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.
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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In this worksheet you practise present simple, the verb 'can', and read about animals' habitats, food they eat, body characteristics and customs. This is also about environment/nature. This is a r ...
This worksheet serves as further practice of the sound /o:/. It is good to work with the sound previosuly in class and to use this sheet as a post-task activity and for students to keep track of e ...
This worksheet serves as further practise of the sound /i:/. It is good to work with the sound previosuly in class and to use this sheet as a post-task activity and for students to keep track of e ...
This is a worksheet that works with the sound /u:/. The idea is to work previously in class with examples and set this worksheet as further practise and for students to have register of every work ...
This worksheet is ideal to introduce the topic jobs. There are different paragraphs in which different weird and dangerous jobs are described. After reading students are asked to do a set of activ ...
This sheet contains real information about two hotels in London taken form the net. It includes prices, stars, accommodation, location, etc. After students read it they are asked to compare both h ...
The worksheet appropriate to lead students to think critically about the differences between rural and urban life style. The paper includes a phrasal verb exercise, group discussion, and a so ...
This material is aimed at elementary learners and can be used as a warm-up or any other teaching purpose concerning picture description. Students should look at the picture of the Griffin family a ...
The topic of this worksheet is crime. This worksheet is based on the American series called Dexter. It provides lots of grammar exercises for the past simple tense. It includes gap-fill exercises. ...
Pupils learn vocabulary for talking about fruit, vegetables and drinks. They can talk about their likes and dislikes, they learn and practise I like and I don't like. The worksheet provides adjec ...
The topic of this worksheet is talents. Students have to write what they can do and what they can't do. The worksheet also presents link words such as "and, too, but" and it also provides pl ...
This English resource focuses on syllables. Children must look at the pictures and say each one. How many syllables does each word have? Write the number of syllables on the line below each pictur ...
This worksheet is great as a back to school task. Children fill in a bit of information about themselves. They may wish to read it aloud to their new class.This is great for teachers to hand out a ...
This worksheet is great as a back to school task. Children fill in a bit of information about themselves. They may wish to read it aloud to their new class.This is great for teachers to hand out a ...
This is a power point presentation of adjectives describing feeling which are shown in a list of words.Teachers can introduce these words and let students speak. Some of the words used are happy, ...
This a really easy activity to welcome my students after summer holidays, it is focused on little kids like first graders, they can feel identified with these characters from very famous movies th ...
A worksheet to improve students vocabulary on the topics: science vs Technology. Students are asked to match some words related to the topic, with their correct definition. Key is included. It cou ...
This ppt has a short conversation that could be read by students using several intonations. You can ask ss to read the conversation laughing, crying, scared etc. Then, it includes "guessings" abou ...
Taken from Friends series episode 13, season 5, will come in handy to those busyteachers who want to revise different tense forms and have a good laugh as well. As a pre-watching stage students wi ...
This worksheet is a matching task where students will work with different types of baggage and its descriptions. This activity can be particularly useful when you study Airport with your class. Ve ...
In this worksheet, the names of various sports are introduced, and students learn how to speak about their likes and dislikes using the present simple. Pupils learn the structure like, don't like, ...
In this lesson, students learn how to talk about the Simpsons using vocabulary for family members. The lesson assumes a basic knowledge of the verb ‘be’ and the verb "have". The exerci ...
This worksheet includes two activities in which pupils practise the superlative form of different adjectives. The worksheet also provides plenty of speaking practice. Pupils are asked to give thei ...
This is a simple and easy writing activity for elementary and pre-intermediate students who are asked to write a small composition saying how many brothers or sisters they have got, how old their ...
This lesson is usually one of my favourites. I start off by discussing the apocalypse and eliciting some vocab such as doomsday and etc. Then I get them into the story by diving them into 3 groups ...
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