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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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Song Worksheet: Everytime by Morandi

Song Worksheet: Everytime by Morandi

This worksheet will be helpful for teachers when they want to introduce the discussion of the topic "Love". This worksheet will help to develop listening skills. It contains filling the gaps and p ...
5 Views 5,274 Pre-IntIntAdv
Adjective Man

Adjective Man

A fun activity which allows kids to be creative as well as find words to describe themselves better. As an added activity the picture can be colored or kids can make sentences out of the adjective ...
9 Views 11,402 Int
How to Write a Paragraph

How to Write a Paragraph

this PPP will help you to teach how to write paragraphs: the topic sentence, the body itself and the conclusion. Then, you have the different types of paragraph... You can look for different parag ...
19 Views 25,318 Pre-IntInt
Staying in Hotels

Staying in Hotels

You can work with this worksheet to introduce vocabulary sts are going to learn about hotels. They have to guess and remember vocabulary they may know about hotels, and then they can watch this sc ...
14 Views 25,400 Int
Antonyms

Antonyms

Here you have some prepared flashcards used for practicing antonyms with your elementary class students. There are 42 words there together with their opposites. You can ask your students create se ...
18 Views 18,334 Elem
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Uses of Hot Verbs Make Do Get and Take

Uses of Hot Verbs Make Do Get and Take

This presentation is meant to help teachers to teach different uses of verbs like Make,Do,Take and Get. The activities associated to these hot verbs are shown through colourful and meaningful pic ...
15 Views 14,956 ElemPre-Int
Fruits Dice

Fruits Dice

Two dice for revising fruit related vocabulary. Recommended for elementary students who are asked to to roll both dice and then make a sentence by using the picture clue provided.
5 Views 15,363 BegElem
Sports Reading Comprehension Worksheet

Sports Reading Comprehension Worksheet

This is a reading comprehension worksheet for pre-intermediate students on sports related vocabulary.Students are asked to read the text, answer the questions, find out whether the statements giv ...
32 Views 151,956 Pre-IntInt
Can You Tell the Difference Between American and British English?

Can You Tell the Difference Between American and British English?

This is a worksheet for teaching or revising the most common grammar differences between American and British English. Students are asked to decide whether the sentences are British English or Am ...
10 Views 15,564 Pre-IntInt
British English vs American English Worksheet

British English vs American English Worksheet

This is a worksheet for teaching or revising the most common vocabulary differences between American and British English. Recommended for pre-intermediate students who are asked to complete the ta ...
8 Views 18,206 Pre-IntInt
Clothes [Full Lesson Plan]

Clothes [Full Lesson Plan]

This is a full lesson about clothes. There is a mini dictionary followed by 7 different exercises and a set of flashcards at the end. I advise to start with introducing the topic with flashcards, ...
52 Views 169,950 BegElem
The Happy Prince [Test]

The Happy Prince [Test]

This is a test based on the extensive reading "The Happy Prince" by Oscar Wilde.(level 2 or 3) It includes reading comprehension and vocabulary exercises and it can be used after the study of it ...
15 Views 38,273 ElemPre-Int
Video Worksheet: Dolphin, My Friend

Video Worksheet: Dolphin, My Friend

Video to go with uploaded lesson plan and worksheet about saving the dolphins. Lesson plan and full worksheet for intermediate students. Fill in the gap, meaning in Spanish matching activity, list ...
6 Views 13,718 Pre-IntInt
Weather Idioms Presentation

Weather Idioms Presentation

This PPT includes idioms about weather (for example, "feeling under the weather", "raining cats and dogs", etc.). There's an example and an explanation. Also there are pictures to make it more int ...
20 Views 31,336 All
Song Worksheet: Lego House by Ed Sheeran

Song Worksheet: Lego House by Ed Sheeran

This is a song worksheet based on "Lego House" by Ed Sheeran. Using this worksheet you can practice phrasal verbs and tenses with your students. Ss listen to the song and they have to complete it ...
8 Views 26,266 Pre-IntIntAdv
Movie Worksheet: Monsters Inc Trailer

Movie Worksheet: Monsters Inc Trailer

Worksheet about physical description for total beginners based on the trailer of Monsters inc. Teacher should elicit what students know of the movie, get them to tell the plot. Teacher then reads ...
11 Views 15,232 BegElem
Video Worksheet: Modern Airport - What is it like?

Video Worksheet: Modern Airport - What is it like?

The two-page video worksheet is aimed at Intermediate level students doing a Business English course. The pre-view discussion focuses on travelling by air as well various airport facilities regula ...
8 Views 17,824 Int
Video Worksheet: Oz-Bus Tour

Video Worksheet: Oz-Bus Tour

The two-page video worksheet is targeted on Pre-Intermediate and Intermediate students doing a General English course. The pre-viewing activities include a discussion on travelling and means of tr ...
12 Views 33,946 Pre-IntInt
Days of the Week with a Fat Cat

Days of the Week with a Fat Cat

This PowerPoint presentation contains a funny poem which helps students remember names of the days of the week. The key words are hidden and appear when clicked. It may be used for practicing both ...
27 Views 18,477 BegElem
Basic Grammar and Vocabulary Drilling

Basic Grammar and Vocabulary Drilling

This animated Power Point presentation may prove a good grammar and vocabulary drilling for starters. It focuses on the Present Simple forms of the verbs ‘to be’, ‘can’ and ...
8 Views 9,706 Beg
ABC Game 'Snowflakes'

ABC Game 'Snowflakes'

This animated Power Point presentation helps starters learn English ABC. All the letters of the alphabet are jumbled and some are hidden behind the snowflakes which melt when you click. Teachers m ...
6 Views 8,925 BegElem
Inside a Lion, a Poem by Shel Silverstein [PowerPoint]

Inside a Lion, a Poem by Shel Silverstein [PowerPoint]

An illustrated PowerPoint of Shel Silverstein's poem, "Inside a Lion." Humorous, just challenging enough for the intermediate English learner, with all the makings of a good poem, a good read, an ...
10 Views 19,913 IntAdv
Descriptive Image Writing

Descriptive Image Writing

This worksheet is designed to encourage students to use adjectives to paint a picture with words. The purpose of this worksheet is to have the students write a small passage describing each photo ...
6 Views 26,059 ElemPre-Int
Song worksheet: The Way it Was

Song worksheet: The Way it Was

Song the way it was by The Killers.This worksheet has some activities: fill in the gaps that we can work on past tense of the verbs, match words and pictures (work on vocabulary) and answer questi ...
3 Views 6,269 ElemPre-IntInt
What Do You Need...? (Speaking Activity)

What Do You Need...? (Speaking Activity)

A set of 10 questions, each of which begins with "What do you need..." There are several ways how to use them. Elementary students can make word lists as answers; these can be more specifically ma ...
11 Views 15,457 ElemPre-IntInt

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