Colours

Play some word games to learn and practise colours vocabulary.

Print the worksheets about colours and complete the exercises to help you practise your English!

Print a set of colours flashcards, or print some for you to colour in and write the words!

Practise your writing by answering the questions and telling us what you think about colours.

  • What's your favourite colour?
  • Colours can sometimes have special meanings. Red can sometimes make us feel angry, yellow can make us feel happy and blue can make us feel sad.
  • Do colours have a special meaning in your culture?

Practise colours with this traditional song about rainbows.

Billy and Splodge are in a spaceship visiting lots of colourful planets. What will they discover? Watch and find out!

Print the rainbow picture, read the sentences and colour it in!

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Listen to the tongue twister and practise saying it. How fast can you say it?

Listen to the tongue twister and practise saying it. How fast can you say it?

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Do you know how to make water walk? Practise your reading in English with this science experiment.

There are colours all around us, but for some people, it's not easy to see the difference between them. In this video, Marcus explains what it's like to be colour-blind.

Elmo is wondering why his fur and his friend Wes's skin are different colours, like the leaves in the park. Watch the video to find out why!

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