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 worksheet designeg to provide students with intercultural knowledge. The first exercise contains famous landmarks, sights from all over the world and ss have to match them with the corre ...
Motivation activity to start a lesson about writing emails. The quiz has 5 multiple-choice questions. The last slide contains the results of the quiz depending on the student's answers. The activi ...
It offers a brief text of about 230 words about the problems of keeping New Year's resolutions. It was adapted from an online magazine. It has pre-reading and post-reading activities. It includes ...
This sheet has a series of connected activities in which you can work with vocabulary, grammar, writing as well as speaking and listening skills. You'll find new lexis, dialogues, multiple choice ...
In this file, you will find activities to work with lifestyles & used to so that students can compare life in the past and life in the present. You can adapt the activity and work with it oral ...
This worksheet has different tasks. The first one is an activity on spotting the difference and writing sentences in present continuous. Then, there is a task to complete questions. Thirdly, ...
If you are looking for simple activities to practice comparatives & superlatives, you can use this file. You can adapt it to the level of your course. Students will have to compare Nadal, Roge ...
In this file, you'll find a vocabulary matching warm-up activity, a quiz that covers the first 44 minutes of the film, and a few discussion questions. You'll also find the key for the proposed act ...
This worksheet is used in conjunction with a lesson on the parts of the body for young, beginner students. It uses the characters from the movie Monster Inc. to help students learn the names of th ...
This worksheet is intended to introduce the titles of family members for young, beginner students. It includes: a family prompt and questions, a word search, a match the person with the descriptio ...
This is a rich powerpoint containing plenty of idioms as well as exercises following. So many idioms are given with suitable pictures which are really enjoying. It is a bit long powerpoint but you ...
Fun project that takes about 4 hours where students create their own rock band. They make an album cover, gig poster, biographies about their band members and write the names of the songs on the ...
This is a power point presentation about thirty common sea animals. There is a fun or surprising fact about each animal. It includes different animals such as jellyfish, seahorse,sponge, lobster,d ...
This is a PPT based on jobs vocabulary. Originally was created for Cutting Edge textbook but can be used with any textbook. First appears the picture and then the word. The level is starter / elem ...
Students need to describe what the characters are wearing. Useful to practise "what are they wearing" and the clothes vocabulary. Can be used as homework. The characters are Russell and the o ...
This is a power point presentation game "What's missing" based on food vocabulary. This game is suitable for starters: kids, teens, adults. The vocabulry used: coffee, fish, hamburger, banana, wat ...
This worksheet has four exercises to work with the song Red by Taylor Swift. The first exercise is used as a pre- activity and we check the meanings of some colors, as the song mentions some of th ...
This colourful document is a worksheet about colours. It will help your students practise colours. Students have to write the words to match the paint cans. There are eleven leaky paint cans. The ...
This worksheet is about The Cranberries's song, Zombie. There is a summary of the troubles in Ireland, then students can listen to the song and watch the video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Ejg ...
It is a task based on a very popular Youtube video - Look up. Students watch the video for the first time just to get to know the message coming from it. Step 2 - students listen and fill in ...
A great song to use when teaching the Media. a very useful worksheet which contains a while-listening fill-in-the-blanks, after-listening comprehension exercises as well as vocabulary practice and ...
This powerpoint initially presents phrasal verbs with get through different example sentences. Students before doing exercises can get an idea over them and get ready for answering questions. A va ...
Firstly the most common adverb collocations are given through example sentences. Students can have an idea about what kind of collocations are possible in English. What I like the best about this ...
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