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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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In the Street and inside the Home

In the Street and inside the Home

This worksheet contains extra practice when it comes to dealing with things inside the house, prepositions of place, as well as buildings and places outside the house, asking for directions etc. S ...
10 Views 20,088 Elem
I Wouldn't Thank You for a Valentine

I Wouldn't Thank You for a Valentine

A challenging poetry lesson for advanced level students based on the poem by Liz Lochhead. Students read the poem to ascertain the writer's general attitude, look more closely at some of the vocab ...
15 Views 16,143 Adv
Who Am I? - Jobs in the Neighborhood

Who Am I? - Jobs in the Neighborhood

Guess the jobs! This is a very fun riddle worksheet. Students will read the riddle then guess which person does that job. They have to cut the picture out and glue it in the correct numbered bo ...
19 Views 52,203 BegElem
Newspaper Template

Newspaper Template

This ppt contains the parts and definitions of the sections in a newspaper as well as some newspaper templates. Students can understand each of the parts and then create their own news based on th ...
12 Views 39,377 All
Listening and Reading Activites - Natural Wonders

Listening and Reading Activites - Natural Wonders

Hello, Busy Teachers! These are two worksheets in one document. I was teaching natural wonders to my third-grade students at highschool and I decided to prepare some material so that they can work ...
13 Views 25,232 Elem
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Halloween - Handwriting Practice

Halloween - Handwriting Practice

This handwriting practice is a great activity to do when learning about the topic 'Halloween'. Students read the word first, then practice tracing over the letters. Words include: cat, bat, hat, p ...
8 Views 19,111 Elem
Halloween - Odd One Out

Halloween - Odd One Out

This Halloween resource can be used as an extra activity when teaching the topic 'Halloween'. Students must look at the pictures and put a circle around the odd one out in each row. Illustrations ...
10 Views 16,316 Elem
Halloween - Addition

Halloween - Addition

This Halloween maths worksheet includes simple addition sums with illustrations. The pictures include witches' hats, pumpkins, spiders, and bats. Students must count the number of objects and writ ...
5 Views 11,235 Elem
Daily Conversation For Vietnamese Students

Daily Conversation For Vietnamese Students

I prepared this Power Point lesson for my Vietnamese students who wanted a lesson in 'daily conversations'. It is a dialogue that can be used as a play or as a simple lesson on how male and femal ...
8 Views 11,914 ElemPre-Int
Sea Animals-Missing Vowels

Sea Animals-Missing Vowels

This worksheet contains 12 colorful animals that live in the sea. Students must look at the picture, say the animal, and figure out what vowel is missing. Then they can work on the motor skills ev ...
9 Views 12,644 BegElem
My School

My School

A lesson practising vocabulary connected with education in the context of reading about school life in other countries. This then leads to the students writing a short magazine article for homewor ...
23 Views 23,131 Pre-IntInt
Reading Test- 11th Grade

Reading Test- 11th Grade

A useful reading test from the Tbook Sixteen+ by Porto Editora. It is related to the topic environment - global issues to save the planet. It includes three diiferent tasks. Students could fill it ...
19 Views 22,691 Adv
Road Rage Dictogloss (Phrasal Verbs)

Road Rage Dictogloss (Phrasal Verbs)

This is a short dictogloss I used to begin a lesson around the theme of road rage. Alternatively, it could just be used to input or refresh the phrasal verbs. I've included a gapped copy of the pa ...
6 Views 13,205 IntAdv
Halloween Worksheet. History and Games for French Students

Halloween Worksheet. History and Games for French Students

I downloaded several worksheets about halloween from your wonderful website, I mixed them up and I added two small games. So in this worksheet you have a summary of Halloween history and ques ...
16 Views 29,417 ElemPre-Int
A Special Picnic

A Special Picnic

The story about a picnic when two friends plan to meet at a nearby place and get surprised to find out  that what one loses is found by the other. It can be used as a reading comprehensi ...
4 Views 7,581 Elem
Wordsearch - Communication Vocabulary

Wordsearch - Communication Vocabulary

This is a simple wordsearch intended to serve as a pre-teaching lead-in or extension. My students enjoyed completing this as a lead-in to a reading comprehension task. Some of the words are backwa ...
7 Views 16,662 ElemPre-Int
Describing Desserts: Making Recommendations

Describing Desserts: Making Recommendations

This worksheet helps students to make a recommendation for a dessert by describing the dessert with adjectives (sweet, crunchy, crispy, ...). Students use the adjectives to describe 6 desserts in ...
5 Views 13,931 Pre-IntInt
Elementary Test for Children

Elementary Test for Children

This worksheet is an elementary test for children who meet with the English language for the first time. It contains mostly simple read and match the picture exercises, to see if the children are ...
10 Views 15,759 Beg
Modern Clothing

Modern Clothing

Wellies, trench coat, parka, rivets and studs... Surprise your students with this up-to-date worksheet with some of the most popular clothing items nowadays. Good supplement to usual clothes works ...
8 Views 13,416 Pre-IntIntAdv
Fruit for Preschoolers

Fruit for Preschoolers

Simple worksheet for preschoolers to colour the fruits. Where I work pomegranates are common, but you can change it to a familiar fruit for your kids. Has space for the children to practice writin ...
6 Views 17,992 Beg
Personality Adjectives

Personality Adjectives

It's a double puzzle on personality adjectives based on the Key Words of Module 7 Challenges 3 student's book. Suitable for pre-intermediate students, although they may find it a bit challenging a ...
12 Views 26,307 Pre-Int
Order: Numbers and Letters

Order: Numbers and Letters

Greetings! This worksheet is about ordinal numbers and some real life applications of them, such as alphabetical order, order of the days. The names of the days are movable to their designated pla ...
5 Views 43,979 Elem
Halloween Creative Writing

Halloween Creative Writing

This is a writing activity to practice simple present third person singular. After a short warm up reading, the students are invited to write about a day in the life of Dracula. It's a fun way to ...
10 Views 14,586 Elem
How's the Weather?

How's the Weather?

A simple writing activity for beginners, specially kids, to practice weather-related vocabulary. It can be used as a warm up or as a revision activity to engage students in short dialogues about t ...
8 Views 15,671 Beg
Halloween Wordsearch Puzzle

Halloween Wordsearch Puzzle

This is a wordsearch puzzle for teaching Halloween related vocabulary. At the bottom of the page is a list of words. The words are hidden in the puzzle. The words have been placed horizontall ...
15 Views 29,009 ElemPre-Int

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