10 Adjective lessons and exercises for all levels of students.

10 Adjectives Exercises and Worksheets With Pictures

Updated 23rd August, 2019

The best way to teach to most ESL topics is to have a variety of exercises. And few English as a Second Language teaching topics work as well with pictures as adjectives. So matching exercises with pictures are one of the easiest and enjoyable ways to introduce and review adjectives to students. Students quickly identify the situations in images and quickly understand the meanings of adjectives. Then it’s easier to move onto speaking activities such as classroom surveys.

1 Basic adjectives for things (with answers)

This is an ESL exercise to help familiarize students with basic adjectives. Students match the adjectives to the pictures and write short sentences. This worksheet helps introduce, reinforce or review students’ knowledge of adjectives. And it helps improve their skills. Click on the image or the link at the right.to download the printable PDF file.

Adjectives for things (PDF)

2 Basic adjectives for people (with answers)

This is an ESL exercise to help familiarize students with basic adjectives for describing people. Students match the adjectives to the pictures and write short sentences. Pictures engage the attention of students and they also encourage students to use critical thinking skills.

Adjectives for people (PDF)

3 Adjectives for the city (with answers)

This is an elementary ESL exercise for learning and using adjectives for describing the city.

Adjectives for the city (PDF)

4 Adjectives for life (with answers)

This is another elementary adjective worksheet to help students talk about everyday situations and behavior through adjectives.

Adjectives for life (PDF)

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5 Adjective icebreaker

This is an excellent elementary icebreaker for a lesson about adjectives.

Adjective icebreaker (PDF)

6 Personality adjectives dictation

This is similar to Exercise 3 above but includes many exercises for teaching personality adjectives.

Personality adjectives (PDF)

7 Personality Adjective Survey

This is an ESL speaking and writing lesson for learning adjectives. Each student chooses an adjective and writes five survey questions using his/her adjective. They then walk around the class asking their questions and noting down their answers. Finally, they write a short report from their survey question answers. This is a fun communicative exercise that allows students to mix freely.

Personality Adjective Survey (PDF)

8 Adjective Gallery teaching idea

This is a fun, creative and communicative ESL speaking activity for adjectives. Each student gets one or more slips of paper, chooses an adjective, draws some kind of picture or cartoon about an adjective (of their choice or assigned by the teacher) and then writes a multiple choice question about the picture. They can write the correct answer on the back of the slip of paper. When all the students are finished the students can walk around quizzing other students or the slips of paper can be handed around. Click on the image below or the link to download the printable PDF file.

Click here for the Adjective Gallery PDF file

9 Everyday adjectives

This is an ESL exercise for learning and using common, everyday adjectives . Students match the the adjectives to the pictures is an enjoyable and fun way to learn adjectives. . First, the students match the words to the pictures. Then they try to short conversations using the words.

Everyday adjectives (PDF)

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10 Adjectives for a businessman (with answers)

This is an ESL exercise for practicing the use of adjectives that might be useful in business English. Students match the adjectives to the pictures and if possible, try to make a sentence explaining why the adjective matches the picture.

Adjectives for a businessman (PDF)

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