Discussion activities
1. Discuss: Ask students if any of them have seen the film of The Jungle Book. If the answer is yes, can they remember any of the scenes?
2. If none of the students have seen the film, ask them to look at the picture in the introduction. Divide them into small groups and have them choose an animal. They describe its looks and its routines for the rest to guess. Then they can compare two or three animals.
Chapters 1–2 Before reading
3 Research: Have
students find out in which countries we find jungle environments. Ask the
students to work in groups and to describe a jungle. Have them discuss which
other kinds of animals they can find in the jungle apart from those in The Jungle Book. Refer them to the
pictures in the book and to page vi.
While reading
4
Role play:
Ask students to work in pairs to role play
a conversation between Shere Khan, the tiger, and Akela, the leader of
the Pack. Shere Khan tries to persuade Akela to give him the man-cub and Akela
refuses.
5
Role play: Divide
the students into pairs and have them imagine they are another animal that
wants to speak for the man-cub. They prepare and say their speech to the Pack.
(page 6)
6
Discuss: Akela
says ‘We did the right thing.’ Have a
class discussion to decide if keeping the man-cub in the Pack was the right
thing to do. (page 8)
7
Guess: Encourage
students to guess what happened to Akela, and how things will change in the
jungle now.
(page 10)
8
Check:
They check their answers to the prediction above. Was anyone right? (page 11)
2
of 3
9
Group work: The
Red Flower is the animals’ way of saying ‘fire’.
Have the groups think of other elements man has which the animals do not and
encourage students to find new names for them, the way animals might call them.
After reading
10
Group work:
Put students into small groups and ask each group to list the examples of the
law of the jungle that appear in this section. Then ask them to make up at
least one new law of the jungle. Ask the groups for their laws and decide, as a
whole class, which ones are good and useful for the animals.
11
Role play: Ask
students to role play the goodbye scene between Mowgli and his wolf mother,
Raksha.
Chapters 3–4 Before reading
12
Guess: Have
students discuss what kind of learner Mowgli is. Does he need to learn the language of the jungle? Why or why not? Does
he need to learn more than a young wolf? Why or why not?
13
Research: Ask
students to find out what a young wolf can do. Compare what it can do with what
a child can do at the age of 7.
While reading
14
Check: Have
students check if their predictions were correct. Is Mowgli a quick learner?
Does he need to learn what Bagheera is teaching him?
15
Artwork: Have
students imagine they are Bagheera. To teach Mowgli what he cannot do with the
monkeys, Bagheera designs a poster. Get students to make the poster.
16
Guess:
Kaa, the great snake, is hungry. Have students predict what will happen when
Kaa meets the monkeys at Monkey City.
17
Discuss: Ask
students to have a class discussion:
Mowgli
needs to learn how to say ‘We are brothers, you and I’ in all the different
animal languages. Get into groups and discuss why.
Mowgli
tells the monkeys, ‘Bring me food or I will have to hunt.’ Mowgli knows the Law
of the Jungle. Does he kill for nothing or only when he is hungry? What about
men? Do they only kill when they are hungry?
18
Guess:
Kaa says ‘Bad things are going to happen here.’ Have students speculate why Kaa
tells Mowgli to go away with his friends.
After reading
19
Artwork: Have
students design a poster warning the animals in the jungle against the Monkey
City.
20
Discuss:
Have students compare the wolves’ lifestyle and the monkeys’ lifestyles.
21
Pair work:
Have students work in pairs and discuss the kind of help the different animals
(e.g. Chil, Kaa, the snakes in Monkey City, his two friends, etc.) give Mowgli
when he is taken by the monkeys.
22
Check: Ask
students whether their predictions were right or wrong. Was Kaa afraid he would eat the animals he helped?
Chapters 5–6 Before reading
23 Guess: Have
students read the titles of Chapters 5 and 6. Get them to speculate what will
happen to Mowgli. Will he be happy in the
Land of Men?
While reading
24
Discuss: Have
students discuss the difference between a boy from the village and a boy from
the jungle.
25
Pair work: Have
students work in pairs and discover what Mowgli does to become a village boy.
26
Discuss: In
the evenings the old men in the village told stories. Buldeo, the hunter, told
stories about the animals in the jungle. Mowgli listened to them but ‘tried not
to laugh’. Have students work in groups and discuss why Mowgli thought they
were only stories.
27
Discuss: Have
students discuss the following ‘Rama’s
feet hit something.’ What did the buffalo’s feet hit? What was there on the
ground?
28
Role play:
Buldeo goes back to the village and tells them that Mowgli talks to the wolves.
Have students imagine the conversation between Buldeo and the people in the
village.
29 Write: Messua is very sad that Mowgli
has to leave the village. Have students write a goodbye letter from Messua to
Mowgli. After reading
30
Check: Ask
students if their predictions were correct. Was
Mowgli happy in the Land of Men? Did he understand his ways? Did they
understand him?
31
Discuss: Have
students discuss why the people in the story said the following:
‘Will
men change you?’
‘They
did not want me in the Pack.’
‘Never
stop my hunting again.’
‘Go,
or they will kill you.’
‘Your
brothers are not different from the Pack.’
32 Discuss: Mowgli killed the tiger in the end. Did he break the Law of the Jungle?
Why or why not? Extra activities
33
Discuss:
To Mowgli, the bear and panther are his friends and family. Ask the pupils
which animal family they might like to live with. They then think about how
their lives might be different.
34
Write: Have
students imagine that the villagers are happy Mowgli has killed Shere Khan. Get
them to write a different ending to this story.
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