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 collection of 10 idioms describes a body part, e.g. a green thumb, and shows the amazing things you can have. Suitable for self-study, there are three exercises: guess the meaning, ...
This game is perfect for Halloween. It consists on a speed-dating session with monsters. Each students will have a card to write information about themselves. This information will be randomly ch ...
This creative thinking exercise was created by www.primaryleap.co.uk Do your students have their thinking caps on? This activity will improve your student's creative thinking and writing skills. ...
This activity and worksheet is to be paired with the read aloud Butterflies in my Stomach and other School Hazards. I prepared this for my adult ESL students. Students should read the book as a c ...
In this worksheet, each student will look at the animals. They will find the body part from the word box that is related to each animal and write it next to the picture. There may be more than tw ...
This is the second part of the listening comprehension activity, Who Decides What Art Means? Part of the worksheet focuses on listening and speaking skills. It introduces the vocabulary of art an ...
This is a fun Halloween game. Students can enjoy learning body parts with Frankenstein. Color print A4 size cut outs for playing pin the tail on the donkey with Frankenstein's monster. Blind fold ...
The worksheet focuses on the topic of superstitions and their origins. It is based on the video that illustrated the beliefs and coincidences at heart of the most common superstitions. Tasks incl ...
A fantastic lesson for explaining vocabulary and expressions to talk about food. This lesson is linked to an animated video to help put things into context. There is a second video that is a voca ...
This activity can be used at the beginning of the school year with students to introduce themselves by completing the questions. All the worksheets are then put into an envelope and stored at an ...
This is a worksheet about clothes. There are ten activities: blanks exercises, matching exercises (clothes, gloves), analogies, patterns, idioms, put the words in the appropriate box, choose the ...
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Test your students’ knowledge of Shakespeare’s Macbeth. These questions have been curriculum mapped against QCR and AQA, to ensure you and your students meet the learning objectives. ...
Test your students’ knowledge on Frankenstein. These questions have been curriculum mapped against QCR and AQA, to ensure you and your students meet the learning objectives. Tired of searc ...
Test your students’ knowledge of Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet. These questions have been curriculum mapped against QCR and AQA, to ensure you and your students meet the learning obj ...
This resource includes a list of questions and tasks to guide your study of any play, they’re intentionally non-specific so that they can be used with a wide variety of plays. You may need ...
This is a memory game based on fourteen electronic components and their definitions. Students display the cards upside down on the table. In turns, they turn over two cards at a time with the goa ...
This handout is for the 2005 movie based on the book, Pride & Prejudice. This worksheet has listed vocabulary and definitions for each of four scenes. There are a few questions for each scene ...
This worksheet contains some tasks on vocabulary and for analysis of Ernest Hemingway's short story "Hills Like White Elephants". The story is rather simple in terms of language, but the analysis ...
The worksheet teaches adjectives that describe personality. It can be used as part of the module on family relations because it focuses on the connection between personality and birth order or ro ...
This worksheet provides an example of a lesson plan for a vocabulary lesson titled "bad habits". It includes a detailed description of the activities that can be conducted in this lesson. This wo ...
This worksheet was designed to introduce ss to simple poetry by writing about themselves in an acrostic poem. We worked at them individually and read them out. We then had class volunteer other w ...
This worksheet contains three exercises about 'Parts of the Body'. The outer body, the inside body, limbs, head. Exercise 1: Wordsearch - Exercise 2: Fill in the part of the body you use - elemen ...
We owe a lot of our military tactics, culture, and democracy to Ancient Sparta and Athens. This sheet looks at the contributions from both civilizations and allows students to reflect on ho ...
Children listen to the song from the cartoon "Beauty and the Beast" and write the missing words from the box. Then you can sing the song together and discuss characters' feelings, analyze the use ...
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