Wild Animals, year 3-5

A Theme page with lesson plans and materials about wild animals for elementary level students (A1.2), year 3-5 in Sweden.

Warm-up

Walking In The Jungle | Super Simple Songs - YouTube

Walking In The Jungle | Super Simple Songs – YouTube (3:24)https://youtu.be/GoSq-yZcJ-4“Walking In The Jungle” teaches jungle animals and actions (walking, stomping, jumping, skipping) with some creative play.

Baby Skunk Friend!! (ORIGINAL) - YouTube

Baby Skunk Friend!! (ORIGINAL) – YouTube (2:57)https://youtu.be/Dp7K37uQ3K4Wild animals typically aren’t as awesome as this guy. Walking up and trying to play with wild animals usually won’t end well. Approach wild animals at your own risk, yo!

 

Vocabulary

Wild Animals! Beginner ESL Vocabulary Video for Kids: English for Young Learners - YouTube

Wild Animals! Beginner ESL Vocabulary Video for Kids: English for Young Learners – YouTube (3:24)https://youtu.be/u2ufn1D5-TwCome enjoy Kat Teacher’s Beginner English Vocabulary Videos, today’s video is about Wild Safari Animals! (yr 1-3)

The Kids ABC's At The Zoo - YouTube

The Kids ABC’s At The Zoo – YouTube (3:14)https://youtu.be/iWAtPMsk8_Y

Practise the Alphabet and animal names. You might let the students first brainstorm to find an animal for each letter and then watch the video to fill the gaps.

Let's have fun with English

Let’s have fun with Englishhttp://www.letshavefunwithenglish.com/vocabulary/wild_animals/index.html

Wild Animals 1. Learn vocabulary. 2. Match the words with the pictures. 3. Match the pictures with the sounds. 4. Do the crossword! Forest Animals here

Wild Animals FREE ESL Flashcards

Wild Animals FREE ESL Flashcardshttp://www.teachchildrenesl.com/flashcards/wild-animals/Downloadable flashcards of wild animals – 32 Cards! Full color, bright, 4 per page flashcards. Picture and caption.

Flash cards for children - Wild Animals - YouTube

Flashcards for children – Wild Animals – YouTube (3:58)https://youtu.be/18qbKDryHjMGet introduced to the Wild Animals printed on each of these flashcards. They are some amazing creatures and they deserve your respect.

ESL-Kids - ESL Flashcards | Animals

ESL-Kids – ESL Flashcards | Animalshttp://esl-kids.com/flashcards/animals.htmlESL-Kids.com – ESL stuff for teaching kids including flashcards, worksheets, classroom games, and children’s song lyrics. A great resource for teachers of ESL kids.

 

Songs

Five Little Monkeys | Kidsongs | Best Kids Videos | PBS Kids | 5 Little Monkeys | Counting Songs - YouTube

Five Little Monkeys | Kidsongs | Best Kids Videos | PBS Kids | 5 Little Monkeys | Counting Songs – YouTubehttps://youtu.be/7Pdkha1UIvQ

Five Little Monkeys, one of the all-time most popular Kidsongs videos,!! – A good articulation practice.

Who's In the Zoo | Zoo Songs for Children | Animal Songs for Children | The Kiboomers - YouTube

Who’s In the Zoo | Zoo Songs for Children | Animal Songs for Children | The Kiboomers – YouTubehttps://youtu.be/PMGJIdESlvAThe Kiboomers! Zoo, Zoo, Who is in the Zoo? Zoo animals! Animal Song!- By singing this song the students learn to make a question with “do”.

Bear Rap from Billy Bunny's Animal Songs - YouTube

Bear Rap from Billy Bunny’s Animal Songs – YouTubehttps://youtu.be/ASbR_-j2lJUThis one billy bunny learns how to sing the rap song that the bears sing about.

 

Lesson Plans

Animals Lesson Plan | ESL Lesson Plan Complete With Fun Games And Activities | Games4esl

Animals Lesson Plan | ESL Lesson Plan Complete With Fun Games And Activities | Games4eslhttps://games4esl.com/lesson-plans/animals/ESL Lesson plan to teach animals vocabulary to kids and beginner ESL students. Complete with flashcards, board games, and other ESL classroom activities.

