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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This worksheet can be used to test your students on comparative and superlative adjectives. It includes a short reading, a writing section and vocabulary related to animals. I also give you the ke ...
This reading comprehension includes some interesting facts about the sun bear. Did you know that the sun bear is the smallest member of the bear family? Students read through the article and answe ...
This worksheet is about Australia and the Great Barrier Reef. It includes a double puzzle about some animals you can see there, students have to match words with pictures, then they have to unjumb ...
This short reading comprehension includes some interesting facts about Ollie the Octopus. My name is Ollie. I am an octopus. I have a very large head. Do you know how many arms I have? I have eigh ...
This game involves vocabulary practice about animals. Students have to match the pictures to the words. The rules for playing memory: mix up the cards, lay them in rows face down. Turn over any tw ...
This is a power point presentation about thirty common sea animals. There is a fun or surprising fact about each animal. It includes different animals such as jellyfish, seahorse,sponge, lobster,d ...
This article includes some interesting facts about the gray whale. Gray whales are baleen whales (filter feeders). They often look like crusty ocean rocks. This is because they are covered in para ...
A reading lesson around the article published online about an American teenager attacked by a squirrel as he was trying to make a selfie with the animal. Contains comprehension questions, grammar, ...
This Powerpoint Presentation can be used for revising vocabulary related to spring, flowers, animals and weather. Students have to look at the pictures and choose the correct option. There are 16 ...
A simple worksheet about animals for primary school. It includes colours and basic adjectives (happy, sad, fat, thin, etc). Item number 1: complete with the name of the animal and paint it with th ...
It's a very simple test I've created for my young learners to practise the spelling of animals. The worksheet includes pictures of animals, mixed-letter exercises and letter-missing exercises. It' ...
This is another ppt I prepared for my first graders to practise the song Walking in the Jungle, but I added a new ingredient. This time they will have to guess the animal before all the coloured s ...
This is a ppt I prepared for my first graders to practise the song Walking in the Jungle, as part of our project We are Going to the Zoo. They will have to call out the names of each animal before ...
This is a very simple and easy matching activity for teaching or revising animals related vocabulary at elementary level. Students are asked to match the words given with the pictures.The wor ...
This worksheet contains 32 pictures of animals, ready to be laminated and cut out and 4 activities you can use with the cards. Some animals are there twice (2 cats - not the same picture - Garfiel ...
With the help of the name of the animal as well as a picture of the animal, students write the written form of the sounds that each animal makes on the lines provided. Helps with early literacy as ...
Match the names of the animals to their pictures. Good for developing literacy skills in younger students who cannot yet read. Students match the words to their pictures, sounding out each letter ...
These worksheets will help in the teaching of animal vocabulary to young learners. Good quality animal worksheets are an excellent material for kids' learning. This worksheet includes words and pi ...
In this exercise children have to match the animal words with the pictures. First they read the words in English, then draw a line to the right picture. Ask children to start with the words they k ...
This is a complex lesson about colours based on a video from youtube by David Attenborough. The video shows some unique pictures of animals so the tasks are built around the topic of animals and t ...
Brief test to check some grammar points of your elementary students. Personal information questions in a club or a spa situation, colours, animals, the weather, cardinal numbers up to 100. Multipl ...
My aim with this vocabulary summary is to give my pupils a basic knowledge on a few topics we use every day. I tried to recollect the most commonly used words, expressions, collocations and use th ...
This complex worksheet is designed for pair or group work with the topic of farm animals based on a listening script, taken from youtube. As a starter, a pile of animal pictures can be distributed ...
This file is about places where animals live (habitat). In some slides different places are introduced,e.g. forest, plains, rainforest, ocean, desert, snow. In other slides we can see differ ...
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