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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The lesson includes text comprehension: true / false sentences and questions on the text; describing people, parts of the body, present simple / present continuous; adjective degrees, opposites. A ...
This is a simple PowerPoint presentation to practice body parts vocabulary with young learners and to revise what they've already learnt. Children have to describe ten cute monsters naming their c ...
This is a worksheet HTML with a key for an episode of The Big Bang Theory called 'The Skank Reflex Analysis'. In this episode (s5ep1), Penny worries that her behavior has screwed things up permane ...
This is a PowerPoint series of photos of Ronaldo that I use to motivate my students to speak (teenage boys in particular). Take each photo and get them to describe what they can see, how Rona ...
The Stop game comes from a video I watched about TEFL , from BridgeTEFL. In this game, students use vocabulary they know and verb tenses they know to write a single word (or maybe a half-phrase) i ...
This an excellent task for teaching appearance. Students read about the Weirdson Family and have to draw them. This worksheet promotes creativity as well. As a post-task activity you can ask stud ...
This is a worksheet containing many exercises about physical descriptions: matching exercises, reading and drawing activities and pronunciation. The lesson requires a basic knowledge of body parts ...
This worksheet is devoted to personality adjectives and is suitable for both teens and adults. It was made with the help of this website and is actually a double puzzle where students first have t ...
This worksheet allows students to form sentences by looking at a picture. They can practice describing peoples clothes, hair, features and expression on their faces. Also this activity lets the st ...
This is worksheet about appearance collocations. I got the text from the book collocation in use(2005). The collocations are highlighted and there is a matching and a fill-in-the-blank exercise f ...
This PowerPoint contains the names and pictures of some toys. It is very useful for both beginner and elementary levels, particularly children between 5-13 years old. You can use it as the engagem ...
More body parts: this time there is a visual dictionary to practice the parts of the body. It can be used to revise the vocabulary of this topic. Words: eyes, head, hair, ear, mouth, bottom, leg, ...
Body parts: an activity to practice the parts of the body. It can be used to revise the vocabulary or like a test for younger students. Students will have to look at the picture and complete the b ...
This worksheet was put together for Mother's Day. Besides honouring the mothers, students can practice the structures that are used to describe people (have/has got, to be) by describing the membe ...
This is a worksheet for a game about superheroes. Every st completes the worksheet including a drawing, inventing a name, the hero's strengths and his/her cryptonite. When finished, the teacher an ...
This powerpoint has ten slides which introduces character adjectives with suitable pictures. Especially basic adjectives such as ambitious ,shy,outgoing etc. are choosen. Firstly the definition of ...
This worksheet is based on a poem in which the father gives some advice to his son how to become a real man. Some parts are extracted and students try to find the suitable words. In some parts the ...
This is a useful worksheet to use with primary school students and even adult beginners. The aim is to practise personal descriptions using "to be", "to have (got)", likes/dislikes and adjectives. ...
Funny and inetresting ppt about family members and friends. I included information about a friend and about my mom Queen Elizabeth and my dad Barack Obama. My students find it amusing. I've put vo ...
The topic of this worksheet is body parts. The worksheet is designed to help ss learn and review basic vocabulary through three easy activities. Ss have to match pictures with words, label picture ...
This is a vocabulary worksheet with some useful sentences and a pictionary to speak or write about hairstyling. It can be useful for physical description as well. It can be used for conversation a ...
This worksheet is a whole-year test for my 3rd graders. The units tested on this worksheet are: Music, Cinema, Food, Children's Rights and Natural Wonders. It contains the main skills: listening, ...
An idea to teach parts of the body and the head to beginners and elementary students. A different way of teaching parts of the body to all ages. Then it's possible to do exercises and dictations t ...
This is an activity that I prepared for my upper intermediate and advanced students and it was very successful. Students will practice listening, vocabulary, speaking and then create a role play. ...
This worksheet is made with the help of the puzzle creator on this website. A perfect warming - up exercise for your students on the topic "Describing people". This worksheet is suitable for teen ...
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