Vocabulary, grammar and punctuation

Describing words

Find the word that tells you what someone or something is like.

A describing word tells you what something is like. It can say the colour, the size, the shape, the taste or the feel.

Have a play

Four shapes, and each one has a describing word in its name. Find out how each shape is described.

Tap any part of the picture.

Remember

The describing word usually sits just before the naming word. A red bus, a soft bed, two cats.

Worked example

The old man sat on a wooden bench.

  1. Find the naming words first: man and bench.

    Describing words like to stand next to them.

Try it together

Let's find three describing words together.

    1."I have a green bag." Which word describes the bag?

    Have a go

    Have a go. Which word describes the box? "The box is heavy."

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    Eight questions on what you have just read. Nothing is timed, and you can play as many times as you like.

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