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"Do you like animals?"

Target English: "Do you like...?", "I like..." "I don't like...." etc.
Target grade: Kindergarten to Junior High school 1

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Listening Quiz


Do you like? Animals

Do you like dogs?
Yes I do / No I don't.
Do you like cats?
Yes I do / No I don't.
Do you like birds?
Yes I do / No I don't.
Do you like mice?
Yes I do / No I don't.

Cute, cute, cute.
Cute, cute, cute

Do you like chickens?
Yes I do / No I don't.
Do you like sheep?
Yes I do / No I don't.
Do you like cows?
Yes I do / No I don't.
Do you like pigs?
Yes I do / No I don't.

Cute, cute, cute.
Cute, cute, cute

Do you like elephants?
Yes I do / No I don't.
Do you like monkeys?
Yes I do / No I don't.
Do you like snakes?
Yes I do / No I don't.
Do you like tigers?
Yes I do / No I don't.

This theme is designed to be a nice, easy bridge between CD3's "Do you like food?" theme and CD4's "Animal Voices" theme.

Once you've "Do you like food?" it's really simple to switch to animals ( a favourite question that kids are always asking) and cures the problem of some kids saying things like "Do you like dog?"

Practice asking the kids the first few questions, and get them to answer yes or no. They'll already know this from the Do you like food? theme, and the point is to get them to answer truthfully. They already also know most of the animal words, but you can have a quick run through before hand to check.

Remember to always ask in the Do you like...? form e.g. it will always be "mice" not "mouse". We'll introduce the singular form later. Doing it this way round makes things a lot easier to understand for the kids. ( But not for the teachers, but hey it's the kids that count!)

Then you'll be able to kick in the music nice and loud to get them all excited and genki!

The song you can find at the end of CD3, and if you are a CD owners club member you can download the new software section below:

Do you like animals? Software ( 3MB)
(Windows ".exe" file, right click and save to desktop)


Recommended Game

Then you can play the Genki English version of karuta again as recommended in the Do you like food? theme, but this time use both the animals and foods cards!



Listening Quiz:

Listen to the song one more time and put a tick or a cross next to the animal according to the answer you hear on the CD!



Picture Books


There are also the online "I love vegetables" and "What's your favourite food?" picture books for this theme.




The "Do you like?" song can be found on CD vol. III !

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