Vocabulary Knowledge
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Learning about animals can begin with first learning names of animals. Use the Animal Vocabulary Set of our Vocabulary Flashcards to teach your students vocabulary words for this topic.
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Phonics & Reading Skills
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Want to simultaneously provide your students with animal vocabulary recall practice, while developing their phonics skills? Phonics Fish is the classic card game Go Fish with a special phonics twist! The back of each card has a phonics clue that increases students' likelihood of guessing which of their fellow players has the card they need to form a set -- but only if they've paid attention during their phonics lessons. To play this game, participants take turns using the sentence pattern "Do you have a _________________?" to try to collect a full set of 3 matching cards that they can then lay down on in front of them to score points. This game offers many sets of cards for different learning topics. Phonics Fish Set E is made up of animal vocabulary cards.
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Another option for simultaneously developing phonics skills while improving animal vocabulary recall is to utilize our set of 36 animal Word Tiles. This activity involves matching Phonics Sound Tiles to the sides of various Word Tiles. For example, a student would complete the 'cat' Word Tile by matching a 'c' Sound Tile to the left side of the Word Tile, a 't' Sound Tile to the right side, and an 'a' Sound Tile to the bottom. Phonics Matching Tiles can be used for a variety of teaching demonstrations and various practice activities and friendly competitions. The set of 36 animal tiles has its own individual downloadable print file.
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Speaking Activities & Games
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The Animals Card Game is an easy-to-learn and easy-to-play game suitable for English beginners. It provides the opportunity for participants to get repeated practice using common animal vocabulary words while having fun play a mildly competitive game. Played in partner-pairs of two, participants take turns being either the asker and the answerer. The answerer draws a single card from a set of 9 cards (but keeps it secret), while the asker lays out an identical set of 9 cards in front of them. The asker then needs ask a series of simple questions to deduce which of the 9 cards in front of them matches the "secret card" held by the answerer. The sentence pattern "Do you have a _________________?" is used by the asker in this game, with different animals being systematically inserted into the blank. After using this sentence pattern to ask a question, based on the answerer's response, the asker can flip any cards that CAN'T be a match to the "secret card" face-down, until only one animal card remains face up.
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Engage your students with this fun survey activity. The What Do They Like (Animal Colors) Activity is an great way for beginner English learners to simultaneously practice animal vocabulary words and colors, as they collect and record information about the colors liked by each animal character on their survey list. This activity's materials include a master "answers key" and a variety of survey-taking sheets.
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This series of printable role-play props will allow you to set up realistic petshop shopping scenarios during your lessons. The Petshop Role-Play kit series makes it easy to make various petshop animals and products from of cardstock. All that is required is use of a color printer and some simple cutting and gluing.
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