Learn and practise clothes vocabulary with puzzles, quizzes and exercises.
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Clothes Exercises
Clothes Exercises focuses on the basic vocabulary and structures needed for social interaction and everyday experiences. There are puzzles and quizzes to reinforce your learning so you feel confident using different texts about clothes.
⏱️ About 15–20 minutes.
💡 Strengthening new vocabulary for clothes.
📶 Developing stages of learning English.
Find as many clothes words as you can hiding in the grid. Words can run across, down, or diagonally — and some may be backwards!
👀 Scan one row or column at a time so you don’t miss any words.
⏱️ Try to find at least 8 words before you check the Key Vocabulary tab for help.
✏️ Not sure what a word means once you find it? Look it up in Key Vocabulary.
New to these words? Check the Key Vocabulary tab first.
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jumper — a warm knitted piece of clothing you wear over a shirt
raincoat — a coat that keeps you dry when it rains
trainer — a soft, comfortable shoe used for sport or everyday wear
uniform — the same set of clothes worn by everyone at a school or job
take off / try on — take off = to remove clothing · try on = to put clothes on to see if they fit
Useful Language
Talking about clothes: put on · take off · try on · wear · get dressed
Describing clothes: a warm jumper · a smart suit · comfortable trainers · a colourful scarf
Vocabulary Tip
Group clothes words by type to help you remember them — for example, things you wear on your feet (boot, trainer), things you wear for warmth (jumper, coat, scarf, gloves), and jewellery (necklace, earring, watch). Watch the difference between similar verbs: you put on or wear clothes, but you try on clothes in a shop before you buy them.
Can You…?
✅ Name 3 things you wear on your feet?
✅ Name 3 things you wear to keep warm?
✅ Explain the difference between wear and try on?
✅ Use take off in a sentence?
🗣️ Speaking practice
Talk about clothes and what you wear.
👕 Describe what you are wearing today.
🧥 What clothes do you wear in cold weather? What about hot weather?
🛍️ Talk about your favourite piece of clothing. Why do you like it?
✍️ Writing practice
Write a short description (25 words or more) of what someone in your family is wearing today.
📝 Use at least four clothes words from this page.
🎨 Include a colour for each item.
🔎 Vocabulary challenge
These words are not explained on this page — look them up or guess from the word search, then write your own sentence for each one.
👕 blouse
🕶️ sunglasses
👜 handbag
🧥 pocket
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Clothes Exercises
Practise what you have learned with these exercises.
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A2 Key Vocabulary
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