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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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Body Parts

Body Parts

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 ( ...
6 Views 18,386 BegElem
Compound Adjectives Matching and Description

Compound Adjectives Matching and Description

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, ...
14 Views 33,019 IntAdvExam
Vocabulary Worksheet: Body Parts

Vocabulary Worksheet: Body Parts

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 ...
4 Views 11,926 BegElem
The Brave: Merida Composition Worksheet

The Brave: Merida Composition Worksheet

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 ...
2 Views 13,599 Elem
Movie Worksheet: Britain's Got Talent, Susan Boule-2009

Movie Worksheet: Britain's Got Talent, Susan Boule-2009

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 ...
9 Views 21,621 Pre-IntIntAdv
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Body Parts; Read and Draw

Body Parts; Read and Draw

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 ...
10 Views 17,176 Elem
Different Types of Hair (Disney)

Different Types of Hair (Disney)

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 ...
7 Views 11,548 Elem
Friends Old and New, Physical Appearance

Friends Old and New, Physical Appearance

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 ...
9 Views 13,075 Elem
Movie Worksheet: Divergent

Movie Worksheet: Divergent

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 ...
6 Views 27,175 ElemPre-Int
Body Piercings and Tattoos

Body Piercings and Tattoos

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 ...
7 Views 22,112 IntAdv
Five Senses, Worksheet

Five Senses, Worksheet

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 ...
5 Views 29,446 Elem
Our Five Senses, PowerPoint

Our Five Senses, PowerPoint

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 ...
6 Views 13,785 Elem
Movie Worksheet: Animals Can Be Jerks (Kingston Crown)

Movie Worksheet: Animals Can Be Jerks (Kingston Crown)

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 ...
5 Views 10,702 ElemPre-Int
Movie Worksheet: Skycruiser

Movie Worksheet: Skycruiser

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 ...
4 Views 8,090 Pre-IntInt
Character Analysis

Character Analysis

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 ...
3 Views 11,414 Elem
Scooby Doo : What's My Name?

Scooby Doo : What's My Name?

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 ...
5 Views 15,713 BegElem
Physical Appearance PowerPoint

Physical Appearance PowerPoint

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 ...
23 Views 51,002 ElemPre-Int
Five Senses

Five Senses

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 ...
8 Views 14,618 BegElem
Features of Character

Features of Character

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 ...
10 Views 15,704 IntAdv
Personality and Appearance Adjectives Quartets Game - The Simpsons

Personality and Appearance Adjectives Quartets Game - The Simpsons

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 ...
12 Views 28,981 All
Movie Worksheet: Pink Panther - The Pink Pill

Movie Worksheet: Pink Panther - The Pink Pill

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 ...
8 Views 18,333 Elem
Movie Worksheet: Mr. Beans Making a Sandwich

Movie Worksheet: Mr. Beans Making a Sandwich

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 ...
4 Views 16,909 BegElem
My Monument

My Monument

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 ...
6 Views 11,472 Pre-IntInt
Movie Worksheet: Have Got / Has Got, Parts of the Body

Movie Worksheet: Have Got / Has Got, Parts of the Body

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 ...
8 Views 32,719 Elem
The Eye- Missing Words

The Eye- Missing Words

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, ...
3 Views 12,514 Elem

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