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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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Baby Animals PowerPoint

Baby Animals PowerPoint

This PowerPoint includes some vocabulary items related to baby animals, like puppy, kitten, etc. It contains nice images. It is appropriate for absolute beginners, specially kids between 5-12. I m ...
7 Views 17,637 Beg
Rain or Shine

Rain or Shine

This is a power-point presentation which is useful for young learners and elementary students (adult). It's suitable for reviewing weather related vocabulary and appropriate clothes to wear in dif ...
12 Views 10,551 BegElem
Test for Junior

Test for Junior

elena tsilimpari
A small test on vocabulary and grammar for juniors . Vocabulary about numbers 1-20, family, school items, colours. Grammar about plurals,verb to be, possesive adjs. This/That, a/an. Eas ...
5 Views 25,186 Beg
Business Meeting Vocabulary

Business Meeting Vocabulary

This worksheet goes over vocabulary used in business meetings such as absent, accomplish, collaborate, deadline, mandatory, etc. It also has some helpful phrases that students may use in their mee ...
10 Views 72,451 IntAdv
Phrases in Presentations

Phrases in Presentations

This worksheet goes over some phrases that students can use when making a presentation. The phrases have to do with welcoming, introducing yourself, introducing your presentation, starting the pre ...
10 Views 23,159 IntAdv
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Information Overload

Information Overload

This worksheet talks about information overload. Students learn six skills to deal with information overload at their jobs. In the second part of the worksheet, students need to choose which email ...
6 Views 15,923 IntAdv
Conference Calls

Conference Calls

Technology today is wonderful. That doesn’t mean, however, that conferencing calling in a foreign language is easy. In fact, the experience can be difficult for non-native English speakers. ...
7 Views 17,507 IntAdv
Quality Issues

Quality Issues

Students will use their writing skills to write emails about quality problems. The company makes flat-screen televisions and their are various emails that need to be written in order to solve the ...
8 Views 29,159 IntAdv
Writing Emails

Writing Emails

This worksheet goes over writing formal, informal or neutral emails. There is a table with expressions that can be used in those emails. The students will then read two emails and find the grammar ...
28 Views 114,992 IntAdv
Customer Service (Softening the Language)

Customer Service (Softening the Language)

This worksheet goes over phrases that can be said in customer service jobs. Some of the topics are: Introducing yourself/answering the phone, connecting someone, putting someone on hold, describin ...
9 Views 31,909 IntAdv
Prepositions in Complaints

Prepositions in Complaints

This worksheet goes over complaints and some prepositions that can be used such as due to, sorry about, thank you for, complain about, etc. It also goes over some vocabulary lke doubts, invoice, b ...
10 Views 18,257 IntAdv
Contract Agreement

Contract Agreement

This worksheet goes over a contract and the language used in a contract. The vocabulary it goes over are words like null and void, on behalf of, hereinafter, heretofore, fulfill, etc. There is als ...
4 Views 12,681 IntAdv
Ideal Boss and Company

Ideal Boss and Company

Students read and choose sentences that have to do with their ideal boss. In this worksheet, they practice the adverbs of frequency like always, sometimes, never, hardly ever, etc. The second page ...
7 Views 17,423 IntAdv
Work Duties and the Career Ladder

Work Duties and the Career Ladder

This worksheet starts off by talking about work duties. Students learn how to say what they do at work and what it involves. There is a vocabulary section with words like full-time job, shiftwork, ...
10 Views 19,970 IntAdv
Working Style

Working Style

This is a small questionnaire for your students to find out their working style. The styles are: team worker, finisher, supporter or a leader. It starts with a small vocabulary preview. Then stude ...
9 Views 17,811 IntAdv
Song Worksheet: Reduce, Reuse and Recycle

Song Worksheet: Reduce, Reuse and Recycle

marumil
A beautiful song for little kids about the Earth.You can teach the importance of the 3 R´s. Reduce, reuse and recycle. Also, you can review numbers with little kids. Kids would love this son ...
4 Views 18,173 Elem
Other Ways to Say (Synonyms)

Other Ways to Say (Synonyms)

'Other ways to say' is a worsheet connected with synonyms of some common words. The task is to match words from the list to the words in the table. There are almost 240 words which you need to div ...
11 Views 14,255 Pre-IntIntAdvExam
Monsters Like Halloween

Monsters Like Halloween

This is a worksheet aimed at having students practice third person singular verbs. I have a grid, the students play rock paper scissors, the winner chooses a dot and draws a line to a separate dot ...
8 Views 22,911 BegElem
Halloween Idioms

Halloween Idioms

20 idioms with the words "dead" and "devil". You can use this worksheet with an upper-intermediate or advanced class. As a follow-up, students can choose 5 idioms they would like to reme ...
19 Views 42,060 AdvExam
Character Analysis

Character Analysis

This is a modified character analysis of the story Mulan. The student was able to complete this cloze passage instead of a full writing piece, like his mainstream classmates. This allowed my stu ...
3 Views 11,393 Elem
Halloween Memory

Halloween Memory

Print the worksheet and cut the squares. Divide the class into groups. Give each group a stack of cards. Shuffle the cards and arrange them all face down on a table. Students have to take turns, c ...
33 Views 50,950 ElemPre-Int
Take Care PPT

Take Care PPT

This PowerPoint includes both the names and pictures of some items to protect ourselves, such as helmet, sunscreen, etc. Also, it shows some of the most common ailments, like headache, earache, et ...
8 Views 11,353 ElemPre-Int
Movie Worksheet: A Review of

Movie Worksheet: A Review of "Tales of the Unexpected", by Roald Dahl

I use this after having studied a short story by Roald Dahl (I really like "Genesis and Catastrophe"), to make my students discover more about Dahl's adult stories, as they already know his books ...
6 Views 15,544 Pre-IntIntAdv
Red Red Everywhere

Red Red Everywhere

One of the basic purposes of education is to make children understand their surroundings. Colour is one idea which appeals to children very early in life. At school, we need to familiarise childre ...
2 Views 7,091 Elem
Halloween BoardGame

Halloween BoardGame

This is a boardgame I made just in time for Halloween. This will get your students speaking about different things related to the topic. Feel free to modify the questions or the "will you survive" ...
21 Views 34,031 Pre-IntIntAdv

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