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.
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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Today is Theodore Roosevelt's birthday! What award was Theodore Roosevelt the first American to win? What were the key events in Theodore's Presidency? This worksheet includes some interesting fac ...
This task practises describing particular jobs. With the help of vocabulary sets students build up sentences about what each proffessional has to or doesn't have to do. You can use it either as a ...
This worksheet gives students work on the use of quanitifiers. They read a description of Dublin and discuss it. After that they discuss the use of quanitifiers and classify them into counta ...
This worksheet would be useful while studying the topic "Homes and houses". So that students would be able not only to revise some topic vocabulary but also have a talk about the importance of lo ...
Green is the colour which is visible in abundance all around us. It is the greatest gift nature has given us. This PPt is to make children aware of all the natural things they can see and unde ...
Yellow is the most striking colour in nature. This ppt introduces children to many of the yellow things seen and used by us. Some of them are created by man for his own use. Many of the thin ...
This PowerPoint includes some vocabulary items that start with letter G g. The language learners are taught this letter through nice and colorful images. It is appropriate for absolute beginners o ...
This is a PowerPoint presentation that is appropriate for elementary students. It includes different shops such as, boos store, music store, etc and some places like hospital, post office, fire st ...
This is a PowerPoint presentation which is appropriate for complete beginner level. It includes different colors such as yellow, red, blue, green, orange, purple, pink, white, black and brown. Aft ...
This is a PowerPoint presentation that is useful for beginners and elementary students. It includes different types of clothes such as jacket, socks, skirt, dress, sweater, gloves, etc. And it als ...
This PowerPoint presentation is useful for teaching different members of a family such as father, mother, brother, sister and grandparents and also, different parts of a house like kitchen, bedroo ...
This is a PowerPoint presentation which is appropriate for elementary students. It includes some pictures and some useful sentences children can use in parks or playgrounds. It can be good for stu ...
This is a PowerPoint presentation which is made for my elementary students and for young learners by myself. It includes some pictures about animals, baby animals and some characteristics of them. ...
The attached file is a PowerPoint that I made for my pre-intermediate and intermediate students. It shows the gorillas, monkeys and chimpanzees. How do they live? Where do they live? What do ...
Here is a worksheet that is related to present continuous, and different parts of a house. Your students are supposed to look at the picture and complete the sentences in Present Continuous with p ...
The purpose of this song is to improve the pupils' listening and for them to have fun by completing the endings of some words and finding the missing connectors such as " but", "so" , "and". ...
I picked up news from a major Uk newspaper abou the Ebola crisis and made it into a reading comprehension worksheet with a focus on vocabulary and reference exercises. The worksheet has 2 charts ...
This PowerPoint contains some vocabulary items related to some words that start with letter L l. It is appropriate for absolute beginners of learning English, specially kids. The language learners ...
This worksheet helps student to practice saying the days of the week, years. Besides it can help students to review the seasons and weekdays related vocabulary. It is useful to practice ordinal nu ...
This PowerPoint includes some vocabulary items that start with letter A a. Language learners are taught this letter through nice and colorful images. It is appropriate for absolute beginners of le ...
This PowerPoint contains some vocabulary items related to letter B b. Language learners are taught new words that start with this letter through nice images. It is appropriate for absolute beginne ...
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