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 powerpoint introduces the characters, elements, and concepts of bending powers from the Avatar: the Last Airbender series. This is a great before/after discussion for showing the first two ep ...
This worksheet contains speaking, writing, reading and listening activities. It has activities related to films, a song, and more.They are all connected through one topic, which makes the workshee ...
This is a worksheet to work on comparatives and superlatives as students compare 3 Hollywood actors: Brad Pitt, Leonardo DiCaprio and James Franco. The factual information is provided in the first ...
This presentations focus on the monsters' description using the verb 'have got' and vocabulary connected with body parts, colours and some adjectives. In slides 3-6 ss have to guess which monster ...
This is a PowerPoint presentation about appearance for higher levels (intermediate, upper-intermediate). You may use the same pictures to give to your ss to practise describing appearances, just d ...
This worksheet will help elementary students to consolidate body vocabulary. They can create sentences using the possessive case. There are two different activities in which students are asked to ...
My aim with this vocabulary summary is to give my pupils a basic knowledge on a few topics we use every day. I tried to recollect the most commonly used words, expressions, collocations and use th ...
This exercise is for ESL beginners. Starting from a comic strip about Valentine's Day, the students must write a short narrative in the present simple tense. You might want to first go over the ...
This worksheet is based on the video about neck stretching in some Asian and African tribes. I used it to speak about the differences in the concept of beauty around the world. There are three ta ...
This is an introductory worksheet about different interesting personality types such as a home lover or a daredevil etc. Give the words to the ss and ask them to guess what kind of people these ar ...
This worksheet can be used for introducing or revising phrases of pictures description (e.g. in the foreground, in the left upper corner etc.) It consists of the list of these phrases and interest ...
it's a PowerPoint presentation of Unit 5 in " English for Nursing 1" course. It's given at Al Ghad Colleges for Applies Medical Sciences in Saudi Arabia. i
My hair. An activity to revise or to learn the vocabulary related to hair: short, long, straight, curly, fair and dark hair. First, students have to read the words, after that they have to draw th ...
In 1940s William Sheldon introduced the theory according to which he classified personality according to body type. He called this a person’s somatotype. In this worksheet there are example ...
This worksheet was created while speaking about “Changing Lives” and the need to overcome your fears and insecurities in order to move on. But it can also be used as a nice addition to ...
I use this PowerPoint presentation in the lessons dedicated to great inventions made in the past. Students have to guess what a particular thing was used for. The answers are: a) thermometer, a) ...
My ESOL learners LOVE Mr Bean and I enjoy letting them watch it but I can't help feeling guilty as they aren't getting a lot of language input, being that Mr Bean doesn't say much. So, instead I g ...
A handy worksheet for beginners who are learning about descriptive nouns and identifying adjectives in a fun manner with lively examples which children would love to do and also picture descripti ...
This is a useful woksheet about personal hygiene using present continuous. This woksheet is for primary students- beginners. Here I've taken into account their skills. They are learning to write a ...
In this worksheet the students are going to describe the main characters of the movie. They can talk about thier physical appearance, personality, color them and use as many expressions as possibl ...
This worksheet is basically for young learners and kids. Here they have to name, color and draw their favorite part of the movie. It can be used for practicing desciptions and discuss the movie ch ...
This is a nice worksheet for elementary students. After watching the first 42 minutes of the movie, students have to answer some questions. I hope your students enjoy it as much as mine did. I wil ...
This worksheet is based on a dialogue I found on Youtube. A man and a woman talk about their photographs. There is a gap-filling exercise in connection with the dialogue and some warm up activitie ...
That is a typical taboo game where students must explain the word on the top not using the rest of the words on the card. This game can be used with students of intermediate or upper-intermediate ...
This worksheet is about the British Royal Family from Elizabeth II to Prince George. Pupils have to read and answer questions about the members of the Royal Family. There's also a guessing game. T ...
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