Delightful Descriptive Writing Exercises and Worksheets
Descriptive writing is an attempt to give a clear description of people, places, objects, or events using descriptive language and informative details. Descriptive writing exercises can include:
brainstorming
outlining
word sorting
sentence writing with pictures
transitions exercises
1 Descriptive essay outline template
This is an essay outline worksheet to help students focus on organization and planning when preparing to write essays. It helps them write clearly and logically.
This is an exercise that helps students expand their vocabulary and shows them that there are many words available to help them write more creatively and with more attention to detail.
This worksheet is designed to help students learning English become familiar with vocabulary for shapes. Students match the vocabulary to the pictures.
This is an English language writing exercise for students to practice writing descriptive sentences. Students look at the pictures and try to write between two and five sentences.
Memorable Narrative Essay Writing Practice Exercises
Narrative essay writing is best taught with a combination of brainstorming, outlining and practice writing exercises that encourage students to write in the past tense and use appropriate transitions. Teaching narrative essay writing is quite enjoyable as it allows students to write about personal experiences.
5 characteristics of narrative writing include:
1. A narrative typically tells a story from a particular point of view, and this point of view is usually that of the narrator.
2. A narrative often has a plot, which is a sequence of events that the story follows.
3. A narrative may have characters, who may be either fictional or based on real people.
4. A narrative typically takes place in a specific time and place.
5. A narrative may have a theme, which is a central idea or message that the story conveys.
1 “First Day at University” (narrative essay transitions exercise with answers)
This is an exercise to help students understand transitions in narrative essays.
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2 Narrative paragraph practice (favorite memories)
This is an exercise for students to practice writing narrative or past tense sentences about happy moments and experiences. Students look at the pictures and try to tell a story in 2-5 sentences.
This is an exercise challenging students’ understanding of narrative transitions. They have to create an appropriate narrative situation for each transition.
5 Narrative sentences practice (or past tense writing exercise)
This is an exercise for students to practice writing narrative or past tense sentences. Students look at the pictures and try to tell a story in 2-5 sentences.
7 Brainstorming influential life experiences (with answers)
This is an exercise for students to brainstorm ideas and write sentences in preparation for a personal profile essay using narrative techniques. On page 1 they use the vocabulary to write short sentences for suitable for each picture. On page 2 they write the sub-topics they might use in an essay and explain their experience in a few sentences.
7 Money and Finance Vocabulary and Speaking Worksheets
5th September 2023
Money and finances might seem like a boring teaching topic. However, it can be more made more interesting and extremely relevant with the aid of video, images, conversations and audio. This can help give context and clarify the meanings of vocabulary and language used to talk about money and and financial subjects.
1 Inflation conversation
Inflation is one of the hottest topics these days. This lesson helps students become familiar with the vocabulary and expressions associated with inflation.
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2 Cost of living lesson
This is a really useful lesson introducing cost of living vocabulary. The PDF is an excerpt from the lesson. See the details below if you want to subscribe and get the complete lesson.
These days, you hear and see words such as “inflation” and “bear market” everywhere. So this is a lesson about financial crisis vocabulary. For the full lesson see the subscription details below.
5 Elements of money and finances vocabulary and expressions (with audio and answers)
This is a business English ESL listening/speaking exercise introducing and exploring financial vocabulary. Students try to match the vocabulary with the appropriate pictures. Then they ask and answer the questions.
This is an elementary ESL listening/speaking exercise for talking about money. First, students try to match the vocabulary at the bottom of the page to the pictures. They can then listen and write notes below the pictures. They can also also ask/answer the questions as a speaking activity.
7 Parts of speech for money and finances vocabulary (with answers)
This is a sorting exercise exploring the grammar of financial vocabulary. Students try to sort the words into the appropriate columns. Then they use the words in sentences.
This is a business English ESL exercise introducing and exploring basic financial vocabulary. Students try to complete the sentences by looking at the pictures. This exercise works well as an icebreaker at the beginning of a lesson.
1 Invitations: accepting and refusing (with answers and audio)
Students try to complete the invitations conversations using the pictures and the useful vocabulary. Or you use the audio and you can have a listening lesson instead/as well.
