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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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Health & Addictions Vocabulary

Health & Addictions Vocabulary

No doubt that wordlists are essential elements of studying and further reference. This particular wordlist is designed for ‘Health and Addictions’ topic and comprises the most common w ...
7 Views 17,942 Adv
Geography Quiz

Geography Quiz

This PDF presents a geographical quiz and can be used at some extra-curricular lessons as well as at usual classes, while studying travelling or degrees of comparison of adjectives. Each question ...
12 Views 10,758 Pre-Int
Amazing Hotels

Amazing Hotels

 Topic hotels is often included in many coursebooks while studying tha passive voice, especially information on extraordinary ones. It could be a great impetus for students’ project wor ...
10 Views 23,818 All
You Are What You Eat - Intermediate / Advanced Reading Practice

You Are What You Eat - Intermediate / Advanced Reading Practice

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 ...
21 Views 39,830 IntAdv
Movie Quiz

Movie Quiz

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 ...
8 Views 15,850 All
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Julia's House Reading Comprehension Worksheet

Julia's House Reading Comprehension Worksheet

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 ...
7 Views 28,753 ElemPre-Int
Education & Career Vocabulary

Education & Career Vocabulary

 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 ...
13 Views 27,412 IntAdv
Appearance Vocabulary

Appearance Vocabulary

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 ...
7 Views 12,263 Elem
Business Telephone Conversation Role-Play

Business Telephone Conversation Role-Play

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 ...
17 Views 77,122 Pre-IntInt
Guess Who

Guess Who

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 ...
16 Views 31,237 All
Everyday English - Telling Time

Everyday English - Telling Time

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 ...
9 Views 16,198 BegElem
Everyday English - Greetings

Everyday English - Greetings

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 ...
7 Views 13,454 BegElem
Letter F Worksheet

Letter F Worksheet

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 ...
5 Views 11,243 Beg
Letter G Worksheet

Letter G Worksheet

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 ...
3 Views 10,020 BegElem
Letter O Work Sheet

Letter O Work Sheet

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 ...
2 Views 8,928 BegElem
Exam

Exam

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 ...
8 Views 13,171 BegElem
Personal ID

Personal ID

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 ...
4 Views 19,372 Elem
Phrasal Verbs

Phrasal Verbs

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 ...
5 Views 8,768 Elem
Revision for Elementary Students - Numbers, Colours, Articles and the Verb Can

Revision for Elementary Students - Numbers, Colours, Articles and the Verb Can

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 ...
9 Views 13,784 BegElem
Clothes, Colours, Time - a Short Revision for Elementary Students

Clothes, Colours, Time - a Short Revision for Elementary Students

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 ...
11 Views 10,765 BegElem
Shopping

Shopping

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 ...
9 Views 15,356 BegElemPre-Int
Song Worksheet: Kiss me by Sixpence None the Richer

Song Worksheet: Kiss me by Sixpence None the Richer

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 ...
8 Views 9,693 ElemInt
Healthy Food / Fruit and Vegetables

Healthy Food / Fruit and Vegetables

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 ...
3 Views 15,791 Elem
Song Worksheet: Shape of My Heart by Sting

Song Worksheet: Shape of My Heart by Sting

‘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 ...
13 Views 15,248 ElemPre-IntIntAdv
Standard Operating Procedure

Standard Operating Procedure

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 ...
4 Views 6,304 BegElemPre-IntInt

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