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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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'Twas the Night before Christmas Coloring Book Pages 11-12

'Twas the Night before Christmas Coloring Book Pages 11-12

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 ...
4 Views 10,149 ElemPre-IntInt
'Twas the Night before Christmas Coloring Book Pages 9-10

'Twas the Night before Christmas Coloring Book Pages 9-10

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 ...
4 Views 7,631 ElemPre-IntInt
'Twas the Night before Christmas Coloring Book Pages 7-8

'Twas the Night before Christmas Coloring Book Pages 7-8

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 ...
5 Views 7,868 ElemPre-IntInt
'Twas the Night before Christmas Coloring Book Pages 5-6

'Twas the Night before Christmas Coloring Book Pages 5-6

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 ...
3 Views 6,470 ElemPre-IntInt
'Twas the Night before Christmas Pages 3-4

'Twas the Night before Christmas Pages 3-4

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 ...
4 Views 5,706 ElemPre-IntInt
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'Twas the Night before Christmas Coloring Book Pages 1-2

'Twas the Night before Christmas Coloring Book Pages 1-2

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 ...
4 Views 6,576 ElemPre-IntInt
'Twas the Night before Christmas Coloring Book Cover

'Twas the Night before Christmas Coloring Book Cover

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 ...
4 Views 6,913 ElemPre-IntInt
Parts of the Body

Parts of the Body

A simple diagram with 26 parts of the body to match to the numbered descriptions. Fill in the blank. The worksheet is relatively self-explanatory - the students first go over the parts of the bo ...
5 Views 24,309 Elem
Comparative and Superlative Adjectives

Comparative and Superlative Adjectives

This is a summary lesson with a few examples that teachers can use to explain comparative and superlative adjectives to their students. This contains spelling rules to help students understand the ...
23 Views 48,171 ElemPre-IntIntAdv
Buying Men's Clothes and Shoes

Buying Men's Clothes and Shoes

I designed this PPT activity to revise vocabulary about buying clothes, and to encourage students to describe ítems in detail, including size, color, pattern and material. It is useful to p ...
8 Views 12,992 ElemPre-IntInt
Types of Houses

Types of Houses

This worksheet provides vocabulary for types of houses from pre-intermediate to intermediate levels. It is useful for learning about types of houses. It is a presentation of houses with two main t ...
25 Views 53,169 Pre-IntInt
Movies and Characters

Movies and Characters

This activity includes a "Top 10 movie characters of the 2000’s" (such as Jack Sparrow, Harry Potter and Wolverine). It contains an exercise to match them to their famous sentences, as well ...
21 Views 38,316 Int
Family Matters Role-Play

Family Matters Role-Play

 The pair role-plays presented in this handout will provide students with six problematic situations that they will have to sort out by giving advice and recommendations. All of the role-play ...
29 Views 54,584 Pre-IntIntAdv
Mobile Telecommunication

Mobile Telecommunication

Simple topical worksheet including discussion questions, a short reading exercise and a group speaking task. Based around the comparison of features and functions between mobile phones in the nine ...
13 Views 30,803 Pre-IntIntAdv
Word Categories

Word Categories

Word categories: there are six charts so that students can fill them with the words related to school objects, animals, months, numbers, sports and means of transport. It is a good activity for th ...
6 Views 9,832 Elem
Holidays

Holidays

A picture dictionary about holidays. A colour version and a black and white one. New Year's Eve, Groundhog day, Pancake day, Saint Valentine's, Saint Patrick's day, Easter, Mother's day, Father's ...
7 Views 12,797 ElemPre-Int
Can You Describe These Monsters?

Can You Describe These Monsters?

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 ...
7 Views 13,077 BegElem
Poetry: All My Great Excuses

Poetry: All My Great Excuses

The title of this English worksheet is 'All My Great Excuses'. It is a poem about a student who makes up excuses of why they couldn't do their homework. Ss read the poem and fill in the gaps with ...
26 Views 24,332 Elem
Back to School - Alphabetical Order

Back to School - Alphabetical Order

This lesson is all about putting words into alphabetical order. There are 16 words to sort and they are all associated with the classroom. Ss look at the words and write them neatly on the lines p ...
15 Views 19,494 Elem
Song Worksheet: Taking Chances by Celine Dion

Song Worksheet: Taking Chances by Celine Dion

This song worksheet is designed to help our students improve their listening skills by performing four different activities  while listening to the song. As a post listening activity, it is w ...
2 Views 8,896 Pre-IntIntAdv
Adjective Formation: Grammar Guide and Exercises

Adjective Formation: Grammar Guide and Exercises

This is a 2-page worksheet for teaching adjective formation at intermediate level. The first page is basically just a study sheet followed by 3 different exercises in which students are asked ...
10 Views 28,841 Pre-IntInt
An English Breakfast

An English Breakfast

In this lesson, students learn useful words and expressions that they can use when describing an English breakfast. Students have to label a photo.This worksheet is also great for getting students ...
19 Views 33,877 BegElemPre-Int
Amazing Discoveries: Milk Caramel

Amazing Discoveries: Milk Caramel

I created this worksheet as an extension of the book Happy Earth 1 unit 8 where it provides information about other American origin discoveries like chocolate, potato crisps, chewing gum and pop c ...
4 Views 5,471 ElemPre-Int
Phonetics for Kids (4)

Phonetics for Kids (4)

This sheet aims at reinforcing kids´previous work with a specific sound, in this case  sound (long "i:"). The idea is to work with the vocabulary previously and to use this copy as a to ...
5 Views 9,895 BegElem
Happiness

Happiness

The objective here is all round language acquisition, incorporating the 3 linguistic skills of listening, speaking, and reading. It lasts for 1 hour and 20 minutes and is meant for young learners ...
19 Views 19,286 Elem

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