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 activity is designed to challenge student’s ability to read sentences and find the names of animal hiding in the sentences. In the last task they write their own sentences. This idea wa ...
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This worksheet can be used with pre-intermediate students to work with communication, how people communicate and behave according to their culture. It's a lesson prepared for 1 hour 15 minutes and ...
Finish the six drawings around the line of symmetry, including cherries, ice cream, cake, banana, cabbage, carrot. Color them then! You may also ask your pupils to circle only vegetables/fruit whe ...
A worsheet about the topic: diseases/healthy vs unhealthy. Students are asked to read a text about someone's health and then will be asked to answer some questions. As a follow up exercise, studen ...
This 25 slide verbs/daily routine Power Point Presentation is animated with fun cliparts that is sure to amuse and entertain students, as well as get them excited about learning new vocabulary and ...
This 25 slide verbs/daily routine Power Point Presentation is animated with fun cliparts that is sure to amuse and entertain students, as well as get them excited about learning new vocabulary and ...
The activity is based on the song Faster by Sofi de la Torre. It contains the text on the unique way of Sofi's singing, the lyrics of her song with gap filling tasks and some questions to compare ...
This activity is based on the song Look at Me by Geri Halliwell. It features some facts from the singer's biography and contains a task where students should put the lines in the correct order whi ...
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If you have a slide projector, you can use this projecting this doc on the whiteboard or on a big white paper panel where your students can use the marker to highlight the words projected. You hav ...
It is designed for intermediate ss to make them speak in an appropriate context. There are a lot of dialogues and connectors which can be used while communicating.You can encourage your ss to make ...
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This is a PPT Game on Body Parts for 5-6 year-old kids. Students should read the sentence in each slide, mime the action and finally click on the correct picture.Vocabulary included: head, arms, h ...
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