FIND:

snake
bird
bug
giraffe
spider
zebra
crocodile
octopus

FILL in:
sn_ k_
b_ g
g_ r_ ff_
b_ rd
_ ct_ p_ s
cr_ c_ d_ l_

z_ br_

Who is
yellow?
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Who is blue?
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Who is
green?
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Who can
sing?
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Who can
swim?
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Who can eat
leaves from
tops?
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Who is black
and white?

Who is very
small?
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Who can trot?
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Who can
hiss?
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Who is grey?
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Who is
purple?
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What is the zebra doing?

What is the crocodile doing?
What is the octopus doing?
What is the snake doing?
What is the giraffe doing?
What is the spider doing?
What is the bird doing?
What is the bug doing?

bird
b__
crocodile
g______
octopus
s____
spider
z_ _ _ _

...The zebra is juggling with colorful balls and dancing. .........................

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A _ _ _ _ can sing
better than a zebra.
A_________
can eat faster than
a spider.
A _ _ _ is smaller
than a octopus.

A _ _ _ _ _ _ _ is
taller than a zebra.
An _ _ _ _ _ _ _ can
swim faster than a
snake.
A _ _ _ is the
smallest.

A________
_ is hungrier
than an octopus.
A _ _ _ _ can
sing nicely.
A _ _ _ _ _ _ can
make cobwebs.

ccoroeldi ............
ebazr ..................
scpuoot ...............
ibdr .....................
dersip ................
ubg ...................
aifgfer ...............
askne .................

JUGGLE LETTERS - Which words are hiding in the C R O C O D I L E ? (+ write definition)

rice = white side-dish, ................................................................................................................................
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WRITE DEFINITIONS OF 3 ANIMALS AND READ THEM ALOUD your friends will guess:
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COMPARE 4 ANIMALS use : bigger, taller, faster, hungrier, nicer, uglier, longer, fatter, funnier
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BIRDS
parrot
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REPTILES
crocodile
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DRAW YOUR DREAM ANIMAL:

MAMMALS
monkey
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AMPHIBIANS
and insects
frog, bug
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DREAM ANIMAL / DREAM PET DESCRIPTION

use: It has got ... arms, legs, head, eyes, ears, nose,
fingers, claws, tail...
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FIND:
snake
bird
bug
giraffe
spider
zebra
crocodile
octopus

FILL in:
sn_ k_
b_ g
g_ r_ ff_
b_ rd
_ ct_ p_ s
cr_ c_ d_ l_

z_ br_

Who is
yellow?
g...............
o.................
Who is blue?
..................
Who is
green?
.................

Who can
sing?
...............
Who can
swim?
..................
Who can eat
leaves from
tops?
.................

Who is black
and white?

Who is very
small?
....................
Who can trot?
..................
Who can
hiss?
...................

....................
Who is grey?
sp............
Who is
purple?
sn.........

What is the zebra doing?

What is the crocodile doing?
What is the octopus doing?
What is the snake doing?
What is the giraffe doing?
What is the spider doing?
What is the bird doing?
What is the bug doing?

bird
b__
crocodile
g______
octopus
s____
spider
z_ _ _ _

...The zebra is juggling with colorful balls and dancing. .........................

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A _ _ _ _ can sing
better than a zebra.
A_________
can eat faster than
a spider.
A _ _ _ is smaller
than a octopus.

A _ _ _ _ _ _ _ is
taller than a zebra.
An _ _ _ _ _ _ _ can
swim faster than a
snake.
A _ _ _ is the
smallest.

A________
_ is hungrier
than an octopus.
A _ _ _ _ can
sing nicely.
A _ _ _ _ _ _ can
make cobwebs.

ccoroeldi ............
ebazr ..................
scpuoot ...............
ibdr .....................
dersip ................
ubg ...................
aifgfer ...............
askne .................

TEACHERS NOTES:
0. You can also download MINIBOOK http://www.eslprintables.com/printable.asp?id=251197#thetop
BW VERSION here: http://www.eslprintables.com/printable.asp?id=251352#thetop
1. use miming games mime an animal and let ss guess. Or make animal sounds and let them guess...
2. ask ss to draw masks / pictures and play a short drama
MINIDRAMA Mr Animal, Miss Animal, introduce yourself:
1- Hello! What is your name?
2- Hello! My name is .... Zebra. And what is your name?
1- My name is ......Snake.
2- Nice to meet you!
1- Nice to meet you!
2- Where are you from?
1- I am from Africa. And where are you from?
2- I am from Europe. I live in many countries. Do you lay eggs?
1- No, I dont. I have babies baby ...zebras. They can run fast when they are 1 day old! Do you lay eggs?
2- Yes, I do. I lay one to ten eggs.
1- Can you show me your babies?
2- Yes, of course. Meet my family! Arent they cute?

3. PREPOSITION GAME:
Elicit on, in, below, above, next to, between, behind, from, with (balls)
Where is the giraffe? It is sitting on the stone..
Where is a zebra? It is dancing next to the giraffe.
Where is the croco? It is sitting in the water.
Where is the octopus? It is swimming in the water.
Where is the snake? It is hanging from a tree / a branch.
Where is the bird? It is next to the snake.
Where is he spider? It is above the giraffe.
Where is the bug? It is below the snake, on the leaf.
Which animal is between the snake and giraffe?
The zebra is dancing and juggling between the snake and giraffe.
Now divide students into groups or give each student an animal name and call out:
Mrs Zebra is under the desk! Mr Spider is next to the desk! Miss Octopus is under the blackboard! etc
4. ask a student to make noises like one animal others guess: Is it a zebra? Is it a horse? Can I play with it?
5. fun game students make a circle and walk in circle. The teacher is in the middle and shouts:
trot like a horse, hiss like a snake, crawl like a lizard, jump like a frog, move your neck like a zebra, open and
close your mouth like a croco, sing like a bird, swing like a monkey, wobble like a octopus, be small like a
bug, laugh like a hyena / jackal, carry a doll / a baby like a monkey,
WS key: according to ABC - bird bug crocodile giraffe octopus snake spider zebra
WS KEY2: crocodile --> circle, circled, coco, code, coder, coil, cold, colder, color, colored, cool, cooled,
cooler, cord, core, credo, cried, decor, dice, die, do, door, ice, idle, idol, lice, lid, lie, lied, lier, loo, , lord, o,
oil, old, rice, rid, ride, rodeo, role, ...

