This BritLit Primary Kit consists ideas to engage the children in the tale beside a host of activities to exploit the story and to extend the topic of farms and farm animals. Old MacDonald may be one of the most well-known fictitious farmers, if not the most famous farmer, in the world.
His fantastic farm has been celebrated in many formats over the years, as a chant, as a book and as a song . The characters may differ from one version to another, with a sheep here and a pig there, here a horse, there a dog, everywhere an Old Mac, but whatever creatures live on the farm, they're always very noisy! Also you can find online and printable materials for students on the British Council's LearnEnglish Kids website.
Materials
Flashcards: to help you support understanding and build up vocabulary
Activities: a collection of materials related to the story
Additional activities: a collection of materials related to the theme of farms and animals
Colour Old MacDonald's animals - Teacher's notes
Colour Old MacDonald's animals - A4 size animals
Label Old MacDonald - Label Old MacDonald
Old MacDonald animal noises - Match the speech bubbles to the animals
Look and spell the animal words - Unscramble the letters to spell the names
Old MacDonald card games - Play Pelmanism, Snap and Animal noises
Old MacDonald riddles - Read sentences and guess the animals
Order Old MacDonald animals - Listen to the story and put the animals in order
Read and colour Old MacDonald - Read and colour according to description
Spot the differences pairwork - Identify the differences
Old MacDonald vocabulary checklist - Read and repeat key words
Spot the difference sentence completion - Consolidates the speaking practice
What is it? - Look at the pictures and guess the animals
Flashcards
Farm animals - Dogs, sheep, cows, pigs, horse, horse and cat, donkey etc.
Farm and tractor - Large A4 visuals to present farm and tractor
Old MacDonald - Large A4 visual to present character
Old MacDonald had a farm - Old MacDonald, farm, dogs, sheep, ducks etc.
Old MacDonald - Large A4 visual to present character
Old MacDonald had a farm (with words) - Visuals and words
Additional activities
Farm animal crossword A
Farm animal crossword B
Farm animal board game
Farm animal facts
Farm animal noises
Farm animal facts
Farm animal wordsearch A
Farm animal wordsearch B
How many are there 1
How many are there 2
Label parts of the animals
Label the farm
Look and read
Old MacDonald had a house
Old MacDonald had a zoo
Match the animals and the numbers
Picture dictionary
Whose legs are they?
What the animals do on the farm
