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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This worksheet can be used at the end of a lesson on descriptive adjectives, or as revision for them. The students must choose three classmates and describe them using only descriptive adjectives, ...
Target: youngest learners of English as a Second/Foreign language. Aim: checking how well your students know names of body parts (face). Skills being tested: reading, writing and listening. There ...
This worksheet is a very simple way of revising "have got". It stars with a simple sentence to write after observing a dialogue and then pupils will do a pairwork which allows them to revise short ...
This worksheet was thought for children in primary education in their third grade. This is about Town Mouse and Country mouse. This a dialogue between them. Children can read it, play a ...
It is a nice speaking activity which can be either a warm-up or it can fulfil the major part of your lesson. You will need a list of vocabulary, a CD player and a rhythmic song. Each word must be ...
Hi, I am enclosing an activity based on some well known fairy tales. It consists of a PPT slides displaying images from well known fairy tales. There is no text on the slides. A teacher can use t ...
This is a set of activities based on the movie "Tangled". It includes vocabulary practice, mainly. The colouring activities are optional and there are 2 pictures (one of the princess for the girls ...
The 12 powerful words are words that show up repeatedly in the academic setting. This is a quiz over those words with word bank.
The 12 Powerful words:
Explain, Summarize, Describe, Trace, Pre ...
The 12 powerful words are words that show up repeatedly in the academic setting. This powerpoint is used as a review after the students have worked on the words a couple of times. One student si ...
The text is from the NY Times Learning Network and I created a vocabulary exercise using 10 words from the text. To introduce the article I used the title, The Roswell Incident, as a hangman sente ...
This is a video session practice on the movie Seven for students to get a general idea of the plot and to keep track of the different pieces of evidence they should remember when retelling the sto ...
This is a worksheet for teaching bedroom and furniture related vocabulary. There are two pages with activities in which students are asked to label the picture with the words in the box, look at t ...
When reviewing the materials things are made of, sts can classify these objects into many different materials such as cement, cloth, plastic, metal, wood, and many others more. before working with ...
The text is taken from the novel Holes, written by Louis Sachar. It is a chapter where the author describes the yellow spotted lizard, an animal invented for the book. After the reading there are ...
Students must read a short text about the Lake District. They will learn about the climate of the region, where it is located, important industries of the Lake District and tourism. Then the stude ...
I usually divide this activity into 3 parts. The first is to hand out the sheet of images and have the students try to guess the object and either its origin or use or both. They have a lot of f ...
One of several practice Excerpt Reading Comprehension worksheets that I created to strictly follow the format of the BAC English exam in France for my French native speaking high school students. ...
One of several practice Excerpt Reading Comprehension worksheets that I created to strictly follow the format of the BAC English exam in France for my French native speaking high school students. ...
With preparation this game can be played with elementary and pre- intermediate classes. For higher levels play with little or no preparation, simply reading out the rules. Bigger classes can be sp ...
After you have explained about 'there to be' and the use of 'some, any, a lot of, a, an' you can use this handout to practice with the ss. You can create a presentation to describe your neighborho ...
The worsheet has two exercises. The first one focuses on 'wh-' questions that aim at obtaining someone's personal profile. Candidates are encouraged to answer with complete sentences. The second e ...
Baby animals and farm animals, comparison of baby animals and adult animals. Nice and colourful flashcards showing some characters from cartoon, like garfield and donald duck. Kids really enjoy ma ...
After watching the movie Persepolis, students answer questions based on it and work on vocabulary. Persepolis is also a movie that can be worked for different subjects such as social studies, they ...
Match each part of a house: choose the correct part to put the numbers into the table. Work with a partner or alone to do this activity. The picture contains some parts of the house to practice in ...
This is a test I have prepared for my students in grade I. It is based on grammar and vocabulary aspects. The students have to answer the questions based on a picture, join the two halves, look a ...
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