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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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 worksheet that I use to reinforce the knowledge about natural resources: the renewable and the non-renewable resources. Then, I ask the students to fill in the blanks with the correct an ...
This worksheet contains 2 exercises and a roleplaying game. It´s made for beginners, but could be also a good practice for elementary students. In the first exercise students review the pric ...
This Powerpoint is a fun way to build a sense of community amongst the students in your classroom. You can have students explain their answers, or you can have them pair up with someone in their ...
This worksheet is an instruction for making and editing videos in Windows Live Movie Maker. I tried to be precise and short as busy teachers have no time to read all of the instructions. This mate ...
This song by Lindsay Lohan talks about family relationship. Before using it, you can do a warm up with your students about her and her family. Also, you can do a brainstorming about good x bad thi ...
This worksheet combines ordinal numbers with superlative adjectives using a space theme. Students must rank planets by finding data from a table of planet information, and write sentences e.g. Mar ...
I continue creating worksheets for the British Council series about Oxford. This episode is devoted to their video on the link: http://learnenglish.britishcouncil.org/en/word-street/oxford-scene-1 ...
This song is great to work with antonyms/opposites. In this file you'll find the song worksheet and an activity about opposites. In the first page you'll find the words hot/cold, yes/no, in/out, u ...
Basic vocabulary. Simple to complete, they just need to match one column with the other; there are 20 words to match. Doesn't require much time. After completing the practice, you can ask them to ...
This worksheet is addressed to high intermediate students or advanced. Ideal to practice listening as well as past tenses, 3rd conditional. Students are asked to do pre-listening activities, whi ...
The song worksheet aimed at intermediate students to practice phrasal verbs, opposites and verb tenses. Usually, for every exercise we listen to the song once. The first exercise is designed as a ...
Do you know why we cross our fingers for good luck? Do you know why walking under a ladder is bad luck? Get ready to find out! I created this Power Point to go over the history of some things that ...
This is a power point presentation to make your students talk about the internet. Here you are going to have 10 useful questions whith a lot pictures to talk about the advantages and disadvantages ...
I use this with my basic class to teach simple present with a focus on habits and facts. The issue of homelessness is common enough for everyone to talk about and to have thoughts on. There is a c ...
From this ppt students will learn that nutrients are basic elements we need to live. If we get enough nutrients from food, we are going to be very strong. Students will learn a lot about nutrition ...
I've created this song worksheet to supplement the vocabulary topic adjectives to describe feelings for my young adults pre-intermediate class. The original song is rather noisy so I use its acous ...
This is a ppt about some important British cultural elements that can introduce the topic of the English culture or trigger a talk about it especially when we want our pupils to get to know that c ...
This worksheet was created for business students, specially those in high positions (directors, managers) and advanced students. The video from TED (www.ted.com) shows Simon Sinek, an important bu ...
Pyramid is an American game show based on guessing words. It is perfect for esl classroom as it uses mostly relative clauses and it is pure fun. Show students a part of an actual show (I used one ...
A reading news article about video games titled "Video games help kids learn, experts say" and related reading comprehension and speaking activities. In this worksheet, students first read the tex ...
This worksheet is connected with the one I made earlier. It's called "Oxford University (Word on the Street)" and is devoted to working with the vocabulary from the video. The worksheet was made w ...
This is a song worksheet for pre-intermediate or intermediate students about worldwide problems. The song's name is "There Must Be More to Live than This", by Michael Jackson and Freddie Mercury. ...
Learn how to say and spell the colours in English with this nice and easy presentation. Students are asked to repeat the colours. They are asked to review and memorize the spelling. The font used ...
This is a colourful handout for your students to have and learn about the weather while they are practicing this vocabulary in a crossword. I have used it in my class and my students really enjoy ...
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