Mice

MICE

Activities about reading technique

Skimming

1.      How many kinds of mice is the text talking about?

                            three                           five                        two

2.      Which is the smallest kind of mice?

pygmy mouse               jumping mouse         harvest mouse         dormouse

Scanning

1.      The jumping mouse has______back feet.

short                               long                    narrow

2.      Small dormice sleep for seven______every year.

nine                             seven              five

3.      The harvest mouse can_____very well.

eat                                climb                 fly

Intensive reading

1.      Read again jumping mouse and later drawing it and its food.

Making inferences

1.      Who can sleep inside of a sock?

H_____         M______

2.      Which mouse can see a snowboarder?

H_____         M_______

3.      Who can touch the sky?

_______________

4.      If you were Julio Cesar which mice prefer to eat?

_______________

Predicting

Before reading the text we will ask some questions about mice:

1.What is a mouse?

Animal                        toy                             clothes

2.Have you ever seen some mouse? Where?

Film                 street                     home

3.How is it? (Length, colour,…)

4.Do you know some house mouse?  what kind of food do they eat?
where do they live? how are they? 

5.Do you know anohter object that is called mouse?

Contextual Guessing

1.      Match photos with words

Nest                      tail                  pets

 to Climb             back feet       to  eat

 

Other activities

1.      Match photos with words

Pygmy mouse                       jumping mouse

House mouse             harvest mouse          dormouse

Sandra González, Irene del Pozo, Patricia Dominguez y Cristina Vieco