A crossword puzzle in English about animals. Using crosswords to learn English

Maria Apanasenko

Questions for the crossword "Animals"

Horizontally

Vertically


Crossword tips

Horizontally

1. Sly cheat,

Red head,

Fluffy tail - beauty!

And her name is. (fox - fox)

2. What is this taiga animal

The midnight loves the dark

And, like all cats in the world,

Hates angry dogs? (tiger - tiger)

3. The reeds rustled around -

The baby flopped into the water.

Not a gosling, not a chicken.

"Quack-quack-quack!" - shouts. (duck - duck)

4. Instead of a ponytail - a hook,

Instead of a nose - a patch.

Holey piglet,

And the hook is fidgety.

piglet - pig)

5. In the middle of the yard

There is a heap:

In front - a pitchfork

There is a broom in the back.

(Cow - cow)

6. Sparrows, swifts, penguins,

Bullfinches, rooks, peacocks,

Parrots and tits:

In a word, it is -. ?

(bird - bird)

7. Came from hot countries,

She lived there among the lianas

And, hanging on them by the tail,

I ate a banana. (monkey - monkey)

8. Admire it soon!

Before you is the king of beasts,

A miracle mane surged,

Silky and beautiful. (Leo - lion)

9. Walks without a road in summer

Near pines and birches,

And in winter he sleeps in a den,

He hides his nose from the frost.

(Bear - bear)

10. Running uphill, somersault down the mountain.

(Hare - hare)

11. A log floats along the river.

Oh, and it is furious!

To those who fell into the river,

The nose will bite off. (crocodile - crocodile)

12. Soft paws,

And in the paws - claw-scratches.

(Cat - cat)

13. Who in the world walks

In a stone shirt?

In a stone shirt

They walk. (turtles - turtle)

14. He walks with his head lifted,

Not because an important count,

Not because a proud disposition

But because he. (giraffe - giraffe)

15. She clucks in the morning

Carrying an egg as a gift to us.

(Chicken - hen)

Vertically

1. In the summer, in the swamp, you will find it.

Green frog. Who is it?

Answer (frog - frog)

3. Sir, but not a wolf,

Long-eared, but not a hare,

With hooves, but not a horse.

(Donkey - donkey)

4. Not in the forest sings on a branch,

And the words are screaming from the cage.

Get to know him soon.

This bird is. (parrot - parrot)

5.With the sun he gets up together,

Wakes everyone up with a funny song.

There is a scallop on the top of the head.

Who is this? (Cockerel - cock)

6. This beast has enormous stature,

The beast has a small tail behind,

The animal has a large tail in front.

Who is this? Who is this? Who it?

(Elephant)

7. Rustling, rustling grass,

The whip is crawling alive.

So he got up and hissed:

Come who is very brave.

(snake - snake)

8. Lives in a mink,

Gnaws on the crusts.

Short legs.

Afraid of a cat.

(Mouse - mouse)

9.Friends with the owner

The house is guarding

Lives under the porch

The tail is a ringlet.

(Dog - dog)

10. Not sheep, not cows.

They have horseshoes on their feet.

They can rush without looking back.

They are frisky. (horses - horse)

11. Lump of fluff, long ear,

Jumps deftly, loves carrots.

(Rabbit - rabbit)

12. And this relative of the mouse -

And thicker, and smarter, and taller.

(Rat - rat)

13. We live in water

We will be lost without water.

(Fish)

Answers to the crossword "Animals"

Horizontally

1 - fox, 2 - tiger, 3 - duck, 4 - pig, 5 - cow, 6 - bird, 7 - monkey, 8 - lion, 9 - bear, 10 - hare, 11 - crocodile, 12 - cat, 13 - turtle, 14 - giraffe, 15 - hen.

Vertically

1 - frog, 3 - donkey, 4 - parrot, 5 - cock, 6 - elephant, 7 - snake, 8 - mouse, 9 - dog, 10 - horse, 11 - rabbit, 12 - rat, 13 - fish.


Hello! All means are good in learning English, and if these means also bring pleasure, then this is generally the ideal way. One of these fascinating techniques is crosswords on english language for adults and children. Today the crossword puzzle is the most common word guessing game. There are such games in almost every printed edition, there are even whole collections. They are very popular among people of all generations - children, retirees, adults.

