Animals are a popular ESL topic especially with young learners and students in primary school. Here at BusyTeacher there are 635 worksheets in this section that focus on animals as well as a variety of grammar points. These are all ready to use, free, and printable which makes the site a great resource for teaching materials. Take a look at this worksheet which combines animal vocabulary and reading practice into a guessing game for students which they can complete individually, in pairs, or even in groups. If you would like to do something else, look at some other worksheets to find something your students will love.
Animals are a fun topic that students enjoy talking about so they can be used throughout your course to interest students in a variety of activities. Younger students especially like talking about different types of animals so be sure to give them the opportunity to use this enthusiasm in their ESL classes. Besides studying animal vocabulary, you can also use animal flashcards when studying comparative and superlative structures, descriptive words and for other topics too. With intermediate, advanced, and adult learners animals will be a less important topic but you may consider talking about some of them in discussions, for example polar bears and global warming.
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Listening activity for students. The worksheet includes the task itself, teacher's sheet with a link and answers. Good for children and adults as well. Before listening it is worth reading or disc ...
A listening activity for students. It includes the task, the teacher's sheet and a link to a video. I am sure the students will like it. It suits children and adults. Before completing the task it ...
A post-watching composition worksheet, inluding the following grammar topics: pronouns, can/can't, 3d person singular endings. Vocabulary includes action verbs, person description, animals, relati ...
This PowerPoint contains both names and pictures of some currently endangered species around the world, such as Amur Leopard, Mountain Gorilla, Black Rhino, etc. You can provoke your class to vote ...
This is a worksheet based on the cartoon "Puss in Boots. The Three Diablos" (13 minutes). It contains four types of exercises which allow you to check your students' understanding of the video. It ...
I used this mini test with my French pupils in order to check their memory. I do that from time to time because they tend to forget what they've learnt when the big test is over. They can colour t ...
This worksheet is appropriate for complete beginners and young learners. It is related to animal vocabulary. It contains 7 different bingo cards. It is a very funny game, specially in young learne ...
Bingo: a fun game to review animals and foods vocabulary items. The teacher has to read out the words by randomly selecting them from a bag and the students have to cross them out. This game can b ...
This is a worksheet for teaching or revising wild animals related vocabulary at elementary level. Students are asked to match the words given with the pictures. The worksheet is availabl ...
Do you know animals? This simple presentation is designed for young children- beginners- to learn animal vocabulary. You can use it to practise reading the words or to make questions and sho ...
This PowerPoint contains some information about dinosaurs. At the second slide of the PowerPoint, there are some lead-in questions to raise the students' interest about the topic. The grammar focu ...
Students are asked to read the short story about Lizzy going to the zoo with her parents. They are then asked to answer the questions by putting a circle around the correct letter. Which animals d ...
This is a PowerPoint presentation which is made for my elementary students and for young learners by myself. It includes some pictures about animals, baby animals and some characteristics of them. ...
The attached file is a PowerPoint that I made for my pre-intermediate and intermediate students. It shows the gorillas, monkeys and chimpanzees. How do they live? Where do they live? What do ...
This PowerPoint includes some vocabulary items related to baby animals, like puppy, kitten, etc. It contains nice images. It is appropriate for absolute beginners, specially kids between 5-12. I m ...
This PowerPoint includes some vocabulary items related to farm animals. It contains beautiful images of different farm animals, such as hen, snake, sheep, pig, etc. It is appropriate for kids' cla ...
This is a powerpoint presentation which is related to the animals and their habitat (ice and snow, forest, rain-forest, desert, plain). It's about different kinds of animals and the exact places w ...
Students read the text about Chester the cheetah and answer the multiple choice questions. There are six multiple choice questions to answer. Having strong reading comprehension skills will also h ...
Students read the text about Pepin the penguin and answer the multiple choice questions. There are six multiple choice questions to answer. Having strong reading comprehension skills will also hel ...
In this worksheet, there are some animals missing one part of their body. Teacher can ask students to complete the part by drawing it. After they complete the part, one by one, students repo ...
Having strong reading comprehension skills will also help in other subjects. Students read the text about Poldo the polar bear and answer the multiple choice questions. There are six multiple choi ...
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