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Describing People

Aug 27, 2025
1 min read

Updated: Sep 30

Two animated characters face each other; one with black hair and a yellow shirt on a red background, the other blonde with a pink shirt on orange.

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A1

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50 min

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15 slides

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kids &teens

This ESL Lesson Plan Describing People introduces A1 learners to vocabulary and phrases for talking about people’s appearance, focusing on hair, clothes, and age. The lesson includes a variety of interactive activities such as games, short stories, and creative tasks where students describe and guess different characters.


Outcomes and skills:

  • Expanded vocabulary for describing people.

  • Improved ability to ask and answer simple questions.

  • Ability to describe appearance.

Vocabulary

  • long

  • short

  • curly

  • straight

  • red

  • brown

  • black

  • blonde

  • white

  • grey

  • beard

  • moustache

  • glasses

  • sunglasses

  • young

  • old

Lesson plan

  • Lead-in

  • Vocabulary

  • Grammar

  • Practice

  • Reading

  • Game

  • Speaking

  • Writing

Image credit:  Illustrations by Hanin Abouzeid, Unsplash, used with permission.








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