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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1) “What’s the Earth without Art?” It’s just “EH”. That’s an introduction to this lesson plan. 2) Then comes a general talk about art and eliciting the vo ...
This worksheet is made to practice passive voice & materials (wood, paper, glass, porcelain, leather, etc.) in an unusual fun way, it will include your students' imagination and creativity. Th ...
This is a worksheet to practice descriptive adjectives. Students read a description and guess who it is. Then there is an extra activity to cut and hand out to students to practice what they read ...
No doubt that wordlists are essential elements of studying and further reference. This particular wordlist is designed for ‘Culture and Art’ topic and comprises the most common words r ...
This material is aimed at elementary learners and can be used as a warm-up or any other teaching purpose concerning picture description. Students should look at the picture of the Griffin family a ...
This worksheet presents three exercises using there is/there are and some prepositions of place such as opposite, between, next to, far from. Students have to use positive, negative and interrogat ...
In this worksheet, ss learn the names of classroom items. They have to listen and repeat the words. They can colour the items. The worksheet also presents the zero and indefinite articles. Ss have ...
This is a fun worksheet to work with kids. The drawings are taken from an Argentine Sunday magazine that offers games for children, so when it's possible, and I can adapt it, I translate the games ...
This exercise can be used as a warm-up speaking activity for an intermediate level. If the class size is small, this activity can be used as the whole class activity. Give a card to each student a ...
Powerpoint with lots of pictures of objects. Students must name the object and then say what material it's made of, what it's used for (and who it was invented by, if possible!). It's best to na ...
Describe this girl: an activity to practise descriptions. There is a picture of a girl and some words that can help students to write their description. Though some words are given, you can add mo ...
I have used this worksheet to revise vocabulary related to the unit 4 of my coursebook. That unit was about food among other things. I have provided the students with a list of useful vocabulary f ...
This is an information sheet for my students about how to present a book in class, what to include, what to talk about etc. They use it as a guideline when they present a book in the context of bo ...
this PPP will help you to teach how to write paragraphs: the topic sentence, the body itself and the conclusion. Then, you have the different types of paragraph... You can look for different parag ...
You can work with this worksheet to introduce vocabulary sts are going to learn about hotels. They have to guess and remember vocabulary they may know about hotels, and then they can watch this sc ...
This worksheet is designed to encourage students to use adjectives to paint a picture with words. The purpose of this worksheet is to have the students write a small passage describing each photo ...
This is the second part of the classroom vocabulary. We can use it to teach words and pronounciation. Basic and intemediate grade. There are about thirty five words , you can form sentences ...
It's a picture word list about the things in the classroom. We can use it to study the vocabulary and the pronounciation. This is only the middle. There are two parts. We can use at the elemetary ...
This 25 slide verbs/daily routine Power Point Presentation is animated with fun cliparts that is sure to amuse and entertain students, as well as get them excited about learning new vocabulary and ...
This 25 slide verbs/daily routine Power Point Presentation is animated with fun cliparts that is sure to amuse and entertain students, as well as get them excited about learning new vocabulary and ...
This ppt is all about things we see in the playground. Children were first shown the pictures slide by slide and then they were asked to identify the things they know.Then they were asked to descr ...
This worksheet can be used with upper intermediate to advanced English learners. It will help them get ready to talk about this controversial topic. It will allow students to give thei ...
Students will practice writing skills using synonyms that illustrate a picture. Students list synonyms for overly used words, write sentences, and revise paragraphs to vary word choice. Several ...
An activity, based on pictures of people working as living statues in Barcelona. Can be used while studying 'professions' or 'lifestyle' themes in classes of different levels for practicing spea ...
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