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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This minibook uses famous characters to help students guess the translation of the most common coulours. Simply cut according to the dotted lines and fold ! Your students will get a funny min ...
This is a fun activity for students to practice telling the time. The students fill in different times in the bingo table - analog and digital. When finished the teacher calls out times - the firs ...
My friend Alicia is good at preparing her own materials. This school year she wants to start teaching concepts well to her students since books always confuse students and rarely contain all the i ...
Students must find the meaning of the words and also add some other words related to electronic devices. You can use a promotional video to illustrate the usage of vocabulary.
Question and answer type of jokes to practise object and subject questions and wh- words, both in the present and past simple tenses. Divide the class in two groups A and B, choose as many jokes ...
This worksheet is based on the funny old Disney cartoon. The first task is a kind of warmer, students decide what kind of melodies they like, then there is a couple of tasks on the cartoon compreh ...
It is a puzzle to practice months of the year because sometimes it is difficult to find how to practice them. This puzzle can be used after you present the months, and as mechanical drill, b ...
The title of this maths worksheet is 'half of an amount'. This resource asks children to look at the different shapes and colour in half of them. Once they have coloured in the shapes they must th ...
The title of this worksheet is 'Next to, above and below. This resource asks children questions with relation to where the different coloured balloons are positioned e.g. Which balloon is above th ...
Use this power point to practice or revise numbers from 0 to 100. The students learn calculation signs. Very easy exercises to count sums and subtractions and use the calculating signs. The slides ...
The Atacama desert…The perfect place for people who are looking for adventure... This text about one of the most attractive places in the world is supported with a number of exercises which ...
This fill-in the gap exercise devoted to the topic "Cooking and Eating Out" can not only enrich your students' vocabulary but also provide you with an opportunity to continue the topic insight wit ...
This fill-in the gap exercise provides a range of vocabulary to the topics of "Family relations", "Life stages", "Teenagers" and will be useful for those who would like to introduce these topics t ...
A worksheet about the topic:jobs/ objects. Students have to match the column on the left (with jobs/professions) with the one on the right (objects). This way both jobs and objects can be memorise ...
I made this presentation for my secondary school students. The first part shows the geographical terms that refer to the British Isles: Great Britain and Ireland. The second part shows the politic ...
This is a set of 25 flashcards for teaching or revising vocabulary words for time to the hour and half-hour at elementary level. They can also be used as conversation cards or classroom posters.
This is a reading comprehension worksheet for teaching countries and nationalities related vocabulary at elementary level. Students are asked to read the text, complete the sentences an ...
This worksheet contains some of the most widespread English words that are used in other languages as well (for example football, tennis, etc). Students of all levels can fill in the crossword bas ...
This is a worksheet to recall the present simple, present continuous and past simple tenses. Easy exercises to start a new school year. In this worksheet you will find different exercises to ...
This is another timetable for your students. It can be used for any type of student (from small students to older ones). It has got some school icons. From Monday to Friday. You can print it and g ...
This is another timetable for your students. It can be used for any type of student (from small students to older ones). It has got some school icons. From Monday to Friday. You can print it and g ...
You can use this game either to get to know the students in your first lesson, or to revise present tenses. How to play: you choose one volunteer to come to the black-board, he/she brings one slip ...
This is a crossword puzzle I used to revise new vocabulary for the topic education from the last lesson. It could also be used before you give your students these words, probably some of them they ...
A 2 page lesson plan on the topic of "Healthy Lifestyle". Includes: reading, vocabulary, discussion questions, grammar and phrasal verbs. How to use these lesson plans: 1. Start with voc ...
Every year I start teaching English in a different school where I have no information about what my students know. ESL books come with a very boring diagnostic test and this gives the students the ...
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