This ESOL worksheet offers an engaging, entertaining and fun activity, supporting teaching and learning vocabulary for animals / pets and allowing for practicing spelling the target words.
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All credits for producing this worksheet should go to Katja Khalil.
UNIT: Writing / Spelling
TASK: Crossword
PURPOSE: Practice spelling words for pets
LEVEL: Elementary / Lower Intermediate
Though the options for the crossword are not given on the task page, this provides for wider variation and differentiation in the use of the resource. Depending on the level of challenge you want to set up for your students working on this task, you could choose to either write up the options (stated on the answer sheet) on the board, offer the learners to use dictionaries to check the spelling of the words or let the students to try and write the words from memory.
As a follow up for this activity, the learners might be asked to exchange sentences related to possessions and / or likes and dislikes. Another option could be using adjectives to describe each pet.
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