A selection of English ESL animals printables with board game, speaking practice

Board game

Animals

Culture, intercultural communication, cross-cultural communication

Adjectives to describe feelings, emotions

Adjectives to describe personality and character

Adjectives: Gradable / Non-gradable adjectives

Articles: Definite or indefinite article (a, an or the)

BE + infinitive structures (e.g. he was to become famous)

Clauses of contrast (e.g.  although, while)

Clauses of purpose (e.g. in order to, so that, so as to)

Clauses of reason (e.g. because, because of, due to, as, since)

Cleft sentences (e.g. It's Joey we're looking for)

Comparison: Comparative adjectives and structures

Comparison: Superlative adjectives and structures

Conditional 2 (second conditional) - would

Conditionals: Conditional phrases (e.g. unless, provided that, as long as)

Conjunctions (aka connectives, e.g. and, but, or, so, then)

Contractions (shortened forms, e.g. don't, aren't, etc.)

Determiners (words that can come before nouns)

Formal and informal English (politeness or colloquial language)

Future perfect continuous (progressive) tense

Future perfect simple and continuous (progressive) tense

Future phrases (e.g. be about to, bound to, likely to, due to, set to + INF)

Homonyms (two words with the same pronunciation - homophones and homographs)

It as preparatory subject (e.g. it's raining, it's nice of you to)

Linking verbs (aka copulas, e.g. I am a student)

For personal or classroom use only. Uploading on other internet sharing platforms or any commercial use NOT PERMITTED. Share Alike.

Creative Commons Attribution Share Alike License

Creative Commons Attribution No Derivatives License

Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License

Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial Share Alike License

Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial No Derivatives License

how to accuse somebody of something in English

how to apologize, say sorry, forgive and express regret in English

how to ask for information and make inquiries in English

how to ask for something, make requests in English

how to blame somebody for something in English

how to defend yourself from criticism in English

how to deny or admit something in English

how to describe things or people in English

how to emphasize important things in English

how to encourage or discourage people in English

how to evaluate people or progress in English

how to express agreement /disagreement in English

how to express approval and disapproval  in English

how to express cause and effect in English

how to express interest in something in English

how to express likelihood, probability in English

how to express likes and dislikes in English

how to express sequence and chronology in English

how to express shock and disbelief in English

how to express sympathy and condolences in English

how to give permission, authorization in English

how to inform somebody about some news in English

how to interpret what was said in English

how to keep a conversation going in English

how to make guesses about something in English

how to make, accept and refuse offers in English

how to order or make a booking in English

how to persuade, convince people in English

how to praise people and express appreciation in English

how to reassure somebody of something in English

how to refuse and object to something in English

how to remind people of something in English

how to rephrase, paraphrase what was said in English

how to say thank you, express gratitude in English

Nouns: Collective nouns (team, class, family, committee)

Nouns: Proper nouns (names of people, cities, companies)

Oxymorons (phrases with words of contradictory meaning, e.g. living dead)

Participles: Past participle (e.g. HAVING DONE)

Participles: Present participle (e.g. DOING)

Parts of Speech (aka word classes, e.g. nouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs)

Past perfect continuous (progressive) tense

Phonetics (pronunciation, IPA, phonetic symbols)

Plural nouns: regular plurals with S ending

Prefixes (e.g. A, UN, IM, DIS, MIS, EN, etc. )

Prepositions vs adverbs (e.g. before me, saw him before.)

Prepositions: Double prepositions (e.g. out of)

Prepositions: Participle prepositions (e.g. pending, concerning)

Prepositions: Phrase prepositions (e.g. by means of)

Present perfect continuous (progressive) tense

Present perfect simple or present continuous tense

Present simple tense: S for third person singular verbs

Present simple vs continuous (progressive) tense

Pronouns: EACH OTHER, ONE ANOTHER (reciprocal pronouns)

Pronouns: Possessive pronouns (e.g. my, mine)

Pronouns: Reflexive pronouns (e.g. myself, yourself))

Pronouns: SOMEBODY, ANYBODY, EVERYBODY, NO ONE, NOTHING, etc.

