Descriptive writing is an attempt to give a clear description of people, places, objects, or events using appropriate language and informative details. This page provides a few elementary ideas to help English language students write basic descriptions of people, places and things.
Who is he ? – describing a businessman
This is an ESL exercise for for describing a businessman. Students look at the pictures and brainstorm ideas about Randall’s life and career. Click on the image below or the link at the right.to download the printable PDF file.
This exercise helps introduce or familiarize students the aspects of a research paper Students match each item with the vocabulary at the bottom of the page.
Students look at the pictures and brainstorm ideas about Yuki’s life. This can be used as a warm-up for a describing a person writing exercise. Click on the image below or the link at the side to download the PDF file.
Quotations and citations practice
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This research exercise requires students to search for online information related to their topic, find relevant quotations,
and write an approriate citation.
This is a worksheet for a personal interview that can be done in or outside of the classroom. Students write 5 questions for their research topic. They then interview 3 people and note their answers on page 1. On the second and third pages they choose 3 quotations from each interview and write a citation.
6 Gerunds and Infinitives Grammar, Speaking and Listening Activities
1 Basic gerunds for likes/dislikes (answers and audio)
Basic gerunds vocabulary and listening/speaking exercise for talking about likes and dislikes. Students write sentences about the pictures and then answer questions using gerunds. It can also be a listening activity. Students listen to the audio and match Item (A/B/C….) to the pictures.
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2 Gerunds: write a free time activities conversation
Students use vocabulary cues to write a conversation with gerunds. it’s agreat way to get students more engaged with the language.
4 Gerunds and infinitives for gadgets and devices ( with audio and answers)
This is a fairly elementary gerunds and infinitives listening/speaking activity. It’s also a pretty good fluency exercise or review as gerunds and infinitives are so commonly used in everyday speech.
Gerunds and infinitives sorting exercise worksheet for English language grammar students. Students sort the verbs into the appropriate gerund/infinitive/both columns.
This is an English language exercise for students to brainstorm ideas about a movie of their choice in preparation for writing a review. Click on the image below or the link at right to download the PDF file.
