Jungle Animals Jigsaw crafts
Bring some puzzle and crafty magic to your jungle animals lessons with these jungle animals jigsaw games and crafts.
♦ 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.
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What will my ESL young learners learn?
Depending on which activity procedure you choose, your ESL young learners can focus on listening or speaking skills or both!
Apart from the vocabulary in the images, there are plenty of opportunities to help them acquire useful phrases and structures.
Don’t forget about the game and activity language they can practise too!
Jungle animals
snake, monkey, elephant, tiger, lion, crocodile
Colours
purple, pink, blue, red, green, yellow, orange, black, white, brown, grey
Story phrases
- Walking through the jungle.
- What do you see?
- Can you hear a noise?
- What can it be?
- I think it is a (frog)!
- Looking at me / Looking for its tea.
Structures
It is / This is / That is to identify animals
e.g. It’s a snake. That’s a tiger.
Adjective order with colours
e.g. It’s a blue frog.
Can for ability
e.g. A frog can jump.
Description with ‘has got’ / ‘have’
e.g. This animal has got 4 legs and a long tail.
Game and activity language
Where’s the…? It’s here. It’s there. Is it…? Yes, it is. No, it isn’t. What is it? It’s a.. It’s…
Can you find the…? I can see a…
Can I have..? Here you are. Thank you. You’re welcome. Puzzle, paper, card, colours, crayons, pens, pencils, glue, scissors. I’m finished.
What do teachers say about the resources?
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! They work great for mixed aged groups and different abilities because they come with different templates AND different suggestions with how to use the resource. No time wasted on adapting different worksheets!
This resource includes plenty of activity suggestions to play and make the jigsaws. It’s definitely not a done in 5 minutes activity (unless you want it to be!)
It works great as the main part of a lesson but I’d recommend looking at the supplementary resources (link included).
Add the Walking through the Jungle story or song, play a game with the vocabulary and use this resource interactively. You have all the ingredients for a lesson your esl kids will love.
You can certainly find some free worksheets out there, but it’ll be tough to find ones that exactly match the vocabulary in the Walking through the Jungle story/song, and certainly not with the different options to cater to different abilities. I can guarantee your young learners will be much more excited to create this. Engaged and motivated children make for a happy lesson (and teacher!)
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