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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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Vincent By Tim Burton Movie Worksheet

Vincent By Tim Burton Movie Worksheet

Brenda Carolina
  This lesson is based on the short movie Vincent by Tim Burton. It helps with vocabulary and comprehension and includes pre- and while-watching activities. Students match the words to the ...
1 Views 9,512 ElemPre-Int
Adjectives PPT

Adjectives PPT

Jeff Genet
  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 ...
1 Views 14,530 ElemPre-IntInt
Painting Overview PPT

Painting Overview PPT

Larisa
  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 ...
1 Views 7,318 Pre-Int
Phrasal Verbs + Go

Phrasal Verbs + Go

Andrea Vargas
    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 ...
1 Views 8,760 Int
Answer the Questions

Answer the Questions

  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 ...
1 Views 14,416 Elem
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English Resource – Word Morphs

English Resource – Word Morphs

  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, ...
1 Views 3,742 Elem
House & Furniture Idioms

House & Furniture Idioms

  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 ...
1 Views 9,851 IntAdv
Songs and music in the classroom

Songs and music in the classroom

Laura Bindean
  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 ...
1 Views 10,006 ElemPre-IntIntAdv
Collocations

Collocations

Laura Bindean
    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 ...
1 Views 7,446 Adv
Test: Past Simple

Test: Past Simple

Practise English team
  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 ...
1 Views 28,846 Elem
Confusing Words

Confusing Words

kristine44
  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 ...
1 Views 11,621 Pre-IntInt
Going around

Going around

Mariyam
  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 ...
1 Views 4,591 Elem
Power Point Song – Blackbird By Paul McCartney

Power Point Song – Blackbird By Paul McCartney

  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 ...
1 Views 8,749 Pre-IntIntAdv
Reader – Language about color and fruit

Reader – Language about color and fruit

Helen Close
  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 ...
1 Views 12,595 Beg
Word Search Activity - Charles Dickens

Word Search Activity - Charles Dickens

  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 ...
1 Views 4,758 Elem
Reading: A Hot Day

Reading: A Hot Day

Helen
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& ...
1 Views 13,736 BegElem
1 Hour Worksheet for Adult English Learners

1 Hour Worksheet for Adult English Learners

RobbieEnglishTeacher
  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 ...
1 Views 67,890 Pre-IntIntAdv
Verbs: Rob or Steal?

Verbs: Rob or Steal?

Fatima Perez
  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 ...
1 Views 9,983 ElemPre-IntInt
Reading: What are they doing?

Reading: What are they doing?

Helen
  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 ...
1 Views 19,013 Beg
The Origins Of Common Superstitions

The Origins Of Common Superstitions

TheProfS.
  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 ...
1 Views 12,859 Pre-IntInt
Storytelling about Bullying

Storytelling about Bullying

Pocket Passport
    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 ...
1 Views 21,876 All
Everyday Instructions – How do I ask?

Everyday Instructions – How do I ask?

Helen
  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 ...
1 Views 63,112 BegElemPre-Int
Confusing Words

Confusing Words

  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 ...
1 Views 11,407 Pre-IntIntAdv
Song – How Deep Is Your Love by the Bee Gees

Song – How Deep Is Your Love by the Bee Gees

  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 ...
2 Views 12,408 Pre-IntIntAdv
Virtual Classroom: Compare & Contrast – Choices Guide

Virtual Classroom: Compare & Contrast – Choices Guide

Digital Theatre Plus
  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 ...
1 Views 7,660 IntAdvExam

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