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 is a text about 7 most disgusting things that many of us eat every week without realising it :) There is a speaking warm-up activity, vocabulary practice part and two pages of the text itself ...
Quiz is an awesome way to entertain your students at any lesson stage. This one is made up on popular movies, TV series and cartoons. Every slide presents a scene from a famous film with four opti ...
This is a reading comprehension worksheet for elementary students on the topic house. Students are asked to read the text, say if the sentences given are true or false and correct the false o ...
No doubt that wordlists are essential elements of studying and further reference. This particular wordlist is designed for the topic education and career and comprises the most c ...
No doubt that wordlists are essential elements of studying and further reference. This particular wordlist is designed for the topic appearance and comprises the most common words relat ...
This is a business telephone role-play with eight situations where one of the students will have to act as a business client and another one a secretary. For this task students need to know the vo ...
This is a classical guess who game that will come in handy while studying people’s appearance. Students are given pictures of eighteen people where they will choose one mystery person to des ...
This is part two of the series on Everyday English. Here you have phrases and a dialogue to listen to. This is good for your classrooms for practicing speaking English as students can listen to th ...
Here you and your students can learn the correct way to use greeting phrases. You can listen to them and then you can repeat them. Besides phrases there are dilaogues to listen to as well. T ...
This is a worksheet for beginner students who are learning alphabet. In this worksheet students learn some words that start with F. Then they have to learn how to write letter "F f " and some wor ...
This is a worksheet for preschool and beginner students who are learning alphabet. In this worksheet students learn how to write letter "G g ". Then they learn some words that start with G and ...
Students can learn many things about O letter from this worksheet. First,they learn how to write this letter. Then they learn a word that start with O and understand that O pronunciati ...
This is an exam for basic vocabulary: the family, objects in the house, objects in the street and jobs. You can also find some exercises about possesive adjectives and possessives with 's; the dif ...
For Ss to learn how to fill in their personal information for an ID. They will learn what a 'surname', 'first name', 'telephone number', 'address' and personal information are and that ...
A useful exercise for some common phrasal verbs. It is a task for elementary students. Your students have a preposition word bank, and they will have to match them to a verb and check differ ...
It is a worksheet with the set of exercises ready to use for elementary students. It includes numbers, colours, articles and the use of "can". It is a perfect idea for a revision lesson or a warm ...
This is a worksheet prepared for elementary students. It deals such issues as - time, clothes and colours. It can be used as a short warm-up at the beginning of the lesson or as a summary at the ...
This is an activity to practice asking and answering questions about shopping. 1. Put the students into pairs. 2. Copy the handouts according to the number of students in your class. (Ha ...
This is a very nice song by Sixpence None the Richer, nice to work with intermediate teenage students and also adults, why not? There are three different exercises to do whie listening to the song ...
In this activity, students are supposed to cut an image and label it with a word. After that, they will have to place their selection in a plate. I personally recommend this activity for ''du ...
‘Shape of My Heart’ by Sting is a perfect song to teach some of the playing cards vocabulary. At first students are given the most important words that you might like to explain the me ...
This material is for high school students, especially for vocational schools. It contains material on SOP (Standard Operating Procedure) in cooking. First, theory about SOP followed b ...
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