Koala
Episode of the series Animals & Creatures of Australia
The episode
Time for a nap! Explore the sleepy life of the koala, a fluffy tree-dweller with a big appetite for eucalyptus leaves, and see why it's one of Australia's most beloved animals.
Episode worksheets (2)
- Student sheet In your teacher account
- Teacher sheet In your teacher account
Teaching guide
Objective & content
This documentary episode of Animals & Creatures of Australia presents the koala in an A1- script. The narrator first corrects the name "koala bear", then describes the animal's body, its diet of eucalyptus leaves, its long hours of sleep, the meaning of its name and the way a male koala leaves a scent message on trees. The language focus is the present simple, with be, can and basic adjectives for description, and animal and physical-description vocabulary (joey, herbivore, leaves, nocturnal). The skill is listening for facts, as in "A koala is a marsupial, not a bear."
Materials & prerequisites
- Student sheet and teacher sheet (`printables/`, HTML and PDF versions), plus the printable text.
- Prerequisites: the present simple, be, can for ability, basic adjectives and the articles a, an and the.
Curriculum alignment
Tagged to the cycle 3 axis "the child and the living world" (c3-child-and-living-world), so it suits 6e. CEFR level A1-.
Possible adaptations
- Lower levels: Offer segmented listening and additional visual aids.
- Advanced levels: Encourage an oral summary and a debate in English on the theme.
- Large groups: Organise group work with differentiated roles.
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