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.
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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This is a very simple cut and paste activity for young learners to highlight the meaning of big, bigger, biggest and small, smaller, smallest (or just big and small depending on their level). Have ...
A 5 page early reader for teachers to read with young students just learning to read English. This reader features several sight words that should be reviewed before reading; look, can, you, see a ...
A pre-writer tracer page for Musical Instruments. Worksheet features 4 words to trace violin, drum, trumpet and flute. This worksheet was designed with the idea of introducing students to instrume ...
An introductory power point presentation of Canada, students learn to take notes during the presentation: where Canada is, population, area, cities, symbols, landscape. It can be used after a brai ...
A short test on prepositions with modes of transport and British currency. The first part is on modes of transport, the second on the prepositions used with them and the final part on the pound st ...
This worksheet is for complete beginner level. It deals with jobs and nationalities. Teacher may elicit whether they know the person or not. It uses the present simple form. You may also use it fo ...
A reading exercise that deals with migration issues. Topic: the death of 58 Chinese illegal immigrants in a truck (2001, The Guardian). The worksheet contains a vocabulary matching exercise, multi ...
Chinese New Year resource: word unscramble. This worksheet includes 19 words that are associated with Chinese New Year. Students are asked to look at the words, unscramble them and write them corr ...
Chinese New Year resource -all of the words included in this worksheet are associated with Chinese New Year. Students are asked to look at the words and write them in alphabetical order. This Chin ...
This worksheet asks students to find out some information about the 12 animals that make up the Chinese zodiac. This can be used as an extra resource when teaching children about the Chinese New Y ...
This task I used as a homework for elementary students. They had to find additional info about African elephants and fill in the gaps. This task is based on the text-book New Millenium English for ...
A simple task for children about weather. The main task is to match proper words with pictures. The second task is based on translating weather describtions in Polish. The worksheet allows young c ...
A worksheet connected to clothes, weather and countries. The basic task is to write advice what to wear depending on weather conditions outside, for example: when it's raining you wear.... The sec ...
An easy test for children starting to learn basic vocabulary connected to jobs and professions. The test allows a teacher to check if children know basic words such as occupations and places where ...
A simple task for children about jobs and professions. The main task is to write where people work using crosswords and given clues in polish. Crosswords enable children to memorise vocabulary con ...
A simple task for children about occupations. The main task is to write where people work, like hospital, supermarket or fire station. The second task is to make children think about occupat ...
200 English proverbs, sayings, idioms, conversational clichés and phrases and their reflections in Ukrainian and Hungarian. Here we can see the difference between the translations and how t ...
This worksheet asks students to look at the picture and write a creative story to go along with it. This resource can be used when teaching children about Chinese New Year or as a creative writing ...
This worksheet asks students to look at the picture and write a creative story to go along with it. This resource can be used when teaching children about Chinese New Year or as a creative writing ...
This worksheet asks students to look at the picture and write a creative story to go along with it. This resource can be used when teaching children about Chinese New Year or as a creative writing ...
This worksheet asks students to look at the picture and write a creative story to go along with it. This resource can be used when teaching children about Chinese New Year or as a creative writing ...
This worksheet asks students to look at the picture and write a creative story to go along with it. This resource can be used when teaching children about Chinese New Year or as a creative writing ...
This worksheet asks students to look at the picture and write a creative story to go along with it. This resource can be used when teaching children about Chinese New Year or as a creative writing ...
This worksheet asks students to look at the picture and write a creative story to go along with it. This resource can be used when teaching children about Chinese New Year or as a creative writing ...
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