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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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Hello, I'd like to rent a car!

Hello, I'd like to rent a car!

It is a set of dialogues concerning renting a car on the phone. Students are expected to learn some new words and phrases, match the questions and answers in the dialogue and complete the dialogue ...
10 Views 14,155 All
Days of the Week - Simple Reading Comprehension

Days of the Week - Simple Reading Comprehension

This worksheet works great with beginner or elementary students. It is a simple and easy worksheet for revising days of the week related vocabulary.The students are asked to read the text and to ...
16 Views 49,213 Elem
Movie Worksheet: Hop

Movie Worksheet: Hop

This is a movie worksheet to be completed during or after watching the movie Hop. It's a great Easter activity for elementary school children. There are several questions to be answered and one es ...
5 Views 23,914 ElemPre-Int
Easter

Easter

This worksheet is about Easter. In exercise 1 students have to match the words and the pictures, in exercise 2 they have to find a message and in exercise 3 they have to complete a text about an E ...
32 Views 60,034 ElemPre-IntInt
What Will I Wear - Board Game

What Will I Wear - Board Game

What will I wear? This board game provides practice linking clothes and weather vocabulary by asking you to play (and say) a clothes card that matches the weather indicated by the square you have ...
13 Views 19,864 BegElem
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Would/Used to: Lesson Plan Using the Giving Tree

Would/Used to: Lesson Plan Using the Giving Tree

This is a lesson plan I used to introduce and practice would versus used to in storytelling. The many interpretations students came up with for this story was amazing. As you go through the story ...
13 Views 15,977 IntAdv
Movie Worksheet: Bet You Didn't Know: Easter Traditions

Movie Worksheet: Bet You Didn't Know: Easter Traditions

This is a fill in the gap activity to do with "Bet you didn't know: Easter traditions" video from History Channel (3 minutes). It's a funny and interesting video ideal for B1 students, teenagers a ...
20 Views 44,281 Pre-IntInt
Phonetics Card Game

Phonetics Card Game

2 Teams of  2 players (a clue giver and a guesser), a deck of 44 cards, a timer (2mn rounds). Find and Pronounce as many words as possible. Rules: - the clue giver draws a ...
14 Views 31,213 Int
Likes and Dislikes

Likes and Dislikes

This is a worksheet for complete beginners. It will help students to express their likes/dislikes of different food items. It can be used after students have learned to identify common fruit and v ...
9 Views 25,158 Beg
Movie Worksheet: Friends (The One with the Holiday Armadillo- Christmas)

Movie Worksheet: Friends (The One with the Holiday Armadillo- Christmas)

This worksheet contains additional material for a video session if you plan to watch a Christmas episode of Friends, "The One with the Holiday Armadillo". There is a list of vocabulary (could be a ...
5 Views 25,020 IntAdv
Simple Essay Outline (Ekwefi- Ezinma Mother-Daughter Relationship)

Simple Essay Outline (Ekwefi- Ezinma Mother-Daughter Relationship)

A simple essay outline (minimum 14 sentences without relevant quotes from the novel and their explanations). This may be used to introduce students to writing essays in the English Literature clas ...
4 Views 15,226 BegElemPre-IntInt
Do or Make?

Do or Make?

It is a PowerPoint presentation of the difference between the use of 'do' and 'make'. It has got a brief explanation, some contrasting ideas and lots of expressions which use 'do' and 'make'. Init ...
11 Views 17,318 Pre-Int
Adjectives for Feelings 2

Adjectives for Feelings 2

Adjectives for feelings exercise done specially for Solutions Intermediate 2nd Edition Unit 2. It includes a gap-fill exercise (the ss need to complete the gaps with the correct adjective + a nece ...
10 Views 36,049 Int
Adjectives of Feelings 1

Adjectives of Feelings 1

A PowerPoint presentation made specifically for Solutions Intermediate 2nd Edition Unit 2. It includes adjectives of feelings (afraid; amused; ashamed; confused; delighted; depressed; disappointed ...
11 Views 16,772 Int
Food Elementary Worksheet

Food Elementary Worksheet

This is a colourful and easy missing letters activity for teaching or revising food related vocabulary at elementary level. Students are asked to look at the pictures and complete the words w ...
6 Views 15,068 Elem
Online Shopping

Online Shopping

This passage is about the advantages and disadvantages of online shopping. Online shopping allows consumers to shop in the convenience of their own home, and to save travelling time to retail stor ...
22 Views 47,754 Pre-Int
Mobile Scavenger Hunt

Mobile Scavenger Hunt

A scavenger hunt is a game where you try to find certain objects or answers to clues. In this scavenger hunt you will use a mobile phone to give clues and hints to another team. This is ...
4 Views 32,060 IntAdv
Role Play- Strange Illness

Role Play- Strange Illness

Students will play the role of a parent and child. The child has to describe an illness and its symptoms to avoid going to school, and the parent has to try to catch the child lying. There is a ...
17 Views 49,311 ElemPre-IntInt
Useful Sentences

Useful Sentences

This worksheet helps you to teach some useful sentecences to new student (basic ESL students).You can use this to introduce some sentences that students will always use during the class. Here you ...
15 Views 26,764 BegElem
Movie Worksheet: New York City Travel Guide

Movie Worksheet: New York City Travel Guide

The lesson starts with a guessing game as ss say a number and T gives them a sentence in return. Collecting the senteces, ss have to find out which city is the class about. Then the lesson continu ...
15 Views 32,358 Pre-IntInt
Animal Test

Animal Test

It's a very simple test I've created for my young learners to practise the spelling of animals. The worksheet includes pictures of animals, mixed-letter exercises and letter-missing exercises. It' ...
6 Views 16,795 BegElem
My Son, Tom

My Son, Tom

This is a personal worksheet about my son, Tom. Students are asked to read a text and answer a few questions. They can practise the present simple tense. This worksheet is not suitable for young l ...
33 Views 16,905 ElemPre-IntInt
Song Worksheet: Walking in the Zoo - Puzzle

Song Worksheet: Walking in the Zoo - Puzzle

This is another ppt I prepared for my first graders to practise the song Walking in the Jungle, but I added a new ingredient. This time they will have to guess the animal before all the coloured s ...
5 Views 10,854 Beg
Song Worksheet: Walking in the Zoo

Song Worksheet: Walking in the Zoo

This is a ppt I prepared for my first graders to practise the song Walking in the Jungle, as part of our project We are Going to the Zoo. They will have to call out the names of each animal before ...
7 Views 9,684 Beg
Easter Fun

Easter Fun

This worksheet is about Easter and how it is celebrated in England and in France. There are five activities : reading, vocabulary practice with a matching activity, grammar practice with two exerc ...
49 Views 107,999 BegElemPre-Int

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