Provide Students with Subcategories

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Student Limits

For weaker students, it's a good idea to provide subcategories for describing objects in order to organise and orient their cognitive process of description.

A general task of asking students to think of adjectives to describe items is often too difficult for beginner students. The act of creating the English language is already pushing some students to the limits of their capacity.

Subcategories might include:

• size
• weight
• colour
• material
• texture
• use
• occasion

The use of subcategories helps the student to speak and think in English.