A selection of English ESL adjectives to describe personality and character printables with song and nursery rhyme activity, listening comprehension

Song and nursery rhyme activity

Adjectives to describe personality and character

Culture, intercultural communication, cross-cultural communication

Adjectives to describe feelings, emotions

Adjectives: Gradable / Non-gradable adjectives

Articles: Definite or indefinite article (a, an or the)

BE + infinitive structures (e.g. he was to become famous)

Clauses of contrast (e.g.  although, while)

Clauses of purpose (e.g. in order to, so that, so as to)

Clauses of reason (e.g. because, because of, due to, as, since)

Cleft sentences (e.g. It's Joey we're looking for)

Comparison: Comparative adjectives and structures

Comparison: Superlative adjectives and structures

Conditional 2 (second conditional) - would

Conditionals: Conditional phrases (e.g. unless, provided that, as long as)

Conjunctions (aka connectives, e.g. and, but, or, so, then)

Contractions (shortened forms, e.g. don't, aren't, etc.)

Determiners (words that can come before nouns)

Formal and informal English (politeness or colloquial language)

Future perfect continuous (progressive) tense

Future perfect simple and continuous (progressive) tense

Future phrases (e.g. be about to, bound to, likely to, due to, set to + INF)

Homonyms (two words with the same pronunciation - homophones and homographs)

It as preparatory subject (e.g. it's raining, it's nice of you to)

Linking verbs (aka copulas, e.g. I am a student)

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Nouns: Collective nouns (team, class, family, committee)

Nouns: Proper nouns (names of people, cities, companies)

Oxymorons (phrases with words of contradictory meaning, e.g. living dead)

Participles: Past participle (e.g. HAVING DONE)

Participles: Present participle (e.g. DOING)

Parts of Speech (aka word classes, e.g. nouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs)

Past perfect continuous (progressive) tense

Phonetics (pronunciation, IPA, phonetic symbols)

Plural nouns: regular plurals with S ending

Prefixes (e.g. A, UN, IM, DIS, MIS, EN, etc. )

Prepositions vs adverbs (e.g. before me, saw him before.)

Prepositions: Double prepositions (e.g. out of)

Prepositions: Participle prepositions (e.g. pending, concerning)

Prepositions: Phrase prepositions (e.g. by means of)

Present perfect continuous (progressive) tense

Present perfect simple or present continuous tense

Present simple tense: S for third person singular verbs

Present simple vs continuous (progressive) tense

Pronouns: EACH OTHER, ONE ANOTHER (reciprocal pronouns)

Pronouns: Possessive pronouns (e.g. my, mine)

Pronouns: Reflexive pronouns (e.g. myself, yourself))

Pronouns: SOMEBODY, ANYBODY, EVERYBODY, NO ONE, NOTHING, etc.

Pronouns: THIS, THAT, THESE, THOSE (demonstratives)

Pronouns: YOU and THEY to talk about people in general

Quantifiers (e.g. some, many, much, any, few, little)

Questions: WH questions (open-ended questions)

Reported speech: reported questions (indirect questions)

There is / there are / there was / there were / there will be, etc.

Verbs: Transitive or intransitive verbs (words that can or cannot stand with objects)

Working with Paragraphs: ordering, titling

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Pictionary (picture dictionary) or picture matching

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Learners who are Pre-A1 have just begun learning English and will first learn how to:<ul><li>Say the letters in the alphabet and numbers</li><li>Say hello, talk about names and age</li><li>Name the colors and dates, express likes and dislikes</li></ul>

Absolute beginners who have begun to learn the letters and numbers

Learners taking the A1 Elementary exam should be able to:<ul><li>Introduce themselves and ask and answer questions about personal details such as where he/she lives, things he/she has, people he/she knows.</li><li>Communicate using very basic phrases as long as the other person talks slowly and clearly and is prepared to help.</li><li>Main grammar points to know: common adjectives & adverbs of frequency, going to, how much/how many, imperatives, I'd like, 's – possessive, common prepositions of place and time, present simple & continuous, there is/are</li></ul>

A very basic tourist level, which is enough for buying food and a bus ticket

Learners taking the A2 Pre-intermediate exam should be able to:<ul><li>Understand sentences and frequently used expressions (e.g. very basic personal and family information, shopping, local geography, employment).</li><li>Complete tasks that are routine and exchange information about familiar matters.</li><li>Describe matters of immediate need in simple terms.</li><li>Main grammar points to know: countable/uncountable nouns, adverbs of frequency, future will/going to, much/many, present perfect, past simple, past continuous, common phrasal verbs, common modals: can/should</li></ul>

A tourist who can do basic conversations about the past, present and future

Learners taking the B1 Intermediate exam should be able to:<ul><li>Understand points regarding family, work, school or leisure-related topics.</li><li>Deal with most travel situations in areas where the language is spoken.</li><li>Create simple texts on topics of personal interest.</li><li>Describe experiences, events, dreams, and ambitions, as well as opinions or plans in brief.</li><li>Main grammar points to know: question tags, intensifiers: too/enough, future tenses, past tenses, modals, conditionals, wh-questions in the past</li></ul>

