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WORKSHEETS, ACTIVITIE S & GA ME S Animal Races

Activity Type Introduction

Listening, speaking and In this animal vocabulary quiz game, students race to draw a
drawing activity, group picture of an animal by answering quiz questions correctly.
work
Procedure
Focus Divide the students into groups of four. Give each group a set of
animal quiz question cards and a set of body part cards. Ask the
Animal vocabulary
students to shuffle each set of cards separately and place them
Animal quiz questions face down on the table in two piles.

Next, split each group into two teams of two. Give each team a
Aim piece of paper.

To race to draw a Then, write the body parts from the cards on the board: a body, four
picture of an animal by legs, a tail, a neck, a head, two eyes, two ears, a nose, and a mouth.
answering quiz questions
correctly. Explain that the aim of the game is to complete a drawing of a
chosen animal by answering quiz questions correctly. The first team
to complete their drawing wins the game.
Preparation
Make one copy of the The catch is that the body must be drawn first. Teams must also
animal quiz question draw the neck before they draw the head, so each body part needs
cards and body part to connect to the drawing. Otherwise, teams can't draw it. If need
cards for each group of be, demonstrate by drawing the body parts in order on the board.
four and cut as indicated.
Keep the two sets of Once the teams understand the rules, they each choose an animal
cards separate. they want to draw that has all the body parts on the board, e.g.
a dog. The teams then take it in turns to turn over a quiz question
from the pile and read it to the other team, e.g. 'What animal is
Level very big?' The other team then gives their answer, e.g. a whale.

Elementary (A1-A2) If the answer is acceptable, the team who answered turns over a
body part card. If it shows a body, they draw the body of their
chosen animal on the paper. The two cards are then placed back at
Time the bottom of the piles.
35 minutes
If a team turns over a body part that doesn't connect with their
drawing, play passes to the other team.

The game continues in this way until one team completes their animal
drawing and wins the game. You can have the teams play several
rounds using different answers and drawing different animals each
time.

Afterwards, have a class quiz using the questions. Keep the students
in their groups of four. Read each animal quiz question aloud. The first
group to answer appropriately scores a point. (Each quiz question
has more than one possible answer.) The group with the most points
at the end of the game wins.

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WORKSHEETS, ACTIVITIE S & GA ME S Animal Races

What animal is very big? What animal is very slow?

What animal is very small? What animal can swim?

What animal can jump? What animal can fly?

What animal can run very fast? What animal has fur?

What animal has scales? What animal has feathers?

What animal eats meat? What animal eats grass?

What animal eats bamboo? What animal eats fruit?

What animal eats fish? What animal eats leaves?

What animal lives underground? What animal lives on a farm?

What animal lives in a forest? What animal lives in a jungle?

What animal lives in the water? What animal lives in the Arctic?

What animal lives in a tree? What animal has two legs?

What animal has four legs? What animal hasn't got any legs?

What animal has horns? What animal has long legs?

What animal has a tail? What animal looks very scary?

What animal looks cute? What animal is dangerous?

What animal is striped? What animal is colourful?

What animal is white? What animal is black?

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 ANIMALS

WORKSHEETS, ACTIVITIE S & GA ME S Animal Races

a body a body

a head a head

a neck a neck

two eyes two eyes

four legs four legs

a tail a tail

two ears two ears

a nose a nose

a mouth a mouth

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