Students name their favorite actors and actresses, and then use adjectives to describe them. They go through a list of actors and actresses and discuss the adjectives they used to decribe them. As an extension, they can write about a film.

Learners examine how connected speech can change pronunciation. Using worksheets imbedded in this plan, students work in small groups to practice their skills of pronunciation.

Students practice their skills using business English. After a lecture/demo, students interpret economic graphs which are imbedded in this lesson plan. Then, they create their own graphs and describe them to the class.

In this verbs worksheet, 1st graders fill in sixteen blanks in a short paragraph with the verbs from a verb word bank to complete each sentence grammatically correct.

In this adjective word search, learners identify adjectives. A list of approximately 65 descriptive words are provided. An answer sheet is available.

In this matching terms worksheet, students match terms and their descriptions such as the alphabet, months, seasons, and more. Students complete 16 matches.

Students research and report on aspects of kites including: history, types, building and flying kites. They use Inspiration Software as a graphic organizer. They use gathered research to complete informational booklets.

Students discuss the importance of having an interesting and fulfilling job. Working in small groups, students discuss different occupations and the skills and tools related to those occupations. Continuing in groups, individual...

Students practice in a number of areas: expressing opinions, using comparatives and superlatives, descriptive adjectives and reported speech. The overall concept of this instructional activity can be applied to many other topics of...

In this ESL instructional activity, students read or listen to a description of where 10 employees park in a company lot. Students complete a chart that shows where each person parks.

For this Christmas worksheet, students analyze how to match up ten Christmas pictures on the left to their appropriate descriptions on the right.

Students develop their own ideas about the world around them. This lesson helps them improve their descriptive adjective vocabulary while they discuss perceived differences between nations through stereotypes.

In this descriptive writing worksheet, students observe, brainstorm and discuss all the aspects of shopping and different types of shops and then write a descriptive paragraph on what shopping means to them.

Students analyze Hamlet's soliloquy, "To be or not to be."  In this Hamlet instructional activity, students define unfamiliar words in the soliloquy and interpret the lines.  Students then read the lines aloud and identify...

In this ESL worksheet, students match the descriptions of clothing with the picture of the character who is wearing them. They read the descriptions, look at the clip art pictures of 7 characters, and write the letters B-G in the boxes...

Students use present tense verb endings by describing his/her routine daily activities, demonstrating verb endings. They listen to teacher's description, taking notes. They write their own journal entries about their own daily routines.

Learners explore color terms and related meanings and metaphors in cultural and literary contexts. They use the main colors to explore synonymous color terms and related metaphorical meanings of color words. Students recognize the...

In this ESL worksheet, students solve a crossword puzzle about different countries. Countries include Argentina, Belgium, Canada, Finland, and Libya.

In this Groundhog Day worksheet, students read through a description of Groundhog Day which explains when Groundhog Day is, what it is and what folklore means. There is a picture of a groundhog on the page.

In this people who wear uniforms worksheet, students write what job they have based on the description. Students complete 11 questions.

In this nationalities and languages learning exercise, students choose which country or nationality people are based on the description. Students complete 10 problems.

Students practice their conversation and writing skills as they strengthen their ability to talk and write about the past. In this ESL activity, students narrate a series of past events using past simple verb forms.  Students then...

Students practice saying and spelling long vowel "bossy E" words. In this spelling lesson, students play a board game that requires them to look at a picture, say and spell the word. The first person to the end wins.

Students solidify their knowledge of countable and uncountable nouns and their quantifiers. The lesson includes a number of overlooked or idiomatic expressions to help higher level students expand their knowledge.