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Learning vocabulary is essential for learning any language, but it can be difficult to memorize without resources. Busyteacher.org offers 14,321 printable vocabulary worksheets in several different categories, all of which are great for you to use with your students.


Vocabulary is a key component in helping students with word building. More often than not, students become stuck when speaking about their interests or jobs because they don’t know enough vocabulary to express themselves. Using these worksheets as a resource will help them build sentences as they learn to use the English language with ease. When used as homework assignments, these worksheets will make sure that students continue to use the words learned in the classroom at home, and get the extra practice they need to progress in their learning.


With 14,321 vocabulary worksheets available, you can find material on a wide range of topics relating to your lesson or students’ needs below - including business, medical, animals, holidays, and many more. You’ll also find worksheets on idioms, colloquialisms, phrasal verbs, and even slang vocabulary.


These worksheets can be used in the classroom in many different ways. Role play is one effective way to teach vocabulary: you can place students in a specific scenario and have them use the vocabulary on these worksheets to act out a relevant situation. Another effective way to teach vocabulary is by introducing the vocabulary words in a game setting, such as a matching game, a bingo game, or a team-based game.
The worksheets below come in many different styles. Some include cartoon characters to identify colors, some are simple fill-in worksheets, some are song worksheets, some are quizzes, some are in list form, and you'll also find many other types . This variety gives you a lot of options for creating a dynamic and fun lesson, and your students will appreciate the variety, too.


The worksheets are also grouped into “recommended,” “most popular,” and “recently added” categories – and they're also level-specific, ranging from beginner to advanced. This makes it easy for you to determine whether or not a given worksheet can be used in your lesson. If you're not sure about what a certain worksheet contains, just click on the thumbnail to preview the entire worksheet before downloading it.


You don't have to register or subscribe to download any worksheet. They're all free to download, and free to use in your lessons. Plus, every single one of these worksheets is created and submitted by fellow ESL teachers, which means they're tested and proven in real ESL classroom environments. In fact, if you have a vocabulary worksheet that you've found to be especially effective in your lessons, you can submit it to BusyTeacher.org. At the bottom of this page, click on “Submit a worksheet” to upload your worksheet for other ESL teacher around the globe to use!


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Vocabulary Worksheet

Vocabulary Worksheet

Hanum Maulida
  This worksheet is for elementary grade school and for beginners in learning English. It aims to improve and help students practice English as well as an assessment tool in teaching and l ...
1 Views 35 Elem
Heinrich, The Cat

Heinrich, The Cat

Fatima Perez
  This reading activity has all the pre- and post-reading tasks: lead-in, vocabulary pre-teach, set the scene, gist task, reading for specific information, follow-up, and pronunciation pra ...
1 Views 37 ElemPre-Int
Simple Past Tense Quiz - Grammar - Verb

Simple Past Tense Quiz - Grammar - Verb

Sandila Ramadhani
  This grammar practice worksheet focuses on the use of the Simple Past tense. It's all about simple past tense, quiz, question, practice, grammar, verb, multiple choice, etc. Students obs ...
1 Views 349 Pre-IntInt

"At the Beach" Vocabulary Word Search

Khonsa Syahidah
  This fun beach-themed word search can be used in the summer season. It includes words related to "At the Beach" vocabulary. There are 15 words hidden in the puzzle. See if your students ...
1 Views 226 BegElemPre-Int
Reporting Verbs – Free ESL Lesson Plan

Reporting Verbs – Free ESL Lesson Plan

Nathan Martin
  When should you teach reporting verbs? This ESL lesson plan on reporting verbs is aimed at students with advanced proficiency levels (B2 level). To fully grasp the material, students mus ...
1 Views 754 Adv
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Kitchen Utilities

Kitchen Utilities

  This four-page grammar guide is a picture dictionary about kitchen utilities. The dictionary is laid out in different categories: For cutting, opening,  grinding and grating, measur ...
1 Views 683 ElemPre-Int
Joe is getting married! from the movie: When Harry met Sally

Joe is getting married! from the movie: When Harry met Sally

ANNAMATARO
  This lesson is designed for two sessions of one hour each. It features two scenes from the film "When Harry Met Sally." It includes grammar (a review of defining and non-defining relativ ...
1 Views 1,108 Adv
Days of the Week: Monday

Days of the Week: Monday

BusyTeacher Contributor
  This easy single-page resource practices the first day of the week: Monday.
1 Views 707 Beg
Tiger Woods

Tiger Woods

Arlindo Marco Fialho
  This worksheet features a short passage about the American golfer Tiger Woods. Students should find the right words and fill in the blanks. Written for iB1 Level intermediate students of ...
1 Views 640 Int
Stablecoins: What are they and how do they work?

