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In this lesson you will do three things:

1) You will learn the names of the colors in English. (click here to go to this part)

2) You will answer 10 questions about the colors after looking at 2 pictures. (click here to go to this part)

3) When you are finished with the assignments, you will have time to practice the color words with some games and pratice quizzes on the computer. (click here to go to this part)


 

1) Colors

  Red
  Orange
  Yellow
  Green
  Blue
  Purple
  Black
  White
  Gray

Light and Dark Colors


 		 Red   Dark Red Pink 
Orange   Dark Orange
Light Orange

 		 Yellow   Dark Yellow Light Yellow
  Green   Dark Green
(Forest Green)		 Light Green
Blue   Dark Blue
(Navy Blue)		 Light Blue (Baby Blue)

 		 Purple   Dark Purple  Light Purple

 		 Gray   Black White

2) Now look at the pictures below
and answer the 10 questions.
Write your answers on paper.
 

1. What color shirt is the man on the left wearing?
2. What color shirt is the man on the right wearing?
3. What color blanket does the baby have?
4. What color hats do the people have?
5. What color is the llama (animal)?

6. What color skirt does the woman on the left have?
7. What color pants does the woman on the right have?
8. What color pants does the woman in the middle have?
9. What color collar does the woman in the middle have?
10. What color necklace does the woman on the left have?
 
 

3) Do you need more practice with colors?

Try the colors scrambled word game or
play hangman using the words for colors.

Do a crossword puzzle about colors
(and another colors crossword puzzle here).

If you speak Spanish, you can take a Spanish-English colors quiz!

If you speak Thai (and have a Thai font on your computer),
you can take a Thai-English colors quiz!

When you know the words, you can test yourself
by taking one of the colors quizzes online:
quiz #1, quiz #2, quiz #3, or quiz #4!

And if you want even more practice, you can do a more difficult crossword puzzle about color expressions (idioms).

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