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 contains 12 colorful animals that live in the sea. Students must look at the picture, say the animal, and figure out what vowel is missing. Then they can work on the motor skills ev ...
This English worksheet is a fun activity for students to complete. They must read through each description and work out which animal is being described. There are nine different animals to guess. ...
This poem is about a student who goes to school one day and sees lots of strange things happening in his school. I wonder why there are orange baboons wearing purple tuxedos! Kids will have fun re ...
It is a very fun reading. You can do it in class as a warm up for other endagered animals or folk tales.It is very useful also to evaluate reading comprehension. I used it with my third graders as ...
A series of questions about a short video i found on youtube about animal intelligence. Mixed questions, some gap-fill , some true or false. Quite an interesting video which can open up a dis ...
The title of this poem is 'My Invisible Dragon'. This worksheet was created for KS2 students. They must read through the poem and then answer the accompanying study questions. There are 7 question ...
The worksheet includes a picture of a chimpanzee and some hints for making sentences in present simple passive. This can be used as a warmer at the beginning of the lesson. Ss may work in small gr ...
This worksheet contains two parts: 1) pre-watching activity: after working with some new words that can cause problems in understanding T reads the first part of the story (once or twice dep ...
This is a very easy song, suitable for children or beginners. You can use it to revise the names of animals. Use it definitely at the end of the lesson, preferably on Friday as the kids might not ...
This English worksheet was created for primary/elementary children. It focuses on separating words into syllables. There are 10 names of animals, students must separate each animal word correctly ...
Children have to take the animals to their food by drawing sleeping lines from left to right. By this children will recognize the pet animals and the food they like to eat, they will also identify ...
This reading comprehension includes some interesting facts about polar bears including their diet, appearance, behaviour, habitat etc. Children must read through the text and then answer the accom ...
This powerpoint presentation can be used with children and adults to introduce the structure of have got in questions, short answers and review some animals. It's very simple to use and easy to un ...
Class 1 English, printable worksheet for teachers and kids! This is a very fun activity for kids to color the animal alphabet, one for every letter. If your students are more interested in Movies ...
This worksheet consists of a clear explanation designed for kids to teach them the use of have got and has got for describing animals or things. It has tow explanatory sheets and one with a practi ...
This is a worksheet based on a funny and weirdly awesome cartoon "Out of Forest". The tasks draw students' attention to details of the animation and provoke their creativity. I planned this video ...
This reading comprehension is all about the Aardvark. Aardvarks (Orycteropus afer) live south of the Sahara desert in Africa. They are greyish-brown in colour with large ears, sharp claws and a co ...
My powerpoint presentation is about bugs /crawlies. Students are asked to say who's this /what's this ? This presentation also teaches how to introduce them by saying This is.... The whole pres ...
This is a boardgame for teaching or revising animals related vocabulary at elementary level. It is played in groups or pairs with dice and counters, when students land on a square they must make ...
Good to use with kids for pronunciation and revision of vocabulary. Kids love it! You can find the song on youtube and expand the exercise with vocabulary on pets and wild animals...You can make a ...
In this activity you will find a set of pictures with animals and cards that together constitute an exciting game ‘Find an Animal’. At first you assign an animal or bird to be found th ...
In this worksheet you practise present simple, the verb 'can', and read about animals' habitats, food they eat, body characteristics and customs. This is also about environment/nature. This is a r ...
This worksheet improves the vocabulary and knowledge about wild animals. The students can share their knowledge about animals. It is good for developing the research habbit. This activity can prom ...
In this worksheet, students study the comparative form of adjectives and at the same time learn the names of different wild and farm animals. Students are asked to write sentences.There is an enga ...
This short reading comprehension is for early readers. It includes some interesting facts about crocodiles. Snappy has scaly skin and a long pointed snout. This is a fun way for kids to learn abou ...
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