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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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Song Worksheet: Jobs

Song Worksheet: Jobs

This worksheet is designed to help build job vocabulary. There are three activities. The first activity is a gap fill; students listen to the song and fill in the missing words. The second activi ...
18 Views 46,502 BegElemPre-Int
Song Worksheet: Days of the Week Rhyme/ Song

Song Worksheet: Days of the Week Rhyme/ Song

This rhyme can be used to help your young learners to memorize days of the week faster and easier as the names of each day have their rhyming words that sound alike. It can also be sung as a song ...
8 Views 26,785 BegElemPre-Int
Olympics History

Olympics History

The brief history of the Olympics, their origin and revival plus some interesting facts about Games. Good for practicing past simple and revision of sport topic. You can read and discuss it in cl ...
15 Views 16,383 BegElem
Movie Worksheet: Valentine Day

Movie Worksheet: Valentine Day

This worksheet is used in my video class. My students enjoy it so much. The first activity is to warm them up with vocabulary about relationship. The second activity is speaking activity. I ask th ...
4 Views 20,725 ElemPre-Int
House and Furniture

House and Furniture

I usually use this worksheet for beginner or elementary EFL students. Target language is vocabulary related to rooms, houses and furniture. Normally the 1st activity is to scan how many rooms ther ...
17 Views 43,102 BegElem
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Movie Worksheet: Should Soviet Cartoons Be Banned?

Movie Worksheet: Should Soviet Cartoons Be Banned?

In 2012 Russian government considered introducing a new law – to ban one of the nation’s favorite cartoons “Nu Pogodi!” because the main character Wolf smokes. It caused a ...
5 Views 6,140 Pre-IntIntAdv
Interesting Personality Types

Interesting Personality Types

This is an introductory worksheet about different interesting personality types such as a home lover or a daredevil etc. Give the words to the ss and ask them to guess what kind of people these ar ...
11 Views 12,123 Pre-IntIntAdv
Giving Advice Phrases and Situations (Healthy Lifestyle)

Giving Advice Phrases and Situations (Healthy Lifestyle)

This worksheet contains different phrases for giving advice and short role play situations for using them while talking about Healthy Lifestyle. Divide the ss into 2 groups. Cut out the situations ...
33 Views 120,962 ElemPre-IntInt
Movie Worksheet: Vikings - Journeys to New Worlds

Movie Worksheet: Vikings - Journeys to New Worlds

Listening comprehension about Viking journeys. The worksheet is made as a quiz (easy to correct when you use the enclosed key), but might require some interpretation before you go on to watching t ...
3 Views 9,909 Adv
Describing Pictures (Based on Optical Illusions)

Describing Pictures (Based on Optical Illusions)

This worksheet can be used for introducing or revising phrases of pictures description (e.g. in the foreground, in the left upper corner etc.) It consists of the list of these phrases and interest ...
26 Views 26,058 ElemPre-IntInt
Crime Mystery

Crime Mystery

Who is the criminal? An engaging jigsaw reading comprehension mystery. It is an excellent role play reading best for upper-high intermediate who find working in groups an enjoyable activity. The i ...
13 Views 46,173 Adv
Movie Worksheet: Addicted to Gambling

Movie Worksheet: Addicted to Gambling

This listening exercise prepares students for a discussion on gambling addiction. It is an excellent practice for high intermediate and advanced students. They will watch 4 minutes movie interview ...
2 Views 8,077 Adv
English for Nursing 1 - Unit 5 - Powerpoint

English for Nursing 1 - Unit 5 - Powerpoint

it's a PowerPoint presentation of Unit 5 in " English for Nursing 1" course. It's given at Al Ghad Colleges for Applies Medical Sciences in Saudi Arabia. i
7 Views 11,291 All
Reading Comprehension - Abraham Lincoln

Reading Comprehension - Abraham Lincoln

Help your students learn some interesting facts about Abraham Lincoln with this reading comprehension. In 1831 he moved to Illinois and worked as a surveyor, storekeeper and postmaster while he st ...
10 Views 18,225 Elem
Reading Comprehension - John F. Kennedy

Reading Comprehension - John F. Kennedy

Presidents Day is on the 17th February so why not help your students learn some interesting facts about John F. Kennedy with this reading comprehension. Students read the passage and answer the mu ...
13 Views 13,989 Elem
Reading Comprehension - George Washington

Reading Comprehension - George Washington

Presidents Day is on the 17th February so why not help your students learn some interesting facts about George Washington? When was he born? When did he become the president of the United States? ...
13 Views 15,166 Elem
My Hair

My Hair

My hair. An activity to revise or to learn the vocabulary related to hair: short, long, straight, curly, fair and dark hair. First, students have to read the words, after that they have to draw th ...
4 Views 15,982 BegElem
Summer Camp Nature Booklet

Summer Camp Nature Booklet

This is something I used for my 5-7 year olds at Summer Camp 2013. They are new to writing English words so I had a powerpoint and music for each day's theme (plants, weather etc). Then they would ...
2 Views 10,836 BegElem
Clothes Basic Latinamerica Beginners

Clothes Basic Latinamerica Beginners

This is a basic vocabulary worksheet with images to words, letter unscramble and wordsearch puzzle. It derived from a story named "What a Trade!" in which a latin-american tortilla seller agrees t ...
5 Views 7,739 BegElem
The Question on Everyone's Mind - CNN Article and Exercises

The Question on Everyone's Mind - CNN Article and Exercises

I adapted (shortened and changed 2-3 words) a CNN article about the conception of work in the US to be used a basis for discussing cultural norms related to work in an ESL classroom. The first pag ...
14 Views 14,059 Pre-IntInt
Somatotypes. Does Your Character Depend on Your Body Structure?

Somatotypes. Does Your Character Depend on Your Body Structure?

In 1940s William Sheldon introduced the theory according to which he classified personality according to body type. He called this a person’s somatotype. In this worksheet there are example ...
8 Views 11,193 IntAdvExam
A Fear or a Phobia?

A Fear or a Phobia?

This worksheet was created while speaking about “Changing Lives” and the need to overcome your fears and insecurities in order to move on. But it can also be used as a nice addition to ...
12 Views 20,339 AdvExam
What Do Kids Say

What Do Kids Say "Love" Is?

What do small kids think love is? Here are some super cute and funny answers. It’s a perfect starter for St. Valentine’s Day or “Relationships” topic. I gave the first colu ...
20 Views 19,420 ElemPre-IntIntAdv
What's Your Alibi? Role Play (Past Simple vs Past Continuous)

What's Your Alibi? Role Play (Past Simple vs Past Continuous)

Any kind of “Alibi” game is perfect for practicing past tenses (esp past simple and past continuous). Make up any story that something was stolen at the party at 10 pm last night. You ...
39 Views 183,267 ElemPre-Int
Amazing Places in the World

Amazing Places in the World

Quiz - the students have to guess famous places, monuments, buildings, etc. There are questions and pictures, the students have to search for the info on the Internet and fill in the table with t ...
9 Views 16,505 Pre-IntInt

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