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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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Word Formation

Word Formation

In the first part of this worksheet ss have to complete the chart with the words already presented, but in their different form. If it is a subject for example they may convert to adverb and adjec ...
4 Views 13,450 IntAdvExam
Song worksheet: Never Gonna Give You up by Rick Astley

Song worksheet: Never Gonna Give You up by Rick Astley

This is a good song to illustrate the reductions of "going to", "want to" and "have got to" into "gonna" "wanna" and "gotta" in an easy-to-understand context. It also contains a few colloquial phr ...
10 Views 22,488 ElemPre-IntInt
Music

Music

The theme chosen for my students is music.This is a worsheet about instruments and music vocabulary. They must recognize the instruments and the words, then they must complete some exercises with ...
9 Views 18,661 Pre-Int
Feelings and Emotions

Feelings and Emotions

This is a cool activity you can do in the classroom, there are a lot of vocabulary and some pictures to make ss identify feelings and emotions. The objective is to activate the vocabulary and  ...
13 Views 53,484 Pre-Int
Drinks Worksheet

Drinks Worksheet

This is a 2-page worksheet for teaching drinks related vocabulary.There's a picture dictionary which can also be used as a study sheet followed by an easy matching activity.The worksheet is availa ...
10 Views 12,791 ElemPre-Int
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Spring is in the Air

Spring is in the Air

I tried to collect useful vocabulary for talking about seasons. This is the first part of my series. It's fully editable, so you can change the parts that don't suit you.., You will find words abo ...
9 Views 9,040 ElemPre-Int
Get to Know Your Students - Student Survey

Get to Know Your Students - Student Survey

This student survey is more for the teacher to get to know his/her students."One thing" category is for students to tell you that one thing about themselves that will help you be a better teacher ...
8 Views 17,391 IntAdvExam
Find a Conjunction

Find a Conjunction

This worksheet is about conjunctions. You can use a conjunction to link words. In  English  a conjunction is a part of speech that connects two words, sentences, phrases or clauses toget ...
11 Views 14,079 Int
Hidden Animals (PDF)

Hidden Animals (PDF)

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 ...
18 Views 19,549 BegElemPre-IntInt
Puzzle Maker Template

Puzzle Maker Template

This is an activity I have started to use in my elementary classes. Before class you need to pick a question, it has to be no more than 6 words - scramble it and write it on the second page. You g ...
6 Views 6,070 BegElemPre-Int
Cultural Differences - Reading Comprehension

Cultural Differences - Reading Comprehension

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 ...
38 Views 84,294 ElemPre-Int
Food: Finish the Drawing Worksheet

Food: Finish the Drawing Worksheet

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 ...
10 Views 9,862 BegElem
Feeling Ill

Feeling Ill

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 ...
6 Views 11,737 ElemPre-Int
Daily Routine Part 2

Daily Routine Part 2

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 ...
9 Views 9,308 BegElem
Daily Routine Part 1

Daily Routine Part 1

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 ...
10 Views 10,142 BegElem
Song Worksheet: Faster by Sofi de la Torre

Song Worksheet: Faster by Sofi de la Torre

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 ...
1 Views 6,366 Pre-IntIntAdv
Song Worksheet : Look at Me by Geri Halliwell

Song Worksheet : Look at Me by Geri Halliwell

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 ...
3 Views 5,559 Pre-IntIntAdv
Children's Preposition of Place

Children's Preposition of Place

I've created a worksheet that would help the Esl beginners and children. My suggestion is to encourage your students/ children  not onlyto make sentences with prepositions of place but also w ...
14 Views 31,367 BegElem
Movie Worksheet: What Women Want (Part 1)

Movie Worksheet: What Women Want (Part 1)

If you watch movies with your students this worksheet might be useful. I combined subtitles from 'what women want' into the text and highlighted interesting words and expressions. You can describ ...
7 Views 15,659 Adv
Hidden Animals

Hidden Animals

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 ...
6 Views 11,279 ElemPre-IntIntAdv
Places Word Search

Places Word Search

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 ...
8 Views 7,307 ElemPre-IntInt
Path to Discussion

Path to Discussion

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 ...
5 Views 6,591 Pre-IntIntAdv
Express an Opinion

Express an Opinion

This  power point will  help students to express an opinion when speaking or writing an essay . It  helps  to make positive and negative statements. Also it provides assistance ...
9 Views 24,491 Pre-IntIntAdvExam
Body Parts - PPT Game

Body Parts - PPT Game

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 ...
17 Views 65,610 Beg
Say or Tell?

Say or Tell?

Students will choose the best option, say or tell. They will also complete a dialogue using the work bank: students will use the following verbs to complete the sentences.Background –Crowd - ...
14 Views 18,825 ElemPre-Int

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