Although archaeologists have found the first charades, which were dated from 1-4 centuries AD, the birth of the crossword puzzle is considered to be 1913. More than a hundred years ago, Arthur Wynn created the first crossword puzzle in the form that we are familiar with today. This game was published in one of the New York newspapers, and immediately became mega-popular among the readers of the publication. Our first crossword puzzle appeared in 1925 in the Leningrad magazine "Rezets".

The original goal of these games was to develop erudition. The first crosswords were very difficult, requiring a lot of knowledge to fully solve the puzzle. But to raise reader demand, they were quickly simplified by changing the mindset. Now puzzles have become one of the ways to have fun, and not show your knowledge and erudition. Naturally, this format suited all segments of the population, regardless of age and profession.

Interesting fact:

The biggest crossword puzzle in the world, entered in the Guinness Book of Records, was recognized as the puzzle of a resident of Yerevan - Ara Hovhannisyan. The size of the crossword puzzle is 2.45 m high and 2.3 m wide, and the size of the cage is only half a centimeter. Those who wish are offered an assignment of 150 pages to 25,970 words.

It is an indisputable fact that solving crosswords, scanwords, rebuses and charades develops memory, thinking, erudition and hard work. This is the best way, with maximum benefit for the mind, to pass the time and just have a good rest. English crosswords are very popular with language learners.

The task: translate the words into English and fill in the cells

There are other types of puzzles, more traditional, on various topics, which will help to consolidate not only vocabulary, but also grammar:

If you love solving various puzzles, then do not miss such a good opportunity as solving English crosswords. This will greatly advance your English language learning. And if you have any difficulties, then you can always see the answers.

English crosswords for children

English crosswords for children

It is no secret that the children are very fond of playing, solving various riddles, rebuses, puzzles. Children's crosswords are also used to teach English to the smallest students. Kids very quickly succumb to the excitement that arises in the process of solving, and without coercion and overload they memorize new material.

Crosswords for kids can also be grammar-oriented, but they are mainly designed to help kids memorize new vocabulary. Such games help kids to remember visually how a word is spelled in English, how it sounds, to replenish lexicon or to consolidate a school lesson.

For the smallest students, crosswords with pictures are perfect, where there is no written assignment, but only pictures that need to be named in English and written down.

So, for example, Crossword for preschoolers on the theme "Animals" might look like:

Such bright charades will really appeal to preschoolers and primary school children, expand their horizons and give a lot of positive emotions.

Children's crosswords can be of various difficulty levels. It is worth starting with small puzzles up to 10 questions or pictures with large answer boxes. To start giving your child crossword puzzles, he must already know the letters. english alphabet and the name of those items that will be discussed.

If the child already knows how to read and write in English, then he can be given more complex problems, with questions or words that need to be translated. Be sure to check the answers, do not give your child such questions, the answers to which you do not know yourself. Let him fill in the answers himself. For older children, more difficult puzzles can be used.

In teaching English, crosswords are an indispensable tool for learning and reinforcing foreign words. When solving puzzles on a regular basis, active, and not passive, memorization is switched on, which increases the efficiency of assimilating information several times. Therefore, I recommend that you, as well as your children, solve English charades with benefit and pleasure. In addition, you always have the opportunity to check the answers.

A crossword puzzle on the topic "wild animals" for the first-third year of English. You can post on the board and number pictures with images of animals in accordance with the crossword puzzle, or (at a more advanced stage) offer students descriptions from which they can guess which animal they are talking about.

