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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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Human Bingo

Human Bingo

This is a "back to school" worksheet, getting student's talking about their habits, hobbies, families, favourite foods and so on. I used it as a introductory worksheet at the beginning of the seco ...
13 Views 29,486 BegElem
Back to School: Name Labels for Kids

Back to School: Name Labels for Kids

Name labels are a must for back to school so, here's a lovely set of name labels for young students. Perfect to motivate your students on the first day of the school year! Print, cut, laminat ...
10 Views 15,838 BegElem
Olympic Logos

Olympic Logos

See the given worksheet and answer the questions below: a) Tell us how many of these Olympics took place before you were born. b) Which logo do you like the best? What does it remind you ...
4 Views 7,658 All
Reading Articles - Halloween Superstitions

Reading Articles - Halloween Superstitions

An interesting reading material which could attract the students to learning more about Halloween superstitions. This reading material covers interesting facts about Halloween. This passage can be ...
16 Views 32,126 ElemPre-IntInt
Reading Comprehension - The River Severn

Reading Comprehension - The River Severn

The title of this worksheet is 'River Severn'. This reading comprehension includes some interesting information about the river Severn. Students must read the text and answer the accompanying stud ...
7 Views 14,019 Elem
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Back to School / First Time Plan

Back to School / First Time Plan

This worksheet needs to be adapted so that information is relevant to the teacher. This is a warm up, or first time plan for ss and the teacher to get to know each other and practice various langu ...
8 Views 10,291 Elem
American and British Accent

American and British Accent

This is a upper-int. to advanced text, the source is provided and there is also a vocabulary practice. I hope u all enjoy it. This ws is really great to discuss American accent. I first prepare my ...
14 Views 40,901 IntAdvExam
Correcting Mistakes 2

Correcting Mistakes 2

Correcting mistakes activity: twenty sentences with mistakes. Students must underline the mistake and write the correct word on the right. Correcting mistakes 2 is about misspelled words and gramm ...
18 Views 42,142 ElemPre-Int
How Much Do You Know about Your Teacher?

How Much Do You Know about Your Teacher?

Adapt the worksheet to reflect yourself and then allow ss to complete their own form of the worksheet. Ss can then compare how much they know about thier teacher and themselves. Further discussion ...
10 Views 22,583 ElemPre-Int
Weather Wheel (Poster)

Weather Wheel (Poster)

In my class I always choose a weather responsible and every day we begin with stating the date and the weather.Last year I uploaded a B&W version of a Weather Wheel that I used to print out a ...
24 Views 38,679 BegElemPre-Int
Everything in English

Everything in English

Here you can find some cards with the principal sentences all the students must know to practice the language in class. There are key statements to communicate in class with the teacher and their ...
10 Views 15,766 BegElemPre-Int
Can You Describe These Monsters? (I)

Can You Describe These Monsters? (I)

A worksheet to practise the verb 'have got' and the parts of the body. There are threee monsters on the left side of the page and some lines on the right to describe them. The worksheet is in colo ...
9 Views 12,763 Elem
Idiom Matching

Idiom Matching

Idioms are a lot of fun. If students can speak using idioms they can talk in all English speaking countries. This is a worksheet about idioms. Everyday use conversation. This can be used for int ...
13 Views 27,882 IntAdv
Dreams Interpretation

Dreams Interpretation

In this worksheet you will find five texts that students will have to fill in with a corresponding form of the past simple tense. All the texts represent a dream that I usually assign my students ...
7 Views 32,398 Pre-Int
Find an Animal

Find an Animal

In this activity you will find a set of pictures with animals and cards that together constitute an exciting game ‘Find an Animal’. At first you assign an animal or bird to be found th ...
9 Views 13,838 All
Letter to a Friend

Letter to a Friend

This informal letter presents a gap-fill exercise where the task is to complete spaces with the correct form of the simple past or present perfect. As a follow-up assignment students might be sugg ...
21 Views 35,185 Pre-IntInt
Classroom Verbs Flashcards

Classroom Verbs Flashcards

A new school year is almost starting and here is a great way for revising the most common verbs used in the classroom. This is a set of flashcards illustrated with pictures for easy memorizat ...
21 Views 38,893 ElemPre-Int
Classroom Supplies. Missing Vowels Activity

Classroom Supplies. Missing Vowels Activity

This is a fun and easy worksheet for teaching or revising classroom supplies related vocabulary and it is ideal for the first days of school. Recommended for elementary students who are asked ...
9 Views 12,939 Elem
Asking for Help

Asking for Help

Here you can find two pages of questions for speaking activity in your class, to discuss how people ask for help and what their reactions are in everyday situations. There is a short text as an in ...
9 Views 26,803 Pre-IntInt
Reading - Flu or Cold?

Reading - Flu or Cold?

Reading activity to show the difference between a flu and a cold. I used this worksheet with my beginner students, but I clarified the meaning of some vocab items before, such as: stuffy nose, sne ...
9 Views 15,922 BegElemPre-IntInt
Weather Memory Game

Weather Memory Game

Memory game to practice weather. Students must match the weather to the definition. I did this activity after presenting weather and clarifying each one of them. This activity is suitable for begi ...
4 Views 13,242 BegElem
Phonics 'S', 'A','T'

Phonics 'S', 'A','T'

It is a worksheet for preschool and  beginner students who are learning alphabet. In this worksheet we just present letters : S , A and T . Students have to match each letter to the picture t ...
5 Views 15,330 BegElem
Too Much of a Good Thing

Too Much of a Good Thing

This presentation provides information about the so called "soft addictions". It contains reading and listening activities and suggests a final discussion at the end of the lesson. It can be shown ...
6 Views 5,965 IntAdv
Family Word Scramble

Family Word Scramble

This worksheet is really helpful when it comes to work with kids , the scramble game help them not only to learn the vocabulary but to have fun.It can be used with elementary students as  wel ...
6 Views 23,213 Elem
'Twas the Night before Christmas Coloring Book Pages 13-14

'Twas the Night before Christmas Coloring Book Pages 13-14

A series of worksheets that, together, can be used to create a nice coloring-, reading- and gift book for a fun and useful Christmas activity. Totalling 14 pages and a cover/back sheet, this acti ...
7 Views 12,576 ElemPre-IntInt

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