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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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Animals Living at Home, on a Farm and in the Wild

Animals Living at Home, on a Farm and in the Wild

This is a very colorful and beautiful presentation which can be used to introduce the names of animals. Nice pictures will make your lesson more interesting. The presentation includes exercises su ...
5 Views 12,019 ElemPre-Int
Conversation in a Cafe

Conversation in a Cafe

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 ...
11 Views 30,828 ElemPre-Int
Menu in a Cafe

Menu in a Cafe

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 ...
4 Views 22,878 ElemPre-Int
Writing a Formal Letter

Writing a Formal Letter

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 ...
26 Views 51,946 Pre-IntInt
Feelings and Emotions Missing Letters Activity

Feelings and Emotions Missing Letters Activity

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 ...
15 Views 10,950 Elem
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Adverts and Magazines Worksheet

Adverts and Magazines Worksheet

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, ...
8 Views 15,686 IntAdv
UFOs and Aliens

UFOs and Aliens

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 ...
14 Views 11,618 Elem
Song Worksheet: Fool Car by the Beatles

Song Worksheet: Fool Car by the Beatles

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 ...
4 Views 11,291 Elem
Bingo Game - Cardinal Numbers

Bingo Game - Cardinal Numbers

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 ...
12 Views 34,906 BegElem
Song Worksheet: No Woman no Cry by Bob Marley

Song Worksheet: No Woman no Cry by Bob Marley

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 ...
7 Views 27,575 Pre-IntInt
Quiz: Do You Know London?

Quiz: Do You Know London?

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  ...
12 Views 19,959 Pre-IntInt
Interesting Facts about Holland

Interesting Facts about Holland

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 ...
15 Views 13,978 IntAdv
The Daily Routine of a Tennis Player

The Daily Routine of a Tennis Player

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 ...
25 Views 29,822 ElemPre-Int
Easter Wordsearch

Easter Wordsearch

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 ...
8 Views 20,234 Pre-Int
Writing 1: My Favorite Pet

Writing 1: My Favorite Pet

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 ...
9 Views 11,078 IntAdvExam
Means of Communication

Means of Communication

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 ...
12 Views 19,391 Pre-IntInt
Traveling: From the Past to the Future

Traveling: From the Past to the Future

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 ...
12 Views 12,202 ElemPre-IntInt
How to Write a Movie Review ( Ppt)

How to Write a Movie Review ( Ppt)

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 ...
10 Views 49,976 Pre-IntIntAdv
Making Arrangements, Inviting, Accepting, Refusing

Making Arrangements, Inviting, Accepting, Refusing

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 ...
42 Views 89,997 Pre-IntIntAdv
Mall of America

Mall of America

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 ...
8 Views 7,268 ElemPre-IntInt
The Forest Personality Test

The Forest Personality Test

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 ...
53 Views 87,454 ElemPre-IntIntAdv
Song Worksheet : Never Should Have Let You Go (Mind)

Song Worksheet : Never Should Have Let You Go (Mind)

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 ...
2 Views 8,969 IntAdv
Mobile Phones Reading Worksheet

Mobile Phones Reading Worksheet

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.
13 Views 32,487 Pre-IntInt
Daily Activities

Daily Activities

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 ...
10 Views 13,796 Elem
Clothes Crossword

Clothes Crossword

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 ...
4 Views 14,709 Elem

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