Animals Unit: Extra ESL Activities for Kids

1. 5min

   1. Warm-up

   Animal riddles: children answer by miming the animal before saying it.

   Animal riddles →
2. 10min

   2. Present

   Animal slides; add the sound and a movement for each animal.

   Animals slides →
3. 10min

   3. Practise

   Can / can't slides, then a quick true-or-false: 'A fish can run!' — children stand up for true.

   Grammar slides: can and can't →
4. 10min

   4. Game

   Memory game in teams; a pair counts only if the team also says what the animal can do.

   Garden of Pairs (memory game): Animals →
5. 10min

   5. Read

   Read the short animal story together; send a worksheet from the pack home.

   Reader: The Cat and the Rat →

Total: 45 minutes

1. 1. Zoo designer

   Pairs draw a zoo map with five animals, then tell another pair where each animal lives.

   Model languageThe lions are next to the café. The snakes are in a big box!

2. 2. Animal 20 questions

   A child picks an animal card. The class asks yes/no questions (Can it…? Is it…?) until someone guesses.

   Model languageCan it jump? — Yes, it can. — Is it green? — Yes! — It's a frog!

3. 3. My pet card

   Children make an ID card for a real or dream pet: name, age, colour, food, and one thing it can do.

   Model languageMy pet is Bubbles. She's a fish. She can swim fast.