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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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Reading Comprehension (Home Swapping)

Reading Comprehension (Home Swapping)

Reading comprehension about home exchange  based on the movie "The Holiday". It can be used with pre-intermediate and intermediate pupils. You can show the trailer of the movie before reading ...
6 Views 18,176 Pre-IntInt
What Do Colours Mean?

What Do Colours Mean?

I created this worksheet for my pre-intermediate children to train colours and their meaning. The students have to speak about the emotions and feelings looking at different colours. Students expr ...
6 Views 13,507 Pre-Int
Song Worksheet: Roses Are Red by Mac Band

Song Worksheet: Roses Are Red by Mac Band

In this song they sing about the loved one. I chose it to discuss what phrases we can use to say how much we love someone and what they mean to us. First, we understand some food phrases from the ...
3 Views 7,513 Pre-IntInt
Song Worksheet: Roses Are Red (My Love) by Bobby Vinton

Song Worksheet: Roses Are Red (My Love) by Bobby Vinton

This worksheet is to discuss a simple story from the song. First, students listen and put the pictures in the order of events in the song, then they listen again to fill in the gaps. The words are ...
2 Views 8,730 ElemPre-Int
Advice and Suggestions

Advice and Suggestions

This worksheet has a table of expressions for giving advice and making suggestions (e.g. 'Why don't you...? and 'Perhaps you should...'). There is also a pairwork activity which provides the oppor ...
16 Views 45,965 Int
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Emotions

Emotions

The given worksheet is dedicated to the topic emotions and feelings. It's not a secret that with the help of flashcards pupils  better and what is really important faster learn the words by h ...
6 Views 13,938 BegElemPre-Int
Revision Test 5 - Project Plus 2nd Edition

Revision Test 5 - Project Plus 2nd Edition

This unit test is about using the second conditional, the combination of the first and second conditional, questions with would, reflexive pronouns. From vocabulary there is an exercise for warnin ...
8 Views 24,184 Pre-Int
Revision Test 4 - Project 1 2nd Edition

Revision Test 4 - Project 1 2nd Edition

This test revises the present simple tense - affirmative, negative, questions, short answers, using prepositions of time - on, at, and it also deals with time telling. There is a reading and writi ...
13 Views 30,057 Elem
Week Days

Week Days

This is a worksheet that teachers can use as poster in their classroom for teaching pupils days of the week. The document has A3 parameters.
6 Views 19,958 BegElem
Wild Animals

Wild Animals

This is a worksheet that teachers can use as poster in the classroom, because it has A3 parameters, in this way pupils will learn wild animals easier.
8 Views 17,213 BegElem
Feelings and Emotions

Feelings and Emotions

This is a presentation I've made for my students to study the vocabulary connected with the topic feelings and emotions. You can use it both for introducing new vocabulary and for checking the stu ...
9 Views 31,848 BegElemPre-IntInt
Song Worksheet: Perfume by Britney Spears

Song Worksheet: Perfume by Britney Spears

Since 14 February is approaching I guess it is the right time to think about some love songs we could listen to. I decided to do Perfume by Britney Spears because it is not a typical I will always ...
5 Views 10,364 Pre-Int
Listening: Why We Love a Movie That Makes Us Cry

Listening: Why We Love a Movie That Makes Us Cry

Do films like Les Miserables make you cry? This activity was inspired by the BBC 6-minute English audio file, which can be found on: http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/learningenglish/general/sixmi ...
11 Views 15,222 IntAdv
Plurals and Suffixes Worksheet

Plurals and Suffixes Worksheet

An initiative for beginners after learning all the rules to change into plurals. Fill in the word or suffix (-ish, -ful) and make a word after adding the suffix, it will help them better understa ...
9 Views 35,585 Elem
Personal Hygiene Using Present Continuous

Personal Hygiene Using Present Continuous

This is a useful woksheet about personal hygiene using present continuous. This woksheet is for primary students- beginners. Here I've taken into account their skills. They are learning to write a ...
6 Views 9,445 BegElem
Reading Comprehension - Australian Wildlife

Reading Comprehension - Australian Wildlife

Almost half of the world's population of marsupials are found only in Australia. Marsupials include koalas, kangaroos, wombats, possums, and bandicoots. This reading comprehension includes some in ...
9 Views 58,267 Elem
Where I Can Buy Clothes

Where I Can Buy Clothes

This worksheet has the purpose to practice and review the uses of the modals “can” and “would like to” to give suggestions, it can be uses with mainly elementary students, ...
3 Views 9,271 Elem
Giving Suggestions to Visit My City

Giving Suggestions to Visit My City

In this two-page worksheet, your students will have the opportunity to practice creating sentences in the superlative; at the same time they will be able to give suggestions about visiting a city. ...
6 Views 15,727 ElemPre-Int
Colours and Objects

Colours and Objects

Here is a good way to teach colors connecting them to the common well known things. Students will create associations with colors and will learn new words, which is perfect for beginners. Give it ...
4 Views 10,412 Beg
Welcome to Australia

Welcome to Australia

This is a power point presentation about Australia, its sights and animals. Mainly it contains colourful photos. You can use it as a supplementary material to make your students acquainted with c ...
21 Views 45,194 All
Movie Worksheet: The Descendants

Movie Worksheet: The Descendants

The task sheet is based on the movie 'The Descendants' with George Clooney as the main character. It perfectly suits one of the usual exam topics - social ties. After watching the movie and comple ...
1 Views 9,929 Pre-IntInt
Natural Disaster

Natural Disaster

The first worsheet is about natural disaster problems listed, state one possible effect on health, property and economic cost. (If there is no effect for a particular category). The second w ...
4 Views 40,206 Elem
Telling the Time

Telling the Time

Aimed for kids, this worksheet contains thirty clocks and thirty "times". The kids will put the time in each clock to see if they know what "quarter past", "quarter to" and "half past" mean.& ...
11 Views 31,007 Beg
London Sights

London Sights

These are London sightseeing flashcards which can be used during studying such a popular topic as "London". Every flashcard contains the name of attration which can be useful in the first stages o ...
7 Views 16,104 ElemPre-Int
Conservation of Species - Reading Activity

Conservation of Species - Reading Activity

This is a reading activity that I have used with my pre-intermediate students. It contains a semi-authentic newspaper article in the first page and a few comprehension questions as well as a pairw ...
7 Views 14,864 Pre-IntInt

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