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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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An Eggcellent Time of Year

An Eggcellent Time of Year

An Easter lesson for upper-primary students at roughly elementary or pre-intermediate level on the topic of Easter eggs. Includes a vocabulary input exercise and some reading, ending in a pronunci ...
34 Views 48,634 ElemPre-Int
How to Ditinguish Say, Speak, Tell, Talk

How to Ditinguish Say, Speak, Tell, Talk

The worksheet is devoted to the usage of say, speak, tell, talk. It is intended for pre-intermediate students. The aim is to enable students to use these verbs correctly in their speech. This mate ...
21 Views 33,032 Pre-Int
Clothing

Clothing

Let your students imagine what they would like to buy. Then give them money. Ask them what they have got. Have they got enough money? Which one is cheaper or more expensive?? Grammar point: compar ...
6 Views 12,339 Elem
Samba Drumming Gap-Fill Exercise

Samba Drumming Gap-Fill Exercise

A sheet explaining Samba Drums and how they are used. A gap-fill exercise originally designed as a precursor to a samba drumming activity later in the day. Consists of the gap-fill sheet for the ...
4 Views 7,882 IntAdv
Maths Puzzles

Maths Puzzles

This PowerPoint presentation is fun to use when revising numbers and calculations. I have found that the students in my classes enjoy the activities very much as it changes the usual dynamic of te ...
3 Views 9,207 ElemPre-Int
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Animals Matching Activity

Animals Matching Activity

This is a very simple and easy matching activity for teaching or revising animals related vocabulary at elementary level. Students are asked to match the words given with the pictures.The wor ...
9 Views 15,603 BegElem
Autoimmune Disease: Lupus (Medical English)

Autoimmune Disease: Lupus (Medical English)

The worksheet contains a text about lupus, what causes it, the cure, the statistics. There are exercises like true/false to check the understanding, vocabulary task based on text vocabulary (compo ...
1 Views 9,808 Pre-IntInt
Blood (Medical English)

Blood (Medical English)

The worksheet includes a big text about blood, what it contains, its fuction, place of production and blood types. The text is divided into four logical parts and each part has exercises (like: fi ...
1 Views 11,930 Pre-IntInt
Alzheimer Disease (Medical English)

Alzheimer Disease (Medical English)

A worksheet based on the text and audio about Alzheimer disease, pretty nice medical & biological English. Worksheet includes: text with vocabulry search, matching the beginning and the endin ...
2 Views 10,659 Pre-IntInt
Describe Your Classroom and Your City

Describe Your Classroom and Your City

A one-slide power point presentation that includes simple vocabulary related to classroom furniture/objects and places in town. My students used it to produce orally sentences using there is / are ...
4 Views 17,607 Elem
Song Worksheet: Days of the Week (Adam's Family Tune)

Song Worksheet: Days of the Week (Adam's Family Tune)

This is an easy and fun way to teach the days of the week. It's a simple song that allows students to participate by snapping their fingers while they listen and sidng. Students have to complete t ...
2 Views 17,930 Beg
My School Subjects

My School Subjects

In this worksheet your students will find 6 sentences impossible to understand since the words are in the wrong order. First, they will have to order the words to form sentences. The sentences are ...
4 Views 18,106 Elem
Project 1, Units 3-4. Revision Test

Project 1, Units 3-4. Revision Test

This worksheet is aimed at Croatian pupils and their EFL teachers to help them save their time. I find that recommended tests to go with Project are very demanding for my pupils, and I always wast ...
4 Views 35,950 Elem
False Advertising

False Advertising

The framework for the task is given but the details are up to the students. The class questions section gives students a target to build their role-play around. I have students answer the questio ...
4 Views 18,921 Pre-IntInt
Role Play - Broken Mobile

Role Play - Broken Mobile

This role play provides the basic framework for the conversation while leaving the details up to the students. The class questions section gives the students a target. I have students answer the ...
10 Views 26,012 Pre-IntInt
Zapp! English Listening 2.9 Describing Appearance

Zapp! English Listening 2.9 Describing Appearance

Do you think you can guess what somebody looks like from the sound of their voice? We made a free audio class that goes with this worksheet. The MP3 contains real English conversations and you can ...
5 Views 14,062 Pre-IntInt
Toys Bingo and Reading for Young Learners

Toys Bingo and Reading for Young Learners

A simple Toys Bingo for kids, you can use the same pictures as counters, and in my opinion bingo is always good and fun for revision or ice-breaker. As a follow up you can ask the students to spea ...
4 Views 12,704 Beg
Comprehension - I Raised My Hand in Class

Comprehension - I Raised My Hand in Class

This English resource is a great activity for helping students with their spelling. Students are asked to firstly underline the correct spelling of the word in brackets and then answer the study q ...
12 Views 15,498 Elem
Set Expressions Presentation

Set Expressions Presentation

This presentation introduces some set expressions in alphabetical order. Pre-teaching is not needed. Expressions include:  all of a sudden, as a matter of fact, according to, as far as, about ...
6 Views 6,651 Pre-IntIntAdv
Game about Russia

Game about Russia

This presentation is a guessing game on Russian tourist attractions. Pre-teaching is needed. Presentation includes information on Saint Basil's Cathedral, Hermitage Museum, Moscow Kremlin, Su ...
3 Views 7,728 IntAdv
Jeopardy (New Matrix Intermediate)

Jeopardy (New Matrix Intermediate)

This is Jeopardy-style presentation based on the New Matrix course book for Intermediate ESL learners. Themes: Body language, Present Perfect / Present Perfect Continuous / American vs. British E ...
9 Views 14,462 Int
Quote Poster

Quote Poster

"Change your thoughts and you'll change the world." You can use the poster as a classroom poster if you print on A3. Related worksheet is included for discussion and inference activity. The questi ...
3 Views 13,534 All
Family Members

Family Members

This is a complete lesson about family members. Make sure you introduce the family members before you start teaching with this worksheet. There is a word search included, and certain grammar tense ...
29 Views 136,070 BegElem
Make and Do Flashcards Part 2 PDF

Make and Do Flashcards Part 2 PDF

These flashcards provide a more practical way to learn expressions which go with 'make' or 'do' with translations seen in Portuguese. Print as side to of Part 1, where pictures are shown to illust ...
3 Views 9,640 ElemPre-IntInt
Make and Do Flashcards Part 1 PDF

Make and Do Flashcards Part 1 PDF

These flashcards provide a more practical way to learn expressions which go with 'make' or 'do'. Pictures are shown to illustrate these expressions and give a visual aid to memorization. Paired wi ...
5 Views 10,199 ElemPre-IntInt

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