Describer: Read a Description and Find the Picture

Describer is a reading game for English learners. A short description appears, and you click the picture it describes. Each turn shows eight pictures, so the reader has to catch the detail that picks out the right one.

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How to Play

Choosing a set on this page starts a game of 16 rounds.

• Read the description – A sentence or a short phrase names one of the pictures.
• Click the picture – Eight pictures are on the screen. A wrong click hides that picture, and you can try again. The score streak goes back to the start.
• Build a streak – Correct answers in a row are worth more. Along the way you earn lifelines: one hides half of the wrong pictures, one swaps in a new group of pictures, and the sixth correct answer in a row gives a star that shows the answer. A mistake resets the streak. Lifelines you have already earned stay.

Vocabulary Sets

There are 31 sets. Colors is the shortest, with 10 words, and the food sets are the longest, with 35. A game uses 16 of those words. Colors, Music, and Subjects are shorter than 16, so a few words appear twice, the second time with a different description. Review lets you look through every word in a set and hear it.

In the Classroom

Matching a description to one picture among eight is useful practice for adjectives, size, and where something is. Open a set in review before a game, or ask students to write their own description of a picture they see.

For more vocabulary practice, try Fast English or Monster Vocab.

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