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 worksheet is a kind of speaking practice. Provided for teenagers, especially the first level of secondary school students. It's designed with some pictures in order to give a stimulus for the ...
This is a song activity that uses Tom Waits's beautiful love-ballad "Martha". Students listen to the song and decide whether the word in italics is correct or not. The song is perfect for st. Vale ...
Practice interesting expressions related to appearance and help your students improve their vocabulary. The text has been taken from a book, and I turned it into an activity. It is great for eleme ...
This is a reading comprehension worksheet for teaching or revising endangered species related vocabulary at pre-intermediate level. Students are asked to read the text and then fill in the bl ...
These worksheets can be used as a speaking activity. Students work in pairs and take turns in asking the questions. It's good if you as a teacher to circulate and monitor their work. At the end, h ...
It's a written review for little kids to practice the vocabulary of wild animals, feelings, numbers up to 5 and the prepositions in and on. It was designed for 3-4-year old students, like a final ...
Here is a presentation I used the first day of the school year for my students. Then they must do the same - introduce themselves. This is a way to know each other better when they arrive in ...
This worksheet with 8 tasks is based on one of the British Council videos in their series "Word on the Street" for English language learners. I took it from the website: http://learnenglish.britis ...
A Word search with vocabulary related to Canadian money and banking. It contains 21 words. Many of the words are generic and would be familiar to learners in the United States, the U.K. and elsewh ...
This is an activity to practice idioms, in a basic way. All the expressions are related to sadness. I adapted this from a book called "English Idioms in Use", by Michael McCarthy and Felicity O'De ...
This worksheet goes over lend vs. borrow. It starts with a discussion section that can be done with a partner or as a class. Then, there is a quick grammar part explaining lend vs. borrow and poss ...
This worksheet has students discuss some bad habits. There is a warm-up discussion section that can be done with a partner or as a class. There is also vocabulary to do before the listening activi ...
It is a set of cards with the pictures and names of farm animals. You can do a variety of activities using them, you can make your students play a memory game, or you can use them to revise ...
This is a reading comprehension exercise followed by some group work involving brainstorming prior to a class discussion. It is a life skills lesson which focuses on raising student awareness on ...
This is simple addition, subtraction, multiplication and division and introduces students to using English in doing Math. Introduces the vocabulary 'plus', 'minus', 'times', 'divided by' and 'equ ...
Here is a list of questions you can use with pre-intermediate+. It is a great idea for project work. All students of all ages absolutely love to come up with a new idea for a product. Works best i ...
Students will work in groups to calculate sale prices, will demonstrate proficiency using a calculator and will recognize that percentages can also be stated as decimals and fractions. The workshe ...
How many words can you write with these letters? Using the words in 'Summer is my favourite season. What's yours?' students write new words. For example, if we take the 'i' in 'is' and the 't' in ...
We play bingo once a month as a way to have fun after taking the CASAS test. We also use this file to review before casas tests sometimes, though we don't necessarily play bingo with it. It ...
One of the things I love about using Mr. Bean videos is the varied topics that can be covered using them. We used this one for both past and present continuous, but it can also be used for the sim ...
I'm sharing an activity for students to practice the use of gerunds and infinitives through songs. Students are supposed to choose the correct verb alternative (gerund or infinitive) and then list ...
It is a worksheet for learners to practice the use of past simple and past continuous through misfortunes they had during their last last holiday. There are pictures and cues so that the writing c ...
This presentation was made to help ss learn or improve lexics on topic "Feelings and emotions". It includes 30 cute slides which are provided with subtitles and sound. Ss are supposed to describe ...
All about time contains the most common forms of and terms for time and event reference. From the blink of and eye to eternity, students gain perspective of time measurement for everyday life to u ...
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