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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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Christmas Quiz Printable

Christmas Quiz Printable

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 ...
11 Views 29,020 Elem
Song Worksheet: Walking in the Winter Wonderland

Song Worksheet: Walking in the Winter Wonderland

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 ...
3 Views 16,680 ElemPre-Int
Movie Worksheet: Peppa's Christmas Episode

Movie Worksheet: Peppa's Christmas Episode

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 ...
10 Views 26,807 Elem
Christmas Riddles

Christmas Riddles

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 ...
17 Views 49,990 Elem
Christmas Comprehension - Reindeer

Christmas Comprehension - Reindeer

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 ...
14 Views 26,718 Elem
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Bingo Game for Young Kids

Bingo Game for Young Kids

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 ...
11 Views 17,937 BegElem
Family Tree

Family Tree

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. ...
5 Views 16,241 BegElem
Song Worksheet: Christmas, Baby, Please Come Home

Song Worksheet: Christmas, Baby, Please Come Home

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 ...
2 Views 10,148 Pre-IntInt
Christmas 2013 OUP Pack Part 2

Christmas 2013 OUP Pack Part 2

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 ...
19 Views 13,983 BegElem
Christmas 2013 OUP Pack Part 1

Christmas 2013 OUP Pack Part 1

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 ...
20 Views 15,352 BegElem
Months in Japan

Months in Japan

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 ...
5 Views 9,141 BegElem
Christmas 2013 Presentation Flashcards

Christmas 2013 Presentation Flashcards

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 ...
15 Views 9,830 BegElem
Christmas 2013

Christmas 2013

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 ...
14 Views 14,257 BegElem
Christmas in Hawaii+ Song Worksheet

Christmas in Hawaii+ Song Worksheet

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 ...
6 Views 11,040 ElemPre-Int
Christmas Missing Letters Activity

Christmas Missing Letters Activity

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 ...
11 Views 19,733 Elem
Christmas Wordsearch Puzzle

Christmas Wordsearch Puzzle

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 ...
10 Views 22,149 Elem
Important Chunks for Teachers

Important Chunks for Teachers

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 ...
5 Views 6,121 All
How to Describe People

How to Describe People

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 ...
6 Views 11,118 Elem
Sea Animals Crossword Puzzle

Sea Animals Crossword Puzzle

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 ...
5 Views 24,303 Elem
Farm Animals Crossword Puzzle

Farm Animals Crossword Puzzle

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 ...
7 Views 21,514 Elem
Pyramid - End of Class Activity

Pyramid - End of Class Activity

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 ...
5 Views 8,205 Pre-IntIntAdv
Christmas Word Search

Christmas Word Search

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 ...
4 Views 15,511 ElemPre-Int
Christmas

Christmas

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 ...
17 Views 13,330 ElemPre-IntInt
Appearance

Appearance

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 ...
4 Views 7,594 Pre-Int
Movie Worksheet: Groundhog Day

Movie Worksheet: Groundhog Day

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 ...
5 Views 16,029 IntAdv

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