Learners who can deal with both familiar and routine situations, in friendly and work contexts

Learners taking the B2 Upper-intermediate exam should be able to:<ul><li>Understand the main ideas of complex text on both concrete and abstract topics, including technical discussions in his/her field of specialization.</li><li>Interact with fluency and spontaneity that makes regular interaction with native speakers quite possible without difficulty for either party.</li><li>Produce clear, detailed text on a wide range of subjects and explain an opinion on a topical issue giving the advantages and disadvantages of various options.</li><li>Main grammar points to know: perfect tenses, mixed conditionals, modals in the present, phrasal verbs, reported speech, wish, relative clauses</li></ul>

The level where you can be a tour guide for your foreign friends and talk about a lot of topics, even abstract ones, with ease and fluency

Learners taking the C1 Advanced exam should be able to: Express ideas fluently and spontaneously without much obvious searching for expressions. Use language flexibly and effectively for social, academic and professional purposes. Understand a wide range of demanding, longer texts. Produce clear, well-structured, detailed text on complex subjects, using linking phrases (=words that connect ideas between sentences). Main grammar points to know: inversion, mixed conditionals, modals in the past, all passive forms, phrasal verbs (all patterns), wish/if only for regrets

Learners who can smoothly communicate in every walk of life, read long texts and write well

Learners taking the C2 Proficient exam should be able to:<ul><li>Understand almost everything read or heard with ease.</li><li>Summarize information from a variety of sources into a coherent presentation.</li><li>Express themselves using precise meaning in complex scenarios.</li><li>Can express him/herself spontaneously, very fluently and precisely, differentiating finer shades of meaning even in the most complex situations</li></ul>

Get here and you are ready to study in English at university

This activity was designed to review parts of the body (eyes, lips, face, hair...), simple present and describe a person using adjectives. You can use this song activity as a warmer or cooler. Or as part of TBL activity when introducing vocabulary or adjectives for describing a person. 

Just the way you are by Bruno Mars

1st of all, download the song "Human" by Rag'N'Bone Man and then do this worksheet which has a lot of activities. Listening activity for students to increase their skills. Let them listen at least twice and complete the worksheet. Hope you like it !!! :)

Song Human 

hi!

I've created this worksheet for my speaking club. It is good for practicing of ajectives. 

You can listen to the song here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CUjIY_XxF1g



Students' task is to complete the missed words; to chose right variant; to put the words from the box into the lyrics. 



Hope you'll like it!

Hand in my pocket

What makes a good friend is a worksheet meant to help beginners to describe their friends. It is a fun activity. you can watch a video  and complete the missing words of a song. you can also find a word search game. another activity is to fill in the keys to being a good friend. enjoy! 

What makes a good friend

A complete worksheet for Maroon 5's HIT single "Girls like you"

Includes Lyrics exercise to fill the gaps

- Small Biography

-Questions about the band



Fantastic activity to do with teenagers, I usually let them hear the song twice (like a B2 exam format) and then start asking them for the answers in their gaps. Then we go on Youtube and look up for the song with lyrics or either print the lyrics and make corrections. Ask students about words they didn't understand.



Hope you have as much fun as your students!

Maroon 5 - "Girls like you" Worksheet

12 songs of Christmas - Song 9



Students complete the worksheet by listening to the song and filling in the gaps.



Student then self correct their answers by watching the video and also learn some new vocabulary in the process: https://youtu.be/WZrvgt8G1zg

You're a mean one, Mr. Grinch - worksheet and video (with answer key)

song lyrics about the importance of friends. It's for 7th form pupils used as a post activity after speaking about their best friends (module 2 lesson 1 Aly's friend). the pupils listen to the song then copmlete the gaps with the right words (reviewing possessive pronouns and adverbs of frequency) 

BEST FRIENDS FOREVER https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g9fBQYE-S5o



It´s a song activity to review comparative and superlative as well as new words. The first exercise is to try to  order the endings before listening to the first part of the song. You may go to the glossary to pre- teach any new words from this first exercise. The second exercise is to listen to the song and number the adjectives in order they appear. There are some exercises on page 2 to review the comparative and superlative forms of the adjectives in the song.

The key is on page 3.

You Gotta be - Des´ree

The WS is created to get used to adjectives and to learn new words. It goes along with listening the song from Lenka and it is pretty fast, so the kids should listen to it at least two times. It is supposed to be a funny part of a lesson about adjectives. It is also nice to learn about abilities of animals.

Lenka Everything At Once Song Practice

BEST FRIENDS FOREVERhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g9fBQYE-S5o

another song-based activity, this time the task is to find and translate various adjectives you can find in the lyrics. Good idea to expand English vocabulary, hope you like it!

spot an adjective

It´s a song activity to review comparative and superlative as well as new words. The first exercise is to try to  order the endings before listening to the first part of the song. You may go to the glossary on page 2 to pre- teach any new words from this first exercise. The second exercise is to listen to the song and number the adjectives in order they appear. There are some exercises on page 2 to review the comparative and superlative forms of the adjectives in the song.

The key is on page 3.

12 Adjectives to describe personality and character, Song and nursery rhyme activity, Listening Comprehension English ESL worksheets pdf & doc