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ESL / EFL RESOURCES Animal Quiz Board Game

Activity Type Introduction

Reading, writing, In this entertaining board game, students practice asking and
listening and speaking answering quiz questions about animals.
activity, group work
Procedure
Language Focus Tell the students that they are going to play a quiz game about
animals, but first they need to create some quiz questions of their
Animals
own to include in the game.

Divide the class into four groups. Give each student a piece of
Aim
paper.
To ask and answer
questions about animals. Working together with the people in their group, students create
ten animal quiz questions (with answers) and write them on their
paper.
Preparation
As the students are writing, go around helping as necessary.
Make one copy of the
game board and quiz
When the students have finished, ask them to make groups of
question cards for each
four, comprising of one student from each group.
group of four. Cut the
cards out as indicated.
Give each group of four a copy of the game board, a set of quiz
Also, provide a dice and
question cards, some counters and a dice.
counters for each group.
Ask the students to shuffle the quiz question cards and place them
Level face down in a pile on the game board.

Pre-intermediate Players then take it in turns to roll the dice and move their counter
along the board.

Time When a player lands on a question mark square, the student to

35 minutes their right picks up a quiz question card from the pile and asks the
player the question on the card.

If the player answers the question correctly, they stay on the square.

If the player gives a wrong answer, they must move back to their
previous square.

The student asking the question then puts the quiz question card
back at the bottom of the pile.

If a player lands on an animal picture square, the student on their

right asks the player one of the quiz questions they created.

The first player to reach the finish wins the game.

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ESL / EFL RESOURCES Animal Quiz Board Game

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Move
ahead 4
spaces

Go back
3
spaces

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back! ?
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spaces

Oh no,
go back
to the Finish!
start!

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Quiz question cards

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Go back
Miss
a turn
2 Start
spaces

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 ANIMALS

ESL / EFL RESOURCES Animal Quiz Board Game

A 'doe' is what kind of Is a shark a fish or a What is the tallest How many legs does
animal? mammal? animal in the world? a spider have?

a female deer a fish the giraffe eight

True or false? Bats What is a baby What is a female True or false:

are mammals. kangaroo called? elephant called? Hummingbirds can fly
backwards?

true a joey a cow true

How many pairs of What is the fastest True or false? Mice What is the largest
wings does a bee land animal in the live for up to type of 'big cat' in the
have? world? 10 years. world?

two the cheetah false the tiger

What type of animal Where are a What does a What is the name of
does not have a grasshopper's ears caterpillar change the longest snake in
backbone? located? into? the world?

invertebrates on it's knees a butterfly the python

Can an ostrich fly? What is a herbivore? What is a barracuda? Do seahorses have

teeth?

an animal that eats

no plants a fish no

What is a beaver's What do carnivores What type of animal What is the biggest
home called? eat? are colts and fillies? animal in the world?

a lodge meat horses the blue whale

What food do Panda What do tadpoles Do camels store Can fish close their
bears eat? change into? water in their humps? eyes?

No, their humps are

bamboo frogs full of fat no

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