Describing people

DESCRIBING PEOPLE
In this post we introduce over 40 vocabulary words for describing people in English, along with 6 sentence frames to use them in. The first three sentence frames are basic (level A1). The other three are a little more advanced (level A2-B1). All of the vocabulary is basic (levels A1 to A2). (If you don't know what A1 and A2 and B1 and B2 mean, learn about the CEFR!)
Note: Reading this article in English will be difficult for A1 and A2 students. We will soon translate this article into many different languages!
Sentence frames are a really useful way to learn how we speak English. A sentence frame is a sentence with an empty slot that many different words can go in for many different situations. For example, if you learn the sentence frame I feel you can make hundreds of different sentences. All you need to do is learn a new adjective that fits in that slot: I feel hungry. I feel tired. I feel angry. I feel sick. At a basic level, sentence frames are a great way to learn English!
The first three sentence frames we will look at are simple sentences. One of the most common ways to describe people is with adjectives: tall, short, fat, skinny, pretty, handsome, ugly. To use these common adjectives in a sentence, try this frame:
When you write you can think about the best word to use and spend time finding the best way to phrase something. This is useful as you will hopefully remember what you did when you need to speak or understand English and so will be able to do that faster. You can work slowly now so you will understand more in the future. If you need and help with choosing the best words when doing these ESL describing people writing activities you can look at the ESL describing people vocabulary page.
This page has the following four exercises for you to do:
In the first ESL describing people writing task there are three topics for you to write about. You should choose one of the topics and then write as much as you can about it. Use as much of the describing people vocabulary as possible and use full sentences and paragraphs. The more you write the better your English will get. Once you have finished the first topic you can then try the other two if you want.