Sense Verbs and Adjectives ESL Games, Activities and Worksheets

Five Senses Board Game

Elementary (A1-A2) 20 minutes
ESL Sense Verbs Game - Vocabulary and Speaking: Forming Sentences, Controlled Practice - Pair Work

In this free sense verbs board game, students practice forming sentences with the verbs: look, smell, taste, sound, and feel. In pairs, students take turns rolling the dice and moving their counter along... read more

Sensational Adjectives

Elementary (A1-A2) 25 minutes
ESL Sense Adjectives Activity - Vocabulary: Matching, Sentence Completion - Pair Work

In this enjoyable sense adjectives activity, students race to match sentence halves and complete them with sensory adjectives. First, Student A reads each sentence beginning to their partner, who chooses a suitable sense adjective and ending from... read more

Makes Sense

Pre-intermediate (A2) 25 minutes
ESL Sense Verbs and Adjectives Worksheet - Vocabulary Exercises: Table Completion, Gap-fill, Matching, Error Correction

In this comprehensive sense verbs and adjectives worksheet, students learn and practice how to use the verbs taste, feel, look, sound and smell with sense adjectives. First, students complete a five... read more

Sensational Pairs

Pre-intermediate (A2) 25 minutes
ESL Sense Verbs and Adjectives Activity - Vocabulary Exercises: Unscrambling, Gap-fill - Speaking Game: Forming Sentences, Guessing - Pair Work

In this useful sense verbs and adjectives activity, students unscramble sense adjectives and then use them in a guessing game along with the sense verbs look, feel... read more

Super Senses

Pre-intermediate (A2) 25 minutes
ESL Sense Verbs and Adjectives Activity - Vocabulary and Speaking: Writing Crossword Clues, Describing, Guessing - Group and Pair Work

In this creative sense verbs and adjectives speaking activity, students describe words with sensory verbs and adjectives for a partner to guess in order to... read more

Name Two

Intermediate (B1) 25 minutes
ESL Five Senses Board Game - Vocabulary and Speaking: Naming, Forming Sentences - Group Work

In this fun five senses board game, students name two things that match with sensory adjectives. One team member starts by picking up a card and asking their partner to name two things that... read more

Sensational Orders

Intermediate (B1) 30 minutes
ESL Sense Adjectives and Verbs Game - Vocabulary and Speaking: Describing, Matching, Asking and Answering Questions - Pair Work

In this free sense adjectives and verbs game, students order pictures by listening to descriptions of how the items look, feel, taste and smell. Student A places... read more

Sense Verbs

Intermediate (B1) 30 minutes
ESL Sense Verbs Worksheet - Vocabulary Exercises: Table Completion, Gap-fill, Sentence Completion - Speaking Activity: Forming Sentences - Pair Work

In this productive sense verbs worksheet, students learn and practice sensory verbs and adjectives. Students begin by reading about sense verbs (look, feel, sound... read more

Sweet Sensations

Intermediate (B1) 30 minutes
ESL Sense Adjective Games - Vocabulary and Speaking: Pelmanism, Matching, Describing, Guessing - Group Work

In these two engaging sense adjective games, students play a matching game where they match sense adjectives to pictures and then play a describing game in which they describe the pictures in terms of how... read more

Five Senses Game

Upper-intermediate (B2) 25 minutes
ESL Five Senses Game - Vocabulary: Describing, Guessing - Group Work

Here is an entertaining five senses game to help students practice sensory verbs and adjectives. In groups, students take it in turns to pick up a card and describe the word on the card to the group using the two prompts on the card and then... read more

What is it?

Upper-intermediate (B2) 30 minutes
ESL Sense Adjectives and Verbs Game - Vocabulary: Describing Things, Guessing - Group Work

In this imaginative sense adjectives and verbs game, students describe different things using sensory adjectives and verbs for others to guess. In groups, students look at their cards and think about how they... read more