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 cristinacarre
 
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							| hello I want show to my ss the very hungry caterpiller story. they are 6 years old. Is this story too easy for them?.   How can I use this story, I have been looking for material and I have found not enough thing. can somebody help me, saying what to do with the story and how to teach it. thanks a lot. cristina. |  14 May 2011      
					
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 mariannina
 
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							| Hi! Google "The very hungry caterpillar" and you �ll find lots of things. I used them at school. Ciao. Mariannina |  14 May 2011     
					
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 IceQueeny
 
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							| Here you can find an easy programme with the hungry caterpillar.   http://www.villatic.org/caterpillar/
        
        
 Good luck!
 Julia
 
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 moravc
 
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							| You may try a minibook, a cloze activity, record your students - and make an audiobook, watch the original film http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-qoYPLtqqVk + mute + listen to your students � recordings, fill-in listening exercise, ask students to learn the story/play by heart - drama Caterpillar, crafts activities, write a similar story on a different animal... 
 vocabulary/grammar
 vocab: seasons + weather, insects, what do animals/insects eat?, animal abilities + can/can�t,
 heath/illness + symptoms, un/healthy food, junk food, healthy diet, healthy life-style
 polite requests - Can I have a ...? + shops - greengrocer �s conversation - pair work
 life cycle of a butterfly, fly, mosquito, grasshopper, fish, jellyfish, salamander, frog, humans, star life cycle, plant life cycle... - students draw a poster
 food cycle - food chain - predator-pray - eg: plant - caterpillar - frog - snake - OWL
 
 grammar: past/present simple (rewrite the story in present simple),
 expressing quantity - numbers, many/much, few/little, a slice/piece of/a bit of, a cup of/a glass of...water
 Conditional I - If I eat too much chocolate, I will have stomachache.
 Conditional II - If my sister drank too many glasses of cola, she would have a headache.
 Conditional III - If I hadn �t drank anything the whole day, I would have had a terrible headache / sunstroke.
 modals (can/�t) or should / shouldn �t/mustn �t eat / drink /sleep / go to bed late / get up late / study late....
 
 Please note there are almost 60 worksheets on eslprintables:
 Very Hungry CaterpillAr:
 http://www.eslprintables.com/buscador/buscar.asp?nivel=any&age=0&tipo=any&contents=Very+Hungry+Caterpillar&username=&B1=Search#thetop
 
 I recommend:
 The Very Eager Author Minibook 3 pages
 The Very Hungry Caterpillar (Story Mini Book)
 The Very Hungry Caterpillar  -Cloze exercise or
 the very hungry caterpillar
 The Very Hungry Caterpillar - Puppet�s play
 The Very Hungry Caterpillar - Play
 A Very Hungry Caterpillar Graph
 The very hungry caterpillar board game
 The Very Hungry Caterpillar Wordsearch
 
 Easy cute animal story - Owl Babies - Follow up Listening:
 http://www.youtube.com/v/sJe0WupukAw?version=3
 
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 robirimini
 
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							| I did this some years ago with 7 years old pupils:   |  15 May 2011     
					
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 MarionG
 
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							| Our course book has a story along the same lines (obviously based on the original) and it is used mainly to teach the days of the week....   |  15 May 2011     
					
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