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 is an easy matching activity for revising feelings and emotions related vocabulary at elementary level. Students are asked to match the word with the pictures given.
This WS is about a dialogue in a restaurant which can be done in the 4th grade. The students need to fill in missing words and also put the sentences in the correct order. It can be used to ...
This is a picture dictionary which can also be used as a study sheet for teaching or revising feelings and emotions related vocabulary at elementary level.There are 16 new words illustrated with p ...
Ss revise the vocabulary about flowers. It's a crossword. There are pictures to identify and then write the name in the squares cross and down. I hope with this crossword your students will learn ...
Worksheet to practice verb to be, countries and nationalities. Speaking and writing practice. After having introduced countries and nationalities, students will work in groups, they will ask every ...
This worksheet was created in order to work with descriptions of animals. It requires prior knowledge related to animals and parts of their bodies. First, I designed three activities in order to p ...
This is a short quiz about the human body, with some tricky questions. Students have to guess the sentence which is NOT true. You can use it as a game, or as a speaking activity and discuss the pr ...
This document consists of 22 flashcards of different fruit. Each card has a picture of each fruit included and the name of that fruit so your students will have a visual aid when trying to memoriz ...
This song with a gap filling exercise is both interesting and useful for students to improve their listening skills. My students loved its, because it is tema novella in Brasil. ...
This worksheet deals with vocabulary referring to physical features. There are pictures that ss have to identify and they can learn how to describe people, friends or any other person. It's a clea ...
MS PowerPoint presentation about basic vocabulary for describing weather conditions and seasons. In vocabulary part you can write your own translations of given words. Your students will describe ...
Flashcards to present or review the vocabulary related to clothes .To present the vocabulary you can just show the pictures and elicit the vocabulary. Playing cards is also good practice. In ...
This worksheet is about jobs. It contains some typical job words that can be used. The aim is to learn them, to identify what each one refers to, what these people do, play games ...
This worksheet with a beautiful song 'I'll be watching you' is not difficult for students, as most words they have to put down are verbs, and the lines are repeated, but it's not just for training ...
This is a 3 - page worksheet for revising the weather and natural disasters related vocabulary at intermediate level. There are three different activities and the answer key is included.
This is a picture dictionary which can also b e used as a study sheet for teaching or revising types of houses related vocabulary at elementary level. the worksheet is available in both colour an ...
This is a picture crossword for teaching types of houses related vocabulary at elementary level. Students are asked to complete the crossword by using the picture clue provided. The worksheet is ...
Listening task for intermediate students. The song is OST 'Ms. Congeniality', it suits such topics like 'Relationships', 'Love', 'St.Valentine's Day'. Using such type of work in class is bot ...
The Odd One Out. Which one is different? Cross out the word that does not belong and explain why. There are fifteen rows and each of them has got four words. Students will have to cross out the wo ...
This worksheet aims at children. Activity with video, useful for revising/teaching animals and jobs. There are three activities, the first one is a spelling activity, the second and third encourag ...
It can be used as a warm-up activity to revise the animals or as a revision of different adjectives. There are exercises like unscrambling, finding opposites for practicing the vocabulary. You can ...
Flashcards to present or review the vocabulary related to the clothes .To present the vocabulary you can just show the pictures and elicit the vocabulary. Playing cards is also good practice. In g ...
This is a full lesson about fruit. There are 5 different exercises and a set of flashcards at the end. I advise to start with introducing the topic with flashcards, follow it by a 'run and touch' ...
This worksheet can serve as a game that can make coloring lesson more dynamic -- cut the pictures up, stick them around the class, tell students to race and grab according to the color you call ou ...
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