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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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 ...
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 ...
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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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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