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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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Revision Time!

Revision Time!

This worksheet includes a variety of exercises for young learners of English. I have done it with my students in class and it was a success. I hope you like it too. Here they can revise the alphab ...
2 Views 18,790 Beg
Types of Phrasal Verbs

Types of Phrasal Verbs

Janneth Cabrera
It contains the most useful phrasal verbs you can use in real contexts. This Power Point Presentation will help teachers to work in an interactive classroom with a whiteboard. It is useful to prac ...
6 Views 15,063 Int
Word Formation Worksheet

Word Formation Worksheet

This is a worksheet for teaching or revising word formation at pre-intermediate level. There are 2 different activities in which students are asked to complete the adjectives with the correct pref ...
7 Views 40,176 ElemPre-Int
My Monument

My Monument

This is an example of a project that students can create to practice tourist information. Students need to invent a monument of their own creation and explain it to the class. They need to invent ...
6 Views 11,453 Pre-IntInt
Nature Beginners Worksheet

Nature Beginners Worksheet

I created this 5-page worksheet to practise and revise simple vocabulary connected with nature. It contains 12 flash cards (tree, moon, flower, lake, forest, river, star, jungle, mountain, sk ...
4 Views 17,076 BegElem
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Reading- Should, Should't Have to, Don't Have To

Reading- Should, Should't Have to, Don't Have To

This worksheet contains a reading comprehension exercise about smoking and the consequences it has for someone's health. It also has some grammar excercises to complete using should ,shouldn't, ...
10 Views 42,032 Pre-Int
Movie Worksheet: Have Got / Has Got, Parts of the Body

Movie Worksheet: Have Got / Has Got, Parts of the Body

This is a 2 page worksheet, designed for elementary students on have/ has got tense and the body parts. The students, after watching a segment of the movie "Monsters University", are asked to ...
8 Views 32,552 Elem
Types of Houses Presentation

Types of Houses Presentation

This powerpoint presentation contains 30 types of houses with captures and pictures. The pictures are clear, understandeble and beautiful. Can be used for such topics as "accomodation", "travellin ...
10 Views 24,074 IntAdv
Farley the Fox - Reading Comprehension

Farley the Fox - Reading Comprehension

Having strong reading comprehension skills will also help in other subjects. Students read the text about Molly the meerkat and answer the multiple choice questions. There are six multiple choice ...
10 Views 22,333 Elem
Molly the Meerkat - Reading Comprehension

Molly the Meerkat - Reading Comprehension

Having strong reading comprehension skills will also help in other subjects. Students read the text about Molly the meerkat and answer the multiple choice questions. There are seven multiple choic ...
5 Views 11,925 Elem
Reading Comprehension - Marcus the Monkey

Reading Comprehension - Marcus the Monkey

Having strong reading comprehension skills will also help in other subjects. Students read the text about Marcus the monkey and answer the multiple choice questions. There are six multiple choice ...
5 Views 15,666 Elem
The Eye- Missing Words

The Eye- Missing Words

This is a resource for young learners where they must use a word from the word bank to complete the sentences about the eye. There are six words for students to choose from including: eyes, dust, ...
3 Views 12,495 Elem
Movie Worksheet: At the Clothing Store

Movie Worksheet: At the Clothing Store

In this page, there are 2 copies of the same worksheet. I will use the worksheet as a part of a lesson on clothing and ways to buy clothes. My students will be able to see expressions at the cloth ...
9 Views 21,586 Beg
Movie Worksheet: Oliver Twist (2005)

Movie Worksheet: Oliver Twist (2005)

This is a worksheet to work with about 35' of the movie "Oliver Twist" released in the year 2005. My students and I were working with the rights of the children and I chose the film as a closure o ...
6 Views 32,914 Elem
Colours

Colours

Ask kids to colour the name of a colour. It is for children who cannot write yet. It familiarizes them with spelling of different colours. You can put a ready coloured example on the blackboard or ...
4 Views 11,832 Beg
Days and Months

Days and Months

Laima
This is a short test for elementary students. It's an opportunity to check vocabulary on months and week days. You can use it in your class. Test should be written in 10-15 minutes. Evaluation sys ...
7 Views 23,788 Elem
Everyday Responses

Everyday Responses

This is a worksheet I wrote to use with an adult Business English student. It is appropriate for any level from pre-intermediate upwards. It aims to teach the student how to react to normal, unexp ...
21 Views 101,131 Pre-IntIntAdv
Song/Movie Worksheet: Dumb Ways to Die

Song/Movie Worksheet: Dumb Ways to Die

Dumb ways to die is a music video campaign from an Australian railway company. The idea is to illustrate how silly it is to die doing something dumb. Most of them are common sense and the tone is ...
12 Views 19,437 ElemPre-Int
Internet Conversation Cards

Internet Conversation Cards

julia conibeer
Follow up to internet discussion worksheet. Asking teenagers or adults to express their opinion on the effects of internet on our society. The students pick a card, read it and give thei ...
7 Views 20,144 Pre-IntInt
Internet Discussion

Internet Discussion

julia conibeer
A conversation lesson for teenagers and adults; could be used as a debate. I've also used this with business and commerce students. To open the discussion about the use of internet, its advan ...
5 Views 19,274 Pre-IntInt
Speaking : What Do You Like (Fruit and Vegetables)

Speaking : What Do You Like (Fruit and Vegetables)

Speaking about fruit and vegetables that your students like. In the second exercise, your students have to ask questions to learn about other person's likes and dislikes about fruit and vegetables ...
7 Views 33,636 BegElem
Grammar Worksheet: Leonardo da Vinci

Grammar Worksheet: Leonardo da Vinci

It is a grammar worksheet to practice the past simple tense. It is a brief biography about a great artist, inventor and scientist Leonardo da Vinci. It can be used as a test or just grammar drill. ...
12 Views 24,878 ElemPre-IntInt
Autumn Vocabulary

Autumn Vocabulary

This PPT can be used to revise vocabulary related to autumn. Students have to look at the pictures and choose the correct option. There are five subcategories in the PPT: nature, fruit, animals, c ...
15 Views 21,682 ElemPre-Int
In the Old Days PowerPoint

In the Old Days PowerPoint

This PowerPoint contains some information about what  people use to do in the old days. Some pictures were inserted to convey the meaning. There are some CCQs to check the language learners' ...
16 Views 21,113 ElemPre-Int
My Dream City

My Dream City

This ppt will be useful for all levels to motivate speaking activities about city. Students should imagine what their dream city will be like. They can put a name for their city and describe the ...
3 Views 22,185 All

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