Animals ESL Games, Activities and Worksheets
Animal Antics

ESL Animal Vocabulary Games - Vocabulary: Matching, Miming, Guessing - Group Work
Here are two free animal vocabulary games that students can play to learn the names of animals. Students begin by playing a pelmanism game where they match the names of animals to pictures. In groups, students take turns turning over...
Animal Families

ESL Animals Game - Vocabulary and Speaking: Categorising, Forming Sentences, Freer Practice - Group Work
In this fun animals game, students categorise animals according to certain criteria and play a card game where they collect sets of animals belonging to different categories. First, students look at animal...
Guess the Animal

ESL Animals Game - Vocabulary: Asking and Answering Questions, Guessing, Freer Practice - Group Work
In this animal vocabulary guessing game, students ask yes/no questions in order to guess the names of animals. In groups, students take turns picking up a card. The card shows the animal name...
On the Farm

ESL Farm Animals Game - Vocabulary and Speaking: Asking and Answering Questions, Guessing, Freer Practice - Pair Work
In this rewarding farm animals game, students ask present simple yes/no questions to determine which farm animals are behind numbered squares. The aim of the game is for one student to arrange...
The Pet Parade

ESL Animals Worksheet - Vocabulary Exercises: Matching, Identifying, Gap-fill, Listing, Binary Choice, Ranking, Comparing, Answering Questions
In this handy pets worksheet, students practice animal and pet-related vocabulary. To begin, students match pets with their descriptions. Students then...
What's this animal?

ESL Animals Game - Vocabulary: Matching - Group Work
In this enjoyable animal vocabulary game, students play bingo by matching the names of animals to pictures. In groups, students take it in turns to turn over a picture card and say 'What's this animal?' All the students then look at their bingo cards to find...
Animal Crossword

ESL Animals Crossword - Vocabulary Activity: Writing Clues, Describing, Guessing - Pair Work
In this useful animal crossword activity, students complete a crossword by describing and guessing different animals. In two groups, students invent and write down clues for the animals on their crossword...
Animal Quiz Board Game

ESL Animals Board Game - Speaking: Writing, Asking and Answering Quiz Questions - Group Work
In this free animals board game, students practice writing, asking and answering animal quiz questions. After creating some animal quiz questions to include in the game, the student on the right of the...
Animal Races

ESL Animal Vocabulary Game - Vocabulary: Answering Quiz Questions, Drawing - Group Work
In these two engaging animal vocabulary games, students answer quiz questions about animals. In the first game, students complete an animal drawing by answering animal quiz questions correctly. The...
What Animal Am I?

ESL Animals Guessing Game - Vocabulary and Speaking: Asking and Answering Questions, Guessing, Freer Practice - Group Work
In this creative animals guessing game, students play a 20 questions style game where they have to find out what animal they are by asking yes/no questions...
Animal Scramble

ESL Animals Game - Reading and Vocabulary: Matching, True or False, Guessing - Pair Work
Here is an entertaining two-part animals game to help students practice vocabulary related to animals. First, teams race to form sentences about animals from cards. Teams line up sentence beginning cards...
Awesome Animals

ESL Animals Worksheet - Vocabulary and Writing Exercises: Unscrambling, Matching, Categorising, Sentence Completion, Gap-fill, True or False, Guessing - Pair Work
In this comprehensive animals worksheet, students practice vocabulary that can be used to describe animals. To start, students unscramble letters to form...
Animal Trivia Challenge

ESL Animals Quiz - Vocabulary Activity: Gap-fill, Multiple-Choice Quiz, Guessing - Group and Pair Work
Here is an interesting animals quiz to help students practice vocabulary related to animals. First, in two groups, students complete animal trivia questions by choosing one of the words in brackets...
Describing Animals

ESL Describing Animals Worksheet - Vocabulary Exercises: Categorising, Gap-fill, Unscrambling, Writing Sentences
In this productive describing animals worksheet, students practice describing various animals using adjectives and nouns. Students start by reading a paragraph and categorising words in the...