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 English worksheet was designed for elementary/primary children. It includes many different ways that we can save water. Students read the different ways and then answer the study questions. T ...
This activity is fantastic to introduce Halloween and learn basic vocabulary about it. It consists of a listening exercise from a song by A.J. Jenkins (fill in the gaps). You can also explain Hall ...
Worksheet on Halloween vocabulary. It can be used for introducing or revising words in connection with Halloween. Students are asked to match the words with the pictures, find some Halloween word ...
Basic family members for elementary including mother, father, both grandparents, the children and aunt and uncle. Cousin is not included. Very useful as children will often have watched the show a ...
This is a critical thinking worksheet that is best used for 7-9 year olds. Students should look at the diagram and identify what shapes the numbers are in. Be careful, some numbers lie in more t ...
This Halloween worksheet is designed to get beginners speaking without having to read. It includes key points about Halloween. Halloween is Oct. 31. People like to decorate by carving pumpkins. ...
A power point mainly for kids but that can be used for adults too about the origins and traditions for Halloween. When it started in Ireland, England and Northern France, what happened when it spr ...
This worksheet is dedicated to the Italian who lived in Spain and discovered the New World. Christopher Columbus was a truly outstanding figure in the world's history. Watch the movie and you will ...
Students will enjoy watching and listening to the story in order: -to complete the different comprehension tasks ,-provide missing expressions to complete the summary. The link to watch the ...
An acrostic poem uses the letters in a topic word to begin each line. All lines in the poem should describe the topic word. This worksheet can be used when learning about the topic 'Halloween ...
This worksheet can be used as an extra resource when teaching the topic 'Halloween'. There are 14 words and 14 pictures. Students must fill in the missing letter to each word and trace over the re ...
The worksheet contains some funny and interesting facts about famous pop-singer Katy Perry. The worksheet can be used with elementary as well as pre-intermediate level. I use this worksheet at spe ...
This is a tutorial worksheet related to the english sound /p/, /b/, /t/, /d/. The tutorial will help the students to understand each phonic sound with examples. The pictures used in th ...
This a very short power point presentation that you can use as a warm up if you are going to teach verbs related to the kitchen. It is made with pictures and it can help you to introduce the topic ...
This is a short PowerPoint presentation on how to make a grilled cheese sandwich using photos and short descriptive sentences. It's only showing the cooking steps, so any kind of introduction of n ...
The worksheet contains vocabulary list (with Polish translations) and exercises. Students say about their preferances for bread types, fill in missing letters in given words, label pictures, ...
A listening & speaking lesson originally designed for a teenage FCE group based on clips from Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix. First and foremost designed as a bit of a break from tr ...
The following worksheet contains phrases and sentences like of greeting, making acquaintance and saying good-bye on the phone. There are also some tasks to reinforce th e language. It ...
This worksheet contains several pictures of all kinds of medicines for you to print and cut, I usually paste them in foami or craft foam to give more resistance and strength or the material of you ...
This Friends' episode aims at getting ss to practice some vocabulary related to people's physical appearance as well as describing the clothes they are wearing by means of a fun and engaging activ ...
How to tell time for beginners! This worksheet has 7 digital clocks on the left and 7 analog clocks on the right. Student will draw a line to match the correct times of the two. This is a .pdf ...
You can use this ppt while teaching space vocabulary / idioms. The examples come first so you can encourage students to guess or come up with possible interpretations. You can ask students to give ...
While teaching the countries this worksheet can be useful. It has lyrics of the song "where are you from". Students are supposed to fill in the blanks while listening. I'm a student as well.And I ...
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