Lesson: Farm Animals

Level Beginner, Elementary

Lesson Focus Speaking, Listening, Reading
Objectives Students will be able to name a variety of farm animals and
the sounds they make.
Students will be able to listen to and recognise farm animal
vocabulary and their sounds.
Students will be able to recognise and read farm animal sound
words.
Students will be able to sing Old MacDonald had a Farm.
Assumed Knowledge Maybe some knowledge of farm animals names.
Vocabulary Farm Animals: chicken, sheep, duck, cow, pig
Animal Sounds: cluck, baa, quack, moo, oink
On Board Lesson title, Animal pictures
Materials Board, Magnets to attach pictures to board, Farm animals
flash cards (enough sets for the teacher and each group),
farm animals sounds words flash cards (enough sets for the
teacher and each group), Old MacDonald had a Farm song from
youtube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7_mol6B9z00,
bingo grids (1 for each student).

Classroom Set-up Students can sit in groups or pairs.

Warm up exercise To review the farm animal names, play an action game. The
(Time: 3 minutes) students should stand up behind their desks. You shout out a
Action Game farm animal name and the students must do the actions for
that animal.
This also gives you the opportunity to see which students know
the animal names in English and which dont you can tailor the
next part of the lesson according to the students prior
knowledge of farm animal names.
Presentation 1. Draw the students attention to the animal pictures on the
(Time: 17 minutes) board. Point to one of the pictures and encourage all of the
Vocabulary Game students to say the correct name together. You can
On board Matching confirm the name afterwards, for students who need to
Game model you. Repeat this a few times. (2 minutes)
Song introduction 2. Now switch the game around. This time, you should say an
animal name and choose one student to come up to the
board and point to the correct animal picture. All of the
students then repeat the word. Then the student at the
front says an animal name and chooses someone else to
point to it on the board. Repeat this a few times, too. (3
minutes)
3. Now introduce the animal sounds and their written form on
the board. Have students repeat them a few times. (3
minutes)
4. Put the picture flash cards randomly placed on the left
side of the board and the animal sounds flash cards on the
 right. Ask for volunteers to come up one at a time and
match the animals and the animal sounds. (2 minutes)
5. Play the song Old MacDonald had a Farm. Have the
students listen carefully. When its finished ask them what
they heard. Play the song again, line by line, so the
students can listen carefully to the words and repeat them.
(7 minutes)
Practice 1. Arranging Game: Students need to be in groups for this
(Time: 15 minutes) game. Each group gets a set of animal pictures and animal
Arranging Game sound words. Play the song, and the groups must arrange
Learning the Song the animals and sounds in the correct order of when
theyre heard in the song. You might have to play the song a
few times for the students to get everything. Go through
the answers. (8 minutes)
2. Learning the Song: Play the song again. This time,
encourage the students to sing along, using their flash
cards as prompts. If they find it difficult to sing the full
sentences they can just sing the animals names and sounds.
Play the song 2 or 3 times to give the students lots of
practice. (7 minutes)
Production 1. Bingo Game: Every student gets a bingo grid. They should
(Time: 25 minutes) fill in the grid with the farm animal and animal sounds
Bingo Game vocabulary they have just learnt. If they cant write the
Level Game animal words, they can draw a picture in each square. When
they have finished you call out one word at a time. If a
student has that word, they cross it out on their grid.
When a student has one, two or three lines crossed off
they shout Bingo! They are the winner. An alternative to
the teacher calling out the words, they can pick students
to say them. (10 minutes)
2. Level Game: Preparation Move all of the chairs and
tables out of the way in the classroom.
Make sure the animal pictures with their sounds are on the
board.
Game All students start out at Level 1. This means they
must walk around the classroom and act like, and make the
sounds of, the animal which represents level 1 (see below).
They must meet another student. They say to each other:
He had some [whatever animal they are]. and play rock,
paper, scissors. The winner goes up one level and must act
like the new animal. The loser stays at level 1, if thats
where they already are, or goes down one level.
When they have won all levels and reached level 5 they play
rock, paper, scissors with the teacher. If they win, they
are the overall winner. If they lose, they go all the way
back to level 1! Play Old MacDonald in the background while
the game is being played.
Here are the levels:
Level 1 Cows
Level 2 Chickens
 Level 3 Sheep
Level 4 Pigs
Level 5 - Ducks
Example of play Student 1 is at level 1 and is walking
around the classroom mooing. Student 2 is at level 3 and is
walking around the classroom baaing! They meet. Student 1
says, He had some cows. Student 2 says, He had some
sheep. They then play rock, paper, scissors. Student 1
wins, so they go to level 2 and must act like a chicken.
Student 2 drops to level 2 and must also cluck like a
chicken.
Consolidation Sing Old MacDonald all together.
(Time: 2 minutes)

Additional activities: Board game activity

Coin Flick game activity
Crossword
Word Search
Cryptogram
Unscramble activity

Additional Resources
These are extra materials from other sites that you can use in this lesson teaching clothing
vocabulary.

Simple worksheets and flash cards:

http://bogglesworldesl.com/kids_worksheets/farmanimals.htm
Lots of printable worksheets:
http://en.islcollective.com/worksheets/search_result?Tags=farm+animal&Vocabulary_Focu
s=Animals
Word search and crossword:
http://www.esltower.com/VOCABSHEETS/animals/animals.html
Lots of farm animals activities: http://www.anglomaniacy.pl/domesticAnimalsTopic.htm
Lots of activities and crafts:
http://www.enchantedlearning.com/themes/farmanimals.shtml