1. Download and print the worksheet suggested in the “Materiales Educativos Digitales” section and make photocopies for each student.

2. Start the class discussing as a class some of the characteristics of living beings, size, color, parts, etc., and this time include traits such as what they are made of, what they eat, if they grow, etc. 

3. Elicit answers from students and encourage them to give you as much information as they know.

4. Give the photocopies away and read the title and the questions in each column. Clarify the meaning and make sure they understand each of these traits.

5. Focus students’ attention on the pictures in the first column and ask several volunteers to identify the objects and name them

6. Do the first example as a class and complete the five columns for the first object. Make sure students understand what to do with the rest of the examples in the activity.

7. Have students work individually, but if you see they struggle, have them work in pairs.

8. Walk around the classroom and make sure students answer all the questions for each object. Solve any doubts they may have.

9. Finally, ask students at random and as many times as necessary the questions for these and other objects or animals or plants you can think of. Make sure most students participate.

1. Download the two pdf documents suggested in the “Materiales Educativos Digitales” section.

2. Print both worksheets and make photocopies for each student.

3. Before starting the class, remind them about the characteristics of living things and write some of them on the board.

4. Give the photocopies away and read the title and the description of living things from the box out loud. Make sure students understand very well the characteristics of living things.

5. Have students look at the illustrations and identify the objects in each section.

6. Read the questions in the first example and answer them as a class, so students know what to do with the rest of the sections.

7. Ask students to continue with the activity by themselves and answer all the questions in each section.

8. If students struggle working individually, organize them in small groups so they can work together.

9. Finally, practice asking and answering the questions as a class first, and then, have students work in pairs with different classmates for them to practice asking and answering the questions to each other.

1. Download the worksheet suggested in the “Materiales Educativos Digitales” section, print it, and make photocopies for each student.

2. Give away a photocopy of the worksheet to each student. Tell students this is a quiz about what they have learned about animals and their characteristics.

3. Focus students’ attention on the words in the word bank box at the bottom of the page.

4. Have volunteers explain the words and help if necessary, to clarify doubts.

5. Ask a volunteer to read the instructions out loud. Help with pronunciation if needed.

6. Once students know what to do, have them complete the activity/quiz individually.

7. Once students finish the quiz, ask students to work in pairs to review their work and their answers.

8. Walk around as students are reviewing their quizzes and monitor their work.

9. Check the answers as a group by having volunteers read the sentences out loud and have the group say the correct answer. Allow students to change their answers if they are incorrect.

10. Finally, ask volunteers to pass to the front to retell the characteristics of the animals by looking only at the pictures.