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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Describe Vince, Mary and Frank. Listen to your partner describe Rosa, Louise and Richard. For each person, find at least one difference between your picture and your partner's picture. Perfect to ...
<p>This is a simple wordsearch where your learners have to find the following vocabulary: blue, face, mouth, red, ears, green, nose, yellow, eyes, hair, orange. The children revise the ...
A worksheet created to test learners' knowledge of non-typical vocabulary concerning appearance. I originally created it to test my learners' knowledge after using photocopiable worksheet 'Music 1 ...
Song cloze: Luka Discussion on child abuse. Child abuse is one of the most dramatic things that happens in our lives, abusing children has become normal in some countries. Kids are defenseless and ...
This set of cards is intended for activation and practice of comparative adjectives. Cards in red contain various popular names: from cartoon and fairy-tales characters to famous politicias, actor ...
This scramble puzzle lists 10 adjectives that describe people, five positive and five negative. Give one sheet to a pair of students and ask them to unscramble. These are more challenging adject ...
Here's a planning sheet with examples for students who like to write stories. They often don't know how to start and this sheet might help them. There's an empty sheet as well for the students to ...
This activity will help your students practice in picture discussion. Also They can revise weather vocabulary, seasons vocabulary and Present Simple and Continuous.
The worksheet called "My Own Personal Robot" helps to work at "be going..." structure (positive and negative forms) when speaking about plans for future and also to discuss some questions concerni ...
Discussion materials based on an article published in an august issue of the Psychologies magazine. The article proves an interesting and thought-provoking read, giving a rich source for enriching ...
Students practise using all-purpose words like “stuff” and “things” to ask for things they don’t know the word for in English.
Rationale: This class focuses on commu ...
The main lexical focus of this worksheet is describing places. This worksheet can be used as a hand-out for individual or group work to increase Pre-Intermediate/Low Intermediate students’ a ...
Movie worksheet : EYE OF THE BEHOLDER.
Pupils will have a great time watching the movie and answering the different questions.
Questions include :
1- Match the following Characters with their d ...
This is a great worksheet for a lesson about friendship - it contains things that a ftrue friend does - each beginning from every letter of the alphabet!
For example, A True Friend
(a) accepts y ...
It is a worksheet on celebrities. The aim is to be able to present someone (name, age, nationality, place of residence, pets, brothers and sisters ..).
Note: The first exercise needs a photo of O ...
This is a controlled writing activity for children, where they use the information in a simple form to write a short description of a person. After practising with different forms, they are asked ...
This is a short exercise that is very useful to revise descriptions and to introduce the interrogative form of the modal verb CAN. It has been specially designed for elementary students aged betwe ...
The worksheet is a colourful speaking card. Following the steps of the exercise kids will be able to make up a short story about personal information about the character. This card is an effective ...
I use these vocabulary maps with any new topic, students always have a chance to know which words are compulsory to know on the topic. I have such vocabulary maps to all topics we take during the ...
Do this activity in groups of four or five.These events are things that have happened to you in the past.
Pick up a card and read it out to the other members of your group. They must each ask you ...
This is a great roleplay worksheet that will keep your students talking for as long as you want them to :)
There are cards with the situation about interviewing a celebrity who is 1000 year ...
This worksheet contains five parts which focus on different types of activities. The first two ask the learners to use their creative writing techniques filling in the lines in the poem and creat ...
It is a funny activity sheet to practise clothes vocabulary. This material can be used to make your lessons more fun. It also contains a grammar practice exercise on using the expression"a pa ...
This worksheet will help your students to understand and to use the Present Continuous. The good thing about this worsheet is the approach given to the Present Continuous. Students will realize th ...
It's a worksheet for practicing the adjectives, it contains two activities of completing sentences with adjectives and also students have to draw their favourite animal and give a description for ...
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