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 contains a recap of the first part of the movie: Back to the future, using the simple present perfect. It also shows the contrast of personality of George Mcfly. It enables to infe ...
Hi, I am enclosing an activity based on some well known fairy tales. It consists of a PPT slides displaying images from well known fairy tales. There is no text on the slides. A teacher can use t ...
Song worksheet - Listening Comprehension: Without You by David Guetta (featuring Usher). This worksheet practises listening comprehension and consists of four exercises. Students have to listen to ...
This is a set of activities based on the movie "Tangled". It includes vocabulary practice, mainly. The colouring activities are optional and there are 2 pictures (one of the princess for the girls ...
The 12 powerful words are words that show up repeatedly in the academic setting. This is a quiz over those words with word bank.
The 12 Powerful words:
Explain, Summarize, Describe, Trace, Pre ...
The 12 powerful words are words that show up repeatedly in the academic setting. This powerpoint is used as a review after the students have worked on the words a couple of times. One student si ...
The text is from the NY Times Learning Network and I created a vocabulary exercise using 10 words from the text. To introduce the article I used the title, The Roswell Incident, as a hangman sente ...
Just a simple game of Who's Who?/Guess Who?, made with adult students in mind. Have students play in pairs with different game sheets. Each student picks a person on their sheet and then they take ...
This is a worksheet for a group of adult beginners. They will enjoy the use of Sesame Street in class while the duration of the video (less than 3min) is quite manageable for them. You can use thi ...
This is a worksheet to train the vocabulary on body parts and make the descriptions of people. It can be used as a training exercise or as a test to check how well your students have learnt the ne ...
This is a video session practice on the movie Seven for students to get a general idea of the plot and to keep track of the different pieces of evidence they should remember when retelling the sto ...
This is a worksheet designed to work with 10 - 12 year -old students while watching the movie. It focuses on rhymes, word families, indoor and outdoor activities, adectives and physical descriptio ...
This is a simple and easy worksheet for teaching or revising the parts of the face. Students are asked to label the picture and then draw the parts of the face following the directions as given. T ...
This is a fun follow-up speaking activity for practising superlatives. There are 24 cards. Cut them and give one to each student. They should answer the question: 'Who's the ... student in the cla ...
This is a worksheet for teaching bedroom and furniture related vocabulary. There are two pages with activities in which students are asked to label the picture with the words in the box, look at t ...
This is a very useful song class activity to improve students' listening. It can be used from intermediate level. There are some wrong words and as the students listen to the song they have to r ...
A worksheet for complete beginners to teach the basic body parts. This was used with a very young girl who had very limited vocab. We first glued the different body parts and then stuck the word ...
Ice breaker On the first day of class, before introducing myself, I write 5 sentences on the board in a tense appropriate to the level. Some are outrageous lies, but others which can seem to be so ...
This is an easy activity related to physical appearance. There are three picture of people so that students describe each one in the space below. Students can write about their hair, their clothes ...
When reviewing the materials things are made of, sts can classify these objects into many different materials such as cement, cloth, plastic, metal, wood, and many others more. before working with ...
It's a nice activity to work out the use of TO BE verb with very early levels. There's also a vocabulary activity. I would ask stds to complete the vocabulary activity firstly and then explore th ...
This is a worksheet suitable for intermediate students on personality adjectives. There are two different activities in which students are asked to match the adjectives with their opposites and fi ...
The text is taken from the novel Holes, written by Louis Sachar. It is a chapter where the author describes the yellow spotted lizard, an animal invented for the book. After the reading there are ...
There are some pictures with the vocabulary related to hair style. Then, there are some descriptions and pictures of face that the teacher can use as a memory game. Example: HE’S GOT SHORT G ...
Students must read a short text about the Lake District. They will learn about the climate of the region, where it is located, important industries of the Lake District and tourism. Then the stude ...
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