Unit 6: The Amazon rainforest
Describing the animals that live in different parts of the Amazon rainforest.
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Unit 6: The Amazon rainforest
Unit outcomes
Pupils who are secure will be able to:
- Build sentences about Peru using the model hay/no hay + [plural noun].
- Repeat animal names with increasing accuracy.
- Apply an understanding of nouns to create the plural form.
- Create original, written sentences adapted from a model, including some vocabulary from memory.
- Form adjectives to agree with the gender of the noun that they describe.
- Speak complete, descriptive phrases with clear pronunciation.
- Use tone of voice where appropriate to engage their audience.
Suggested prior learning
Unit 2: Pets in Spanish
Get startedLessons
Lesson 1: Where is the Amazon rainforest?
Lesson 2: Exploring the rainforest
Lesson 3: Amazing Amazon animals
Lesson 4: Animal anatomy
Lesson 5: Which rainforest animal am I?
Lesson 6: Amazon explorers
Key skills
Key knowledge
Equipment list
Equipment needed across all lessons in this unit.
This list does not include equipment which is usually readily available in the classroom (e.g pencils, A4 paper etc)
Full equipment list for the subject
Related content
Unit resources
Knowledge organiser: Spanish – The Amazon rainforest
Aimed at pupils, two pages providing key facts and definitions from the unit 'The Amazon rainforest'.
Translations: Y4 The Amazon rainforest
Translations of key texts and transcripts from resources in this unit.
Vocabulary display: The Amazon rainforest
A display version of the key vocabulary from the unit 'The Amazon rainforest'.
Cross-curricular opportunities
Geography: Locational knowledge, Human and physical geography.
Music: Performance and composition (body percussion).
Science: Living things and their habitats.
English: Reading – comprehension.