A selection of English ESL animals printables with pictionary (picture dictionary) or picture matching, vocabulary practice

An easy quiz - the task is to look at the picture and circle the corresponding word. The pictures are taken from the British Council website: https://learnenglishkids.britishcouncil.org/grammar-vocabulary/word-games/wild-animals-2
https://learnenglishkids.britishcouncil.org/print-make/flashcards/farm-animals-flashcards

Quiz: Wild and Farm Animals

This worksheet helps students learn or revise vocabulary for describing animals. They look at the pictures, read the descriptions and match each animal to its descritption.

Animals - Matching activity

This colourful ESL/EFL matching worksheet / interactive quiz helps young learners practise 15 common animal names. Students look at the numbered animal silhouettes and match them with the correct words from the word bank.

Language goal: Animal vocabulary, word recognition, spelling awareness, and visual association.

Grammar focus: Common nouns (animal names)

Theme: Animals and nature

Age group: Young learners, ages 5–7

CEFR level: Pre-A1–A1

The worksheet is ideal for vocabulary introduction, revision, warm-up activities, or independent practice. Its playful illustrations and colourful design make learning engaging for children.

Page 2 contains the KEY.

An interactive quiz complements the printable worksheet, allowing students to practise identifying animals by dragging and dropping the correct names on their silhouettes.

EPISODES:

Part 1: https://en.islcollective.com/english-esl-worksheets/vocabulary-practice/pictionary-picture-dictionary-or-picture-matching/animals/guess-the-animal-matching-game-with-key/170493

Part 2: https://en.islcollective.com/english-esl-worksheets/vocabulary-practice/pictionary-picture-dictionary-or-picture-matching/animals/guess-the-animal-2-matching-game-with-key/170803

Guess the Animal- Matching Game with KEY

Twelve animals, numbered for ease of reference, and their respective pictures. The students must link the images to the text, either with a line or by writing the corresponding word/number next to each image.

Zoo Animals Word and Picture Match-up

In this worksheet students will learn vocabulary related to farm animals, they will practice developing varied activities such as reading comprehension, matching, fill in the gaps, true or false, correct the mistake and more.

Farm Animal Vocabulary + There Is & There Are

This colorful animal interactive vocabulary quiz helps young English learners practice recognizing and naming 15 animals through a fun silhouette drag and drop matching activity. 

Language goal: Build and reinforce basic animal vocabulary, improve visual recognition, and develop reading and word-matching skills.

Vocabulary: bear, sheep, pig, zebra, tiger, fox, deer, dolphin, bee, owl, snake, penguin, goat, crab, chicken.

Activity: Students examine 15 numbered animal silhouettes and match each picture with the correct animal name from the word bank at the bottom of the worksheet. The colorful backgrounds provide visual clues and make the activity engaging for children. 

Features a printable worksheet and an interactive quiz.

CEFR level: Pre-A1–A1 (Beginner to Elementary)

Age group: Young learners (ages 5–7)

Skills: Vocabulary, reading, visual recognition

Exercise type: Picture-to-word matching

Answer key: A separate answer sheet is included, showing the correct animal name beneath each silhouette.

This is Part 2 of the Guess the Animal series and introduces 15 new animals not featured in Part 1. The worksheet is suitable for classroom activities, individual practice, revision, and homework.

EPISODES:

Part 1: https://en.islcollective.com/english-esl-worksheets/vocabulary-practice/pictionary-picture-dictionary-or-picture-matching/animals/guess-the-animal-matching-game-with-key/170493

Part 2: https://en.islcollective.com/english-esl-worksheets/vocabulary-practice/pictionary-picture-dictionary-or-picture-matching/animals/guess-the-animal-2-matching-game-with-key/170803

Guess The Animal #2 - Matching Game with KEY

Picture dictionary. This is a worksheet and a quiz that reviews plurals. The teacher should review the meaning of the vocabulary before completing the quiz. Also the rules that determine the formation of plurals.

Irregular Plurals - Fill In The Blank

The students have to match the pictures of various animals with the right image. An easy review for this topic with not so common animals. Useful for elementary and pre-intermediate students.

Animals vocabulary

This ESL/EFL worksheet and corresponding interactive quiz aims at revising the names of crawly insects. This is a multiple choice activity with three options, one being the correct one. Hope you find it useful! ;)

Creepy Crawlies - Name That Bug or Insect

Animals are something easy to learn and i believe that the more you show them the images the more they will keep in their minds. the kids are very memorable , you have to keep telling them and repeating in order for them to get it.

ANIMALS AND ADJECTIVES

This worksheet is a simple matching activity to revise animals vocabulary. Students must look at the pictures and match them with the words they find below. A1 level.

Animals - Vocabulary

The student have to find the right word to each picture and write it in the given space.

If you want to practice more, you can find more of my worksheets about the same subject here: 

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Animals - Wild animals

Pictionary (picture dictionary) or picture matching

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)

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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: ordering, titling

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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

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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>

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101 Animals, Pictionary (picture dictionary) or picture matching, Vocabulary Practice English ESL worksheets pdf & doc