TEACHER’S NOTES

WORKSHEETS, ACTIVITIE S & GA ME S Animal Families

Activity Type Introduction

Matching and speaking In this fun animals game, students categorize animals according
activity, group work to certain criteria and play a card game where they collect sets of
animals belonging to different categories.

Focus Procedure
Animals
Divide the students into groups of three. Give each group a set
of picture cards. Tell the students to spread the cards out face up
on the table.
Aim
To categorize animals, Write the following categories on the board:
according to certain
criteria and then to play wild animals/farm animals/pets
a card game where you
collect sets of animals Ask the groups to sort out their picture cards into the three
belonging to different categories. Then, go through the answers with the class.
categories.
Next, write the following categories on the board one at a time:

Preparation reptiles/birds
animals that have fur/feathers/stripes/a tail
Make one copy of the
animals that eat vegetation/meat
picture cards for each
animals that live in water/on land/in the jungle
group of three and cut as
animals that can swim/fly/run/jump/climb
indicated.
animals that are big/small/quick/slow

Level As you write each category, ask the students to give you an
example of an animal for the category from the picture cards.
Elementary (A1-A2)
Next, ask the students to shuffle the picture cards and deal them
out evenly. Tell the students not to show their cards to anyone.
Time
25 minutes Explain that the students are now going to play a card game
where they collect sets of three animals based on a category, e.g.
three animals with feathers, three animals that eat meat, etc.

One student begins by asking another player for a card needed

to complete a set of three, e.g. 'Joshua, have you got an animal
that eats meat?' If the other player has the card, they must give
it to the student.

When the student has a set, they lay down the three animal cards
on the table and explain which category they belong to, e.g. 'I
have a fox, bear and tiger. They all eat meat'. The student then
continues asking for cards until they ask someone who doesn't
have a corresponding card. When this happens, the player who
was asked for their card takes their turn to request cards. That
player can ask for cards that were taken previously if the set
hasn't been laid down. The student who collects the most sets of
cards wins the game.

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