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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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Classroom Functional Language Desktop Placemat

Classroom Functional Language Desktop Placemat

I photocopy and plastify, then, I put these placemats on students desk. They have basic sentences to use right in front of them all year. I often play games, wherein I incorporate the vocabulary o ...
12 Views 22,326 BegElemPre-Int
Cutting Edge Advanced Idioms Module 6-7

Cutting Edge Advanced Idioms Module 6-7

This worksheet could be used as a test or just as an ordinary practice worksheet on such idioms and phrases as: say what's on your mind; stop beating about the bush; take on board; go bankrupt; ha ...
7 Views 17,569 Adv
A Strange Tuesday - Homonymous

A Strange Tuesday - Homonymous

This worksheet fits the homonyms problems. I developed it thinking about the difficulties faced by my students when words with identical sounds appear in texts and listenings. Teacher should first ...
14 Views 22,005 Pre-IntIntAdv
Adjectives - Describing People and Food PPT

Adjectives - Describing People and Food PPT

The purpose of this PPT is to get your students to talk and use the adjectives that they (already) know or have learnt during your lesson(s). It's best to first let the students discuss in pairs w ...
12 Views 24,206 All
Fitness /Crossfit Reading and Vocabulary Worksheet

Fitness /Crossfit Reading and Vocabulary Worksheet

This worksheet is about a young female CrossFit competitor. You can introduce this topic by clicking the YouTube url on top of the worksheet, or let the students watch the video for themselves. In ...
13 Views 14,441 ElemPre-IntInt
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What Time Is It?

What Time Is It?

This is a very simple and easy worksheet about clocks for kids. 1 - What is the time shown on the clock? 2 - Draw the hands and show the time. Visit MagicPathshala.com to learn how to read time an ...
17 Views 20,291 All
The History of Surfing

The History of Surfing

This text contains vocabulary connected with the history of surfing. It`s good for a team work where two teams in turns try to guess the exact word for each gap from the sentence context. If ...
5 Views 7,577 ElemPre-Int
Teenagers' Problems

Teenagers' Problems

It is a concise presentation about the problems teenagers may have while at school. It talks about self esteem,stress,depression,bullying, violence, drugs ( alcohol, smoking ) .There are also a f ...
9 Views 19,598 Pre-IntInt
Movie Worksheet: How I Met Your Mother S08 E23

Movie Worksheet: How I Met Your Mother S08 E23

A vocabulary exercise and 9 comprehension questions for this episode. They usually love it, as a break from class routine, plus the development of their listening skills and speaking , with a foll ...
5 Views 16,161 Pre-IntIntAdv
Basic Clothes - Match and Stick

Basic Clothes - Match and Stick

Here is a very simple worksheet for young ss. The first part is a table with pictures and pronunciation, the second part contains English vocabulary and translation (czech) and is meant to be cut ...
6 Views 14,129 Beg
Movie Worksheet: Annoying Orange

Movie Worksheet: Annoying Orange

This is an activity about the film Annoying Orange 1 (you can get on YouTube). The show is developing around Orange (voiced by Dane Boedigheimer), who resides on a kitchen counter with other objec ...
4 Views 7,069 Elem
Using Collocations with

Using Collocations with "Do" and "Make"

The worksheet have students practicing the four linguistic skills while using collocations with the verbs "do" and "make". The students are given a hand out with instructions and the use of some s ...
10 Views 21,742 Pre-IntInt
FCE Vocabulary Revision

FCE Vocabulary Revision

I have used this worksheet to revise vocabulary related to the unit 4 of my coursebook. That unit was about food among other things. I have provided the students with a list of useful vocabulary f ...
5 Views 8,844 Exam
What Time?

What Time?

Worksheet about daily routines / telling time / present simple.This is a simple worksheet for beginners or intermediate students. Students just have to answer  questions about themselves or a ...
16 Views 20,494 BegElemPre-Int
What's Your Favourite Farm Animal?

What's Your Favourite Farm Animal?

It's an  easy task for cooperation. The task is prepared for the lesson about farm animals and structure 'what is you favourite animal?' The learners have to fill the table with five names o ...
2 Views 12,813 Elem
Farm animals Odd One Out

Farm animals Odd One Out

This handout is prepared for primary school. The topic of the lesson is farm animals. Learners have to take an odd  word out. Secondly they have to draw this thing and name it. Drawing can be ...
5 Views 9,619 Elem
Flashcards: Farm Animals

Flashcards: Farm Animals

Flashcards are prepared for primary school to teach  farm animals. Lesson can be dedicated to vocabulary and structure 'What's your favourite animal?' Lesson can involve tasks like 'odd one o ...
14 Views 33,742 BegElem
Wear /Carry/ Set/ Put Phrasals

Wear /Carry/ Set/ Put Phrasals

Wear/Carry/Set/Put phrasal verbs work sheet for intermediate students. Print out the work sheet and distribute among your students. When they are done with the task, give out the answer sheet incl ...
8 Views 6,512 Int
Bring and Stand Phrasals

Bring and Stand Phrasals

Bring and Stand phrasal verbs work sheet for intermediate students. Print out the work sheet and distribute among your students. When they are done with the task, give out the answer sheet include ...
7 Views 5,336 Int
Five Dictations Intermediate Level

Five Dictations Intermediate Level

Use these five dictations after covering such topics as Famous People, Traveling, Health and Fitness. Make sure that you pre-teach unknown vocabulary in class before your students put their pencil ...
34 Views 38,220 Int
London's Cockney Rhyming Slang Crossword

London's Cockney Rhyming Slang Crossword

A fun crossword to test students' knowledge of London's very own East End Cockney rhyming slang. An every day slang invented in the mid nineteenth century and still used by many Londoners today, w ...
10 Views 23,217 ElemPre-IntIntAdv
Song Worksheet: Pompeii by Bastille (2013)

Song Worksheet: Pompeii by Bastille (2013)

The worksheet is based on the song Pompeii by the British group Bastille. This song is great for practising phrasal verbs and idioms. Besides the song tells us about the volcano eruption that happ ...
10 Views 15,965 Pre-IntInt
Telephone Language

Telephone Language

This ppt provides  a wide vocabulary for telephone and  business language. When necessary increase a copy of this in worksheets for your students. This becomes easier because  they ...
14 Views 21,522 Elem
What Time Is It, Please ?

What Time Is It, Please ?

This is a worksheet for teaching or revising how to tell the time. Ss have to draw hands on clocks,  and they have to write or tell the times. The listening part is up to the teacher, with a ...
26 Views 27,356 BegElem
Simpsons Family Tree

Simpsons Family Tree

This worksheet uses the Simpsons family (which my students love) to practice various names of relatives. There is a family tree and some questions covering vocabulary from mother to father-in-law. ...
8 Views 19,830 ElemPre-Int

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