1 Elements of appearance  vocabulary worksheet (with audio and answers)

       This is a listening/speaking  exercise  introducing and exploring the language and vocabulary of appearance for describing people.  Students listen to the audio and match the vocabulary with the appropriate pictures.

Elements of appearance vocabulary (PDF)

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2 What does he look like ? (conversation listening/speaking activity)

  In this conversation or speaking exercise students  practice  listening and creating  a conversation describing someone’s appearance. They use the conversation skeleton  below to create their own conversation.  This could also be adapted to be a speaking activity.

What does he look like? conversation  (PDF)

3 What do they look like ? (with  audio and answers)

  This is a  describing appearance listening, vocabulary and writing exercise. First, students listen to the audio and match the items (A-I) to the pictures. Then students use the vocabulary in the center of the worksheet or their own ideas  to write descriptions of the people in the pictures. 

Describing people and appearance listening and  writing (PDF)

4. Clothes and accessories listening/vocabulary (with audio and answers)

This is an elementary English language listening/vocabulary exercise introducing and exploring the language and vocabulary of clothes and accessories. Students try to match the vocabulary with the appropriate pictures. Or the exercise can be used as an introduction to the vocabulary and the students listen to the audio and match the words to the pictures.

Clothes and accessories (PDF)

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Describing People Home

This is similar to the second exercise above but with different pictures.

Describing  appearance writing 2  (PDF)

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