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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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Business English for Meetings - Unit 4 Useful Phrases

Business English for Meetings - Unit 4 Useful Phrases

This is a compilation of useful phrases with questions. This works well with the PowerPoint presentation previously uploaded. You can provide this to your students as a reference and study tool, ...
5 Views 16,042 Pre-IntIntAdv
Business English for Meetings - Reading Unit 4

Business English for Meetings - Reading Unit 4

This is a one page reading activity with questions. This works well with the PowerPoint presentation previously uploaded. You can easily use this as homework or as an in class activity after the ...
4 Views 18,310 Pre-IntIntAdv
Business English for Meetings - Reading Unit 3

Business English for Meetings - Reading Unit 3

This is a one page reading activity with questions. This works well with the PowerPoint presentation previously uploaded. You can easily use this as homework or as an in class activity after the ...
7 Views 16,334 Pre-IntIntAdv
Business English for Meetings - Reading Unit 2

Business English for Meetings - Reading Unit 2

This is a one page reading activity with questions. This works well with the PowerPoint presentation previously uploaded. You can easily use this as homework or as an in class activity after the ...
5 Views 12,231 Pre-IntIntAdv
English for Meetings - Reading Unit 1

English for Meetings - Reading Unit 1

This is a one page reading for unit one, which I presented at the end of the lesson. It goes along with the PowerPoint presentation previously uploaded. I did this in class but it is suitable for ...
6 Views 17,760 Pre-IntIntAdv
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Slogans - Guess Where They Come From

Slogans - Guess Where They Come From

I created this worksheet as a part of a business lesson for my students. First activity is to allow students to guess where the slogans come from. The follow-up activity is to think about slogans ...
8 Views 44,825 IntAdv
Learning to Spell

Learning to Spell

I have made this worksheet for my students to practice the alphabet. You should call out different letters (not in a particular order) and if they need one of these letters for their words, they s ...
4 Views 11,417 BegElem
Movie Worksheet: A Greatly Inspiring Video

Movie Worksheet: A Greatly Inspiring Video

This is one of the most inspiring videos of a man who is trying to change the world for poor people. I am sure that students would certainly get inspired cause its a quiet an emotional video. The ...
4 Views 9,250 Elem
Interesting Facts about Harrods

Interesting Facts about Harrods

A reading comprehension about this famous department store. Key provided. There are three activities: answer the following questions, true or false and search for synonyms. 
8 Views 17,344 Pre-IntInt
Shapes

Shapes

This activity is a tiny picture dictionary about shapes, where students have to do simple activiies. It has a cover page and other pages with activities such as look at the shape and write it ...
1 Views 8,917 Beg
Brain Teasers for Brainy Students

Brain Teasers for Brainy Students

My adult students love quizzes. I usually divide the class into two teams .The worksheet has 14 brain teasers, so each team has seven. Each team has a sheet with answers to the brain teasers for t ...
15 Views 20,290 Pre-IntInt
Street Safety

Street Safety

Writing activities about street safety- writing lesson plan.
2 Views 8,451 Int
Effective Presentations: Discussion / Structure

Effective Presentations: Discussion / Structure

A worksheet for elementary students allowing you to introduce the topic of presentations. You may wish to complement it by watching a video of a presentation and ask the students if it was a good ...
7 Views 40,372 ElemPre-Int
Teacher's Back to School Checklist

Teacher's Back to School Checklist

It's basically a cheat sheet for English teachers which is supposed to help them survive the first lesson. It contains some tips, what not to forget at the beginning of the year. Empty spaces are ...
9 Views 23,296 All
World Food Crisis

World Food Crisis

This is a reading comprehension exercise for pre-intermediate and intermediate students regarding food crisis in the world. Students must read the text and then answer a few questions along with a ...
2 Views 21,079 Pre-IntInt
Appearance

Appearance

The present slide show summarises the most important expressions when describing physical appearance. It was compiled for students at pre-intermediate level and also contains a fun activity at the ...
7 Views 12,160 Pre-IntInt
Recipes with Chocolate

Recipes with Chocolate

There are two recipes where students practice getting to know the amount of ingredients for cooking. So they repeat how much/how many and some verbs about cooking. You should pre-teach words if yo ...
5 Views 25,047 Pre-IntInt
The First Chocolate

The First Chocolate

This is a speaking activity which helps students to revise formation of questions using past simple. They need to get information from each other to acknowledge the discovery of the first chocolat ...
10 Views 13,179 ElemPre-Int
Where Did Chocolate Come From?

Where Did Chocolate Come From?

This worksheet consists of two pages about European discovery of chocolate. In the first page students link parts of sentences to complete the story. In the second page they analyse new words and ...
4 Views 8,378 ElemPre-Int
Movie Worksheet: Japanese Working Culture

Movie Worksheet: Japanese Working Culture

This worksheet is based on the video (the link is provided) about the modern Japanese society. The main issue discussed there is whether we live to work or work to live. So it can be used to deve ...
7 Views 16,673 Adv
Feelings and Emotions Interactive Boargame

Feelings and Emotions Interactive Boargame

This is an interactive board game which is aimed for teaching or revising feelings and emotions related vocabulary at elementary level. Students are asked to spin the wheel, count the number ...
12 Views 26,353 Elem
Listening: How Is It Made - Headphones

Listening: How Is It Made - Headphones

This is a listening activity with a set of questions with a link to youtube video included in the file. Nothing extraordinary but fits perfecty well when you want to conduct a lesson about technol ...
5 Views 13,030 Adv
Auschwitz: Surprising Beginnings 1 of 5

Auschwitz: Surprising Beginnings 1 of 5

This is a listening activity with a set of questions with a link to youtube video included in the file. Nothing extraordinary but fits perfecty well when you want to conduct a lesson about history ...
3 Views 9,793 IntAdv
Poland - the Capital of Catching Up Growth of Polish Economy ( Listening)

Poland - the Capital of Catching Up Growth of Polish Economy ( Listening)

This is a listening activity with a set of questions with a link to youtube video included in the file. Nothing extraordinary but fits perfecty well when you want to conduct a lesson about economy ...
1 Views 6,612 Pre-IntInt
Seasons and Extreme Weather

Seasons and Extreme Weather

This worksheet aims to engage students in talking about seasons and the problems extreme weather can cause. Since there is no specific focus on grammar (except a small task on modals), it can be p ...
11 Views 25,966 Pre-IntIntAdv

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