Wallaby
Episode of the series Animals & Creatures of Australia
The episode
Hop on over to the wallaby's world! Learn all about these smaller, super-agile cousins of the kangaroo and find out how they manage to live in so many different kinds of places.
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 wallaby in an A1- script. The narrator compares it with the kangaroo ("A wallaby is much smaller than a kangaroo"), names the brush wallaby, the rock wallaby and the quokka, explains where wallabies live, how a joey grows in its mother's pouch, and what they eat, then ends with the story of wallabies in the Tasmanian poppy fields. The language focus is the present simple, with short comparatives, be and can for description and ability, and animal and physical-description vocabulary (joey, pouch, buck, doe, rock). The skill is listening for facts and comparisons.
Materials & prerequisites
- Student sheet and teacher sheet (`printables/`, HTML and PDF versions), plus the printable text.
- Prerequisites: the present simple, be, can for ability and basic adjectives (big, small, strong).
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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