Speaking about various actor and actress and the films they have appeared in provides an ideal opportunity for students to use "bigger than life" descriptive adjectives - thus widening their the descriptive vocabulary skills.
Aim: Improve vocabulary skills used when speaking about the cinema, films and movies
Activity: Matching exercise combining descriptive adjectives and famous actors and actresses
Level: Intermediate
Outline:
- Ask students to name some of their favorite actors and actresses. Encourage them to use descriptive adjectives to describe them.
- Have students pair up and use the activity. Ask them to choose one or two descriptive adjectives that they feel describes the actor or actress best. Students should feel free to discuss their opinions.
- As a class, go through the list of actors and actresses and discuss which adjectives they have chosen to describe the various actors and actresses.
- As a follow up activity, ask students to choose an actor or actress that they are very familiar with and write a description of the various films that he/she has done using the various descriptive adjectives from the list, as well as others that they know or look up in a dictionary.
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