Describing Wild Animals in Spanish

This resource contains a range of materials to enable students to describe wild animals in detail

**Grammar and vocabulary covered **:

• names of wild animals
• body parts of an animal
• action verbs
• colours
• numbers
  -adjectives and adjectival agreement
• the verb " tener"
  -forming questions
• making sentences negative in Spanish
• making nouns plural

Contents :
1.Lower ability worksheet introducing questions to elicit colour of wild animal,number of feet and description of tail using adjectives ! Students can answer question by putting a circle around the correct answer.

1. Worksheet for more able students .Students complete sentences by choosing correct answer from list.

2. Speaking and reading task . Pair work - Guess the mystery animal !
   Students A and B work out correct answers to the animals they are going to be describing and circle correct sentences.
   Student B asks student A questions about their mystery animal. Student A answers questions using the answers they have already circled. Student B puts a circle around the answer they are given. At the end of all the questions Student B then tries to guess which animal student A is describing. The roles are then reversed .Both students take it in turns to ask / answer questions until all the animals have been described.

4.Worksheet - Match Spanish action verbs with correct English meaning. Choose an action verb for each animal.Match action verb to correct family of verbs ( -ar -er -ir verbs)

1. Revision exercise- revise animal names, action verbs and numbers.
   -Students write English meaning of animals and action verbs under words in first grid.
   -Oral repetition exercise to revise numbers and new vocabulary.
   This can be completed by teacher to whole class or performed in pairs.
   Teacher says number from grid and students say corresponding word. Teacher says a word from the grid and students say corresponding number.
   -In pairs students choose 6 or 12 words from first grid and copy them into the second grid . They can number the words 1-6 or 1-12. With a die ( or two dice!) take it in turns to roll die and say word that corresponds to number on die. Students can practise some maths here too by adding up the numbers on the dice.
   -Finally play bingo with words on grid.

2. Revision quiz

3. Reading exercise- Students can read descriptions and match them to correct animal picture. Descriptions and pictures can be laminated and cut up.

4. Help sheet - describing a wild animal. Students can use help sheet to write their own description of a wild animal of their choice.