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 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 ...
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 ...
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 interview ...
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 interview with ...
I use this template with all levels of secondary school students to practise vocabulary. The students take their current vocabulary lists, create a crossword puzzle with a set of 10 words and then ...
This is a worksheet to learn or revise English words containing silent letters. The key is on the second page and is meant for the teacher only. I used it with intermediate level students aged 15/ ...
This worksheet is great for revising some useful vocabulary, namely: countries and nationalities; numbers; days of the week; plural form of words; jobs and professions; family; telling time; free ...
Emotions & Feelings: how are you feeling? A simple worksheet for young learners to draw the faces to describe sad, happy, angry, afraid, surprised. Can also be used to review facial voc ...
This is an elementary level worksheet I use with my adults learners. This particluar one has a look at countable and uncountable nouns; the use of some, any and a; the past simple tense of regular ...
This is a dream-interpretation activity. Ss work in pairs. One of the ss gets a card with a picture, another – with a corresponding dream interpretation. The task of the first student is to ...
This is a reading comprehension worksheet on the topic teens and smoking addiction. Recommended for pre-intermediate students who are asked to read the text, find synonyms, find the opposites of t ...
It's another simple worksheet to practice greetings. I designed it for a 3rd grade. The ideas is that students complete the speech bubbles to complete the dialogues. They can also include qu ...
It's a simple worksheet to practice greetings. I designed it for a 3rd grade. The ideas is that students complete the speech bubbles to complete the the dialogues. They can also include questions ...
It's another simple worksheet to practice greetings. I designed it for a 3rd grade. The ideas is that students read different options provided in the dialogue and they are supposed to choose ...
It's a simple worksheet to practice greetings. I designed it for a 3rd grade. The ideas is that students read different options provided in the dialogue and they are supposed to choose the correct ...
This worksheet provides a model conversation and a help box for students to used when they personalize the conversation after practicing. The first conversation is about a successful job interview ...
The worksheet on topic food/health. Inside you will find tasks to be done while/after watching the video about addictive foods and food production industry. Will probably be more interesting for a ...
The worksheet on "The Internship" - a movie about how two oldschool watch salesmen enrolled for the internship at Google and changed their life. Can be used with a variety of topics - like employ ...
This is a simple but funny activity I use with my intermediate students, but it can be adapted to almost all levels. There are 5 different prompts with some information about the character's likes ...
The ws is about The Colossus of Rhodes - one of the world wonders. The rhyme is taken from the net. Students will compare 2 statues, do a quizz, put the verbs in the correct form, solve the crossw ...
Match the weather vocabulary to the picture and write a simple corresponding sentence at the top of each picture box. "It's sunny." Variation: make small weather picture flashcards and give one to ...
This presentation invites students to practice vocabulary of geographical features such as 'sea', 'waterfall', 'desert'. It contains mainly pictures which could also be used to get students to des ...
This presentation introduces slightly younger/ less advanced students to the education system of the United Kingdom. It gives them an idea of the timetable, subjects and main issues of relev ...
This presentation acts as an introduction to the people, history, economy and culture of the United States of America. I am not an American citizen myself but I have researched this piece in order ...
This activity is designed to introduce students to St Patrick's Day and the history and customs surrounding the celebrations in Ireland and the rest of the world. Ideal for slightly younger studen ...
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