Describing People

Functional English

Beg – Low Int
All ages
Grades 6–12

In this lesson, students review words and sentence structure used for describing people, including physical appearance and other personality and character traits. They also practice using and identifying adjectives and adverbs.

Note: The digital version of this lesson has different assessment tasks: listening (with video) and speaking. You can create your own assessment tool by downloading the Shared Criteria for Success and editing the fields as required.

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Focus

life skills
speaking
listening
real-world task
conversation
describing appearance / personality / character traits
famous people
family
adjectives & adverbs
A spinning paper plane
A spinning paper plane