rap. Give students 5
minutes, in their groups to practise
reading out their verse. Then ask the
groups to put together their verses

and the chorus and perform the Rap.

If students feel embarrassed, they can
sing along with the recording.
Answers
1 The following animals should be
ticked: cheetah, hippo, penguin,
camels
2 2 Hes washing his paws.
3 Theyre watching TV.
4 Hes sitting in Dads chair.
5 Theyre eating all the flowers.
3 2 The elephant is squirting water in
the bath.
3 The squirrel is eating peanuts.
4 The wolf is sleeping in my bed.
5 The pig is doing the washing-up.
6 The tiger is watching a video.
4 2 in the bathroom.
3 in the dining room.
4 in the bedroom.
5 in the kitchen.
6 in the sitting room.

Have you ever ?

Level:
Grammar:

Pre-Intermediate
Present perfect with
ever for experience
Vocabulary: Country and city names;
Past participles
Introduction: Introduce the topic by
asking students to name any
interesting places they have visited or
unusual things they have done. Ensure
that the focus is on the interesting or
unusual and avoid this becoming a
competition to find the best-travelled
student in the class.
Before handing out the worksheet,
write this gapped sentence on the
board: Im a t________ , you see.
Play the Rap once and ask students
to listen carefully and try to identify
the missing word (traveller).
Hand out the worksheet for
students to check their answers. Play
the Rap again while students read the
lyrics.
Exercise 1: 5 minutes. With a mor e
confident class, you ask them to do
this purely as a listening activity
without looking at the lyrics. Play the
Rap once while students take notes.
Play the Rap again, this time stopping
after each country or city name is
mentioned, and asking different
students around the class to call out
the name that they hear. Write
students suggestions on the board.
Finally, allow students to check their
answers by reading the lyrics.

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Exercise 2: 5 minutes. If students

enjoy this kind of general knowledge
quiz, you can extend the activity by
asking them to match these cities to
the countries from exercise 1: Helsinki
(Finland), Karachi (Pakistan), Kuala
Lumpur (Malaysia), Paris (France),
Lisbon (Portugal), Tokyo (Japan).
Exercise 3: 10 minutes. This exercise
focuses on the regular and irregular
past participle forms. Students could
work in pairs, then swap their papers
with another pair and compar e
answers. Explain that the past
participle of go can be either been
(which means to go somewhere and
then return) or gone (which means to
go somewhere and still be there).
Exercise 4: 5 minutes. Students use
the past participle forms to complete
this extra verse. They may need help
with the past participle forms of eat
(eaten) and drink (drunk). Check
answers by asking different students
around the class to read out a line.
Follow-up: Students use Have you
ever plus the past participle verbs
from exercise 3 to write more
questions about experience. They
then ask and answer their questions
across the class.
Answers
1 Cities: Moscow, Milan, Madrid,
Boston, Bombay, Berlin
Countries: Malaysia, Japan, France,
Finland, Portugal, Pakistan
2 2 Milan, Italy
3 Madrid, Spain
4 Boston, USA
5 Bombay, India
6 Berlin, Germany
3 1 go, been
2 watch, watched
3 swim, swum
4 touch, touched
5 feel, felt
6 cross, crossed
7 sail, sailed
8 spend, spent
9 walk, walked
10 sleep, slept
11 trek, trekked
12 climb, climbed
13 see, seen
4 been, spent, eaten, drunk, crossed