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.
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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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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. ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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, ...
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 ...
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 ...
'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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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" ...
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