Zoo animals Worksheets

 This resource is included in the Zoo Animals for EFL.Useful for English Teachers at Elementary Schools.  Click here:

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The zoo animal worksheets can be used: as a review, to reinforce previous units or themes such as the body. Assess the understanding of the new vocabulary and the structures. Identify student’s progress and check what to provide extra practice.

Read, Color, and Complete Activities

There are two worksheets with a combination of reading, coloring and completing with the words to give meaning to the text. The animal on the worksheet will help ELLs to grasp the meaning to complete sentences.

Use Guided Questions with Worksheets

Make a pointer to show the important aspects to complete on the worksheet. You can also use the pointer to ask questions: What's number 1?

Vocabulary Practice Worksheets

There is a set of many vocabulary worksheets with a variety of activities.

Check matching the word to the pictures.

Match Words to Pictures

Find fill-in-the-vowel and a zoo animal word search to keep your students interested and to aid to the different learning styles that we usually have in class.

Label the different parts of the body 

Write About Zoo Animals

Writing short paragraph worksheets with facts for each zoo animal. Students write a short description of the animals on each worksheet.

Review What Animals Eat

This is a worksheet to review what zoo animals eat. Use the guide that comes in the resource. Check the activities for the zoo animals eat:   https://eflelementaryresources.blogspot.com/2024/04/zoo-animals-eat-activity.html

Zoo animal worksheets to challenge the students to construct grammatically correct answers.

Using zoo animals small cards is a simple and effective way to help elementary ESL students practice vocabulary through hands-on activities. Go to this blog post:   https://eflelementaryresources.blogspot.com/2024/04/zoo-animals-small-cards.html 

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Zoo animals Small Cards

 This resource is included in the Zoo Animals for EFL. Elementary English Specialist Teacher can find this resource useful. Click here:

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Playing with the small cards will have the students master the sense of progress. They can add as many cards with the zoo animals as they wish. These small cards serve as a visual aid. Easy to associate the zoo animal word to the picture. Use the cards in your lesson plan for elementary ESL.

Use Small Cards to Practice Zoo Animals Vocabulary

Print and cut the cards that you will need. There are more than 50 animals to choose from.

Capture your learners' interest and motivation with this simply easy game. Cut the word out of each small card and have the student match the picture to the word. It would be fun to do in small groups helping ELLs remember the new vocabulary.

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Sorting the zoo animals based on their characteristics.

 This exposure will build a more diverse and rich vocabulary use for your learners. The sorting will be into long/short legs, long/short arms, long/short tail, big/small ears.

Print the labels for the fries’ containers that you have previuusy gathered. Glue onto the containers and open them up for the activity.

Sorting activities are great for language practice, as students need to communicate their reasoning for why they sorted the zoo animals based on their physical characteristics.

 This promotes speaking and listening skills, as well as vocabulary usage when the students discuss where to put the small card. Here is an example of long tools and short tail.

 Students: The lion has a long tail. The rhino has a short tail.

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Sorting activities can be easily adapted to meet the diverse needs of ELLs in the classroom. Pair students accordingly to have a fun and smooth game.

Student1: The gibbon has long arms.
Student 2: the racoon has small arms.

Provide clear instructions and model the sorting processes.
Teacher: The rhino has short legs!
The flamingo has long legs.

Sort the zoo animals printables with ears into big and small.

Finally, give feedback to your students about their sorting choices.

Here’s the sorting into long or short tails.

Why Use Small Cards in ESL Lessons?

Small cards are effective because they are easy for students to manipulate and use in interactive activities. They help reinforce vocabulary through repetition, movement, and visual support, which improves retention and engagement.

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Zoo animals Eat Activity

 This resource is included in the Zoo Animals for EFL. Click here: 

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Learning about zoo animals and their eating habits makes English learners review the vocabulary related to animals, food, and eating behaviors. This can be included into the prioduction parts of the lesson plan in english.

Introduce What Zoo Animals Eat

There is a set of small cards in color for making a sorting activity. Includes the animals and the food.Students learn to associate each animal with its food.

Sorting What Zoo Animals Eat

Exploring how zoo animals eat provides English learners the opportunity to describe their observations on what and how the animal’s eating habits.             I used a pizza box as a sorting mat.

Place the animal cards on the top line of the box and then have the students place what the animals eat cards under each animal.

 You can also have the learners sort the cards into carnivores, omnivores and herbivores

Match Animals to Their Food Worksheets

Teaching English learners about zoo animals incorporates elements of science enhancing their overall knowledge and understanding of the natural world. Use the set of worksheets to do their own sorting mat for these animals.

Exploring how zoo animals eat can stimulate critical thinking as they start coloring and gluing the cards on the cardboard. It can be an individual lesson or a group activity.If your students created one, please show me!

And find here a list of what zoo animals eat.

Build what zoo Animals eat using flashcards

Print and display the cards to introduce the vocabulary related to what food animals eat. Place several flashcards on the board.
Teacher: What is number 1?
Students: It´s a giraffe.
Teacher: What does the giraffe eat? (Have the students guess and say what they know even if in the native language)
Then, start placing the food cards.
Teacher: The giraffes eat leaves, twigs and fruit. (Emphasize leaves, twigs, fruit).   Continue with the other flashcards.

Place the food cards and have the students place the common animals that eat that food.

Sort the food that the animals eat. Have the students make and write sentences. Give examples.

Teacher: The kangaroo and the elephant eat grass. They don´t eat fish.

Use the cards to review countable and uncountable nouns related to the food the zoo animals eat.

                                       

This zoo animals printable folded book is a simple activity to help elementary ESL students practice vocabulary, reading, and writing.Go to this blog post: 

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Zoo animals Move Flashcards.

 This resource is included in the Zoo Animals for EFL. Click here:

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Teaching zoo animals movement vocabulary helps elementary ESL students learn action verbs in a fun and interactive way. Using flashcards, students can practice verbs like walk, jump, swim, and fly while participating in engaging activities.

Introduce How Zoo Animals Move

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

Practice Movement Verbs with Questions

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.

“CAN” STRUCTURE

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.

MOVEMENT GAME

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.

Follow Commands with Animal Movements

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.

This giraffe-themed numbers resource gives teachers a visual, engaging, and ESL-friendly way to help students understand numbers 1–20 while building confidence in counting and speaking, all in the zoo unit pack. Go to this blog post:   https://eflelementaryresources.blogspot.com/2025/03/giraffes-numbers-1-to-20-for-elementary.html 

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