Printable Adjectives Games for ESL

 LINK to the Adjectives resource is here for your lesson planning :

https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Adjectives-for-Elementary-ELL-2150071

Play is essential for language learning—especially for elementary English language learners.

Matching cards game. It is a good idea to have the students get familiar with the cards by matching them on the table first. They see the word and picture together, helping them understand and remember the meaning naturally.

This game can be played in pairs or in groups of three. There are 24 cards. Give each group a set of cards. Students shuffle the cards and hand them all out to the members of the group. Students hold all the cards in their hands without showing them to the group. Explain that the idea of the game is to make pairs of picture and words. The first student to make them by getting rid of all the cards is the winner. Have them notice that there is a Funny Guy card that does not match to any word.

The game starts as students make pairs that they already have in their own cards and lay them on the table as they name the adjectives. The players make sure that the pairs are right.

Student 1 picks a card without seeing from the next to him/her and checks if it makes a pair to his/her own cards. If there is a pair, the students lay the pair on the table. The game continues until the first students gets rid of all the cards.

Play Memory Match (Concentration). Place picture cards and word cards face down. Students take turns flipping two at a time to find a match. Then, Say the adjective when a match is found.

A sentence association game that is always a favorite. It builds Sentence Structure Awareness.

Students learn how to put adjectives into simple sentence patterns. By matching adjective words to pictures and sentence parts, students become more confident using new vocabulary in real language. Lay out sentence cards and picture cards. Students match the correct sentence to the correct picture.

This scrabble-style activity is a tactile and engaging way for students to practice spelling and recognizing adjective words—a key skill for building both vocabulary and reading confidence. Students use the tiles to build the word.

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