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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Simple questions about household jobs such as do you wash the dishes? Yes, I do or no, I don't answers. Choice of answers at first followed by write the answer yourself. Suitable for beginners. U ...
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I created this worksheet for my upper-intermediate class of teens. I wanted them to work more, not just listen and watch me how I explain. So the first part is questioning - there are two workshee ...
This is an interactive board game which is aimed for teaching or revising the weather related vocabulary at elementary level. Students are asked to spin the wheel, count the number of spaces in th ...
This worksheet contains vocabulary related to birthday. In exercise 1 students have to match the words and the pictures, in exercise 2 they have to find some other words in the wordsearch, and in ...
Aim: to strengthen the students’ vocabulary knowledge linked with animal body parts and help them to make sentences by using ‘can/ can’t’. It is assumed that students have ...
I have just made this worksheet to work with my elementary 6 graders. They love soccer and I can't wait to work with it. First they have to label some pictures then listen to the song and do diffe ...
This is a workssheet in which you can practice the past simple tense with your students through a reading comprehension activity about Bruce Lee's life. It contains a brief biography and three ite ...
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This is for 6th grade ESL students.This crossword is a part of a lesson plan about comparative adjectives. Âuring the lesson I hand out this crossword which definitions are made of compariso ...
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This is a set of five sheets that can be used for speaking lessons. The first sheet offers an introduction to the members of the royal family, the second sheet uses a youtube inter ...
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