Jungle Animals Activities Bundles
Less planning, more learning! Save time preparing fun and engaging ESL lessons on the topic of Jungle Animals.
♦ Hours of fun, dynamic activities that you can use for any jungle theme.
♦ Perfect for working with the 'Walking Through the Jungle' story and chant.
♦ Flexible materials and activities for 6-10 lessons
♦ Suitable for mixed age groups or to use across a range of levels.
♦ Pick and choose the activities you want. All the activities are great value at around €1 - €2, with bigger and bigger discounts the more you buy.
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Flashcards and game cards
Perfect for a whole host of whole class, small group and pair practice of your target language.
♦ Includes 12 animals in both image and text: elephant, crocodile, monkey, lion, tiger, snake, bat, frog, spider, caterpillar, parrot, lizard.
♦ Includes game ideas for hours of interactive practice and easy learning.
♦ A choice of three card types provide plenty of learning opportunities so your esl kids never get bored.
♦ Also includes image and text cards for the Walking Through the Jungle chant.
Crafts and games for drama, songs or story retelling
While you can incorporate drama and storytelling with any of the resources on this page, these resources are especially suitable. They’re great for practising and singing the ‘Walking Through the Jungle’ chant (See the story by Julia Lacome) or the song by Super Simple Songs.
♦ See the excitement from making a whole book from one sheet of paper.
♦ Useful activity procedures make it easy to adapt to different skills and abilities.
♦ Works great with Walking Through the Jungle song/story.
♦ Includes 7 jungle animals: elephant, frog, lion, crocodile, snake, tiger, monkey
♦ A dynamic and engaging craft to practise story language and use in story retelling.
♦ Includes 6 animals: monkey, frog,tiger, snake, elephant, crocodile
♦ Includes useful activity suggestions to give you plenty of ideas for how to use them in engaging practice activities.
- Less planning, more learning! Comes with detailed activity procedures for a super engaging lesson or lessons across a range of different levels.
- A dynamic and engaging craft to practise jungle language and/or dramatise a story (e.g. Monkey Puzzle).
- Choose from smaller and larger templates, all with helpful cutting guidelines to support your youngest learners.
Worksheets with a twist
Printables that are perfect for introducing and practising key story and jungle animals language. Follow the activity suggestions for dynamic ways to work on receptive and productive skills.
♦ Great for retelling the Walking Through the Jungle story/chant and having the children hunt and find the pieces to stick in their picture.
♦ Perfect for even your littlest learners. Stretch your older learners by getting them to ask each other for the pieces.
♦ Includes different templates so you can narrow your focus to 6 animals or include all 12.
♦ Choose from 3 different sheets. Each one with two different versions.
♦ Easy to support or stretch learners with different abilities or ages.
♦ Useful activity suggestions give you plenty of ideas to increase interaction, engagement and learning.
♦ The perfect complement to Walking Through the Jungle or Monkey Puzzle.
♦ Ideal for following up on a jungle animals lesson in a personal way.
♦ Get creative with activating useful jungle animals, description or even story language.
♦ Choose from a variety of templates to suit every age and ability.
♦ Includes ideas for different projects.
♦ Easy folding and cutting guidelines make this a hassle free craft experience.
♦ Includes ideas for ways to maximise language practice while your ESL kids make it AND to play with it afterwards.
♦ Encourages children to use the new language in a natural playful way.
Games to make and play
All of these can be made to play before your class, but they are also fantastic for integrating even more language practice because the kids can make their own copies. Super useful for bringing English outside the classroom – your young learners will be so excited to play these at home with their families.
♦ Choose from a range of templates to easily differentiate according to ability, age and vocabulary focus.
♦ A super effective way to provide repetition of useful animal and description language and even the Walking through the Jungle chant. See the full list below.
♦ Great for an engaging way to practise numbers too!
♦ Follow the tips and suggestions for fun ways to incorporate full sentences and story language in an interactive and dynamic way.
- A super interactive way to practise jungle animals vocabulary and descriptive language.
- Cater to all ages and abilities with a choice of different board games and procedures.
- Give your young learners even more English speaking practice with the create your own game versions. They’ll play at home with their families too!
- Easy to follow tips and suggestions that give you loads of ideas for different ways to play.
♦ A super interactive way to practise jungle animals vocabulary and descriptive language.
♦ Cater to all ages and abilities with a choice of different board games and procedures.
♦ Give your young learners even more English speaking practice with the create your own game versions. They’ll play at home with their families too!
♦ Easy to follow tips and suggestions that give you loads of ideas for different ways to play.
♦ Choose from 3 different dice – so easy to differentiate for age, level or language focus.
♦ Your ESL young learners will love playing games with the dice. Lots of game ideas included to make planning super easy.
♦ Engaging graphing sheets are great to get your kids interacting and practising their maths and English skills.
♦ Not just for one lesson. These are games you can come back to again and again!
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Not sure how many resources you need?
Of course it depends on your particular context, but I’d like to give you an idea of how I’ve used them across multiple levels, lessons and age groups.
In general I follow this sequence:
- Introduce the language and use activities to focus on understanding, i.e., the children have to listen and understand to complete the craft/game/worksheet.
- Revise the language and give the children the opportunity to produce the language.
- Practise the language in a freer way that lets the children experiment with the language.
Below is a sample lesson map with the resources.
Note: Another important point worth mentioning is that I also use some of these resources independently rather than alongside the story.
Sample lesson resource map
Lesson 1: Find and stick jungle craft or Colouring sheets; Flashcards and game cards; Walking through the Jungle song/story
Lesson 2: Jigsaw Games or Craft (or Find and Stick or Colouring sheets); Flashcards and game cards; Walking Through the Jungle song/story
Lesson 3: Mini-books; Small group card games with Flashcards and game cards; Walking Through the Jungle song/story
Lesson 4: Dice and graphing sheets; Jungle animals board games
Lesson 5: Snakes and Ladders board games and craft; Fortune tellers; Walking Through the Jungle song
Lesson 6: Finger Puppets or Roleplay puppets and masks; Write and Draw
Note: There’s more than enough material to cover in up to 10 lessons. With groups that have lessons twice a week, I would typically teach an 8 lesson unit on the topic.
What’s more, each resource includes different templates so you can differentiate for different levels or repeat the story across year groups but using different templates.
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Frequently asked questions
Yes, of course! Maybe you have the time and enjoy creating things, but it has to be said that being a young learner teacher can involve a HUGE amount of extra work making materials. Give yourself a break!
All my materials have been tried and tested in the classroom. As well as having almost 20 years of teaching experience, I am also a qualified trainer for the Trinity TYLEC (Teaching Young Learners Extension Certificate), so you can rely on the quality.
Yes! There are a range of templates to choose from within each resource so it’s super-easy to differentiate. The included Activity Suggestions will also give you ideas about how you can conduct the activity so each child can work (play!) to their full potential.
Definitely! (You knew I would say that!) No, but seriously speaking, I started making these resources for just one class but I’ve now used them several times over. I’ve even used them with the same groups in subsequent years, because the different templates allow me to vary the activity and language focus.
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