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Describing Jobs with -ed and -ing Adjectives

A LESSON PLAN FOR ENGLISH LANGUAGE TEACHERS

Students play a fun card game, guessing game and/ or personalised speaking game to practise adjectives ending with -ed and -ing for feelings and properties, with useful jobs vocabulary.

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Describing jobs with ed and ing adjectives games

 

Adjectives with -ed and -ing guess the job game

Choose a job like one of those below, or choose an adjective and think of a job that could match that adjective. Don’t tell your partner what job you have chosen. Describe your feelings about that job until your partner guesses what job you are thinking of. If they can’t guess just from sentences like those in the box below, give other hints such as what equipment you use, what you wear or the first letter.

 

Useful sentences for describing jobs with –ed and –ing adjectives

“Doing… in this job would be… (because…)”

“I did this job (once) and it was…”

“I used to want this job, but now I think I would feel… every day.”

“I would feel… if I did this job (because…)”

“I would(n’t) like this job because it is…”

“It is a very… job (because…)”

“My father/ mother/ uncle/… has this job and they think it is…”

“Some people think this job is… (but I don’t think so).”

“This is the most… job in the world.”

 

Ask about any jobs or adjectives below which you don’t understand, working together to use them in suitable example sentences each time.

 

Describing jobs with -ed and -ing adjectives random pelmanism

Spread a set of cards made from the worksheet below across the table face down. Choose one adjective card and one job card (by choosing a small card and a big one). Try to make a sentence linking the two words with a reason why they go together. You can’t change the ending of the adjective card, so make sure that it fits in the sentence that you make. Your sentence doesn’t necessarily need to be your real opinion, as long as it makes sense. If your partner accepts your sentence as true and grammatically correct, you can keep those two cards and you get one point. If you can’t make a sentence that your partner accepts, you have to put the cards back in exactly the same places face down on the table to be used again later in the game.

 

Describing jobs with -ed and -ing adjectives family fortunes game

Choose a job or adjective such as one of the words below. Write three words that you most associate with that word (three adjectives if you chose a job, or three jobs if you chose an adjective). Tell your partner which (one) word you chose, then they will try to guess which three words you associated with that.

 

Jobs and -ed/ -ing adjectives cards 

 

bored

 

 

boring

 

shop assistant

 

security guard

 

confused

 

 

confusing

computer programmer

 

delivery man

 

excited

 

 

exciting

 

ambulance driver

 

helicopter pilot

 

embarrassed

 

 

embarrassing

 

clown

 

acrobat

 

exhausted

 

 

exhausting

 

farmer

 

removals man

 

interested

 

 

interesting

 

geography teacher

 

vet

 

frightened

 

 

frightening

 

bodyguard

 

spy

 

relaxed

 

 

relaxing

 

beach attendant

 

yacht captain

 

disgusted

 

 

disgusting

 

bin man

 

toilet cleaner

 

stressed

 

 

stressful

 

broker

 

nursery nurse

 

annoyed

 

 

annoying

 

babysitter

 

park attendant

 

fascinated

 

 

fascinating

 

nature photographer

 

researcher

 

satisfied

 

 

satisfying

 

chef

 

cleaner

 

scared

 

 

scary

 

roofer

 

soldier

 

terrified

 

 

terrifying

 

lion tamer

 

bomb disposal expert

 

thrilled

 

 

thrilling

 

stuntman

 

F1 driver

 

tired

 

 

tiring

 

nanny

 

PE teacher

 

challenged

 

 

challenging

 

Olympic athlete

 

IT teacher

 

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