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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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List of Adjectives - Condition

List of Adjectives - Condition

This is a really useful list of adjectives in English which is ideal for students of English, EFL, and ESL. Students can use this list to help their writing skills and also learn different vocabul ...
3 Views 10,383 Elem
List of Collective Nouns - People

List of Collective Nouns - People

This is a really useful list of collective nouns in English which is ideal for students of English, EFL, and ESL. Students can use this list to help their writing skills and also learn different v ...
11 Views 31,166 Elem
Snappy the Crocodile - Reading Comprehension

Snappy the Crocodile - Reading Comprehension

This short reading comprehension is for early readers. It includes some interesting facts about crocodiles. Snappy has scaly skin and a long pointed snout. This is a fun way for kids to learn abou ...
15 Views 17,601 Elem
Molly the Meerkat - Reading Comprehension

Molly the Meerkat - Reading Comprehension

This short reading comprehension is for early readers. It includes some interesting facts about meerkats. Find out where Molly the meerkat lives and what she likes to eat. This is a fun way for ki ...
7 Views 16,140 Elem
Make a Comic Story

Make a Comic Story

This is a cut and paste activity, children have to write a short dialogue in the bubbles on the food topic with the structure I like /I don´t like and paste the characters on the comic strip ...
15 Views 39,419 BegElem
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Movie Worksheet: Amazing Race Top 10 Moments

Movie Worksheet: Amazing Race Top 10 Moments

This activity is intended to provide an introduction to the topic "going places" or "traveling." It's a listening activity divided into the three task moments (Pre, during, and post). Students sta ...
4 Views 15,090 Pre-IntIntAdv
Personality Adjectives

Personality Adjectives

This worksheet presents basic personality adjectives. Students learn adjectives and structures for describing people’s personality. There are vocabulary exercises, writing and speaking activ ...
48 Views 145,974 ElemPre-IntInt
Mary's Bedroom

Mary's Bedroom

A simple PowerPoint about Mary's bedroom. Students take a look at the image then should be able to tick the correct answer using the verb "have got". The ppt can be used to study house/objects and ...
7 Views 9,330 BegElem
Complaints

Complaints

It is a list of useful phrases on making, rejecting, accepting and delaying a complaint with the following speaking practice. At this stage students will have to discuss pictures (where actions ta ...
13 Views 23,845 Pre-IntIntAdv
Passive Voice Warmer

Passive Voice Warmer

This activity is designed for a warm-up while studying passive voice. At first students can be asked to speculate about a picture of a kidnapped girl. After that, they are supposed to form sentenc ...
30 Views 64,205 Pre-IntIntAdv
Evolution of Music Players

Evolution of Music Players

This is a reading which took me quite some time to make but I'm quite happy with the result. It is for intermediate level but it can be easily simplified by using simpler language. It revolves aro ...
14 Views 18,250 Int
Neighborhood Problems

Neighborhood Problems

This is a warm up to talk about problems in students' neighborhood. It will provide students  with a chance to give advice to each other. Besides, practice the conversation and discuss   ...
5 Views 14,963 Pre-IntInt
Illnesses- Diseases

Illnesses- Diseases

It's a simple PowerPoint about the topic health and illness. Students watch the images carefully and then are supposed to do different tasks, like oral practice, writng activities related to healt ...
11 Views 31,715 ElemPre-IntInt
Crime. Notable Diamond Heists

Crime. Notable Diamond Heists

This worksheet contains an article about different diamond heists that have occurred in recent history. Throughout the article, certain pieces of vocabulary have been highlighted in bold, the defi ...
9 Views 12,872 IntAdv
Ice Cream Social

Ice Cream Social

This is a great back to school ice breaker activity! Each child gets a copy of the Ice Cream Social printable. They must each ask eight classmates their name and favorite ice cream flavor and fill ...
9 Views 33,359 BegElem
Song Worksheet: What's Love Like

Song Worksheet: What's Love Like

It's a listening activity that improves the students' listening skills. The teacher can introduce the topic of love and elicit phrases and vocabulary about love and why it is essential in our comm ...
6 Views 9,810 ElemPre-Int
Flashcard - What Is in the Card?

Flashcard - What Is in the Card?

They are flash cards for speaking activities. It can be used with a group or as pair work. The student is to describe what they see in the pictures in the flash card to the rest of the group until ...
9 Views 24,707 Pre-IntInt
Goodbye Dear Friends

Goodbye Dear Friends

This is a reading and speaking activity. It is engaging and makes students think actively specially the ones at school leaving stage who have a lot of things on their minds. The students read by ...
8 Views 35,504 Pre-IntInt
Parts of a Car Matching Activity

Parts of a Car Matching Activity

This is a very simple matching activity for teaching or revising parts of a car related vocabulary. Recommended for pre-intermediate students who are asked to match the words given with the p ...
12 Views 25,582 Pre-IntInt
English for Beginner Security Personnel

English for Beginner Security Personnel

Introduces simple vocabulary and sentences for beginning English security personnel. To be used for people who need to know how to describe people, give simple directions, tell what time events be ...
6 Views 26,325 Beg
Suffixes 'Er' and 'Est' (3)

Suffixes 'Er' and 'Est' (3)

The title of this English worksheet is suffixes 'er' and 'est'. Students must read the sentences and decide which suffix should be used to complete each sentence e.g. I can ride my bike (faster/fa ...
12 Views 16,937 Elem
Suffixes 'Er' and 'Est' (2)

Suffixes 'Er' and 'Est' (2)

The title of this English worksheet is suffixes 'er' and 'est'. Students must read the sentences and decide which suffix should be used to complete each sentence e.g. Venus is the (hotter/hottest) ...
13 Views 30,367 Elem
Suffixes 'Er' and 'Est' (1)

Suffixes 'Er' and 'Est' (1)

The title of this English worksheet is suffixes 'er' and 'est'. Students must read the sentences and decide which suffix should be used to complete each sentence e.g. Cheetahs can run (faster/fast ...
6 Views 19,055 Elem
Changing Nouns

Changing Nouns

The title of this worksheet is 'Changing nouns'. Some nouns end in y. Students look at the sentences and change the singular noun to a plural noun by changing the y to i and adding es. There are 1 ...
11 Views 14,706 Elem
Writing a Story

Writing a Story

Hong Kong Secondary 1 Worksheet . Look at the picture below. You are going to write a passage in not less than 300 words ,describing what you saw one day in a MacDuck’s Fast Food shop. Remem ...
6 Views 12,798 Elem

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