French : Strange and Unusual Animals Worksheet (Pets Extension)

Animaux étranges et inhabituels …des compagnons pas comme les autres!

Pets in French… but with a twist!

This is a fun two-page worksheet that takes ten uncommon animals (I’m sure very few students will have these at home), and presents a range of activities for students to practise using the words in context:

• Definitions to understand and match to the words
• Gapfill for contextualisation
• Quel verbe to get students thinking about collocations

This activity is less about the 12 words themselves, and more about understanding some common French structures and sentence frames. It’s a reading comprehension masquerading as a vocabulary unit!

It’s aimed at Key Stage 3 students who already have a good grasp of basic sentence structure, but would make for a good transitional activity for Key Stage 4 too. It’s a fun extension task when you’ve gone through the usual pets vocab, too. Additionally, the multi-task format makes it an ideal homework or cover lesson activity.

There is an answer key page included, so the worksheet can be used by non-specialists .