Stablecoins: What are they and how do they work?

Anastasiia
Vocabulary, , ,
  This worksheet helps students to develop listening comprehension. It includes vocabulary focus, interactive (business) vocabulary exercises, listening for general comprehension, listenin ...
1 Views 528 Adv
How Good Is Your Vocabulary?

How Good Is Your Vocabulary?

Arlindo Marco Fialho
  This ESL activity consists of 20 multiple-choice questions designed for students planning to take ESL exams such as FCE, CAE, IELTS, TOEFL, and TOEIC. It's a productive exercise to help ...
1 Views 682 AdvExam
DADDY PIG LOSES HIS GLASSES

DADDY PIG LOSES HIS GLASSES

Agustina
  This activity is for 1st formers. Find the video on Youtube about Daddy Pig, who loses his glasses, and his children, Peppa and George are looking for them all over the house. Watch the ...
1 Views 712 BegElem
Songs Activities English Lessons

Songs Activities English Lessons

BusyTeacher Contributor
  This resource has open-ended questions to practice writing with your students when working with music in EFL /ESL classrooms. Choose suitable musical examples, and use this worksheet to ...
1 Views 974 IntAdv
The Coronation of King Charles III by ESL Pals

The Coronation of King Charles III by ESL Pals

ESL Pals
  What is the coronation of King Charles? How did the coronation of King Charles come about? Is the coronation of King Charles important? This ESL lesson plan from ESL Pals delves into the ...
1 Views 3,185 IntAdv
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland: the Logical Vision of the Nonsensical World

Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland: the Logical Vision of the Nonsensical World

Marcin Gliński
    This worksheet explores the methodology of Victorian author Lewis Carroll, such as word codes, elaborate word plays, nursery rhymes, and puzzles to train people in systematic rea ...
1 Views 3,199 AdvExam
Fun With Food

Fun With Food

Francisco
  This worksheet is for 4th-grade students to review camping food: EGGS, JAM, JUICE, PASTA, SALAD, SANDWICHES, TOAST & WATER. The first activity is unscrambling the letters to make voc ...
1 Views 3,938 BegElem
100 Discussion Questions!

100 Discussion Questions!

Robbie
    Great for adult learners, this list of 100 discussion questions with sample answers comprises five topics with 20 questions and answers per topic. They include Unit 1 = English & ...
1 Views 4,501 All
SPELLING PYRAMIDS FOR AMBITIOUS SPELL-CHECKERS

SPELLING PYRAMIDS FOR AMBITIOUS SPELL-CHECKERS

Marcin Gliński
  This set of activities reinforces visual images of different words through the inductive presentation of spelling generalizations. It is mainly devoted to students who struggle with the ...
1 Views 2,738 BegElemPre-Int
Simple present negative - Practice

Simple present negative - Practice

Grammatics.education
  Young learners watch an animated video and then work in small groups to order the story cards to practice the Simple Present Negative and improve their cooperation and communication skil ...
1 Views 19,167 BegElem
Comic Strips

Comic Strips

Hertin Riantini
  A comic strip is a sequence of drawings, often cartoons, arranged in interrelated panels to display brief humor or form a narrative, often serialized, with text in balloons and captions. ...
1 Views 18,830 Elem
Are You At Your Level Of Incompetence? The Peter Principle

Are You At Your Level Of Incompetence? The Peter Principle

Anna Mataro
    This listening comprehension activity: Are you at your level of competence? is for Intermediate and Upper-intermediate levels to practice vocabulary relating to jobs in the wor ...
1 Views 5,772 IntAdv
International Phonetic Alphabet With Expressions

International Phonetic Alphabet With Expressions

  This resource shows each of the 44 International phonetic alphabet symbols with phrases or sentences illustrating each example. It can help to practice speaking each IPA symbol as it's u ...
1 Views 8,753 Pre-IntIntAdvExam
King Charles III Cloze Activity

King Charles III Cloze Activity

  Download and print this handy worksheet and teach your children some interesting facts about the King of the United Kingdom. Children read through the facts about King Charles III and fi ...
2 Views 9,140 ElemPre-Int
Simple present positive - Practice

Simple present positive - Practice

Grammatics.education
    Young learners watch an animated video and then work in small groups to order the story cards as a way to improve their cooperation and communication skills.  When young le ...
1 Views 10,384 BegElem
International Phonetic Alphabet Symbols With Example Words

International Phonetic Alphabet Symbols With Example Words

  This resource shows each of the 44 International Phonetic Alphabet symbols with phrases or sentences illustrating each example. It can help to practice speaking each IPA symbol used in E ...
1 Views 5,549 ElemPre-IntIntAdvExam

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