Describing a businessman

Descriptive Writing Exercises and Worksheets

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.

Elements-of–citations-language-exercise – Eslflow

Elements of Research and Citations exercise

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.

Quotations-and-citations-practice – Eslflow

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.

Personal-interview – Eslflow

Practice for doing a personal interview

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.

Gerunds and Infinitives Grammar, Speaking and Listening Activities

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.

Basic gerunds vocabulary and speaking exercise

Basic gerunds likes/dislikes (PDF)

(Basic gerunds video on YouTube)

Basic gerunds

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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.

Write a conversation worksheet for gerunds.

Gerunds: write a conversation (PDF)

See the YouTube video

3 Basic gerund brainstorm

This is an easy and  fun classroom icebreaker and brainstorming activity to introduce gerunds.

(download PDF)

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/infinitives listening and speaking exercise

Gerunds and infinitives listening/speaking exercise (PDF)

(see the YouTube video)

Gerunds and infinitives for gadgets and devices

5 Gerunds and infinitives sorting worksheet

Gerunds and infinitives sorting exercise worksheet for English language grammar students. Students sort the verbs into the appropriate gerund/infinitive/both columns.

Gerunds and infinitives sorting exercise worksheet

Gerunds and infinitives sorting (PDF)

 6 Gerund and infinitive sentences (with answers and audio)

Students use  picture cues to write sentences with gerunds and infinitives. Then they listen to the audio and check/compare answers.

Writing sentences with gerunds and infinitives

Gerund and infinitive sentences (PDF)

Gerunds and infinitive sentences

 7 Brainstorming gerunds and infinitives

Similar to the brainstorm above (exercise 2) but expanding to include both gerunds and infinitives.

Gerund and infinitive brainstorm activity

Brainstorming gerunds/infinitives (PDF)

ESL Listening Activities Guide

Comparative adjective exercises

Indirect and Reported Speech

10  Adjectives Exercises Including Adjectives for People and Things 

3 Parts of Speech Exercises

7 Picture-Based Present Continuous Worksheets (PDF)

8 Preposition Exercises for Location, Time and Movement (PDF)

5 Future Tense Vocabulary and Speaking Exercises

5  Useful Passive Voice Practice worksheets

6  Present Perfect Language and Speaking Worksheets

11  Incredibly Useful Past Tense Simple Teaching Activities (PDF)

Great Exercises for Conditionals (PDF)