Wild animals | LearnEnglish Teens - British Council

Wild animals | LearnEnglish Teens – British Councilhttps://learnenglishteens.britishcouncil.org/uk-now/video-uk/wild-animalsWhat happens to animals when they get injured? Watch this video about a rescue centre that takes care of all sorts of wild animals. (yr 5-6)

All Things Topics - Animals and Birds - All Things Topics

All Things Topics – Animals and Birds – All Things Topicshttps://www.allthingstopics.com/animals-and-birds.html#FREE printable ESL teaching and learning resources: animals and birds (yr 5-6)

Reading

Bananas for Lunch | StoryPlace

Bananas for Lunch | StoryPlacehttps://www.storyplace.org/story/bananas-lunchBananas for Lunch MONKEYS: ONLINE STORY Readers’ favourite (yr 3)

Reading games and stories with Roy the zebra

Reading games and stories with Roy the zebrahttps://www.roythezebra.comReading games and guided reading stories made just for your iPads, laptops, and PCs, and Macs, wonderful to use in the classroom. (yr 3-4)

Is it a bird? - Voyager October 2018

Is it a bird? – Voyager October 2018https://explorer-mag.nationalgeographic.org/voyager_october_2018/is_it_a_birdExplore Wildlife cardinal All birds have wings. All birds have feathers. All birds have beaks.  – Read this article about Is it a bird? in Voyager October 2018 (yr 3-4)

English abc animals for kids | Fun facts

English abc animals for kids | Fun factshttp://www.anglomaniacy.pl/animals-facts.htm

Did you know that some whales sing or that camels are born without a hump? Here you will find some amazing facts about your favourite creatures. Learning about animals is great fun!

Gophers 101 | ESL Video

Gophers 101 | ESL Video (1:47)https://eslvideo.com/quiz.php?id=36346Reading about gophers. Comparative. Choral reading.

Fun Animal Facts for Kids - Crazy, Cool, Funny, Amazing, Interesting

Fun Animal Facts for Kids – Crazy, Cool, Funny, Amazing, Interestinghttps://www.sciencekids.co.nz/sciencefacts/animals.htmlCrazy, cool, strange, weird, odd and funny information as well as did you know facts and other interesting animal info

Animal List and Profiles

Animal List and Profileshttps://switchzoo.com/animallist.htmThese animals inhabit Switch Zoo – in alphabetical order – Click any name to read the animal’s profile.

A to Z Index of Animals - A-Z Animals

A to Z Index of Animals – A-Z Animalshttps://a-z-animals.com/animals/A-Z animal listings organised alphabetically. A-Z Animals, an online animal encyclopedia where you can learn about all your favourite animals, and even some you may have never heard of!

Animalia - all you want to know about animals

Animalia – all you want to know about animalshttp://animalia.bio/Online Animal Encyclopedia with many curiosities you have never heard of

Species | Protecting Wildlife | World Wildlife Fund

Species | Protecting Wildlife | World Wildlife Fundhttps://www.worldwildlife.org/speciesWorld Wildlife Fund is committed to endangered species protection. See how we are ensuring that the world our children inherit will be home to the same species.

Animal Kingdom Kids | Britannica Kids

Animal Kingdom Kids | Britannica Kidshttps://kids.britannica.com/kids/browse/animalsClick on a group to learn about the different types of animals that are related to each other. To find out more about how scientists place animals in groups, read the article called biological classification.

Dolphins

Dolphinshttps://webenglish.se/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/dolphins.pdfA Reading Comprehension Text about Dolphins. By Outi Frisk/WebEnglish.se (yr 5-6)

 

Listening

Jeff's Alpacas | ESL Video

Jeff’s Alpacas | ESL Videohttps://eslvideo.com/quiz.php?id=33780Quiz and activity to practice the simple present tense. (yr 3)

Working at a rescue centre for wild animals | ESL Video

Working at a rescue centre for wild animals | ESL Video (3:48)https://eslvideo.com/quiz.php?id=18545Rescuing wild animals. A video with a listening comprehension quiz (yr 5-6)

 

Viewing

What did you see: Learn English (IND) with subtitles - Story for Children

What did you see: Learn English (IND) with subtitles – Story for Children “BookBox.com” – YouTube (2:37)https://youtu.be/XpqFAX6vRlM

Amma is surprised that Meera has seen no animals at the zoo – not a monkey, or lion, or even a giraffe.

