Resources
Let’s Draw Faces
This activity focuses on describing personal features. Teachers can either dictate features to the class and have them draw a face, or students may draw their own and describe in Chinese what they’ve drawn. A character only version is available.
Descriptions – Correct the Mistakes
An activity focused on personal descriptions. Students must read a description related to a character and spot the mistake according the character’s picture. An accompanying answer sheet can be found here.
Online resources
- BBC lesson describing people, including vocabulary, videos, song and photos
http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/primarylanguages/mandarin/families/describing_people/
- How To Describe Body Shapes In Chinese: including words and structures
https://www.italki.com/article/469/How-To-Describe-Body-Shapes-In-Chinese
- Describing people in Chinese: sentences in pinyin and characters and with English translation. Has got good audio clips for each example sentence
https://www.rocketlanguages.com/chinese/lessons/describing-people-in-chinese
- comprehensive vocabulary describing people’s appearance
https://blogs.transparent.com/chinese/describing-people-in-chinese-appearance/