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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A matching game aimed at learning and revising collocations with take, have, waste and spend. Levels: intermediate and above. All four skills are covered: writing, reading, speaking and liste ...
A worksheet is dedicated to future simple usage. There you can find a dialogue about planning a birthday party, all sentences with future simple are highlited. It can help students to understand i ...
This is a worksheet for teaching or revising vocabulary dedicated to parts of human body. The names of body parts are written (some are given with plural forms) and shown with the help of arrows i ...
Learning vocabulary ( basic clothes). It's a picture dictionary using "cliparts" of clothes to help beginners or intermediate students to learn basic vocabulary. You can adapt the file to wha ...
I use this song with high school levels as it has good social lyrics to generate discussions around inequality and problems with current day US. The lyrics can be used to generate present continuo ...
This is a variation on classic mingle "Find someone who..". I used it at the first lesson after the summer break. I like this lively activity much more than just teacher-student type of &nbs ...
Can be used to practise present simple statements and job vocabulary. You can give it to students as a whole paper to complete or cut it into separate cards to match. Students can be asked to add ...
Shark week is the second week of August. It is a week designed to raise awareness about these great animals and to contribute in the fight against conservation of these species. This wo ...
This worksheet is useful to talk about something every student is confronted with - brands. It especially deals with the electronic brand Apple. The tasks are reading, translating and answering qu ...
Mr Bean Capers is a video worksheet about uising the expression can or can't to talk about abilities. It is suitable for elementary students and specially for kids. The video is very ea ...
This is a listening task on a video from the CNN on the Ebola outbreak in Western Africa. It expands health related vocabulary emphasizing on family of words. It contains questions about the video ...
This worksheet is served as a classroom activity, especially for a class to begin. The teacher has to prepare fortune cookies (can buy them from Costco) and give one to each student. Students can ...
This is a set of simple exercises for training vocabulary related to cinema. Originally it was made for 16-18-year-old college students, but it may obviously be used for teaching students of other ...
This set of sentence formations helps your beginner students to introduce themselves (short oral presentation). Great for a first class and for group work. Specially in-company class. I did n ...
Short biography of 4 famous people. Two Americans and two Brazilians (Barak Obama, Robin Williams, Wagner Moura and Valeska Popozuda). Great way to provide reading and speaking opportunity an ...
Ted Video Activity. 2-minute video titled Weird, or just different? Teach sayings and more. Pre-watching, vocabulary builder and after watch activity. Great for pre-intermediate to intermediate st ...
This is a 2-page worksheet for teaching or revising body idioms at intermediate level. There's a list of the most common idioms followed by 2 activities in which students are asked to choose the c ...
This worksheet is suitable for grade 2 and 3 for students to learn different parts of a webpage and what an icon stands for, teachers can also ask students to use the computer and the worksheet to ...
This exercise will help you revise question words and personal questions. Students will have to unscramble sentences and sort out difficulties finding grammar as well as spelling mistakes. ...
This is a 6 part series teaching Business English with meetings used as the theme for role-plays and discussions. Each week includes matching, sentence scrambles, fill in the blank, a discussion, ...
This is a 6 part series teaching Business English with meetings used as the theme for role-plays and discussions. Each week includes matching, sentence scrambles, fill in the blank, a discussion, ...
This is a 6 part series teaching Business English with meetings used as the theme for role-plays and discussions. Each week includes matching, sentence scrambles, fill in the blank, a discussion, ...
This is a 6 part series teaching Business English with meetings used as the theme for role-plays and discussions. Each week includes matching, sentence scrambles, fill in the blank, a discussion, ...
This is a 6 part series teaching Business English with meetings used as the theme for role-plays and discussions. Each week includes matching, sentence scrambles, fill in the blank, a discussion, ...
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