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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To be used for an introductory lesson. Best suited for adult learners or mature learners. I used this for intermediate to advanced level students. It includes normal topics that I continue to us ...
This is a very simple bingo grid. There are 14 different ones so that each student in my lower level class has a different one. I used this with the following song http://youtu.be/saF3-f0XWAY to ...
A very popular song from the 70's about a father and a son who have problems communicating. This worksheet includes a pre-reading task for prediction, a listening task (inserting the lines in the ...
This worksheet contains vocabulary related to Mother’s Day. In exercise 1 students have to match the words and the pictures, in exercise 2 they have to find some words in the word search, an ...
A worksheet teachers can use as a listening for intermediate students with glossary in Spanish. There are eight questions for students to answer and a final question that can be used as a debate i ...
This is the second of a set of 3 information cards I made for students age 7-8, so they can mix and speak to each other. Each student takes a card and they ask each other about the information on ...
It is a worksheet for beginner level. There are 7 cars and a question to each car, for example "Is it red?".Children must agree or disagree and say the right colour. Depending on the lev ...
There are 10 pictures.Children are asked to choose the right colour for each picture. This worksheet will help children to repeat the names of colors. It can be a revision activity or a ...
How much do you know about Soccer World Cup? Take this quiz in English and test yourself. Teachers can use this activity as a trigger for speaking and teamwork. This activity can help the teacher ...
Learn English vocabulary related to soccer. Take this challenge and see if you can guess the right words. Read the clues on the left and try to guess the right word. Click on the first letter of t ...
Every student gets to have a business card (there are fairy tales characters, some pixar characters and some Big Bang theory characters for the older ones) and a student goes around the room askin ...
Help children learn geometry angles. Get this free innovative teacher tool which facilitates learning angles.Utilizing manipulation, student questioning and active participation, this learnin ...
Nine different digits are in the square above. The number in the second row is twice that in the first row. (327 x 2 = 654) The number in the bottom row is three times that in the top row. (3 ...
I started water discussions with my intermediate students and in the middle of the class we had a funny task about water idioms. Water is the essential part of our life. And what's more now they k ...
It's a wonderful task to start with your class about communication. I begin my class with a mindmap about communication; one of the features is signs and symbols. So I distribute this task to my s ...
This is a 25pt. quiz based on the Season 1 Episode 1 of Modern Family. This is a great show for showing American Culture as well as family culture. It makes students laugh as well as makes them th ...
This worksheet is for students who are fairly new to the language, but have some knowledge of the alphabet. Students trace the words "My name is" at the top and then try to write the sentence the ...
A worksheet for beginning writers, it includes examples of two full names (Hello Kitty and Mickey Mouse) at the top with the rules regarding captial and lowercase letters for names. There are thr ...
This sheet contains links to 5 videos that talk about and show future inventions. There are tasks to do while watching to check comprehension and also discussion questions to reflect on the differ ...
This presentation was made on the basis of textbook Project 2 (Unit 5) published by Oxford University Press. It presupposes that ss are familiar with vocabulary describing landscapes. This ppt wil ...
Family Worksheet with fill in the gap exercise with the British Royal family tree, contains vocabulary such as children, mother, father, aunt, uncle, cousin, grandparents, grandchildren etc. It ca ...
Holidays around the year (GB, USA). This presentation is for pre-intermediate and intermediate students. Including information about New Year´s Eve, St. Valentine´s Day, St. Patrick&ac ...
This Powerpoint Presentation can be used for revising vocabulary related to spring, flowers, animals and weather. Students have to look at the pictures and choose the correct option. There are 16 ...
You can use this worksheet as a test or just to revise if your students know names of countries, nationalities and citizens. There are 25 examples with the answer sheet, some are tricky, some are ...
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