The ability to describe something is an important aspect of English language learning so there are 270 'describing things' worksheets available to help students develop this skill. A student that is adept at providing descriptions will have the ability to carry on a conversation even without knowing the precise vocabulary words he or she wants to use. An example of this might be if a student is talking about cleaning out the attic but has forgotten or never learned the word attic. The student can describe a typical attic and explain its location within the house and still be able to clearly convey his or her meaning. A fun group activity that helps students practice this is posted here. On his or her turn, a student must choose a card and try to get group members to say the word on the card without saying the word and three other related words. This is a challenging and fun activity for intermediate students. You should feel free to edit or add cards and even change the rules of the game to suit your class. For more worksheets, browse through this section and dont forget to check out the warmers for short activities related to this topic.
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I use this PPT to practise speaking with all kind of students, although it is better to use it with skilled students. Whenever I do this activity in class the students have great fun when they see ...
These words can be used for playing taboo. Students take turns to explain the word in bold while trying to avoid using the other associated words. The words are chosen at random but are generally ...
This worksheet deals with the topic of dreams. It does not focus on any grammatical aspect in particular. It consists of a fill-in the blanks listening about analyzing dreams that I adapted from h ...
This powerpoint introduces the characters, elements, and concepts of bending powers from the Avatar: the Last Airbender series. This is a great before/after discussion for showing the first two ep ...
This exercise is for ESL beginners. Starting from a comic strip about Valentine's Day, the students must write a short narrative in the present simple tense. You might want to first go over the ...
This worksheet can be used for introducing or revising phrases of pictures description (e.g. in the foreground, in the left upper corner etc.) It consists of the list of these phrases and interest ...
I use this PowerPoint presentation in the lessons dedicated to great inventions made in the past. Students have to guess what a particular thing was used for. The answers are: a) thermometer, a) ...
My ESOL learners LOVE Mr Bean and I enjoy letting them watch it but I can't help feeling guilty as they aren't getting a lot of language input, being that Mr Bean doesn't say much. So, instead I g ...
This worksheet is based on a dialogue I found on Youtube. A man and a woman talk about their photographs. There is a gap-filling exercise in connection with the dialogue and some warm up activitie ...
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 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 ...
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, ...
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 is an open gap-fill activity on "Finding Nemo", students (group A and B) are supposed to complete the text by using one word for each gap. In group A there are other words missing than ...
This powerpoint is for a short project I did with my Chinese students. The English club consists of 5th graders. I used newspaper and magazine clippings and gave each student 4 pictures. 1. The pe ...
I created this worksheet to help students remember the vocabulary and the structure "what + be/look like + like", clothes, rooms, etc... It is better if the subtitles are in English. The Big Bang ...
This is based on the game Taboo and Balderdash. The worksheet gives a long list of words that can be used in this game. Place the words in a bag/hat/box. Students get into pairs and have a minute ...
This is a powerpoint presentation about materials for 7th grade vocabulary. The presentation shows the material with its name, and when possible a second image kids can use to remember the words. ...
This power point focuses on the use of more powerful adjectives in stories to make the ideas stronger. It includes worksheets where students substitute normal adjectives with more vivid ones or fi ...
This English resource was created for ks2 students. It includes 24 sentences but only eight of them are written correctly. Students must choose which sentence makes sense. This worksheet was creat ...
This activity focuses on sentence analogies. There are 24 sentences but only eight of them are written correctly. Students must choose which sentences make sense. This worksheet was created by Pri ...
A worksheet where, as a warm-up, students think about different things that shine. They then go on to listen to the song and fill in the gaps. The last exercise is also fun, a way of practising "l ...
This is a simple worksheet with various objects made of different materials (plastic, metal, glass and wood). Excellent for children to remember the names of the materials in association with obje ...
The activity is designed for a speaking class with elementary/pre-intermediate students to describe different areas: city and the neighborhood ares. The students have to describe the picture using ...
Students complete the sentences using the adjectives in the box. It's an activity to complement a describing places lesson and it also works with fairly, very, pretty in order to emphazise th ...
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