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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The Stop game comes from a video I watched about TEFL , from BridgeTEFL. In this game, students use vocabulary they know and verb tenses they know to write a single word (or maybe a half-phrase) i ...
This is a power point presentation on New Year's vocabulary. Students have to look at the pictures and choose the correct option, they can revise or learn some words about this holiday and traditi ...
A lesson plan about famous inventors and discoverers. The first part is team work. The students are divided into teams and they read different short texts about famous inventors and discoverers. T ...
This worksheet includes two tasks about phrasal verbs. The first task is a blank filling exercise in which students fill in the gaps with the right verb. The second task involves replacing normal ...
Colors and the fruits, plants, and animals that are mostly associated with the colors, useful for beginners. Use it for practising colours after learning the ss' names.
The title of this poem is 'I Eat Spaghetti with a Spoon'. Kids will love to read this funny poem. Students are asked to read through the comprehension and then answer the accompanying study questi ...
This is a reading comprehension worksheet for teaching jobs related vocabulary and the present perfect tense. Students are asked to read the text, say if the sentences are true or false and a ...
This is a simple and colourful missing letters activity for teaching or revising New Year related vocabulary at elementary level. Students are asked to look at the pictures and then complete ...
This is a worksheet about New Year's resolutions. There are three activities including reading, matching and writing. Students learn the vocabulary to talk about their resolutions, they practise t ...
Students are asked to match some pictures with some words related to New Year’s Eve, find some other words in the wordsearch, and complete the text about celebrating New Year’s Eve in ...
It is an extracurricular activity. It contains a short explanation about the history of Valentine's Day, a reading task, a listening task, a writing task and a matching exercise about famous coupl ...
This kind of material is good for those who has just started reading and has learned the reading rules of only two syllables: open and closed. It is a board game used for practicing the names of a ...
This kind of material is good for those who has just started reading and has learned the reading rules of only two syllables: open and closed. This is a crossword puzzle for teaching animals. The ...
This kind of material is good for those who has just started reading and has learned the reading rules of only two syllables: open and closed. This is a wordsearch puzzle for teaching animals. The ...
This kind of material is good for those who has just started reading and has learned the reading rules of only two syllables: open and closed. This worksheet can be used as a picture dictionary or ...
This an excellent task for teaching appearance. Students read about the Weirdson Family and have to draw them. This worksheet promotes creativity as well. As a post-task activity you can ask stud ...
This ppt is meant for presenting key vocabulary related to household chores and adverbs of frequency (simple present). This is the very first time I upload and share my own material with othe ...
It is a reading comprehension worksheet about Xmas. It contains a short text and three activities. The first activity is a matching task, the second is a speaking exercise. The third is a solving ...
This is a worksheet containing many exercises about physical descriptions: matching exercises, reading and drawing activities and pronunciation. The lesson requires a basic knowledge of body parts ...
A great rocking Christmas song by an American band called Train with tasks to fill the gaps, order sentenses, choose correct words. You can play bingo for the first -time listening or ask your stu ...
This workseet contains a role-play that will need your ss' creativity and imagination. Most of us dreamed about meeting Santa when we were kids. One of the ss has to take up a role of a journalist ...
This worksheet can be used to refresh ss' knowledge of Chrsitmas traditions. It consists of 16 questions dealing with some basic information about the way Christmas is celebrated in English speaki ...
This PowerPoint contains some basic information about Christmas. It explains who Santa Claus is and what people do and eat at Christmas. This is appropriate for elementary language learners, speci ...
This power point contains family tree of Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie. And also some slides about possessive 's. It's very helpful because most of the students know the celebrities. You can use it ...
This worksheet is based on two short videos that can be seen on youtube: The Incredibles Trailer. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eZbzbC9285I and Jack-Jack attack. http://www.yo ...
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