Know/ Want to know/ Learned Chart.

4. Activity 4

KWL Chart

Know /Want to Know/ Learned Chart

1. List things you already know about the topic in the first column.

2. List things you want to know about the topic in the second column.

3. Read and learn about the topic.

5. Skills Development.

Reading and speaking

Pre-reading task

Work in pairs.

1. Write down the names of as many animals as you can. What can they do that

people can’t?

Example

Birds can fly.

2. What can people do that animals can’t?

Example

We can write poetry.

3. Look up the following words in your dictionary and write down the translation.

jungle (n)

species (n)

numerous (adj.)

powerful (adj.)

joke(n)

to record (v) e.g.

information in a book,

sense (n)

to choose (v)

to look after

to destroy

6. Reading

Hello, people of the World!

§ 1. There are five million people in the world and they live in all different corners of it. They live on the snow and ice of the Poles and in the tropical jungles on the equator. Some of them have even left the earth and visited the moon.

§ 2. The human species is the most numerous and the most powerful of all the animals on earth. How did this happen? In many ways, animals can do things better than we can. Dogs can smell and hear better than we can. Cats can see in the dark. Birds can fly thousands of miles away and return to the same place every year. But we are different. No other animal builds cathedrals, plays football, tells jokes, gets married, elects presidents, or goes to the moon.

§ 3. People love to talk—talk—talk. We are the great communicators! Most important of all, we can record what we say and think in writing. We have a sense of past and future, not just present.

§ 4. We are the only species that can change the world, and we are the only species that can choose either to look after our world or to destroy it.

(From Headway Pre-Intermediate by John and Liz Soars, p.9)