Educational game for learning English. Games English. Learning foreign languages ​​- fun and effective

Little children love to pretend to be animals. Even, to put it more precisely, “reincarnate” into animals. And, I must say, they do it simply wonderful - any actor could envy such talent. Why don't we use their acting skills to learn English.

Thanks to the game “Emotional Animals” we will get not one benefit, but two!

First, we will be able to learn the names of different emotions. Secondly, we will learn what animals are called in English.

The game is suitable for children aged 2 to 6 years. Older kids may also enjoy it, especially if they teach the game to their younger brothers, sisters or friends.

Preparation

You will need two dice: one with the names of animals, and the other with the names of emotions and feelings.

You can print ready-made cube templates and make them together with your child.

I will also attach one blank template for you, in case your baby has his own favorite animals, and he will definitely want to include them in the game. In this case, you will simply need to take a blank template and draw the animals yourself and sign their names.

Progress of the game

The rules of the game are very simple: we roll the dice and depict what falls on them.

Let me give you a few examples...

Scared Monkey

Cross cat (angry cat)

Sleepy cow

Sad elephant

Kids strive for knowledge, they are inquisitive and show their curiosity by asking countless questions. Why are some animals called domestic and others wild? Why does the cow say “moo-oo” and the chicken “ko-ko-ko”? It is sometimes difficult for an adult to find an answer to such questions. However, it is possible and necessary to introduce a child to the world around him.

Considering that preschool children are predominantly visual and figurative thinking, colorful pictures are perfect for these purposes. With their help, you can play and learn the names of pets in English, while at the same time learning more about their lives and habits.

Cut out pictures to develop motor skills

Of course, such cards are sold in any children's goods store, but how much more interesting it is to make them yourself with your child! In addition to the fact that this is an additional opportunity to repeat pets in English, it will also contribute to the development of the child’s fine motor skills.

For example, a four-year-old child is quite capable of handling glue and even scissors on his own, while a three-year-old will be happy to help you glue and cut out the selected animals.

On a note

The picture of a pet can already be in color - and all that remains is to print it on a color printer, and then cut it out together with the child and glue it onto thick cardboard. However, it can also be black and white - then the animal can be colored, while also repeating the names of the colors in English.

The image of the animal on each of them should be clear and large, so that the baby can easily distinguish who is grazing in the meadow and who is swimming in the pond.

Below we offer black and white and color pictures of pets that are easy to save and print.

Pets in color - who, how, why and why

Before you start cutting out cards, it’s worth repeating pets in English with your child.

• horse
• goat goat
• sheep [ʃiːp] sheep (the plural form does not change)
• cow
  
  
  
• hen chicken
• cock, rooster [ˈruːstə] rooster
• goose goose (plural form geese)
• duck duck (duckling – duckling)
  
  
• pig
• cat cat
• dog
• rabbit [ˈræbɪt] rabbit

Two-year-olds will be interested in what sounds domestic animals make, what they eat and where they live. Tasks for such kids should be simple. With older children it is already possible to speculate about the benefits such animals bring to humans when they were first domesticated.

Black and white pictures of animals

You can involve a child of any age in making cards. You can accompany the process of cutting out and coloring cards with stories about pets, not forgetting to repeat their names in English.

Various topics can be covered:

1. Who was the first person to domesticate and why? R. Kipling's fairy tale “The Cat That Walked By Itself” will be useful in this regard. It perfectly illustrates the consistency with which man domesticated domestic animals.
2. Why do people need pets? Here you can tell how each pet helps a person in everyday activities on the farm. Hens lay eggs. Cats catch mice. Sheep give wool.
3. What does a cow eat and what does a chicken eat? An excellent topic for repeating the names of some food products in English, for example, Horses like grass. Hens like grain. Cats like milk...

Games with cards not only develop attentiveness and help the child navigate the world around him, but also enrich his English vocabulary in an accessible form without boring cramming and a series of similar exercises.

Let's act out a scene

Children's works that feature pets are perfect for playing with cards. Already from the age of two, you can use fairy tales (for example, The Musicians of Bremen), English poems about animals.

Read or tell a poem or story and, as animal characters appear, ask your child to find a card with a picture of the animal.

Game Who lives in the barn?

Draw a barnyard with your child. Place the animals in their “homes”. Place the pig and the cow in a barn (in English, barn), send the ducks to splash in the pond (pond), take the horse to the stable (stable), place the rooster and chickens in the chicken coop (coop), and put the dog in the kennel (doghouse).

Mix up the cards - for example, put the pig in the kennel, and put the dog in the chicken coop. Ask your child to take on the role of a caring owner who has returned from the village fair and now has to restore order and resettle the naughty animals in their places.

Game Who said moo?

Place the cards on the floor or table (let your child help you). Invite your child to choose one card at a time. At the same time, clearly pronounce the name of the depicted pets in English and imitate their sounds. Offer to repeat. For those who are not sure what sounds each animal makes in English, this funny video of different animals making their own sounds will help.

Pets and their sounds

When the child remembers who “speaks” what, complicate the task. Let the child choose cards, and you deliberately confuse the sounds they make. The child, of course, will not agree that the dog meows and the cat barks or moos. Then invite him to voice this or that animal himself.
An example of such a game can be seen in the video below.

Song-game Old Macdonald's Farm