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.
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This Christmas worksheet is a cloze exercise that can be used as an extra resource when teaching students about Christmas. Students are asked to fill in the missing words to the sentences using wo ...
A simple song worksheet to enjoy during Christmas season. There are options to choose as well as a few gaps. It can be done with any level, but it works best with elementary and pre-intermediate s ...
Watch a Peppa's episode and complete the worksheet. Pay attention to introducing new vocabulary first and then children answer your question. You may also talk to them about Christmas, custom ...
This Christmas worksheet is all about matching and can be used as an extra resource when learning about Christmas. Students must match the Christmas riddles on the left with the correct answer on ...
Reindeer can be many different colours and sizes. They have thick coats and large hooves. This reading comprehension includes facts about reindeer and can be used as an extra resource when learnin ...
It's an easy bingo game for young kids. The first page is the pictures for the teacher's to use and call out the name of the pictures and the other pages are the bingo cards for the kids. Kids wil ...
I use this worksheet to work with family vocabulary and questions type "What's your mummy's name?" as well as the possessive pronoums her, his. Very useful with level 2 of primary education. ...
Christmas is coming, so Christmas songs worksheets are useful these days. This is a worksheet for a song "Christmas (Baby please come home)" by Death Cab For Cutie. Students need to fill the gaps ...
As I have previously written in part 1, this pack is published and provided by Oxford University Press. Here you will be able to find the following: decorate your Christmas tree, Christmas t ...
Wonderful pack about Cristmas that contains Christmas poster, the story of Christmas, how to make an advent wreath, lyrics for Jingle Bells, make a Christmas card, pin the nose on Rudolph, h ...
This is an "interviewing game" that accompanies the elementary English textbook for 6th graders in Japan called "Hi Friends 2". The pictures used are the same as the ones in the textbook which de ...
This Powerpoint Presentation contains all the answers from OUP Christmas pack 2013. I believe my pupils need more repetition before they can do the activities, so the plan is to go through the pre ...
A worksheet that contains basic Christmas vocabulary as an introduction part of the lesson for OUP Christmas Pack 2013. It can also be given as a handout that children can stick into their noteboo ...
I teach a class of Japanese adults who love everything about Hawaii, so I put together these two pages to teach them how Christmas is different in Hawaii than the "mainland". Most of the students ...
This is a very easy missing letters activity for teaching or revising Christmas related vocabulary at elementary level. Students are asked to look at the pictures and complete the words with ...
This is a colourful and easy word search puzzle for teaching or revising Christmas related vocabulary at elementary level. At the bottom of the page is a list of words. The words are hidden i ...
This a PDF document that contains important vocabulary used in the classroom (mainly by students.) If you want your students to use English communicatively, paste this pieces of chunks on the wall ...
This PowerPoint shows how to describe people and their jobs. The grammar focuses on present simple and indefinite articles a and an. It is appropriate for elementary language learners, specially a ...
A crossword to revise sea animals vocabulary. Students have to identify the sea animals and write their names in the crossword. Look at the pictures and solve the crossword puzzle.This worksheet i ...
A crossword to revise farm animals vocabulary. Students have to identify the farm animals and write their names in the crossword. Look at the pictures and solve the crossword puzzle.This worksheet ...
A game focussing on prior knowledge and language acquisition. Perfect for an end-of-class activity. All the words chosen for this activity come from the Longman Active Study Dictionary. Most of th ...
This is a rather simple word search for English lessons during the Christmas season. The children that I teach in Germany have always loved to do this word search puzzle. The words that you have t ...
This is a power point presentation on Christmas vocabulary. Students have to look at the pictures and choose the correct option, they can revise or learn some words about this holiday and traditio ...
This is worksheet about appearance collocations. I got the text from the book collocation in use(2005). The collocations are highlighted and there is a matching and a fill-in-the-blank exercise f ...
Worksheet that is to be used after viewing the film Groundhog Day. I have the students watch it after finishing with my lesson plan dealing with weather. Reading and writing exercises but could ...
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