Pronouns: THIS, THAT, THESE, THOSE (demonstratives)

Pronouns: YOU and THEY to talk about people in general

Quantifiers (e.g. some, many, much, any, few, little)

Questions: WH questions (open-ended questions)

Reported speech: reported questions (indirect questions)

There is / there are / there was / there were / there will be, etc.

Verbs: Transitive or intransitive verbs (words that can or cannot stand with objects)

Working with Paragraphs: unmixing and titling

Role play, miming, drama activity or improv game

Pictionary (picture dictionary) or picture matching

Writing an opinion essay (persuasive essay)

Learners who are Pre-A1 have just begun learning English and will first learn how to:<ul><li>Say the letters in the alphabet and numbers</li><li>Say hello, talk about names and age</li><li>Name the colors and dates, express likes and dislikes</li></ul>

Absolute beginners who have begun to learn the letters and numbers

Learners taking the A1 Elementary exam should be able to:<ul><li>Introduce themselves and ask and answer questions about personal details such as where he/she lives, things he/she has, people he/she knows.</li><li>Communicate using very basic phrases as long as the other person talks slowly and clearly and is prepared to help.</li><li>Main grammar points to know: common adjectives & adverbs of frequency, going to, how much/how many, imperatives, I'd like, 's – possessive, common prepositions of place and time, present simple & continuous, there is/are</li></ul>

A very basic tourist level, which is enough for buying food and a bus ticket

Learners taking the A2 Pre-intermediate exam should be able to:<ul><li>Understand sentences and frequently used expressions (e.g. very basic personal and family information, shopping, local geography, employment).</li><li>Complete tasks that are routine and exchange information about familiar matters.</li><li>Describe matters of immediate need in simple terms.</li><li>Main grammar points to know: countable/uncountable nouns, adverbs of frequency, future will/going to, much/many, present perfect, past simple, past continuous, common phrasal verbs, common modals: can/should</li></ul>

A tourist who can do basic conversations about the past, present and future

Learners taking the B1 Intermediate exam should be able to:<ul><li>Understand points regarding family, work, school or leisure-related topics.</li><li>Deal with most travel situations in areas where the language is spoken.</li><li>Create simple texts on topics of personal interest.</li><li>Describe experiences, events, dreams, and ambitions, as well as opinions or plans in brief.</li><li>Main grammar points to know: question tags, intensifiers: too/enough, future tenses, past tenses, modals, conditionals, wh-questions in the past</li></ul>

Learners who can deal with both familiar and routine situations, in friendly and work contexts

Learners taking the B2 Upper-intermediate exam should be able to:<ul><li>Understand the main ideas of complex text on both concrete and abstract topics, including technical discussions in his/her field of specialization.</li><li>Interact with fluency and spontaneity that makes regular interaction with native speakers quite possible without difficulty for either party.</li><li>Produce clear, detailed text on a wide range of subjects and explain an opinion on a topical issue giving the advantages and disadvantages of various options.</li><li>Main grammar points to know: perfect tenses, mixed conditionals, modals in the present, phrasal verbs, reported speech, wish, relative clauses</li></ul>

The level where you can be a tour guide for your foreign friends and talk about a lot of topics, even abstract ones, with ease and fluency

Learners taking the C1 Advanced exam should be able to: Express ideas fluently and spontaneously without much obvious searching for expressions. Use language flexibly and effectively for social, academic and professional purposes. Understand a wide range of demanding, longer texts. Produce clear, well-structured, detailed text on complex subjects, using linking phrases (=words that connect ideas between sentences). Main grammar points to know: inversion, mixed conditionals, modals in the past, all passive forms, phrasal verbs (all patterns), wish/if only for regrets

Learners who can smoothly communicate in every walk of life, read long texts and write well

Learners taking the C2 Proficient exam should be able to:<ul><li>Understand almost everything read or heard with ease.</li><li>Summarize information from a variety of sources into a coherent presentation.</li><li>Express themselves using precise meaning in complex scenarios.</li><li>Can express him/herself spontaneously, very fluently and precisely, differentiating finer shades of meaning even in the most complex situations</li></ul>

Get here and you are ready to study in English at university

You can play this game in different ways. 1.	Easy version: Players only have to say the name of the animal. e.g. ItÂs a cow. 2.	More difficult version: Players say the name of the animal and one or more things they know about it. e.g. ItÂs a cow. It gives milk. It eats grass. 3.	Spelling version: Players have to spell the name of the animal correctly (and say something about it) 4.	Writing version: Players write the name of the animal and one or more sentences about it. 5.	Question version: Players ask and answer questions about the animal. You can of course invent five dozen more ways to play it. Have fun!

