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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Use this domino to teach or practise names of animals! Exercise for beginners / elementary level. Vocabulary: a pig, a horse, a dog, a lion, a cat, a bird, a giraffe, an elephant, a crocodile, a c ...
Put letters in order and find a domestic animal: chicken - horse - cat - donkey - dog - pig - duck - sheep. This worksheet is for beginners, age group - children. You can do this activity after s ...
A simple worksheet created to test learners' vocabulary concerning animals after watching the film 'Happy Elephants' from the DVD to Nowa Era's 'English Explorer 1' (the film is connected with uni ...
It's an interesting way to practice animals vocabulary. This material may be used while introducing new lexical units or at a point of checking. You will definitely need an OHP or a laptop to demo ...
This worksheet contains a short reading text and a bunch of spelling/reading activities about it.
Skills: Spelling Words with Silent e, Spelling, Vocabulary, Visual Memory.
This worksheet was ki ...
This is a reading worksheet about bats with some after-reading activities: Questions about bats, What does it mean? Spell Long 'e', What Says 'er'?.
Example from the text: There are almos ...
Hidden in each sentence is the name of an animal. Each can be found either in the middle of a word or by combining the end of one word with the beginning of the next. Underline the animal name in ...
Lucky Octopus is a story about a little octopus Ollie who missed the eighth leg and was really worried about it. Whether the story had a happy or rather sad end will be found out after the reading ...
It's a song I've used to practice listening skills and rw specific vocabulary, I downloaded the song from youtube and made some activities on it. you can start your lesson with a warm up with pict ...
This test on CAN, ANIMALS and IMPERATIVES has two sets that look the same at first glance but they have some little differences to prevent students from PEEPING. If one of them tries to cheat by ...
This is a nice worksheet with images of a few endangered species with information on how many of them are left on the planet. Your students are supposed to match the numbers to the pictures of the ...
It's a worksheet for practicing the adjectives, it contains two activities of completing sentences with adjectives and also students have to draw their favourite animal and give a description for ...
This worksheet is to be used with a snippet (scene 5) from Ice Age. Intended for kids who had a movie project going on, it teaches the words for the animals in the video and recycles "talking abou ...
This worksheet contains activities for you to work with kids after watching Madagascar 2. Students will work with vocabulary of wild animals, their physical description, adjectives to describe per ...
This worksheet is to work with primary students on the topic of wild animals, prepositions, can for ability and you can also revise colours. Ss watch a part of the film and then do the activities ...
This cute mini-book project is to help kids learn the animal vocabulary and it contains nice images of the following anumals: bear, cow, cat, horse, dog, and their babies. There is also a matching ...
I used it for telling the students about endangered animals. After I finished I show them the power point, I asked them to find other endangered animals by themselves.
Surprize your learners with a project using one of the cool worksheets from this collection!
Each page has short simple instructions that learners should be able to understand without the help of ...
Pictures of 2 animals (giraffe and dolphin) for various uses. For example, you can ask your younger learners to make questions and answers about their routines.
This animal vocabulary lesson takes about 1h10min. The goal is to learn new animal words, to hone speaking skills, to practise Present Simple tense in questions.
This is a test designed for the Elementary level. It includes two parts: grammar (2 exercises) and lexics. Mainly for Russian users, nevertheless you may change the translation exercise into your ...
Video listening comprehension using two YouTube videos: <em>I'm a gorilla</em>: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L3QkwLkkgUY <em>I'm a kangaroo</em>: http://www.you ...
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