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.
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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 ...
This worksheet presents basic personality adjectives. Students learn adjectives and structures for describing people’s personality. There are vocabulary exercises, writing and speaking activ ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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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) ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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