Animals and Prepositions games

ANIMALS

“Be an elephant, please”

Sit the children in a semicircle. Choose one child. Whisper to him/her: “Be an elephant,
please”. The child imitates an elephant (using gestures and mimes, not noises)

That Crazy Tiger Just Ate My Face

Materials: Animals FCs

To play: Students make a circle. Put some of the animals cards, including the tiger card,
face down in the middle. Pass a ball around to music. When the music stops, the student
holding the ball can choose one card from the pile. If it is the tiger card, he/she becomes
the tiger (aka "ghost") and can eat anyone in the room.

Animal Interview

Materials: Flash Cards FCs, optional mic

Select a few kids to stand with you before the rest of the class. Have them choose an
animal to represent. Ask each one a question that provides the class with clues as to
which animal they are. An exchange with a group who has chosen 'rabbit' might go:
"What colour are you?" "I'm white." "What's your favourite food?" "I like carrot." "Are
your ears big or small?" "Big"

First person to answer correctly gets to be next (if they want to, if not just ask for
volunteers).

Animal’s bingo

Hangman (2 teams)

PREPOSITIONS

Prepositions

The teacher must put the ball where students want using prepositions (put the ball on the
book)

The classroom ghost: prepositions of place

This activity takes some preparation. You will have to move some things around. For
example, you could place some books under a student’s chair, put a marker pen on the
window sill, put the clock on the teacher’s chair, put the CD player behind the door, and
so on.

Put students into pairs to make a note of what the ‘ghost’ has moved around, and ask them
to use ‘prepositions of place’ to make sentences.For example: The books
are under Francesca’s chair

Prepositions game class (2 teams)

 Team A: the ruler is on the table.

 Team B: the book is under the chair.

 Team B: the pencil case is in front of the chair.

 Team A: the bottle is behind the table.

 Team A: the book is under the table.

 Team B: the key is under the chair.

 Team B: the pen is next to the chair.

 Team A: the watch is in front of the table.

 Team A: the coin is on the table.

 Team B: the pencil sharpener is behind the chair.

Treasure (2 teams)

Write some clues in sticky notes using prepositions. Each group has to find the treasure
using the notes.