Animals flash cards

Teaching notes

Sixteen animal cards with a picture on the front and the English word on the back: pets such as dog, cat and rabbit, farm animals such as cow, pig, sheep, horse, chicken and duck, and wild animals from lion and elephant to snake. It suits A1 young learners meeting animal words for the first time.

Show the picture, let the class say the word together, then flip to check it. For a guessing game, hide the card and ask one learner to act out the animal or make its sound while the others guess. In pairs, one learner names an animal and the other says "pet", "farm" or "wild". Print it as a matching worksheet, or switch it to Memory pairs for a second round.