ESL Lesson PlansDescribing Cartoon Characters

Describing Cartoon Characters

This engaging lesson for kids and teens helps students develop speaking and vocabulary skills at the A2/B1 level. Through interactive activities, learners describe well-known cartoon characters, match descriptive words, complete fill-in-the-gap exercises, and unscramble sentences. The lesson concludes with a partner-based speaking task where students create their own character descriptions, reinforcing their ability to describe appearance in a structured way. Perfect for group classes, this 60-minute lesson boosts confidence in using descriptive language.

Skills

Can reasonably fluently sustain a straightforward description of one of a variety of subjects within their field of interest, presenting it as a linear sequence of points

60 min A2 (Pre-intermediate)B1 (Intermediate)Kids Teens Group Audio Movies and TV Series Human Body Adjectives Speaking Vocabulary

Online Interactive

Based on CEFR

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Look at the list of words. Work with your partner to brainstorm adjectives and phrases for describing these body parts.

Example: eyes - green, big, bright, etc.

1. head 2. eyes 3. nose 4. ears 5. mouth 6. skin 7. hair 8. height

Require students to provide an answer

Read the blog post about two cartoon characters. How does the writer describe what they look like?

Match these words from the text to make expressions. Some of them were not mentioned in the text. Which ones?

Fill in the gaps using the words from the list. You can look up a picture of each character to help you remember what they look like.

Work with your partner. Unscramble the words to make descriptions, then guess which cartoon characters they describe.

Work with a partner. Pick a movie or TV character and describe what they look like. Answer the questions below.

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