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 is a worksheet where students have to match the name of an animal to what you call the baby version of the animal - "bear" and "cub," for example. There are 14 animals in all. I made this for ...
The text is taken from the novel Holes, written by Louis Sachar. It is a chapter where the author describes the yellow spotted lizard, an animal invented for the book. After the reading there are ...
Animals and their abilities. Students look at a picture containing different wild animals and then they have to describe what these animals can and can't do. Plus: a reading activity about animal ...
Nice and colourful cards showing crickets. Project about insects- crickets. You can use this project both at English and Biology lessons. Most crickets can live for a year and more. But us ...
Baby animals and farm animals, comparison of baby animals and adult animals. Nice and colourful flashcards showing some characters from cartoon, like garfield and donald duck. Kids really enjoy ma ...
This is the second part of the reading in "The world's most poisonous" series. In the second part your students will learn about the blue ringed octopus, the stonefish, the banana spider, the inl ...
When teaching an Animals Unit this will be useful to learn, explain and use Animals Habitats vocabulary. This is a fun and interesting way not only to know new vocabulary but to learn it by repeat ...
This worksheet has a crossword about animals. Students have to complete the crossword by reading the sentences underneath the crossword. Each sentence gives information about each animal of the cr ...
With this worksheet students can practice the simple present tense by filling the blanks with the correct information about the animals of the pictures. This worksheet has several pictures of ani ...
A very funny way to teach your pupils/students about wild animals. You can also practise some structures such as It has got, It likes, It can, It lives. Here are the videos:
This exercise is based on the Elephant Song by Eric Herman. It practices using "doesn't" for the negative present simple tense (singular), and it practices using the correct form of the positive p ...
I created this powerpoint for my 5th grade students. They are in their second year of learning English. This was originally a lesson required by the Ministry but I spiced things up a bit with cute ...
A team game whereby students listen to a riddle, and they have to guess what it is. Maximum points are awarded for giving the correct answer at a first attempt, and lesser points are awarded there ...
Grammar - controlled practice Students will be practicing the modal verb can (abilities) associated with the vocabulary of animals to talk about the things animals can or can't do. Afterwards they ...
This activity was developed to teach young learners the variety of animals there are in the film. This film is about a bunch of animals that out of the blue realize a hedge in a place that used to ...
Worksheet for young learners Vocabulary exercise + song lyrics activity: Students will work on the vocabulary of actions associated with animals. They'll do a matching exercise and then they'll li ...
This worksheet is designed to help identify parts and structure of simple information texts. While the reading text is specifically on Turtles, it is meant to be a stepping stone to apply its com ...
Here's my first worksheet of the set. In this one your students must decide what food is suitable for each animal. Then they have to complete some sentences about what the animals eat or don't eat ...
A quick activity where students read the list of 10 facts about rainforests and see if they can spot the four that aren't true. Answers are included at the bottom. I wrote this for an ESL English ...
Students roll the animal dice and add animals to their farms according to the pictures. If they get a "fox", the fox steals an animal from their farm and they have to put one back. Used this in a ...
This is an useful complete beginner vocabulary worksheet, with pictures, to teach young learners about different kind of animals and their names. I am using this worksheet with my two groups of s ...
I used this worksheet for my intermediate students. Before watching the video (Partly Cloudy, a Pixar CGI animated short film directed by Peter Sohn) the students get acquainted with the main hero ...
Through this lovely game students will learn the animals related vocabulary. It is played with dice and counters when the students land on a square they are asked to make a sentence using the pic ...
The students have got 36 pictures of animals that they have to find in the word search. They can first write the names of the animals under the correct picture to check the spelling and then start ...
Using the names of animals, complete the fill in the blanks exercise. When you fill in those words, an extra word will appear in the box. I hope you like it and find this worksheet interesti ...
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