Guess What 5 Unit 3
pages 42 and 43
Take turns telling each other what to add to a picture of an aquarium on the board or on a large piece of blank paper.
Suggested phrases for describing aquariums
- There are… inside/ under/ near/ close to…
- There is… in/ on/ at the top of…
- The… is next to/ behind/ around/ at the bottom of…
- The… is/ are + big/ little/ long/ black/ scary/ friendly/ dangerous/ cute/ beautiful/ exciting/ funny/ surprising/ fat/ thin/… (because…)
- The … is/ are …ing (…)
- The…(s) can…
- You can…/ Visitors can…/ People can…
Useful vocabulary for describing aquariums
adopt baby… bubble buy
catch/ chase cave coral crab
crocodile/ alligator (scuba) dive/ diver dolphin eat/ drink
feed/ food film/ video (gold/ clown) fish flat/ flatfish
float frog/ tadpole hear/ listen to interact with
(box) jellyfish lobster look after/ care for meet
mermaid octopus outside/ outdoors penguin
play (with) prawn/ shrimp seahorse seal/ sealion
seaweed/ plants see/ watch share
(great white/ whale) shark shell/ shellfish/ clam/ oyster
show/ performance snorkel souvenir squid
starfish (sting)ray sunlight swim
tank touch tuna (sea) turtle
walk whale
Describe your finished picture with similar language, then describe another picture in the same way.
Ask your partner to add a sea turtle (or one more sea turtle). They should describe where it is, what it is doing, how big it is, etc.
What do you know about sea turtles in the wild?
Read a text about sea turtles and find:
- at least one thing that you already knew about sea turtles (e.g. what you said before)
- at least one thing that you didn’t know about sea turtles
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adopt
baby…
bubble
buy
catch/ chase
cave
coral
crab
crocodile/ alligator
(scuba) dive/ diver/ snorkel
dolphin
eat/ drink
feed/ food
film/ video
(gold/ clown) fish
flat/ flatfish
float
frog/ tadpole
hear/ listen to
interact with
(box) jellyfish
lobster
look after/ care for
meet
mermaid
octopus
outside/ outdoors
penguin
play (with)
prawn/ shrimp
seahorse
seal/ sealion
seaweed/ plants
see/ watch
share
(great white/ whale) shark
shell/ shellfish/ clam/ oyster
show/ performance
souvenir
squid
starfish
(sting)ray
sunlight
swim
tank
touch
tuna
(sea) turtle
walk
whale
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