EFL Games: The Quickening FOR THE YOUNGSTERS

Pin the Tail on The Animal: Have a laminated picture of an animal on the board. The animal should be
missing a tail (or a nose, ears, whatever you like.) I use Velcro to stick on the missing body part. One by one
have the blindfolded and dizzy children try and correctly stick the tail on to the animal (I give the children a
good couple spins to disorient them first). This game is good for learning the parts of the human body, face, or
just about anything and the children love it.

SUGGESTION PRINTER FRIENDLY VERSION: all parts of this ws are grouped, so in case of colour
removing, rightclick mouse and choose FORMAT no background, no border + ok. Done in 3 seconds
:-D
6. online animal games:
Animal Adventure
Kimma's Jungle Quest
Dumonde GPS
Concentration

These games are appropriate for kids ages 6 up. - http://resources.kaboose.com/games/animal2.html

Click here for games for kids 3-6.
http://animal.discovery.com/games/games.html
http://animal.discovery.com/pet-planet/pet-picker/
http://www.girlsgogames.com/games/animals.html
from iteslj.org FOR PRE-INTERMEDIATE INTERMEDIATE STUDENTS

Animals for a Day

Level: Medium to Difficult
Activity A
Show the students a photocopied list of many different animals (mammals, amphibians ...), and ask them to
choose, individually and without speaking, an animal they would like to be for a day. Give them a minute.
Then (something they won't be expecting), get them to write a few sentences, once again working alone, about
their day, or their thoughts-as the animal they have chosen. Give them a few minutes.
Needless to say, you will be surprised by the imagination of your students, many of whom, I believe, love to
indulge in moments of escapism-something us teachers know all about!
For example, I had a group of five female students, three of whom chose to be dolphins, one an eagle, and the
last a bear.
What I got from one girl: "I am a bear and I live with my friends in a mountain. I am happy, but when I see a
hunter I attack him, but when I see a tourist I shout at him".
"I am a dolphin, but I am sad because they have put me into a pool, where I cannot move like before ...".
Activity B
Now, what you can do is get the students to read/tell their story, adding in extra bits as they go along.
Activity C
Now, you can ask them why they chose this animal, and then go on to pick up on what they said, expanding it
into a session of exchanges between the students, involving yourself if you feel like it.
Activity D
Get a blank page and draw a circle in the centre. Then, place the words "animal in captivity" inside the circle.
Give each student a copy of the page and tell them to do an INDIVIDUAL brainstorming exercise on the
words in the circle. That is, get them to draw lines from the circle, each line leading up to a word or image
suggested by the animal's situation. Give them all a few minutes to do this.
This, we can call a word-map, or even a mind-map.
Next, get each student to read out the ideas that came spontaneously into their heads as they thought. You can
all marvel at the number of differences-or similarities that arise, and go on to discuss the matter of captive
animals.
Don't forget to question students on why they put in such and such a thing. Watch out for strange concepts!
Put all the pages together so that the students can somehow see the work carried out by the rest.
Perhaps now, as a group, they could all focus on the main aspects of animals in captivity.
You could then move on to debate issues like endangered species, whale hunting ...
Activity E
(B) TIGERS KILL TOURISTS (B)
Get the students to debate, or role play, the following incident: Two German pensioners alighted from their car
in a Spanish nature park in order to get a better picture (christ!) of the tigers, who were relaxing in the
shade of a tree at the time. They were, bluntly, torn apart. There were signs up in many languages warning
people to stay in their cars ...
Should the animals be put down? Should they be in nature reserves in the first place? Etc
Activity F

Here, you could mention the pros and cons of having a domestic animal-a pet-at home.

Animals, Our Friends

Level: Medium to Difficult
In February of 1998, a Somerset (UK) man was trapped under a fallen van he had been repairing. As he cried
for help and darkness fell it seemed he would be left there all night; his leg had been caught beneath the
wheels.
The area was rather isolated and nobody heard his cries-except a parrot perched on a caravan in a nearby camp
site. The bird mimicked the man's cries, which is apparently normal behaviour for this type of animal, and
alerted two men working in the area. These reversed the van off the injured man, who, in the end, only had
slight injuries.
Activity A
Have you ever been in a similar situation? Has an animal ever helped you in some way?
Activity B
Do you think animals are necessary for humans? Why?
Examples: Company Protection Cosmetic testing .............
Activity C
List the most helpful animals, and why.
Examples:
1 The elephant can transport us and pull trees
2 Dogs keep us company
3 Spiders eat flies
4 Cows give us meat and leather
Activity D
Negative points associated with animals
1 They bite humans
2 They answer the call of nature anywhere
3 They bark and wake us up at night
Activity E
Should we use animals to test drugs and cosmetic products on? If your answer is "no", what way do you
suggest instead? Humans? Robots?
Activity F
When you are at home, studying or watching TV, and you see a fly or a spider, what is your first reaction? Do
you normally kill it? Why?