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.
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This worksheet is for higher level adult or teenage students to play a game of Snap by making correct entertainment words using suffixes. Students play in groups of three to four. They take turns ...
The first part of the presentation introduces a few typical English (Irish) housing styles. The second part concentrates on the inside of a typical English house. There is a short quiz at the end, ...
This is an extreme weather matching activity. Various extreme weathers, can lead on to other things such as climate change. Can be used to start the lesson or good after brainstorming various type ...
A conversation worksheet on the topic of fame. This worksheet could be used as a warmer activity or even practice as an IELTS speaking topic. Learners review vocabulary items, read opinions from o ...
It is based on the application for mobile phones. In this presentation you´ll find 15 pictures (15x4 if I should be precise). Every 4 pictures have something in common and the goal of the ss ...
This worksheet is a simple matching exercise for students to learn basic vocabulary for describing a horror/suspense film. It can be used as group work or individual work. It works best after the ...
This worksheet is a great way to talk about differences between the U.S. school environment and a foreign school. The students work on their own or with a partner for the warm-up and then discuss ...
This is a role-play worksheet: a press-conference with Angelina Jolie. The main purpose of this activity is a) revising question formation in present simple, past simple, present perfect (for the ...
This worksheet is for higher level adult or teenage students to discuss health problems. Students play in groups of four or five. When they land on a square they read it and need to talk about it ...
Here you have the song "Accidentally in Love" by Counting Crows in which students choose the correct word the first time. Then, they have to discriminate words by their sounds.Finally, they look f ...
It is only a reading text about history of pizza. It is appropriate for intermediate students. You formulate some questions about the text and give it your students. The text has been simplified t ...
A lesson plan that can be used as an inspiration for creating "will / going to" themed business English lesson. The aim is a practical use of the particular grammar and at the same time student t ...
This is a complex lesson about colours based on a video from youtube by David Attenborough. The video shows some unique pictures of animals so the tasks are built around the topic of animals and t ...
This a complex lesson about water and can be used both in class or in private teaching. The lesson includes an interesting true or false section about water and followed by a listening test on the ...
This worksheet is based on a video with a cooking tutorial (http://www.videojug.com/film/how-to-make-pizza-dough-2?sourcelink=autoforward&playlist-urlname=how-to-make-pizza-margarita). First s ...
I use this worksheet to talk about food in Britain. It is based on the video taken from "New Opportunities" (pre-intermediate). Unfortunately, it is available online only for the users of this soc ...
I divide activities around this worksheet into three parts: 1) First we watch the food chant. Ss write down sentences about the food they like/don't like. 2) Ss look at the picture with ...
This worksheet contains an easy task that can be used to revise vocabulary connected with food preparation. Students have to match the words from the box with the pictures. They can later use thes ...
I use this worksheet at the lessons dedicated to the study of Great Britain. My source of inspiration in designing it was a great video provided by the British Council called "Four Nations" (from ...
This worksheet is about the UK, its culture, traditions, people. You can use it as a final test.The quiz includes two tasks:1) test ( 26 questions); 2) map ( where students should write down the n ...
I use this worksheet to sum up my ss' knowledge about the UK. Questions contain some factual information about Great Britain. They have either to say if it's true or false, circle the correct alte ...
I use this worksheet to discuss, confirm and disprove some stereotypes we have about British people. At first ss make a list of all possible stereotypes they have, then we play "Fact or Fiction" g ...
This worksheet can be used to discuss the causes of stress and possible ways to cope with it. The second part of it is based on a short film called "School Portait" by Nick Scott. It gives an exce ...
This worksheet is based on the cartoon serial ‘Minuscules’. The cartoon serial ‘Minuscules’ (France, 2007) which is the collection of 3-5 minute mini-stories. The dynamic ...
The test is for the 4th graders. It contains basic questions using structures such as can/have/do and wh-questions. The grammar areas are: possesive 's, adjectives describing people, present ...
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