Actions vocabulary PDFs, songs and picture books. If you like anything here and want more, please support TEFLtastic.
Photocopiable actions vocabulary classroom activities
Things your body does opposites – NEW LINK
Actions and adverbs of manner guessing games – NEW LINK
Actions in different places guessing game – NEW LINK
Going to guess the action – NEW LINK
Draw an animal which can do the action in each box
Guess the body part collocations and actions – NEW LINK
Actions vocabulary songs
We like to walk (go to sleep, wake up, skip, run, jump, hop – from Shane/ Saxoncourt textbook Fab Red)
Walking Walking (hop, running, stop, sleep, wake up, tiptoe, jump, swimming – from Super Simple Songs)
Teddy Bear Teddy Bear (many different versions available, I tend to do turn around, touch the ground, touch your head, go to bed, wake up, take a bow, reach up high, wave goodbye)
Here We Go Round the Mulberry Bush (brush your teeth etc)
Come on and join into the game
I Can Run (one of the rare songs on LearnEnglishKids with decent actions)
Actions vocabulary stories
From Head to Toe by Eric Carle (a whole article of mine on using it here)
My Very First Book of Motion by Eric Carle (nice idea with students helping the teacher flick through pages to match animals to motions, but unfortunately some actions fit more than one animal, and it’s not very well graded)
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Updated 19 August 2026