Learn The Value of Friendship | Moral Stories | Learn English (US) with

Learn The Value of Friendship | Moral Stories | Learn English (US) with “BookBox” – YouTube (6:24)https://youtu.be/lcwT3sdW960

Four friends: a deer, a tortoise, a crow, and a mouse are worried about the hunter’s traps. The story is read slowly and clearly with captions on the screen.

Keep Wild Animals Wild Chapter 1- AAE 2015 - YouTube

Keep Wild Animals Wild Chapter 1- AAE 2015 – YouTube (10:50)https://youtu.be/L3UXcaKoSVIIntrocution to Wild Animals from IFAW – International Fund For Animal Welfare

Andy's Wild Adventures| Show |CBeebies Global

Andy’s Wild Adventures| Show |CBeebies Globalhttp://global.cbeebies.com/shows/andys-wild-adventuresAndy’s Wild Adventures show from CBeebies including several videos and songs

The 25 Most Dangerous Animals In The World - YouTube

The 25 Most Dangerous Animals In The World – YouTube (2:13)https://youtu.be/FFdtRiOG2jYThe 25 Most Dangerous Animals In The World – Let the students guess what the most dangerous animal is before watching this.

 

Writing

Describing Animals.wmv - YouTube

Describing Animals.wmv – YouTube (4:22)https://youtu.be/WQ1riOh0y8MLearn to describe animals. Use the students’ descriptions as a guessing game.

Karl Pilkington The Ultimate Animal HD - YouTube

Karl Pilkington The Ultimate Animal HD – YouTube (11:41)https://youtu.be/MVAfMOIyaLYKarl describes his ultimate animal. Let students come up with their own Ultimate Animal and describe it. See also Make and Play below

Nightzoo - THE LITERACY SHED

Nightzoo – THE LITERACY SHEDhttps://www.literacyshed.com/nightzoo.html

​This is the first video in a storytelling series produced by  Night Zookeeper. Each video takes children through the process of writing a great story.  ​

 

Interactive

Wild animals | LearnEnglish Kids - British Council

Wild animals | LearnEnglish Kids – British Councilhttps://learnenglishkids.britishcouncil.org/en/category/topics/wild-animals© British Council The United Kingdom’s  – Several interactive activities with wild animals

ESL - English Exercises: Wild Animals 1 - Writing

ESL – English Exercises: Wild Animals 1 – Writinghttps://www.englishexercises.org/exercise.asp?id=1120English teaching exercises: animals  Welcome to English Exercises .org. Here you will find thousands of Online Exercises made by English Language teachers from all over the world.

Make and Play

Make and Playhttps://switchzoo.com/make_play.htmSwitch the animals’ heads, legs, and tails to make your own new creatures! Switch Zoo has 142 natural species in nine habitats.

Wild animals interactive word search

Wild animals interactive word searchhttps://www.eslgamesplus.com/wild-animals-interactive-word-search/

This interactive ESL word search puzzle will help you practice spelling words related to wild animals or zoo animals. Solve this vocabulary word search online using the pictures as clues. Check the…

 

Games

Animals ESL Games & Activities | Animals ESL Lesson Plan Ideas

Animals ESL Games & Activities | Animals ESL Lesson Plan Ideashttps://eslspeaking.org/esl-animal-activities/Check out the top 20 ESL animal activities and games, along with worksheets, lesson plans and other recommendations for teaching English.

More Materials

Wild Animals Activities and Lesson Plans for Pre-K and Preschool - PreKinders

Wild Animals Activities and Lesson Plans – PreKindershttps://www.prekinders.com/category/themes/wild-animals/Glad you’re here! You’ll find hands-on learning activities, themes, and printables for kids.

International Fund for Animal Welfare | IFAW

 

Final Words

You Are A Human Animal | Mickey Mouse Club - YouTube

You Are A Human Animal | Mickey Mouse Club – YouTube (1:45)https://youtu.be/t6nekgzaa5IThe only thinking animal who can think, who can reason, who believe? Listen.

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