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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Flashcards about animals The attached file contains small cards to teach animal vocabulary. There are different types of animals, their image and the English word - for the child to associat ...
This is a board game for revising farm animals related vocabulary. Recommended for elementary students who are asked to make a sentences using the picture clue provided.
Students will be able to cut and paste animals with appropriate sounds. They can also write simple sentences using descriptive words related to the picture. eg. Cow lives in the farm. It gives a m ...
This is a powerpoint presentation of the parts of the body using the theme of wild animals. I use it before starting humans' description with beginners or elementary students. I show them the powe ...
It´s an animal crossword.Students must find out the names of wild animal in the crossword. this worksheet can be useful for elementary students when they are working the class of natural sci ...
Students cut out the animals and stick the pictures to the right place on the map. It is an exercise for revising the topic. They colour the continents and write the names. Students use Present si ...
This is a set of colourful cards that you can use as bingo or matcing cards for children in class. The aim is to find the animal according to the description. These cards are useful for reading ...
It's an easy activity in order to help your students recognize the parts of animal body. Students will be able to match the pictures with the names of animal body parts. It´s an interesting ...
Students have to complete the sentences, in this exercise kids learn to write basic sentences and they use vocabulary connected with farm animals. Then the teacher can do lots of activities using ...
A great video about the ways humans interact with animals. The worksheet contains discussion questions based on the information from the video. [starting 1:14 min]
This is a poem for complete beginner kids. The grammar spot here is Presents Simple (A cat has..., What does it say?, It says...) Learn animals and their babies, match them with the sounds they m ...
This worksheet helped me with a group of quiet students, I'm teaching English in Mexico and I have a hard time finding activities like this one so that's why I am sharing this with all of you, I h ...
This worksheet contains a fun activity for teaching kids to compare animals' weight. Students are asked to guess which side of the see-saw is lifted up. Each page has a question and answer with im ...
The PowerPoint presentation consists of pictures. There you can find the names of different groups of animals such as; flocks, herds and the others. It suits best to the elementary learners as wel ...
It is a worksheet about animals and the use of the present simple tense. In the first exercise, students have to find 9 animals in a wordsearch. The second exercise is linked to the first one sinc ...
This is a great worksheet to show your students about the wild life. You can also work with adjectives and words that we can find in the forest. It's awesome to work with kids. They love it! And i ...
A simple while-watching activity for pre-intermediate teens (12-13) to go with a video from You Tube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ckIHRT-SkIs Students are asked to take notes labeling parts of t ...
This is a multiple choice activity for teaching or revising wild animals related vocabulary. Recommended for elementary students who are asked to look at the pictures and circle the correct optio ...
This is a multiple choice activity for teaching or revising farm animals related vocabulary. Suitable for elementary students who are asked to look at the pictures and circle the correct option. ...
This is the first reading in "The world's most..." series. There will be 2 worksheets related to the world's most poisonouns creatures. In the first part your students will learn about the box j ...
With this PowerPoint Presentation students will learn the names of 36 different animals. Students are asked to click on the animals given and then study their names. Recommended for elementary st ...
Worksheet for a Christmas lesson with elementary, pre-intermediate or intermediate level students. There you will find different types of activities: answering the questions, matching, finding the ...
This is a 2-page worksheet for teaching animals related vocabulary and modal verbs. Students are asked to match the animals with the pictures, write sentences using the words in the box, read the ...
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