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?
- To identify and describe the geography of Peru.
Lesson 2: Exploring the rainforest
- To use spelling patterns and rhythms to learn and perform rainforest animal names.
Lesson 3: Amazing Amazon animals
- To write descriptive sentences about rainforest animals.
Lesson 4: Animal anatomy
- To describe the physical features of some rainforest animals using singular and plural nouns.
Lesson 5: Which rainforest animal am I?
- To describe the features of rainforest creatures and their habitat.
Lesson 6: Amazon explorers
- To present a podcast to introduce different Amazon animals.
Key skills
Key knowledge
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.
British values: Mutual respect.