Zoo animals Move Flashcards.

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Teach your learners about how the zoo animals move and review the vocabulary related to the locomotion expanding their language skills.

Perfect for introducing or reviewing the verbs. Write a verb under each flashcard to show what each zoo animal is moving. Encourage the ELLs to observe and describe how the animals move in each flashcard.

Then, place two flashcards on the board. Ask the students what the animals are doing. Write the verb and ask questions.
Teacher: Can the bear climb trees?
Students: Yes, it can.
Teacher: Can the elephant climb trees?
Students: No, it can´t.

Sort what the animals can do using the flashcards: walk. Gorilla, monkey, hippo and ostrich!

Animals have same abilities. Sort them out.
Teacher: Which animals can climb?
Students: the monkey, the bear.

Some zoo animals can fly. Write the words can fly and have the students guess which animals can do the action, as they do it themselves in a mime.

Or create a sorting table on the board and students can come up t place the flashcards to the corresponding verb.

Integrate the animal movement with the physical education activities. Have the students imitate the movement of the animals on each card. Use my movement verb table.

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Zoo animals have a body

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Place a zoo animal flashcard on the board and write the parts of the body.
Hand in more flashcards and have the students do the same using your model.
Have the students say which body parts are similar to a person and which are different.
Teacher: Which body parts are similar to ours?
Students: eye, nose, mouth, ear, leg!
Teacher: Which body parts are different to ours?
Students: whiskers, fur, paw, tail!

Then place 2 flashcards, write the body parts, the similar ones in one color and the different ones in another. Talk about the difference between the animals. I suggest you read a little before doing this and use my research table and complete it even more.
Teacher: Which body parts are the same?
Students: head, eye, ears, legs, feet, tail, claws!
Teacher: yes! But, Which head is bigger?
Students: The bear´s head is bigger.
Teacher: Which body parts are different?
Students: fur, feathers, snout, beak!
Teacher: yes! But, Which animal has fur?
Students: The bear has fur.
And continue with more questions!

Write body parts words and have the students sort the zoo animal flashcards by their characteristics, such as tails, beak, horn, stripes, scales.
Animals have similar and different body parts. Have the students sort out the flashcards depending on a body part.
Teacher: Which animals have tails?
Students: Lions, monkeys, kangaroo!
 

Sort the animals by the tail using the adjectives long and short to describe the tail of the animals: The monkey has a long tail. The penguin has a short tail.

Sort the zoo animals by the length of the arms.

Sort the zoo animals by the size of the ears.

Draw a Venn Diagram on the board, have the students understand what it is for. Compare any two animals that you want. I made an example. Students should give you details of what they observe that are different between them and what is the same or common.

Place the animal flashcards on the board in random order. Have the students order them by size.
Ask questions:
Teacher: Which is the first animal?
Students: The elephant.
Teacher: Which is the second animal?
Students: The giraffe.
Teacher: Which animal comes next?
Students: The camel.

Cut the animal flashcards in 2 or in 4.  I made these without borders or words. Hand them out randomly. Have the students stand up and walk around asking the classmates for the match to complete the card.

Student: Do you have the camel ?

Cut the body parts in each animal flashcard.

Set up a table on the board with only the body part word. Have the students come up and place each body part under each word.

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Zoo animals Flashcards for Elementary English Language Learners

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Teaching the zoo unit provides a real-world context that is relevant to children's lives. The theme is across the science subjects. Many students might have been to a zoo and it will be fun to know their experiences.

Write the word zoo on the board and ask students the name of zoo animals they know. Start putting them on the board as they say the word as in a mind map.

Teacher: There is a bear in the zoo.

Have students make similar sentences.

Model demonstrative sentences using the zoo animals for describing.

Teacher: This is an elephant. It’s gray.

Students: This is a lion. It’s brown.

Place the flashcards on the board and write a number next to it. Ask questions: What is number 2?
Students: It’s a monkey!
Teacher: What color is number three?
Students: orange!
Teacher: is number five an elephant?
Students: Yes, it is.
Teacher: is number two a bear?
Students: No, it isn’t. It’s a, monkey.

 

 activity: Run to the card. Place all the flashcards on the board in random order and disorganized. Divide the class into two or more teams. Call out an animal. The first student to touch with a pencil or pen the correct one wins a point for the team.

activity: Listen and stand up! Distribute all the flashcards to all the students, you can even give out more than one. Call out an animal and the student who has it must stand up and say the word. That student 
can´t sit down again. Play until there is one student left, who is the winner.

Animals come in groups and use it for reviewing plurals.  Write a number next to each flashcard. Ask questions: Look at flashcard number 2. What are they?
Students: They’re kangaroos!
Look at flashcard number 3. Are they lions?
Students: Yes, they are.
Look at flashcard number 4. Are they zebras?
Students: No, they aren’t.

Play Yes or No! Print and have ready the puppets. One per group or for each child. Students can also make their own puppets by gluing the cards onto wooden sticks of your preference.

You can ask questions: Is this a penguin?

 and the students will show the corresponding card puppet and say: 

Yes, it is !

As a variation, say statements like: This is a green penguin!

Use the puppets with any unit or theme.

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Learner Centered Teaching for Kindergarten EFL

"Student-centered learning, also known as learner-centered education, broadly encompasses methods of teaching that shift the focus of instruction from the teacher to the student". Wikipedia

                Students are the focus of our lesson plan.

Hands on activities for reviewing the unit is a lot more fun than just watching a video over and over again. I always have several games available for each unit to give students the chance to pick ones they want to play as the wrap of the lesson.

For example, for the Circus unit here are four games that students can play alone or with a partner. Just walk around and give guidance.

Students learn at their own pace, give them time to acquire the new language. Give multiple opportunities to learn with different materials with active participation.Plan different activities for the different levels that you might have in your class. For example, the worksheets can be done by themselves following simple instructions using their imagination and creativity.

Some students might want to do even more with the animal’s face and cut it up. There is space for students that are more advanced in the same classroom and would like to do more things. I am just providing an example.

Engage students into projects or crafts to enhance creativity. Students can color or design the clothes to put on each character. They get to choose the color of each clothing and how they want to dress them.

I am sure that you can think of more ideas and activities for teaching your students by keeping them as the focus of learning.

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