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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1.Describe the food on the picture to the partners. Don’t use any parts of the name of the food. Let them try to name the food you ...
You can cut and use these adjectives for following activities: 1) choose one word and describe this type of person, let others guess what word you've chosen; 2) show this type of personality, let ...
There are four photos of different people with some information about them (name, age, country, job, languages, hobbies, abilities etc). The task is to describe their lives using given informatio ...
You are going to join the name with the picture. Color the pictures and make more sentences using the expression used to, make a conversation with your classmates using this expression. The idea i ...
Used in conjunction with a unit about nations, nationalities and languages. This worksheet can be used to develop awareness about different nationalities and the connecting names of the country, l ...
This is a worksheet to synthesize the words or expressions you've just seen about describing someone. Read the worksheet with the pupils and make them colour the eyes and hair.
A worksheet to practise adjectives and words used to describe appearance and personality. Based on Access 3 student's book and companion, particularly unit 7. It contains a matching activity with ...
I used this worksheet with 10 year-old children and they loved it. You can work the use of can/can't, extensive and intensive listening, and descriptions. The characters, song and the movie are we ...
Two tasks - wordsearch (students' task is to find the hidden words, such as ears, hair, leg, ugly, shy etc) and dividing words into groups (body parts and adjectives). Great for practicing vocabul ...
This is an intermediate/upper intermediate level worksheet.It can be used to teach personal adjectives indirectly or it can be used in revision lesson.You can support it with videos about zodiac. ...
The Proposal is a great movie starring Sandra Bullock and Ryan Reynolds, then your students will have fun while they are trying to get some specific information from the film. This worksheet will ...
This worksheet is based on a photo article on http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/nyregion/27belongings.html. Students look at the pictures some immigrants have taken with them to NYC and try to gu ...
Can you describe yourself? Can you describe your best friend or your neighbor? What qualities do you appreciate? Oh, you don't know how to say it in English....such a pity. Then do the task in thi ...
After having studied the parts of the human body, the material should be checked. This is a helpful worksheet that allows to check up the pupils' knowledge about the body parts. The pupils should ...
This is a great worksheet to do with kids/teenagers. I had them read the Grimm Brothers version of Cinderella, Watch the chapter of Cinderella in Once Upon a Time (depending on the age you can hav ...
This song by Nina Simone has been designed in order to practice the parts of the body. I used it with pre-intermediate students after a review of this kind of vocabulary to get the pupils be used ...
This is a very simple worksheet for teaching or revising parts of the body. Recommended for elementary students who are asked to draw a line from the word given to the picture
Used to teach children as best as you can. Previous word search have functioned really well to me, but I would like to share this one with you all. List of words used in this word search: PELVIS, ...
A worksheet of the different parts of the face. You can use it in two ways: the first is by power point presentation, each mouse click shows a different part of the face. the second one is printin ...
The poster image is useful to provide students with the vocabulary of body parts. Beginner students can make use of it. Student can also look at the picture and fill the blanks with the names of b ...
Funny caricature of a song on pop culture (especially pretentious young "gangsters") by Jon Lajoie eg. for cooler at the end of course. Lyrics can be looked up on the Internet (Google will help yo ...
This is a sentence completion sheet for idioms with body parts. Students have to choose the right body part for each expression. It can be used after learning or revising body parts vocabulary. M ...
This is 2-page worksheet for teaching prepositions of place, there is / there are and bedroom related vocabulary. Students are asked to complete sentences with prepositions of place and there is ...
This is a powerpoint game where questions are asked about the human body and the students have to answer the questions. it can be done in teams to make it more fun. I created it especially for Spa ...
This is a picture dictionary which can also be used as a classroom poster for teaching physical appearance. The picture dictionary is available in both colour and black and white version.
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