Zoo Animals / Zoo Animals: Dominoes for English Class

With the dominoes, learners playfully practice the vocabulary for zoo animals in primary school English lessons. To do this, they lay out English animal words and matching animal pictures next to each other. Each card combines an animal name with a picture of a different animal, creating a continuous row from the start card to the end card. The vocabulary includes animals such as monkey and penguin, as well as sloth, toucan, and meerkat.

What is included in the material

• Domino cards, each with one English animal word and one colored animal picture, plus a start card and an end card
• Short introduction to the game with instructions on how to use and prepare it

Tips for using the material

• It is useful to use the dominoes to reinforce vocabulary after the animal names have been introduced.
• The dominoes can be used flexibly, for example in pair work, as part of a station activity, or in remedial lessons.

The following skills are promoted

• Vocabulary: English names of zoo and wild animals such as giraffe, penguin, or kangaroo
• Reading comprehension at the word level: matching a written English word to the correct picture

Organizational notes

The template is printed, laminated, and cut out.

To complement this: the Reading Domino with English sentences, the Memo Game for matching words and pictures, and the Star Puzzle for matching words and pictures.