Are all plants the same?

Core concepts

Target

Wild, cultivated, edible, inedible, tree, bush, grass

Different types of plants

After this lesson, students will be able to:

• Understand that plants can be of different types
• Understand that different plants can grow with and without the help of people
• Classify plants

Activities

Material

Greeting, lead-in.

2 mins

Greet students. Introduce the topic of the lesson.

Pictures of wild and cultivated plants

Hello, I am glad to see you. How are you? Let’s start!
Friends! Look at the pictures on the board. What are they?
– They are plants.
– Are they all the same?
– No. Some of them we can eat. Some of them grow on a farm, others grow in the forest.
Today we’ll learn how plants are different.

Let’s warm up. Activate familiar vocabulary.

3 mins

Elicit ideas from the students and activate their background knowledge.

Which plants grow on a farm or in the garden? Did you plant some of them?
Which plants grow in the forest? Can we eat all of them?
Are all plants the same size?

Let’s learn.

15 mins

Introduce students to the key words of the lesson.

Ppt of the key vocabulary

Trees are the biggest type of plants. Trees have one trunk.
Bushes are smaller than trees. They have many stems.
Grasses are the smallest. They are green and bendy.
Let’s say together – trees, bushes, grasses.
Practice : What is in the picture?
Plants that people grow on a farm are cultivated.
Plants that grow everywhere are wild.
Practice: Wild or cultivated?

Demonstration

Video

Show the children a short video about types of plants.

Discussion

Pupil’s Book

Open your books to page 44.

Listen. Match the pictures to the words. Read the definition to each word.

Let’s practice

18 mins

Activity 1: Individual activity

Ppt with pictures

Students take turns to name the type of a tree in the slide.

Activity 2: Individual/Class activity
Students complete the exercise then compare the answers.

workbook

Activity 3: Group activity
Students make a poster with different types of plants and present it to the rest of the class.

Colored paper, scissors, glue sticks

Let’s summarize

2 mins

Quiz.

Goodbye class.

Anticipated Challenges and Solutions:

• Technical issues with Youtube/ internet access - Download video beforehand
• Students may not fully understand video – pause to clarify some notions
• Students may struggle to complete Activity 3 - Allow extra time