Explores what farms are and why farm animals are different. It covers cows and dairy products, chickens and eggs, sheep, and horses, and includes many facts about farms. It is not a simple video intended for ESL learners, so beginners might not fully understand it. However, it is a good video to show, explain, and create an immersive learning environment.
This is a great video to introduce farm animal names and practice their pronunciation. It shows real video footage of farm animals with their names and their sounds.
Another great simple video that shows clips of farm animals with their names. Good to practice pronunciation and reinforce the names. (Towards the end it delves further away from traditional farm animals).
Fun game in which you hear the farm animal sound and have five seconds to guess the animal. Feel free to pause the video and have kids raise their hands to answer if five seconds is not enough. Gives the answer as "it's a....", which is useful if also teaching "it
This is great with younger learners as has cute and fun cartoons of the animals. Includes a simple sound guessing game with four options and then a game of finding said animal on the farm. Kids have fun with this one.
Nice game to play in which the screen slowly reveals a hidden farm animal. Feel free to pause the video early in the reveal to have kids guess. Cute cartoon graphics.
Of course, A farm animal unit would not be complete without Old Macdonald had a farm! Make sure to sing with actions for each animal. Animals in this version are; pig, duck, horse, sheep, cow, and turkey. Have fun!
A fun song to reinforce farm vocabulary. I like to place flashcards of the vocabulary around the room and then clap my hands and knees alternately to the rhythm of the song, placing my hands above my eyes to look at the "see" part of the song. I Then look for said vocabulary. It gets faster towards the end of the song making it a lot of fun to try and keep up with the rhythm and point to the correct flashcard in time. Kids also have a lot of fun trying to keep up.
Nice and popular simple to sing and do actions with for farm animals. Alternates between the vocabulary and the animal sounds.
A fun song that also speeds up and gets faster. clap to the rhythm and do actions as they make the animal sounds.