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.
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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This is a conversation in a cafe,a teacher cuts it into stripes and students have to make a conversation, it is from FACE2FACE elementary - 4C .Then they listen to the conversation and check ...
Students have to make a menu - there is a choice of food and drink, I wanted to change the lesson and I took it from the lesson 4C (Face2Face elementary), you have to preteach the unknown vocabula ...
This is a writing activity for intermediate students who are asked to imagine the trees in the place where they live are being cut down.They don’t agree with that decision and write a formal ...
This is a very simple missing letters activity for teaching feelings and emotions. Recommended for elementary students who are asked to complete the words with the missing letters. The answer key ...
It is an English worksheet for year 7, which includes 10 Questions to do with Adverts, Magazines and AFOREST analsying plus a longer task that can be followed by writing letters, ...
Teaching students about UFOs and Aliens. It is a powerpoint slides , there are pictures as well as new words on Aliens. This is a good conversational activity for the whole classroom. Students can ...
The Beatles is a famous and enjoyable band. I usually use their songs when I work with grown-ups. Especially this song I used when we were discussing about traffic jams like warming-up. There are ...
This is a Cardinal Numbers Bingo! Game prepared for elementary students. Children can play in pairs or in groups - one student chooses a folded card with a word written on it and the players who h ...
One of Bob Marley's most famous songs. There are seververal activities: fill in the gaps, listen and number the lines, match words and pictures and finally a follow up true/false activity meant fo ...
This short Power Point quiz I used with my students to check their knowledge of the most famous London sights. In this presentation the pictures are familiar to the students and used to help ...
This is a reading activity for Intermediate and Upper Intermediate students. The worksheet includes a vocabulary practice part and a text that follows. In the first part the students are to match ...
This worksheet is created to work on present simple and the adverbs of frequency, and at the same time to learn about the everyday activities of a tennis player. Students must put the verbs ...
This wordsearch can be used in the classroom or as a take home activity. It can help young learners to develope their vocabulary. Recommended for pre-intermediate students. The answer key is inclu ...
An essay with tittle and pointers to guide them along when they are writing.Before they start to write they should brainstorm on how to write and plan them accordingly.There should be at least 180 ...
This presentation gives detailed information about how people communicate, how they communicated in the past. It is more concentrated on the traditional ways of communicating,Internet commun ...
This presentation shows various kinds of transport throughout the history, up to the present and maybe to the future. Pictures should encourage your students to talk about situations connected wit ...
This is an easy-to-use guideline to help students prepare to write a movie review. It has pictures and examples of movies. It is appealing to young students and fun to older ones. I suggest this s ...
It´s an oral activity for students to practice vocabulary on movies and make arrangements to meet.They can use expressions to invite, accept and refuse invitations. They have to improvise co ...
Presentation about one of the largest shopping malls in the world. It may be used to talk about shopping, spending free time, and describing places. There are interesting facts about this unusual ...
An exciting listening and speaking activity. Students listen to you describing a situation and write down the answers. Finally you read aloud they interpretation of each answer. I suggest you your ...
This links in nicely to a New Cutting Edge upper intermediate activity - mind wordspot. There are a couple of the mind expressions in the song and a catchy tune, which gets students singing at the ...
This is a reading comprehension worksheet about mobile phones for intermediate students who are asked to read the text, answer the questions and write a small composition.
This file includes 12 daily activities, such as "Brush your teeth" and "Make some coffee". There is one activity per page. Page 13 is empty and page 14 is the answer sheet. I've included it as a ...
The crossword is intended to teach students clothes which are plural. Students are to solve the crossword on the basis of pictures given. It is suitable for elementary students- level A1. It can b ...
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