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 PowerPoint visual aid teaches students vocabulary and expressions to describe appearance. Use it to pre-teach vocabulary, as a warm-up exercise or as the core of your lesson by havi ...
This presentation contains works by famous artists and useful vocabulary such as styles, genres, materials and verbs for describing paintings. It gives useful clichés and can be u ...
This worksheet is useful to show the different uses of phrasal verbs. In this specific case phrasal verbs with the verb to GO. Students complete the chart by using synonyms and e ...
This list of basic questions is for students to practise short answers and simple sentences. It includes the following structures: to be, have got, do/does...like, there is/are and some ...
In this short worksheet, students morph one word into another by adding, deleting, replacing, or rearranging letters. Some of the words included in this resource are: rain – brain, ...
This grammar guide has nine pages of idioms and expressions connected to the house and furniture. It includes definitions in alphabetical order of example sentences and a few pictures: B ...
Music is great way to teach vocabulary, boost creativity and learn English in a fun and entertaining way. This worksheet is suitable for teacher development and contains activities and i ...
This sheet focuses on adjective, noun, participle collocations used in speaking and informal language. These collocations can be used to describe things, the weather or talk abou ...
Based on file 7 of the English File Elementary Fourth Edition, this test covers grammar (Past Simple (to be, regular and irregular verbs), vocabulary (word formation and expressions with ...
This is worksheet has 10 pages with 40 exercises to practise confusing words, such as homophones, verbs vs. adjectives and nouns vs. It’s suitable for different levels. The words ...
This worksheet is suitable for Grade Is to learn about different kinds of transport. Children read the hints given in the bubbles and guess the name of the vehicle, then circle the odd o ...
There are a variety of methods to teach students English by using songs, from listening comprehension to grammar rules. This short worksheet includes three defined activities involving a ...
This simple reader/worksheet booklet is for complete beginners with little or no English. Colors are introduced as well as simple sentence structures. It can be used by teachers who have ...
This word search activity about one of the best-known English writers, Charles Dickens, who was born in 1812, can be used as an extra resource in the classroom. There are 15 words for st ...
This booklet for complete adult beginners is also suitable for all ages. Written in past and past continuous tenses it shows preference language such as ‘either’ or ‘decided& ...
This 1-hour lesson for adult learners is centered on the topic of Diet & Fitness. It covers reading, speaking, listening, vocabulary, writing and comprehension. It also includes acti ...
This worksheet explains the difference between these confusing words, which students usually get wrong. There are clear examples of the two verbs and also the difference between the rela ...
Suitable for complete adult beginners and all ages, this booklet features exercises with the present continuous verb tense and pronouns and contracted pronouns. It introduces nouns with ...
This worksheet goes with an entertaining animated YouTube video which explains the origins of some common superstitions It is aimed at pre-intermediate and intermediate learners and has ...
This storytelling activity has visual aids that can be used to pre-teach vocabulary (depending on student level). It contains illustrations and text boxes that can be cut out and ...
This A5 booklet for adult beginners and elementary students is about helping to make appointments or phone emergency numbers. Instructional, it can be used for role-playing, with student ...
This worksheet consists of ten pages with more than 40 exercises (homophones, verbs vs. adjectives, nouns vs. verbs, etc...) to practise on confusing words. In alphabetica ...
This PowerPoint presentation teaches students by using a song. It’s a multiple way of practicing English from listening comprehension to grammar rules. It includes three defined ac ...
This resource includes is a list of questions and tasks to guide students as they compare and contrast multiple versions of the same scene/speech available on Digital Theatre+. There are ...
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