TEACHER’S NOTES

WORKSHEETS, ACTIVITIE S & GA ME S Appearance Crossword

Activity Type Introduction

Vocabulary Activity: In this fun describing appearance activity, students do a crossword
writing and giving clues, where they describe and guess words and adjectives related to
guessing (group and pair physical appearance.
work)
Procedure
Focus Divide the class into two groups (A and B).
Physical appearance
Give each student a corresponding worksheet.
adjectives and words
Tell the students that they are going to write clues for words
related to physical appearance.
Aim
To complete a crossword Explain that the students in both groups have the same crossword,
by describing and but Group A has the words down and Group B has the words
guessing words and across.
adjectives related to
physical appearance. Working together, the students invent and write down clues for
the physical appearance words written on their crossword. All the
students should write the clues on their own worksheet.
Preparation
When the students have finished writing, they pair up with
Make one copy of the two
someone from the other group.
worksheets for each pair
of students.
Have the pairs of students sit face to face.

Level Tell them not to show their crosswords to each other.

Intermediate (B1) The students then take it in turns to ask their partner for a clue
to one of their missing words, e.g. 'What's 1 down?'

Time Their partner reads out the clue for that word and the other
35 minutes student tries to guess what it is.

If the student guesses the word successfully, they write it on their

crossword.

If not, their partner continues to give more clues until the student
is able to guess the word.

When the students have finished, they check their spelling by

comparing crosswords.

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 DESCRIBING PEOPLE'S APPEARANCE

WORKSHEETS, ACTIVITIE S & GA ME S Appearance Crossword

Student A

1 2
S H
3 4
L A M S
5
I N O K A
6
M D U - I T

S S N T
7 8
O T N R
9
M A Y A

E C C
10
H B T
11 12
C E L I
13
H O V F
14 15
B U N E I
16
E B D T

A B E
17
R Y

A. Write clues for the words across.

1. ...............................................................................................................................

2. ...............................................................................................................................

3. ...............................................................................................................................

4. ...............................................................................................................................

5. ...............................................................................................................................

10. .............................................................................................................................

12. .............................................................................................................................

13. .............................................................................................................................

14. .............................................................................................................................

B. A
 sk your partner for clues to the missing words and complete the crossword, e.g.
'What's 6 across?'

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 DESCRIBING PEOPLE'S APPEARANCE

WORKSHEETS, ACTIVITIE S & GA ME S Appearance Crossword

Student B

1 2

3 4

6
M E D I U M - H E I G H T

7 8
S H O R T T H I N
9
T A L L

10
B E A U T I F U L
11 12
F R E C K L E S
13

14 15
O V E R W E I G H T
16
B A L D

17
C U R L Y

A. Write clues for the words across.

6. ...............................................................................................................................

7. ...............................................................................................................................

8. ...............................................................................................................................

9. ...............................................................................................................................

10. .............................................................................................................................

11. .............................................................................................................................

15. .............................................................................................................................

16. .............................................................................................................................

17. .............................................................................................................................

B. A
 sk your partner for clues to the missing words and complete the crossword, e.g.
'What's 1 down?'

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