Take a look at these fun and colourful PPTs that will help children learn how to talk about animals and any pets they may have at home:

Once you have introduced the vocabulary to your pupils, play a matching game to help consolidate what they have learnt:

For younger children, you can ask them to complete this “join the dots” exercise to create drawings of animals, then label them as appropriate in Mandarin:

Here are a couple of songs you could sing with your pupils:

(Above resources by Wu Jia, Mitian Chen and Sheautian Tan, Hanban Teachers)