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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Description: This PPT is like a list of common proverbs but it has pictures complementing each proverb and it is intended to be used to encourage discussion and opinions and for students to become ...
This English worksheet is a reading comprehension all about mammals. It was created for children of 7 - 8 years old and includes some interesting facts about mammals. Can you think of three large ...
This English worksheet is a reading comprehension all about fish. It was created for children of 7 - 8 years old and includes some interesting facts about fish. How do fish breathe? Can you name t ...
This is an exercise based on a Youtube class about phrasal verbs. Students have to watch the video and then do the exercises. You may also look at the pictures and ask students to say the correct ...
This worksheet is all about the animal group: amphibians. It was created for children of 7 - 8 years old and includes a short passage with some interesting facts about amphibians. Where can amphib ...
The table shows phonology of the alphabet and cardinal numbers.I hope you find it useful. Present your students with the correct pronunciation of ABCs and cardinal numbers. ...
This worksheet is all about coordinates and was created for children of 7 - 9 years old. This worksheet asks children to look at the grid and work out the coordinates of each shape. Remember to go ...
The title of this maths worksheet is 3D shapes. There are 6 illustrations of 3D shapes and students are asked to name them correctly. This maths resource was created for children of 8 - 9 years ol ...
This maths worksheet focuses on addition and subtraction and was created for children of 7 - 9 years old. Pupils must 1. Look at the sums and write either + or - to complete each sum, 2. Complete ...
This English worksheet is a simple story about a dog called Alfie and was created for children of 5 - 6 years old. Pupils read the comprehension and answer the accompanying multiple choice questio ...
One student thinks of a celebrity and describes him or her using the vocabulary words from the table, the other student tries to guess who is being described. This worksheet can be used for the to ...
The title of this English worksheet is 'Brock the badger'. It is a reading comprehension for children of 5 - 7 years old. Ss read the comprehension about a badger called Brock and answer the multi ...
There are 2 sheets, the first is a multiple choice fill-in-the-blanks of the lyrics, the second sheet consists of comprehension questions, a grammar section (including the past simple, past contin ...
This is a worksheet to guide students to write an application letter. Recommended for pre-intermediate students who are asked to read the job ad given and write an application letter.
This is a picture crossword for teaching or revising the press related vocabulary. Recommended for intermediate students who are asked to complete the crossword by using the clues provided.&n ...
A basic prompt sheet to be completed and read out in a self introduction situation. Finish off with greetings: nice to meet you – nice to meet you too Good morning, afternoon, ...
Fun reading and writing activity. Perfect for everyone. We all love cartoons and comic books. This worksheet has 20 known cartoon characters. Students guess who wants to save the world and wears a ...
This review activity is intended to be used after stative (non-action verbs) like “need, want, believe, long, etc,” have been taught for a few days. This activity can be done two ...
I had to give a lesson about spelling bee to adults; the problem was that asking them to spell resulted in a bit boring and monotonous class. I therefore came up with the following idea: I cu ...
This exercise helps learn and practise idioms about music. It consists of three parts: one matching activity (match idioms to their definitions), the list of idioms and their definitions, and one ...
Sometimes it is difficult to be as free in your FL as in your L1. Certain colloquial words, phrases, sentence constructions in your L1 have a definite translation in FL. The material represents Ru ...
The material presents idioms with the names of colours with explanations in English, examples and some translations into Russian. An exercise and video references are supplied at the end of ...
Which geometrical shape is seen in the Olympics logo? What is the shape of Sun, Moon & our planet Earth? Yes, it's a circle! The worksheet teaches to draw it. Easy to learn and easy to dr ...
For beginners. They need fun games too! This is a board game I did with elementary classes. It gets students to practice some functional classroom language (Can I...?, shapes, numbers, class objec ...
An activity to revise some basic vocabulary. Each player needs a counter,throws the dice, says the number that comes and has to answer the questions.The game continues until all the players reach ...
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