EFL/ESL: Monster Description Activity

This is an activity that was done during the teaching of body parts and expanding descriptive vocabulary.

For this activity, the teachers were each given a blank sheet of paper and a body part written on a note card. The note cards were turned upside down on their desks. When it was time to begin, the first teacher to go read her body part out loud to the class, and everybody drew his/her version of the body part on the blank sheet of paper. This continued until there were no more body parts to be read.

It doesn't matter which body parts are used or how many; for example, two of the teachers had a note card on which "head" had been written.

After all the body parts were read, the teachers came to the front of the class and put their drawings on the overhead for everyone to see. Teachers were called upon to describe the monsters, using the new vocabularies that they had learned. This was also an opportunity to teach more new vocabulary words, such as "squiggly" to describe a curly tail.

Was this an effective way to learn body parts and descriptive vocabulary? Why or why not? What would you do differently?