Printable Worksheets to Learn Animals Vocabulary

I spent a couple of months to create my currently biggest kit of printable worksheets, flashcards and games dedicated to one of the major topics ESL teachers introduce to kids starting from the kindergarten age. The topic is animals.

Buy the whole animals kit in printer-friendly PDF format
The kit includes flashcards, 4 types of worksheets, dominoes and bingo game

I have already published my songs about animals (such as Arctic Animals Song, Forest Animals Song, and Sea Animals Song) along with some printable worksheets, clip arts and other teaching materials. A lot of my printables such as letter tracing worksheets and coloring pages feature animals. It is never enough animals when teaching English to kids. There are so many children’s books, songs, movies and other entertainment and educational stuff featuring animals that those creatures became the number one topic whenever an educator wants to teach kids something. And young students truly love animals. Who doesn’t really? Animals are fun! If you want a kid to memorize something for as long as possible, make sure to involve a cute and fluffy creature into the learning process. Use pictures of animals, books and songs about them, animal puppets or even bring a small pet to the classroom. Lots of positive emotions and thus enhanced memory are guaranteed whenever animals are involved for educating kids.

No wonder educators and parents start teaching English (or any other foreign language for that matter) to children with introducing names of animals. Learning those names paves the way for further mastering of the language. Animals being adorable and useful, people generate a lot of content around them starting from folklore to colorful encyclopedias and nature shows. Therefore the animals topic may stretch from basic animal names spelling exercises all the way to advanced discussions of animal protagonist books and movies as well as writing essays on endangered species and other wildlife issues of the modern world.

So my animals kit offers English teachers the following printable materials to introduce and help kids memorize 116 animal names in English:

• matching worksheets: word to picture matching (23 worksheets including 4 for British English vocabulary)
• matching worksheets: picture to word matching (31 worksheets including 4 for British English vocabulary)
• animal crosswords (20 worksheets including 4 for British English vocabulary)
• animal word search worksheets (20 worksheets including 4 for British English vocabulary)
• animal flashcards (135 flashcards including some British English variations)
• animal domino game (162 domino cards including some British English variations)
• animal bingo game (62 bingo cards with cut-out chips and word cards)

The printable kit features 116 animals of different types. The vocabulary includes the following animals:

• pets: cat, dog, fish, guinea pig, hamster, parrot, rabbit, tortoise, turtle;
• domestic and farm animals: bee, bull, chick, cow, donkey, duck, goat, goose, hen, horse, pig, rabbit, ram, rooster (UK: cockerel), sheep, turkey, yak;
• polar animals: arctic fox, narwhal, orca (killer whale), penguin, polar bear, seal, snowy owl, walrus;
• sea animals: clam, crab, dolphin, fish, jellyfish, lobster, narwhal, octopus, orca, pelican, penguin , sea urchin, seagull, seahorse, seal, shark, shrimp (UK: prawn), squid, starfish, stingray, turtle, walrus, whale;
• African animals: antelope, camel, cheetah, crocodile, elephant, giraffe, gorilla , hippo, hyena, lion, meerkat, monkey, ostrich, rhinoceros, zebra;
• Australian animals: echidna, emu, kangaroo, kiwi, koala, platypus (duckbill), wombat;
• jungle and forest animals: anteater, bat, bear, beaver, deer, fox, hedgehog, moose, mouse, panda, raccoon, rat, skunk, sloth, squirrel, tiger, wolf;
• reptiles and amphibians: chameleon, crocodile / alligator, dinosaur, frog, lizard, snake, tortoise, turtle;
• birds: chick, dove, duck, eagle, emu, flamingo, goose, kiwi, ostrich, owl, parrot, peacock, pelican, penguin, rooster (UK: cockerel), seagull, snowy owl, swan, turkey, vulture;
• insects, gastropods, worms: ant, bee, beetle, butterfly, caterpillar, centipede, cockroach, dragonfly, fly, grasshopper, ladybug (UK: ladybird), mosquito, scorpion, snail, spider, worm.

I will be publishing some of my printable animal worksheets, flashcards and games in my blog. All the materials published in this blog are available to educators to use for free. ESL and EFL teachers are also welcome to purchase the whole premium kit that includes hundreds of printable worksheets and cards of higher resolution. The premium kit of printer friendly as all the worksheets, games and flashcards are sorted in individual PDF documents.

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