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 contains diffrent kinds of activities connected with the song "Let It Go" from the popular movie "Frozen". First it's filling the gaps in the song lyrics, then there is vocabulary p ...
This power point presentation was made some years ago and was used at English lessons in Russian schools in cultural learning context. It contains a lot of visuals, vocabulary work, the descriptio ...
It´s a test about daily routines, food, time and school timetables. There are easy tasks to revise and reinforce the vocabulary learnt in the unit. In the first one the students have to com ...
Ss have to ask : what are you wearing? Are you wearing ..... and ........? to find the ship. Page has two boards, one for the ss and one for the partner so they can mark where they have asked. I u ...
This is a set of 40 printable cards: 20 common English word roots and 20 definitions. They can be printed out and used as flash cards or to play a concentration-style game. Roots include: ast ...
Activities based on a Peppa Pig episode, for young learners aged about 6. Practising "can" in questions and short answers. After watching, a teacher may check the answers and elicit "Yes, he/she c ...
Alexander Graham Bell was born on the 3rd March, 1847. Teach your students some interesting facts about one of the most famous inventors of all time with this reading comprehension. Students read ...
It's a reading comprehension worksheet. The reading passage is an extract from a diary of a teenager living in war conditions. The ws includes 3 stages of the lesson: the pre-stage, the whil ...
This activity was thought for students to analize and compare the two models of food pyramids. They have to recognize the food as well as the group they belong to. They can talk about the food the ...
A set of activities for young learners about Olympic and Paralympic games (Beijing 2008). Students have to recognize and label the sports. They will learn the meaning and procedence of the ri ...
I wrote it around Christmas time for my students to read a simple story with ear sounds. It talks about a reindeer having an earache. The reason for the earache is explained, but I didn't ex ...
This worksheet is an asessment worksheet that recalls student's knowledge about vocabulary which is related to space travel and holiday time and also students' knowledge of using wish and question ...
Human Rights is a collection of questions and pictures intended to stimulate interest and discussion about human rights. It is particularly made for advanced level students and does not necessitat ...
Travel and tourism is a collection of questions and pictures intended to stimulate discussion. It is made for advanced students but could be adapted to any level, and basically this is what it was ...
What should you think of before you write your CV? What information should and shouldn’t be included in it? What’s the correct way to sort the information? This worksheet can give you ...
This worksheet is a reading activity created as one of the tasks in winter English speaking camp. It’s quite informative and deals with the question how to survive/keep warm in cold weather. ...
The worksheet contains a brief history of evolution, a brainstorming activity, discussion questions, a story for dictation (dictogloss) and additional pictures to be used. The focus is the differe ...
A worksheet to practice vocabulary. Here you have pictures and students have to choose the right sport and label the picture. It is intended to introduce the topic sports or hobbies for elementary ...
This worksheet is about the history of pizza making. Most students enjoy eating pizza so this should generate some interest. Students will try to understand vocabulary without a dictionary and lea ...
This worksheet is useful for revising the names of different items of clothes. It saves time because you don't have to look for the pictures yourselves. It can also be used to have competitions in ...
Try out this funny song/chant at your lessons about food. Don't forget about the moves for each action (e.g. pick, squeeze, spread, eat). Or you can even ask your ss to bring the ingredients and m ...
This presentations focus on the monsters' description using the verb 'have got' and vocabulary connected with body parts, colours and some adjectives. In slides 3-6 ss have to guess which monster ...
There are 2 activities in this worksheet, first students have to write the street signs warnings and then draw other signs. It can also be used to review the modal verb must, students would h ...
These are six speaking information gap tasks on the topic of leisure and entertainment. I made them to give my KET for Schools students more experience making and answering questions. You can cut ...
This worksheet was made to practice listening and studying/revising vocabulary in connection with checking into a hotel. The basis of the worksheet is a YouTube video (link: http://www.youtube.com ...
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