Showing posts with label adjectives. Show all posts
Showing posts with label adjectives. Show all posts

Monday, October 18, 2010

Adjectives describing appearance - another exercise

This exercise is from one of my favourite sites, BBC Learning English.
Don't print page 1 as it's just the title page and print page 2 before you do the exercise as the answers are on page 3!
http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/learningenglish/quiznet/pdfs/17_vocab_appearances.pdf 

Sunday, October 17, 2010

Adjectives for describing appearance

This is a good list of adjectives to describe appearance.
http://www.esolcourses.com/content/exercises/grammar/adjectives/appearance/vocab1.html

I like it because it explains which adjectives are impolite to use and gives alternatives.
I quote:-
Important note: be careful using negative adjectives when commenting on a person's appearance, as some people may be very offended by them! In most situations it is safer to use a neutral or positive adjective (for example slender instead of thin, large instead of fat).
There are some gap fill exercises but they are very simple.
However, the matching quizzes are good.
Make sure you've studied the list of adjectives first, though!
http://www.esolcourses.com/content/exercises/grammar/adjectives/appearance/synonyms/wordmatch.html
http://www.esolcourses.com/content/exercises/grammar/adjectives/appearance/antonyms/wordmatch.html