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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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Cloze Activity – Seed Dispersal

Cloze Activity – Seed Dispersal

  This science resource includes some interesting facts for students to learn about seed dispersal in our natural environment. Students read the facts about seed dispersal and fill in the ...
1 Views 7,793 ElemPre-Int
Earth Day – Then & Now

Earth Day – Then & Now

Pocket Passport
  Earth Day is always an important lesson to cover. This fun animated video between a Grandpa and his granddaughter on how things have changed has comprehension and discussion questions, l ...
1 Views 8,955 All
Sport Idioms

Sport Idioms

  This comprehensive grammar guide consists of nine pages of idioms about Sport. It includes expressions, definitions, example sentences, and a few pictures on the topic. Examples are Ball ...
1 Views 12,410 IntAdv
American Elections Debate

American Elections Debate

Hellen Haga
  This group activity can also be done in pairs. It includes 4 tasks and a warm-up: Warm-up: ask what students already know about the electoral college; Task 1: watch and discuss a video i ...
1 Views 6,590 Adv
Smart Home Explained – Homes and Modern Technology

Smart Home Explained – Homes and Modern Technology

Anastasiia
  The worksheet focuses on the vocabulary describing technology in the house as well as rooms and household appliances. The activity is organized around the video that explains the benefit ...
1 Views 12,820 Pre-IntInt
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Queues and Queuing (video worksheet)

Queues and Queuing (video worksheet)

Tom Leventhall
  This worksheet goes along with the Guardian video "The psychology of queuing and how to beat them." Students begin with a vocabulary match, watch the first two minutes of the video for a ...
1 Views 5,931 IntAdvExam
Study Guide – Language: Romeo and Juliet

Study Guide – Language: Romeo and Juliet

Digital Theatre Plus
    This Digital Theatre+ Study Guide explores the language used in William Shakespeare's play Romeo and Juliet from a literary, contextual, and dramatic perspective. It includes exa ...
1 Views 7,669 IntAdvExam
The Moon Cloze Activity

The Moon Cloze Activity

  Who was the first man to land on the moon? What is the tallest mountain on the moon? This science resource asks students to read through the facts about the moon and fill in the missing ...
1 Views 13,469 Elem
The Passenger By Iggy Pop, Fill In The Blank Worksheet

The Passenger By Iggy Pop, Fill In The Blank Worksheet

Natalia Juiz
  This worksheet uses "The Passenger", a song by Iggy Pop as a listening exercise. Students have to fill in the gaps and order the lines. It includes a short biography of the artist and a ...
1 Views 6,225 Pre-IntInt
Where Are You Now? by Honor Society Song Worksheet

Where Are You Now? by Honor Society Song Worksheet

BusyTeacher Contributor
  This worksheet contains a simple song about friendship and is used to enhance listening skills and develop the vocabulary, including verbs and making it easy to identify certain verb tenses.
1 Views 6,155 Elem
Talking about your job – Cooks and Waiters

Talking about your job – Cooks and Waiters

isabelle
  This worksheet prepares cooks and waiter students to talk about their jobs. They choose from the sheet various possibilities corresponding to their jobs, for example, places, dates, ...
1 Views 13,847 BegElem
Research Activity – The Rat

Research Activity – The Rat

  Where do rats live? What do rats eat? Find out some interesting facts by completing this fun research activity. This resource can also be used as an extra resource when teaching students ...
1 Views 6,802 Elem
Some Daily English Expressions

Some Daily English Expressions

Omar92
  This worksheet has four common English expressions with short explanatory sentences to put them in context. They are useful to teach and encourage complete beginners to become familiar w ...
1 Views 5,647 BegElemPre-Int
Greta Thunberg Listening Comprehension

Greta Thunberg Listening Comprehension

lynxou
  This listening comprehension exercise is based on Greta's Thunberg's famous "How dare you" speech at the UN. It includes a fill-in-the-blanks question. At the end of the worksheet, there ...
1 Views 11,044 Pre-IntInt
Prayer – Vocabulary Worksheet

Prayer – Vocabulary Worksheet

  Watch the video and complete the questions on this simple worksheet. It contains several exercises: fill in the blanks, choose the correct word, find the synonym and match the pictures t ...
1 Views 4,085 ElemPre-Int
Describing Appearance

Describing Appearance

Anastasiia
  The worksheet helps students to explore the connection between appearance and personality. The activities are based on a video that demonstrates what facial features can tell us about pe ...
1 Views 8,166 Pre-IntInt
Talking about World News

Talking about World News

Pocket Passport
  An interactive lesson with visual aids to keep students engaged and to learn and remember. Students watch the animated video, answer listening comprehension questions and use illustrated ...
1 Views 12,059 Pre-IntIntAdvExam
Study Guide – Characters: Romeo and Juliet

Study Guide – Characters: Romeo and Juliet

Digital Theatre Plus
  This Digital Theatre+ Study Guide examines Shakespeare’s play Romeo and Juliet from a literary and contextual, as well as a dramatic perspective, to provide thorough access to key ...
1 Views 5,218 IntAdvExam
American Saturday Night Song Sheet

American Saturday Night Song Sheet

Yuvia Chairez
This worksheet to be used along with Brad Paisley's American Saturday Night is for intermediate levels of ESL learners. The song has several activities, mostly aimed at translating, usage ...
1 Views 4,115 Int
My Family Worksheet – Music Video Lesson for Children

My Family Worksheet – Music Video Lesson for Children

BusyTeacher Contributor
  This worksheet is used with a fun, pop music video to get students singing and dancing in English. It also includes fast finisher activities for those students who tend to whizz through ...
1 Views 11,853 Beg
Sesame Street listening/watching practise A2

Sesame Street listening/watching practise A2

Valentina Danho
  This simple worksheet is for students who are about 11– 22 years old at CEFR level A2 to practise watching and listening, using an episode of Sesame street on YouTube. Q1 could als ...
1 Views 6,209 Elem
Intermediate English Course: Present Tense Video Clip Descriptions

Intermediate English Course: Present Tense Video Clip Descriptions

J.T. Taylor
  This implicit course consists of 30 third-person objective short video clips in the present tense, focusing on the third-person singular. The descriptions are in sentence puzzles with mi ...
1 Views 4,542 Pre-IntIntAdv
The Word

The Word

kristine44
  This is a video with an interesting poem. Students watch the video and complete the exercises: Circle/choose the correct adjectives, verbs, letter words, etc. It contains 7 exercises and ...
1 Views 5,928 Elem
BOOK ILLUSTRATION – FOCUS ON COLOR

BOOK ILLUSTRATION – FOCUS ON COLOR

Anastasiia
  This worksheet helps students to develop listening comprehension. It includes vocabulary focus, listening for details, gap-filling and comprehension check assignments based on the short ...
1 Views 5,649 IntAdv
Prepositions of Time: 'At', 'In' or 'On'

Prepositions of Time: 'At', 'In' or 'On'

Dawid Brunette
  This short worksheet on the topic of Adventure consists of 12 questions using the prepositions of time: At', 'In' or 'On'. Students tick the boxes on the right of the sentences with the ...
1 Views 11,263 Int

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