Worksheet for Teaching Animal Habitats to Beginner ESL/EFL Students
Level: Beginner to Lower-Intermediate
Download: animal-habitats-worksheet.doc
Target Language: "Bears live in the forest."
Worksheet Description
This is an animal habitats worksheet I created for the grade 3 & 4 students at the Japanese school I teach at. I use it as part of the unit I teach on animals. After teaching animal names and habitats using flash cards, I use this worksheet to give them some writing practice and to reinforce the target language "(animal) live in the (habitat)".
Beware: there is no official answer key! For me, monkeys live in the jungle, zebras live in the plains, foxes live in the forest, sharks live in the sea, snakes live in the desert, and goats live in the mountains. Of course, this is all debatable, and many animals live in multiple habitats. Be accepting; ask your students to think about it and put what they think is right. Or, if you want all the answers to be clear, then modify the worksheet. However, this might require adding different animals (like camels and yaks).
As a note, if you are teaching animals, you could also use this worksheet for teaching simple adjectives to describe animals.
Key language:
Animals: monkeys, zebras, foxes, sharks, snakes, goats
Habitats: the desert, the forest, the mountains, the sea, the jungle, the plains
Worksheet Preview:
Note: I do not hold the copyright to the animal images on the worksheet; they were obtained by searching for clip-art on Google images.
Enjoy the worksheet.
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Animal habitats worksheet created by Matthew Barton of Englishcurrent.com.
confusing… please send an answerkey.
zebras live in forest but also in mountains
In my elementary school class, the students and I reached agreement that zebras live in the plains. This may not be true in all cases, as you argue. The worksheet is a .doc, so feel free to open and edit it to your liking.
hi my stundents are not learning from this
I am confusing about onmonkey’s habitat
very nice worksheets
very helpful easy to use
I though you were a good site until I tried to download the worksheet and I had to download and install a program. You guys and all the guys like you suck. Were trying to educated young children who have nothing. Leave us along
The file is in .doc format. To open a file you always need a program. I’m not sure why you are surprised.
lol blister ignorance. Thanks for the doc, author!
Thank you for sharing these.
I am a teacher in the UK this worksheet is very useful and I can alter it as needed! So great to be able to download an activity sheet without having to give lots of personal details. Thank you!!
No problem. I hate putting my details in forms too. Hope the class went well!
easy to download, i can edit it too. great job thanks a lot for shearing