1.- Before
Redding the text, the teacher will write the names of the different mouses on
the blackboard, and the children has to choose one and try to guess the
characteristics of the mousse and draw it.
Mousses:
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Pigmy
mouse
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Jumping
mouse
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House
mouse
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Harvest
mouse
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Dormouse
2. - While-
reading they pupils have to underline the words that they do not understand,
and give a definition of it through the context, if they are not able to do it,
then the must look for the word in a dictionary.
3. - After
reading, complete the gaps.
Pygmy mouse
The pygmy mouse is the smallest ________. It lives for one year. It lives
everywhere in the world except Antartica. It weighs six ______ and is four and
a half __________ long and has a tail three centimetres long.
Jumping mouse
The jumping mouse has long back feet. The Woodland jumping mouse can ______
three metres. Jumping mice sleep for six to nine months in the ______. They eat
seeds, worms and beetles.
House mouse
The house _______ lives with people. It eats anything it can find. It ___
eat soap and glue and electricity _______. They are popular pets.
Harvest mouse
The harvest mouse can climb very well. It climbs ______ and corn and holds
on with its tail. It makes its nest at the ___ of stalks of grass and corn.
Dormouse
Small dormice are six _____________ long and weigh fifteen grams, and big
ones are nineteen centimetres long and weigh two hundred _______. They sleep
for seven months every year. They live for about three years.
Dormice can hear very well and can make a lot of _________. They eat fruit,
nuts, seeds, insects, spiders, worms and eggs. The Romans liked to eat dormice.
