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Animals & Nature

Master the key grammar and vocabulary for this topic with a full Cambridge-style interactive lesson.

🐶 Animals🌿 Nature🔵 Present Simple❓ Questions🚫 Negatives

Animals & Nature

A1 Beginner · Present Simple · Habits & Facts

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Present Simple — Habits & Facts
A1 Beginner · Present Simple · Habits & Facts
ExampleRuleNotes
A dog eats meat.3rd person singular — add -she/she/it + verb+s
Cats don’t like water.Negative — don’t/doesn’tUse doesn’t for he/she/it
Does a whale live in the sea?Question — Do/DoesDoes + subject + infinitive
Birds fly south in winter.General fact — pluralPlural subjects: base form

💡 Tip: He/she/it always takes -s: ‘A cat sleeps a lot.’ Plural subjects use base form: ‘Cats sleep a lot.’

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Warm-Up – Animal Words
Match the description to the correct vocabulary word
DescriptionAnswer
🐱 Lives in houses with people
🦁 Lives freely in nature
🐝 Small animal with six legs
🐬 Feeds milk to its young
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Vocabulary
6 key words for this topic
🐘 wild
living in nature, not with humans
“Lions are wild animals.”
🐾 pet
an animal that lives with people
“I have got a pet dog called Rex.”
🌿 habitat
the natural home of an animal
“The forest is the habitat of many animals.”
🦋 insect
a small animal with six legs
“Butterflies are beautiful insects.”
🐟 mammal
an animal that feeds milk to its young
“Dolphins and whales are mammals.”
🌊 ocean
a very large area of salt water
“Many animals live in the ocean.”
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Reading
Read carefully — answers are in the text!

Anna loves animals. Her favourite animals are dogs and dolphins. She has got a pet dog called Max. Max eats twice a day and sleeps a lot. He doesn’t like cats!


Anna also loves learning about wild animals. She knows that elephants live in Africa and Asia. They eat plants and drink a lot of water. They don’t eat meat.


Anna’s favourite wild animal is the dolphin. Dolphins live in the ocean. They swim very fast and eat fish. They are very intelligent.


Anna wants to be a vet when she grows up. She reads books about animals every day!

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Reading Comprehension
Choose the correct answer for each question
1. What is Anna’s pet called?
2. What do elephants eat?
3. Where do dolphins live?
4. What does Anna want to be?
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Matching Exercise
Choose the correct option for each sentence
SentenceAnswer
A dog ___ a lot.
Elephants ___ plants.
A cat ___ like water.
___ dolphins live in the sea?
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Use of English
Cambridge A1-style multiple choice
1. A bird ___ its wings to fly.
2. Fish ___ in water.
3. My dog ___ meat. He’s vegetarian!
4. ___ a whale a mammal? Yes, it is.
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Gap Fill Exercise
Choose the correct word for each gap

My cat twelve hours a day. She like dogs. She fish and cat food. you have a pet?

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Speaking Practice
Discuss these topics with your partner
Topic 1
🐶 Your pet
Do you have a pet? Describe it. What does it eat? What does it like to do?
Topic 2
🦁 Wild animals
What is your favourite wild animal? Where does it live? What does it eat?
Topic 3
🌿 Nature
Do you like nature? What animals do you see near your home?
Topic 4
🐠 Unusual animals
What is the most unusual animal you know? Can you describe it?
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Writing Task
Write and practise the grammar from this lesson
✏️ Write 4–5 sentences about your favourite animal. Use the Present Simple. Include: where it lives, what it eats, and why you like it.

Example: My favourite animal is the elephant. Elephants live in Africa and Asia. They eat plants and drink a lot of water every day. An elephant doesn’t eat meat. I love elephants because they are very intelligent.
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