Welcome to the section of the site that deals with descriptive words. There are 1,070 worksheets available on this topic and they are all FREE, printable, and easy to use. In order to make your search easier, there are sub-sections you can use to narrow down your results. This worksheet focuses on using There is and There are, prepositions of place, and describing a place. It is recommended for pre-intermediate students. One excellent thing about this worksheet is its appearance; the bright, attractive colors are something students will enjoy and activities are clearly laid out. The variety of exercises also makes this a good choice for learners of any age. You might be at a different point in your course so consider other worksheets for your upcoming lessons.
Descriptive words are so important because they enable students to express how people and objects are distinct from one another and give more details about those that are most important to them. When practicing descriptive words, try to avoid describing students in the class because this may make some students self conscious instead, use celebrities, family members or pets to practice. This is more fun and avoids giving anyone unwanted attention. Questions about the class would be appropriate if for example you want to compare your height with the height of a student. Descriptive words are important vocabulary for students to master and are used not just when the topic is introduced but throughout the course especially when it comes to learning comparative and superlative structures.
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This power-point presentation is useful for teaching parts of the body. It contains beautiful pictures of body parts (head, eyes, elbow, hand, finger, etc.) and it also presents subject pronouns ( ...
This worksheet is aimed at intermediate, upper-intermediate and advanced students who already have some knowledge on how to form and use compound adjectives. The worksheet presents a set of cards, ...
It is a vocabulary worksheet with a funny poem about body parts and a matching exercise after it. This poem can be used as a warming-up exercise. Children read or recite the poem and show the part ...
A post-watching composition worksheet, inluding the following grammar topics: pronouns, can/can't, 3d person singular endings. Vocabulary includes action verbs, person description, animals, relati ...
From time to time I like my students to have a direct contact with real English, and they work with videos from real tv programs where they can find communication barriers such as applauses, peopl ...
This is a worksheet for practicing body parts. It contains two activities. First, the learners are asked to read the statements and draw a monster. Then, they are asked to answer some questions wi ...
This is a PowerPoint about different types of hair. It contains the photos of famous Disney characters to motivate the language learners, particularly kids, to study. In the last two slides, the s ...
This power-point presentation is suitable for teaching physical appearance (length and color of hair, color of eyes, etc.) and comparative adjectives. It is appropriate for elementary students. Th ...
It includes activities to revise the content of the movie Divergent. I prepared some activities to do before watching, while watching and after watching the film. It worked really well with elemen ...
Reading and comprehension worksheet about the health risks of tattoos and piercings that must be taken into consideration before getting one done. It also advises students to choose an establishme ...
This worksheet contains three activities for you to work with your students after teaching five senses; hearing, smell, sight, touch, and taste. It is appropriate for elementary levels, particular ...
This PowerPoint deals with vocabulary items related to our five senses. The meaning is transferred through nice photos. Also, it includes several CCQs to check the learners' understanding. It is a ...
Teaching material : YouTube. Objectives: to stimulate students to practice listening and speaking from some amusing VDO like Yahoo or YouTube. Instructions : 1) The teacher provides the worksheet ...
Teaching material : YouTube. Objectives: to stimulate students to practice reading and speaking from a lovely current news like Yahoo or YouTube. Instructions : 1) The teacher provides the wo ...
This is a modified character analysis of the story Mulan. The student was able to complete this cloze passage instead of a full writing piece, like his mainstream classmates. This allowed my stu ...
This is a worksheet I have created for children who start learning English. It is interesting to revise colors, clothes and physical description. I hope it will be useful and your students will li ...
This PowerPoint contains a collection of useful vocabulary items necessary to describe people's physical appearance. It includes some CCQs to check students' understanding. It can be used in compo ...
This is a Powerpoint presentation which is appropriate for teaching our five senses (hearing, taste, sight, touch, smell). It is suitable for young learners. It contains some examples and pictures ...
This worksheet consists of 5 tasks. In the first one students read definitions and find the words they define from the list. In the second task they should put the words from task 1 into the right ...
This is a variation of a fun quartets game that you can use for revising character and/or appearance adjectives. There are two parts in this activity - in the first part students create their ...
This s video to work with children, maybe nine or ten year-olds. There is a pre watching activity, then after watching they order the sequence.There is also a true / false activity, and choose the ...
The worksheet worked well in my beginners EAL class. I showed the video of Mr. Beans making sandwich and asked my students to place the things in order like sequencing. The visuals also helps ...
This is an example of a project that students can create to practice tourist information. Students need to invent a monument of their own creation and explain it to the class. They need to invent ...
This is a 2 page worksheet, designed for elementary students on have/ has got tense and the body parts. The students, after watching a segment of the movie "Monsters University", are asked to ...
This is a resource for young learners where they must use a word from the word bank to complete the sentences about the eye. There are six words for students to choose from including: eyes, dust, ...
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