  1. This animal is quick. It can climb trees. It likes bananas and other fruit.
  2. This animal is very tall. It "s yellow and brown. It has got a long neck and long legs. It eats grass and leaves.
  3. It "s the King of animals. It" s big. It "s yellow and brown. It eats meat.
  4. This animal is long. It hasn "t got any legs.
  5. This animal is big. It has got black and yellow stripes. It eats meat.
  6. This animal has got long ears and a short tail. It can be wild or domestic. Some people keep it as a pet.
  7. This animal is small. It "s green or brown. It lives in or near the water. It can jump well.
  8. This animal is big. It lives in rivers in hot countries. It "s got a long body, a long tail and short legs. It eats meat or fish.
  9. This animal isn "t big. It" s red. It eats mice and other small animals. It can steal a chicken from a farm.
  10. This animal is big. It "s brown. It eats meat and fish, but it likes berries and honey, too.
  11. This animal is gray. It lives in the forest. It looks like a dog.
  12. This animal is very big. It "s gray. It lives in hot countries. It has got big ears and a long nose.
  13. This animal has got black and white stripes. It runs fast. It eats grass.
Age group: Grade 3-4 (second or third year of teaching English)
Goal: Development of the communicative competence of students on the basis of previously acquired knowledge about animals and birds, their outward signs, habits, nutrition, habitat.
Tasks:
Educational:
1. Review and consolidate the basic lexical units on the topic "Wild animals and birds".
2. Broadening the horizons of students, developing students' skills independent decision communication tasks.
Developing:
1. Development of independence, logic of thinking, memory, attention, quick reaction.
2. Development of practical skills and writing skills.
3. Development of cognitive and linguistic abilities, the formation of interpersonal communication skills, emotional sphere and self-control.
Educational:
1. Fostering students' interest in learning English and team spirit.
2. Fostering a benevolent attitude towards the environment.
Recommendations for the event: This crossword puzzle can be offered to students in the lexical repetition lesson as one of the tasks of the KVN team game. The task consists of 15 poems about wild animals and birds in Russian, the answers must be in English.
Description of the event:Students are divided into two equal teams (in terms of number and capabilities). A jury of two students is selected (one representative from each team). The teacher is a member of the jury with an advisory vote. For each correctly guessed and written word of the task, the teams receive two points, if the word is misspelled - only one point. The winning team is announced by the sum of the points scored.

Horizontally: Vertically:
2. What a big bird! 1. Striped horse
And she is also proud. I saw at the zoo.
The one that runs wonderfully - (G. Head)
It's useless to compete with her.
(O. Ulasevich) 3. Here she is jumping along the branches,
Flashed over the bush
5. In the den, he sucks a sweet paw, Like a lively red ball,
And he dreams that he is eating honey. With lush fur and tail.
(T. Gusarova) (E. Trutneva)
6. I wonder who is this
Emerged from an egg? 4. What a humpbacked important captain
All green, dissimilar Ocean deserts surf?
For an ordinary chick!
(S. Wheat) 7. Australian red beast
Rides with a bag all day.
10. A real giant.
From distant warm countries. 8. Gray predator in the forests In the trunk of the trunk is gaining, Looking for hares here and there.
And then the fountain starts up.
(I. Zakharova) 9. He is big and striped,
He is toothy and mustachioed.
11. Picking flowers is easy and simple. He is stronger and bigger than a cat.
Children of small stature, And sits not on the window.
But to the one who is so tall (V. Gula)
It is not easy to pick a flower!
(S. Marshak) 12. Black ears and paws. It can roar menacingly.
12. Always ready to repeat ... - also clubfoot,
This bird is word for word. But - a bamboo bear.
(V. Sibirtsev) (S. Kozlov)

13. Nice acrobat,
He is always happy with a banana!

14. Eared little coward,
You sit in the forest and are afraid of everyone!

Answers:

Horizontal: Vertical:
2.ostrich (ostrich) 1.zebra (zebra)
5.bear 3.squirrel
6.crocodile 4.camel
10.elephant (elephant) 7.kangaroo (kangaroo)
11.giraffe (giraffe) 8.wolf (wolf)
12.parrot (parrot) 9.tiger (tiger)
13.monkey 12.panda
14.hare (hare)

List of sources used:
Links to specific pages of Internet sites:
1. Gusarova Tatiana "Bear"
http://www.vampodarok.com/stihi.php?stih\u003d1104
2. Svetlana Pshenichnykh "Interesting"
http://allforchildren.ru/poetry/animals426.php
3. Galina Head "Zebra"
http://allforchildren.ru/poetry/animals620.php
4. S. Marshak "Giraffe"
http://stixi-poet.ru/marshak/zhiraf-marshak-s
5. V. Gula "Tiger"
http://www.numama.ru/zagadki-dlja-malenkih-detei/zagadki-o-zhivoi-prirode/zagadki- pro-tigra.html
6. Evgeniya Trutneva "Belka"
http://allforchildren.ru/poetry/animals78.php
7. O. Ulasevich "Straus"
http://malenkie-gnomiki.ru/detskie-stihi-pro-zhivotnyih
8. I. Zakharova "Elephant"
http://www.stihi.ru/2012/01/30/6076
9. V. Sibirtsev "Parrot"