Fun with Animals

Activity type: this is a kinesthetic activity in which students have to guess which animals are on their backs.

Level: Pre-intermediate

Teacher's notes:

Take pieces of paper and write the names of animals on them; make sure that you have enough pieces of paper for each student in class.
Ask the students to come forward and as they do so tape one of the pieces of paper onto their backs.
Students should then mingle; as they do so they must find out from the other students which animal they have on their backs.
They can only ask questions which are answered with ‘yes’ or ‘no’ i.e. short questions: Do I eat…? Am I a wild animal? Etc.
If a student finds out what kind of animal he/she is, stick another animal on his/her back.
Do this activity for about 15 minutes. It practices the present simple well.

This game can be easy or difficult depending on which kind of animals you choose.

Sample questions:

Do I eat meat?
Do I live in Africa/Asia/USA..?
Do I live in a jungle?
Am I very, very big?
Do I have legs?
Do I crawl/run/swim?

Note: that you may want to precede this activity with a lexical set based around animals.