A selection of English ESL appearance and personality printables

A source of questions you can ask students to elicit answers about previously learned words to describe the appearance or character. 

You can print it out and cut it and make the students draw the questions.

You can just ask them the questions directly.

Good for any level, if you pre-teach some new vocab to describe people.



Can be used for comparing (you take two pieces and ask to compare eg. a person you love with someone you hate)

Describe someone

The worksheet focuses on the vocabulary to describe appearance, namely facial features. It can be used as part of the module on the connection between personality and appearance. Tasks include listening for details, comprehension questions, and speaking activities.  

APPEARANCE. 7 Curious Facts Your Appearance Says About You

This worksheet helps students practice the grammar and vocabulary involved in describing people's appearances. Students use template phrases to describe their favourite characters from Hogwarts. Can be use for practising both speaking and writing skills

Describing people's appearance

You can use this worksheet to help children to describe people, they can first describe themselves then their parents, friends and then some people in the photos.

Describing the appearance

in this lesson, students learn how to describe other people’s physical appearance. The worksheet presents common adjectives used for describing what someone looks like as well as questions for asking about another person’s looks

physical appearance by Bougherara zineb 

Use this activitiy to exercise your student's writing skills. It focuses on expressing where one is from and what their personality and general appearance is like, from a very contextualize writing proposal. 



Students may struggle a little to read the textual proposal out, since it has words that they don't know. Teachers might pre-teach the vocabulary or read the text with the students, exploring the meanings of the words and other stuff they notice students need to be introduced to. 



With this activity, students will be able to

- express personal origins;

- exercise forms of the verb to be; 

- exercise uses of possessive adjectives; 

- exercise uses of the vocabulary about countries and nationalities;

- exercise uses of adjectives about personality and appearance;

- exercise creativity.



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Where are you from? - Expressing place of origin and personality

INFORMATION GAP ACTIVITY Pupil A has some info missing information, 	Pupil B has other info.	They must ask each other the 3 key questions to fill in the blanks.

Information gap activity:questions with like(appearance, likes, personality)

explain and exemplify comparing with -er and with more

Adjectives comparison

Students work in pairs or groups, they throw a die and need to describe a given person (their appearance and character) This activity is aimed to pracise vocabulary related to appearance and character. Hope it's useful!

Appearance&Character description - Board game

Each student receives a card that consists of three pictures - two people they have to find and one person that they know. Their task is to describe the pictures they have and to find someone who has these people and who knows the information about them. The first student who finds full information is the winner!

Good luck!

Guessing game Appearance

This worksheet helps students practice the grammar and vocabulary involved in describing people's appearances. Students fill in the blanks to distinguish between using "is" to describe another person with an adjective (i.e. "She is tall") and using "has" to describe another person with a noun (i.e. "He has brown eyes").  Students read descriptions of four people and use the descriptions to draw pictures.

Describing People by Appearance

4)	GAME – BUY ME – SELL ME (pair work)

-	Cut out a set of Appearance Exchange Cards so everyone has 4-5 cards (it depends on the number of SS, make more cards if needed, just remember that everyone must have the same number of cards on hand)

-	Divide the class into pairs, and have them discuss in what top-5 ways would their dream

partner look like, and 5 ways a partner from hell would look like (using new words). SS also use to be and Present Simple to describe their partners.

-	SS have Appearance Exchange Cards, whether good or bad and they must try and sell them to the group (one appearance card for another one)

-	SS must think about cards, and what’s positive about it even if they are disgusting.

-	1 important rule – SS cannot keep their cards. They must sell their cards, and buy new ones. When the game begins they walk around the room and try to barter cards with everybody.

(#   -    Hello. I have something interesting for you. Look, your girl has wrinkles.

-	Hi. No, I don’t want a girl with wrinkles. She is old. I want to have a young large-breasted girl.

-	Oh, you don’t understand. All kind and funny girls have wrinkles.

-	Really? Ok then.)

-	After all the cards have been sold, put students into pairs again and have them think as if they were in a relationship with that person they’ve just bought (all these appearance cards make a person altogether). In pairs SS describe their just bought partners to each other).  



Appearance 

Culture, intercultural communication, cross-cultural communication

Adjectives to describe feelings, emotions

Adjectives to describe personality and character

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

Role play, miming, drama activity or improv game

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>

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39 Appearance and personality English ESL worksheets pdf & doc