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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Great worksheet for teenagers and adults on Saint Valentine’s Day or while speaking about relationships, love and marriage. When in love, people do silly things and one of them is using vari ...
“Feeling Good” is a very positive jazz song by Michael Buble. The worksheet includes its lyrics with gaps to listen to and fill in and also original typescript. Use it as a warmer at t ...
The worksheet includes a picture of a chimpanzee and some hints for making sentences in present simple passive. This can be used as a warmer at the beginning of the lesson. Ss may work in small gr ...
1) “What’s the Earth without Art?” It’s just “EH”. That’s an introduction to this lesson plan. 2) Then comes a general talk about art and eliciting the vo ...
The worksheet includes four biographies of famous people (Thomas Edison, Ada Lovelace, Elvis Presley, Leonardo da Vinci) with gaps to fill in correct past simple forms. My suggestion is to divide ...
How to make learning the passive voice fun? Create and shoot the news! First of all let your ss recollect thematic parts a newspaper consists of. Then give them examples of the news/parts of the a ...
This worksheet consists of two parts. The first one is the list of as…as phrases. I usually start with asking my Ss what they would compare such adjectives as “poor” or “e ...
Speaking or writing about “success” is always very successful :) with teens and adults. Everybody wants to be happy, everybody wants to succeed. But what is success? Ask your ss to clo ...
Any wordlist of personality adjectives can be used for doing this activity. For me it’s the way to make ss not only memorize the words, but also apply them for themselves, think and speak. S ...
Use the picture from the worksheet to make your ss think creatively and write a short essay or discuss orally “Who’s the leader in the picture?” If they find it hard to understan ...
I created this worksheet as a part of a leadership lesson for teens, but then used it many times as a warmer while speaking about personalities, famous people, leaders etc. It’s also good he ...
Through this delightful story with beautiful illustrations students of all ages can learn about community, teamwork, sharing, forgiveness, sports competitions and more. Use this book as a spr ...
If you want to introduce the days of the week to your students this is a perfect activity. Happy days is a famous song ideal for beginners or elementary students. The lyrics of the song are p ...
This worksheet helps students to learn vocabulary related to advertising and this is aimed for ESL learners taking up business courses. The words in the PPT are advertorials, banners, hoarding, en ...
This is a step-by-step worksheet to teach students how to celebrate a birthday with a birthday cake. The worksheet also includes a few common birthday vocabulary words. I used this as a ...
The worksheet includes 40 different ways to say "I love you". It's best to be used for St. Valentine's Day. Ss may look through the phrases and decide which of them they (dis)like, find silly, wil ...
This worksheet contains two parts: 1) pre-watching activity: after working with some new words that can cause problems in understanding T reads the first part of the story (once or twice dep ...
1) Show the picture and ask what unites all of these things together. Ss can come up with various answers and T agrees if they make sense, but adds if it hasn’t been mentioned that all of th ...
The worksheet can be used as a warmer at any lesson on technology or serve a grammar purpose for practicing: 1) passive voice (FM Radio was invented in 1933. Television had been invented befo ...
This worksheet can be used either like vocabulary expansion + comparing life in the past with present after watching a cartoon or to practice conditionals. Here’s what I did: 1) Ss read the ...
This is a very easy song, suitable for children or beginners. You can use it to revise the names of animals. Use it definitely at the end of the lesson, preferably on Friday as the kids might not ...
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