Listen to the vocabulary using the Jukebox, use the arrow on the right to go down or up into the list.

1. L'animal / animal
2. Les animaux / animals
3. Le chat / the cat
4. Un chat / a cat
5. Le chien / dog
6. L'oiseau / bird
7. La souris / mouse
8. La vache / cow
9. Une vache / a cow
10. Le cochon / pig
11. Le mouton / sheep
12. La poule / hen
13. Le cheval (chevaux) / horse (horses)
14. Le renard / fox
15. L'ours / bear
16. J'ai vu un chat / I have seen a cat
17. J'ai vu une poule / I have seen a hen

You already know the two masculine and feminine forms to translate "the" (le,la), here you can see the two forms for "a": un and une.
Hen is Poule in French, so now you know where the word poultry comes from.
J'ai vu, vu is also in the expression deja-vu which means: seen before or already seen!
Some French words, but not all, ending with -al, like animal, have an irregular plural -aux: un cheval, des chevaux but un festival, des festivals.