Adjectives Worksheets and Printable Book

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Describe Yourself" Worksheet. This worksheet invites students to draw a picture of themselves and describe their appearance using simple adjectives. It encourages Self-Expression.

This worksheet invites students to read the sentence and color the matching adjective of the picture, supporting early reading skills and vocabulary development through action. It is a way to reinforce Word Recognition.

Repetitive adjective exposure boosts word familiarity and supports sight word development for English language learners. Use this cut and paste worksheet set along with unscramble sentence.

Build Confidence in Reading, by matching the sentence to the word featuring the character of MR. Big Nose from the book below.

This printable book features a character with a big nose in a fun and meaningful way to connect reading with learning adjectives—especially those related to physical appearance and descriptive language. Print the pages and put together as many books as you need.

After reading, students can draw their own character. They will describe it using adjectives based on the book.

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Printable Adjectives Games for ESL

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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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Adjectives Craft Stick Puppets Sorting

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Making and sorting puppets with adjective labels engages students physically, which helps them remember vocabulary better.

When kids cut, glue, label, and move their puppets, they’re actively connecting the word to the concept. I cut the toilet paper tubes in half and tapes a classification word.  I cut all the pictures and glued each one on a craft stick and also glued the word. But, you can glue only the picture and have the students find the word.

Sorting puppets by adjectives helps learners organize new vocabulary into categories (e.g., feelings, condition, weather, age, size, etc.). This boosts comprehension and prepares them for sentence building later.

Students can use their puppets to describe: “Coffee is hot., The ice cream is cold.”

These puppets are reusable and great for memory games by matching the word to the cutout.

Speaking Prompts. Students pick a puppet and describe it out loud using full sentences: “This is Sarah. She has gray hair She is old.”

Writing Activity. Students choose a puppet and write a short description using adjectives.

“This is Max. He is rich. He has short black hair and black eyes.”

Use the puppets for small group adjective practice to write a short story: There are two boxes, one is full, one is empty. There is an empty brown box and full white box. I like the full box, I don’t like the empty box.

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Adjectives Flashcards for Elementary ELL

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I made a big collection of adjective flashcards. It wasn´t easy to classify them. I made 101 flashcards.  There are adjectives for people, things, feelings, size, time, weather, origin, quantity, taste, appearance, condition and more.  You might be using them according to your scope and sequence of your book series or for writing lessons.

Improve listening skills with this flashcard activity. Show students the flashcards with adjectives of size: big, small.
Teacher: Look at the girl. She is wearing a dress. It is big. Continue with shoes and suit.
Then compare the flashcards related to the tie, dress and skirt.
Describe a flashcard only using an adjective. The children point to it and guess which one is it.
Teacher: long and big.
Students: purple dress.

Adjectives of size with big and small backpacks.

Teacher: What is this?

Student: It is a backpack.

Teacher: It is a big backpack. And this?

Student: It is a small backpack.

Play beanbag game with the adjectives of size: tall and short. Adjectives naturally lead into learning how to build longer and more complete sentences.

Make 2 beanbags. Place all the flashcards on the floor in random order and have students take turns throwing the 2 beanbags to the opposite adjectives.

Teacher: He is a tall man!

Place this adjective flashcard on the board for talking about physical appearance.
Ask questions to develop the oral and listening skills.
Teacher: Look at this man. He is tall. (write the word tall in white)
Look at this man. He is short. (write the word short in white)
Do the same with thin and fat but with a yellow chalk. Assign a name to each man. Make sentences.
Teacher: Pedro is tall and thin. Eddy is fat and short.
Have the class pick two students to make more sentences similar to the example.

Adjectives of quality or condition: Dirty and clean. 
Teacher: What are these?
Student: They are pants.
Teacher: They are clean pants.
Teacher: They are dirty pants. Point to the dirt spots.
Have the students walk around and find examples with more clothing items and say the corresponding sentence.

Introduce the adjectives of condition new and old with the flashcards. Show students the difference that these words are used for things. Point to the first car.
Teacher: What is this?
Student: It is a car.
Teacher: It is a new car.
Teacher: What is this?
Student: It is orange.

For Food. Adjectives of temperature: Hot and cold. Adjectives of Taste (Sensory Adjectives)

Adjectives of emotions or mood.  Here we have happy and sad flashcards.
Teacher: Who is this?
Student: He is Danny.
Teacher: Danny is happy.
Teacher: Who is this?
Student: He is Joe.
Teacher: Joe is sad.
Have two students come to the front and act as a happy and sad. The class has to make more sentences.

Adjectives of Age. These describe how old or new someone or something is, in terms of time, age, or development.

Descriptive Adjectives – Appearance (specifically Hair Adjectives)

These are a subcategory of physical appearance adjectives and describe: Color, Length, Texture, Style.

Descriptive Adjectives – Personality & Appearance

They are often divided into two related subcategories: Appearance Adjectives and Personality/Intelligence Adjectives

Adjectives of Wealth or Socioeconomic Status. These adjectives describe a person’s or group’s economic condition, specifically how much money or material resources they have.

Adjectives of Quantity (or Number)

These adjectives describe how much or how many of something there is. They're especially useful for countable nouns and are often taught early in English language learning.

Adjectives of Strength or Physical Ability. These adjectives describe how much power, energy, or physical ability someone or something has.

Directional words or spatial words.

Up and down. Adjectives help students describe making their language more specific and expressive.

Activity 1. Have your students stand up and sit down as you show the flashcards or arrow cutouts.
Activity 2. You can also give instructions using their hands.
Teacher: Hands up !
Teacher: Hands down !
Teacher: Boys, Hands up. Girls, Hands down.
Then introduce left and right.
Teacher: Hands to the right!
Teacher: Hands to the left!

Descriptive adjectives related to weather conditions. These adjectives describe what the weather is like.

Adjectives of physical state or need. They describe how someone feels physically—specifically, related to basic needs like food and drink.

Adjectives of Age or Time Period.

There are more adjectives flashcards to this resource. Download and use according to your lesson plan.

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