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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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Getting Acquainted

Getting Acquainted

You can use this questionnaire for collecting some basic information about your students and while learning the corresponding topic. The questionnaire can be extended if necessary. You can create ...
3 Views 8,172 Elem
Food Word Matching

Food Word Matching

It's a card-matching game with bright and funny pictures. Cut the cards, mix them up and learn English whenever and wherever you want. Can be used both for individual and group lessons. This game ...
8 Views 10,307 Elem
English For Nursing 1 - Unit 7 - PowerPoint / Part 4

English For Nursing 1 - Unit 7 - PowerPoint / Part 4

Continuation of English For Nursing 1 - PowerPoint.
5 Views 6,981 All
English For Nursing 1 - Unit 7 - PowerPoint / Part 2

English For Nursing 1 - Unit 7 - PowerPoint / Part 2

Continuation of English For Nursing 1 - PowerPoint.
3 Views 6,499 All
English For Nursing 1 - Unit 7 - PowerPoint

English For Nursing 1 - Unit 7 - PowerPoint

English For Nursing 1 - PowerPoint. It has all audio in this unit. It's given at Al Ghad Colleges for Applied Medical Sciences, Al Madinah Al Munawarah - Saudi Arabia. By Mr. K ...
2 Views 10,244 All
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Everything You Throw Away Comes Back (Creative/Free Writing Prompt)

Everything You Throw Away Comes Back (Creative/Free Writing Prompt)

"Everything you throw away comes back" was originally an environmental social ad that I used for free writing with my ss. But some of them started to speak beyond throwing away trash but also abou ...
8 Views 11,029 Pre-IntIntAdvExam
Idioms with the Verb

Idioms with the Verb "Start"

This worksheet contains some idioms with the verb "start" such as "to start off on the wrong foot" etc. as well as some synonyms of this verb such as "burst out". There are two activities included ...
11 Views 9,252 Pre-IntIntAdvExam
Fruits Worksheet

Fruits Worksheet

This worksheet will help our kindergarten students to recognize fruits of other objects. It will be useful for those teachers who are working with children that can't write yet but are learning th ...
5 Views 18,258 Beg
Song Worksheet: Ode to My Family

Song Worksheet: Ode to My Family

With this song you can reinforce personal pronouns and present simple auxiliaries. First discuss with them some warming up questions related to family, then introduce some verbs, listen to the so ...
7 Views 24,837 Beg
Fruits

Fruits

This worksheet is planned for a lesson with the theme of food and drinks vocabulary. The teacher uses this worksheet to recollect  colors and teach food and drinks. 
6 Views 12,057 Beg
Conversation about Cell Phones

Conversation about Cell Phones

A powerpoint presentation about cell phones, there are some questions related with phone/mobile phones. It can be used for your conversation class. You might use this to learn about WH-question or ...
7 Views 17,612 Adv
Clothing Board Game

Clothing Board Game

A board game to talk about clothing. I usually flip a coin (heads 1, tails 2) to move the pieces. It make them talk more. It has lots of questions talking about  present, past and future so t ...
13 Views 43,770 Pre-IntIntAdv
At the Airport - Travelling by Plane

At the Airport - Travelling by Plane

For this presentation the teacher's guidance is neccessary. It will help you to prepare your students in case they travel somewhere by plane. It guides you from the entrance to the airport through ...
36 Views 42,468 Pre-IntInt
International Travel

International Travel

Presentation in Power point on international travel. Introduces new vocabulary and discussion questions as well as short assignments. New vocabulary is introduced at the beginning comprised main ...
18 Views 31,328 Pre-IntInt
Song Worksheet: Disney Soundtracks from Toy Story, Jungle Book, Lion King and Pinochio

Song Worksheet: Disney Soundtracks from Toy Story, Jungle Book, Lion King and Pinochio

This is a great worksheet to improve listening skills based on the topic: Disney songs. It includes 4 different songs: "Give a little whistle" from Pinochio, "Hakunna Matata" from the Lion King, " ...
9 Views 28,362 ElemPre-Int
Present Simple Sentence Auction Review Game

Present Simple Sentence Auction Review Game

It's a sentence auction where students bid on correct sentences and try to trick others into buying incorrect sentences. It's a fun and extremely competitive way to review. And it works great if y ...
8 Views 28,789 BegElem
Professional Small Talk Conversation Comprehension

Professional Small Talk Conversation Comprehension

This worksheet was designed to help a student going to a professional conference. It presents an example conversation that might happen and comprehension questions to draw students' attention to t ...
9 Views 19,936 Adv
Take, Bring or Put?

Take, Bring or Put?

My students always confused take, bring or put. This exercise can be used as a preview, review or a teaching test to show them the difference. It's a simple cloze exercise where students fill in b ...
5 Views 9,948 Pre-IntIntAdvExam
Valentine's Day - Writing a Narrative

Valentine's Day - Writing a Narrative

This exercise is for ESL beginners. Starting from a comic strip about Valentine's Day, the students must write a short narrative in the present simple tense. You might want to first go over the ...
9 Views 19,427 Elem
Song Worksheet: Big Yellow Taxi

Song Worksheet: Big Yellow Taxi

it is a worksheet to encourage the students think about their environment. It is for elementary level. Part one, students fill in cloze verse. Part two, students match the halves of verse 2. Part ...
2 Views 11,618 Elem
Tenses Revision in Questions

Tenses Revision in Questions

The activity is called "Let's get to know each other better" and focuses on making questions in different tenses up to present perfect and writing down one's partner's answer in the correct tense ...
10 Views 14,194 ElemPre-Int
Movie Worksheet: Neck Rings (Beauty Around the World)

Movie Worksheet: Neck Rings (Beauty Around the World)

This worksheet is based on the video about neck stretching in some Asian and African tribes. I used it to speak about the differences in the concept of beauty around the world. There are three ta ...
7 Views 7,421 Pre-IntIntAdv
Movie Worksheet: Happy Feet (Infinitive Constructions)

Movie Worksheet: Happy Feet (Infinitive Constructions)

This worksheet is based on the episode from the cartoon “Happy Feet”. The story goes that a penguin named Mumble (Happy Feet) has to leave the community because he’s the only one ...
4 Views 17,644 Pre-IntIntAdv
Carnival

Carnival

It is Carnival time.This worksheet is about Carnival. Ten children are going to a fancy-dress party. Students have to look at the pictures and choose the correct answer. They have to complete some ...
18 Views 34,502 ElemPre-Int
The Invention Game

The Invention Game

Distribute a copy of one item to your students. They need to read the instruction and if everything is clear follow them. At the end of the game they should make a final decision of who should be ...
17 Views 39,749 IntAdvExam

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