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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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Movie Worksheet: My Teacher's Daily Routine

Movie Worksheet: My Teacher's Daily Routine

This lesson is excellent for revising the vocabulary of daily routine and telling the time. Students can listen to 3 English teachers describing their typical days. After listening exercises there ...
10 Views 30,986 ElemPre-Int
Countries Quiz

Countries Quiz

This is a PowerPoint presentation containing ca. 12 countries. Each page includes severaly typical pictures from a given country, such as landmarks, flag or world-famous national dishes. Students ...
6 Views 17,127 ElemPre-Int
Countries and Nationalities

Countries and Nationalities

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 ...
4 Views 10,292 Elem
Quick Quiz: What Kind of

Quick Quiz: What Kind of "Emailer" Are You?

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 ...
2 Views 6,891 Pre-IntIntAdvExam
How to Make New Year's Resolutions

How to Make New Year's Resolutions

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 ...
7 Views 26,656 ElemPre-Int
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Time to Talk: Music & Celebrities

Time to Talk: Music & Celebrities

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 ...
15 Views 28,171 Pre-IntIntAdv
Used To & Adjectives

Used To & Adjectives

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 ...
9 Views 11,811 ElemPre-IntInt
Tenses: A Little Revision

Tenses: A Little Revision

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, ...
3 Views 9,302 ElemPre-Int
Comparatives & Superlatives -Tennis Players

Comparatives & Superlatives -Tennis Players

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 ...
2 Views 9,279 Pre-IntInt
Movie Worksheet: Coraline (2009) - Warm-up and First Part Activity

Movie Worksheet: Coraline (2009) - Warm-up and First Part Activity

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 ...
3 Views 23,601 Pre-IntInt
Monsters Inc - The Body Worksheet

Monsters Inc - The Body Worksheet

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 ...
13 Views 31,791 BegElemPre-Int
My Family Worksheet

My Family Worksheet

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 ...
13 Views 47,520 BegElem
Body Idioms with Lots of Exercises

Body Idioms with Lots of Exercises

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 ...
10 Views 14,341 Adv
Making the Band

Making the Band

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 ...
13 Views 32,277 AdvExam
Sea Animals

Sea Animals

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 ...
7 Views 16,568 Elem
Jobs

Jobs

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 ...
3 Views 10,925 BegElem
What Are They Wearing?

What Are They Wearing?

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 ...
6 Views 22,697 Elem
What's Missing? (Food Game)

What's Missing? (Food Game)

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 ...
21 Views 45,332 BegElem
Song Worksheet: Red by Taylor Swift

Song Worksheet: Red by Taylor Swift

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 ...
4 Views 20,691 BegElemPre-Int
Colours

Colours

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 ...
3 Views 9,454 BegElem
Song Worksheet: Zombie by The Cranberries

Song Worksheet: Zombie by The Cranberries

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 ...
13 Views 38,464 IntAdv
Movie Worksheet: Look Up (Youtube Video)

Movie Worksheet: Look Up (Youtube Video)

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 ...
14 Views 28,986 Pre-IntIntAdvExam
Song Worksheet: Video Killed the Radio Star by Erasure

Song Worksheet: Video Killed the Radio Star by Erasure

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 ...
4 Views 13,297 Int
Phrasal Verb Get

Phrasal Verb Get

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 ...
4 Views 10,576 Adv
Adverb Collocations

Adverb Collocations

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 ...
16 Views 19,336 Adv

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