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2 Invitations and excuses
This exercise is a more advanced one than the one above. It aims to expand students’ vocabulary.
5 Making requests around town (with answers and audio)
Students try to write commonly used requests and short conversations that are appropriate for the situations shown in the pictures. And then listen to the conversations to compare and check their answers.
6 Requests, advice and commands speaking skills (with answers and audio)
This is a speaking/listening exercise and worksheet for English language learners to practice deciding whether to give commands, advice or make polite requests in a variety of situations shown in the pictures. This exercise can be done as a listening exercise now that I have added audio.
This is a grammar exercise and worksheet for English language learners to practice making polite requests in the different ways and different scenarios. Students match the expressions on the left to the pictures and write complete requests with the appropriate request phrase.
New Year resolutions provide a lot of useful language and vocabulary that can form the basis of good vocabulary and discussion lessons. It’s quite a personal topic and gives students a good opportunity to express themselves. This is an English language worksheet for thinking about and brainstorming resolutions for the next year. It is also a good and way to teach the future tense.
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3 Resolutions for the future worksheet
This is an English language worksheet for thinking about resolutions for the future. Students write down their own resolutions under the appropriate headings. Then they choose their three most important resolutions and set dates/ deadlines for when they want to achieve those resolutions.
This is an activity for introducing or exploring the vocabulary and language of New Year resolutions. It can used for dictating new language or it can be used as a game by giving students or teams points for guessing/finding the words that match the pictures.
2 Icebreaking Crime and Illegal Acts Vocabulary Exercises
Crime and illegal activities vocabulary 1 (with answers)
Students look at the pictures and match the them with the vocabulary. This exercise is a great icebreaker or introductory exercise for a discussion about crime and illegal activities. After matching the words to the pictures, students could be asked to rank the crimes in order of seriousness. Alternatively, they could be asked to think of appropriate punishments for each crime.
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Crime and illegal activities vocabulary 2 (with answers)
This is a second exercise in the same format as the exercise above. It expands on the vocabulary in the first exercise. Another idea for following up on the vocabulary exercise would be to get students to write opinions crimes that effect their lives, explaining where, when and how they they have been affected.
10 Interpersonal and Intercultural Body Language, Gestures and Etiquette Language Exercises
January 20th 2024
Body language is always an interesting topic for the classroom. Body language and gestures elicit a surprising variety of interpretations. It’s quite fun. And of course, when you add in a mix of cultures, it gets even more interesting.
1 Body language quiz with answers
This is a body language quiz with answers for language learners and for intercultural communication. Students read the description of the body language and write a suggestion for it’s meaning.
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2 Expressing opinions about travel and culture
A vocabulary and critical thinking exercise for discussing travel and culture. Students use the words at the bottom of the page to complete the sentences and then agree/disagree with the statements and give reasons for their choices.
This exercise explores gestures as a form of interpersonal communication. I should note that the answers may vary and my answers are just my interpretation.
6 Body language and gestures 3 vocabulary exercise (with answers)
The exercise below is for introducing and exploring body language and gestures vocabulary. Students match the vocabulary to the pictures. This can serve as an introduction to a discussion of intercultural communication and body language.
7 Body language, gestures and manners vocabulary dictation
This is exercise is a good way of introducing the vocabulary associated with body language, gestures & manners to learners of the English language. Dictate the vocabulary on Page 2 of the PDF and tell the students to find the appropriate picture and to write the words on the correct picture. Dictate the words randomly. Alternatively, if the students are quite weak scramble the words on the whiteboard.
This is an exercise for practicing language associated with manners and etiquette. Students look at the pictures and complete the speech bubbles with their own ideas.
10 Polite vs impolite etiquette language skills worksheet (with answers)
This is an exercise for practicing language associated with manners and etiquette. Students look at the pictures and write sentences with their own ideas.
This is an ESL speaking and writing lesson for practicing basic language for talking about relationships and culture. Learning and understanding the language of relationships, friendship and romance is a pretty fun and easily personalized topic for English language learners. First, students match the pictures with the vocabulary and expressions at the left of the page. Then they can hold short conversations using the example at the bottom of the page as a guide .