Board Game - The Animal Kingdom

A boardgame to practise the names of animals. Depending on the level sts can only say the names of animals of make sentences. B&W version included. Have fun!

Animals - boardgame

The "What's This? What's That?" English Race Time Game Board" is a fun and simple game like Snakes and Ladders for students to play with their friends or with the teacher. Practice the accompanying song on YouTube with your students at https://youtu.be/mU-xKGmWcOc to learn all of the animals and the sounds they make. 
 
Simply roll the dice and move along the board, asking each other, "What's this?" or "What's that?" depending on the space. You can use simple answers such as "It's a ...," or for more advanced students, use the patterns, "This is a ..." and "That is a ...". 
 
Find the original worksheet and the rest in the series at: 
 
https://www.bingobongokids.com/product/whats-this-whats-that-free-english-race-time-game-1/ 
 
Don't miss our other free resources including worksheets, flashcards, videos, games, teaching articles and more!

What's This? What's That? | English Race Time Game | Snakes and Ladders

Review all the basic tenses with a focus on the TIME WORDS. One player can start at the START and another can start at the FINISH. Make sentences/questions/negatives related to monster or relevant to the student. A student finishes the game is he/she goes all around the board AND creates correct sentences or questions. 
 
Clip art from <a href="http://MyCuteGraphics.com" target="_blank" title="MyCuteGraphics.com">MyCuteGraphics.com</a>

All Tenses  Boardgame (Monster Theme)

You can find the pdf version and many more free worksheets and songs at our website: https://www.bingobongokids.com 
 
The "ABC to XYZ (Upper Case)" English Race Time Game Board" is a fun and simple game like Snakes and Ladders for students to play with their friends or with the teacher. Practice the accompanying "ABC to XYZ (The Alphabet Song)" video on YouTube at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vdz23OUPL58 
 
Simply roll the dice and move along the board, reading each letter out loud. More advanced students can practice phonics by reading each letter along with the attached picture, such as "c, c, cat!". 
 
To go along with this worksheet we also have some educational alphabet writing worksheets available at: 
https://www.bingobongokids.com/product-category/free-esl-worksheets/?swoof=1&song=abc-to-xyz&really_curr_tax=236-product_cat

A-Z Upper Case Alphabet - ESL Board Game 

This game revises animal vocabulary. The students look at the picture and say a sentence naming the animal. If he lands on a direction, he has to follow it. Instructions included.

Board games - Pets and farm animals

A boardgame to test your knowledge of deep sea creatures. Do you know the names of common ocean animals and some basic facts about each one? Find out and see. A fun way to practice your conversational skills.

Ocean Animals Boardgame

Students work in pairs or groups, they throw a die and need to name different types of <a href="http://animals.This" target="_blank" title="animals.This">animals.This</a> activity is aimed to practise and revise vocabulary related to animals. Hope it's useful!

ANIMALS - Speaking board game

Form questions- using the question word and one helping verb or pronoun. Students often find it very difficult to form questions correctly- and generally forget the helping verb. Make 5 correct questions and help out Droopy Dog find the robbers. Suggested answers on page 2.

Droopy Dog Plays the Question Game + Suggested Answers

Your students are supposed to write the names of as many animals as they can find. They should also think of the animal's habitats. You can print out this document. 

Animal Habitats

You can find the names of the body parts of the animals on the first page. On the second page, you can do an exercise of parts of some animals. A very effective, useful and enjoyable activity.

Body Parts of Animals

Group work (classroom game) - This is a vocabulary board game about animals. 
Throw the dice and name the animal on the picture. Groups of 3/4 players. You can change the pictures.

36 Animals, Board game, Speaking Practice English ESL worksheets pdf & doc