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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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Movie Worksheet: Racism

Movie Worksheet: Racism

This worksheet is based on a youtube video which is about racism in Disneyland. This is a very nice exercise if you're into critical teaching. Your students will first discuss the pre-listening q ...
6 Views 15,978 IntAdv
Sorting out Animals

Sorting out Animals

This powerpoint introduces the classification of animals in the first grades of primary school. It deals with animals, body parts and simple present tense. You may have students predict what ...
6 Views 10,338 ElemPre-Int
Song Worksheet: More by Madonna

Song Worksheet: More by Madonna

This worksheet helps to revise much/many/few/little. The song is taken from the movie "Dick Tracy". Many of my students watched the movie and know the song but few understood what is it about. S ...
2 Views 8,439 Pre-IntIntAdv
Song Worksheet: New York by Frank Sinatra

Song Worksheet: New York by Frank Sinatra

A fill-in worksheet with a well known song by Frank Sinatra can be used in teaching the topic of Travelling. It has two tasks: gap filling and answering questions. Students love this song and so ...
8 Views 28,480 Pre-IntInt
Happy Easter

Happy Easter

How many words can you write with the letters in "My Easter basket is filled with thoughts of you"? A colour version and a black and white one.There are six columns to form words with two letters, ...
10 Views 12,463 All
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Words

Words

How many items starting with the different letters of the alphabet can you write in five minutes? With the letters of the alphabet, students will have to complete the charts in five minutes. There ...
6 Views 7,101 All
An Easter Poem

An Easter Poem

Here there is an easy Easter poem titled [i][/i]Easter Eggs. Students will have to fill in the blanks with the words provided. The words rhyme with other words in the poem.There is a colour versio ...
14 Views 25,733 ElemPre-Int
Fukushima: Natural Disaster 11.03.11.

Fukushima: Natural Disaster 11.03.11.

An activity based on real events in Fukushima, Japan, 11th March 2011. It can be used when studying ecological issues and influence of people on our planet. It contains a text, a fill-in the words ...
11 Views 14,732 Pre-IntIntAdv
Intermediate/Advanced Oral Presentation Rubric

Intermediate/Advanced Oral Presentation Rubric

Here is a rubric that is designed to help teachers assess prepared oral presentations by students at the Intermediate/Advanced levels. The rubric contains the following categories to be assessed: ...
18 Views 99,452 IntAdv
Unusual Jobs: Living Statues

Unusual Jobs: Living Statues

An activity, based on pictures of people working as living statues in Barcelona. Can be used while studying 'professions' or 'lifestyle' themes in classes of different levels for practicing spea ...
6 Views 17,192 ElemPre-IntIntAdv
Canada Text Review

Canada Text Review

This worksheet contains a small text about Canada and it is directed for Brazilian students of the English language. There is also some questions for conversations and eight spots to put the new w ...
3 Views 20,339 Elem
Bizarre Food

Bizarre Food

An interesting unit in which your students will learn about bizarre food, ingredients, dishes, kitchen equipment, adjectives and how to give instructions. Assessment is proposed by an oral present ...
14 Views 18,163 IntAdv
Song Worksheet: Three Little Birds by Bob Marley

Song Worksheet: Three Little Birds by Bob Marley

Students like this song because it makes them feel better and relax but maybe it contains some other meaning  rather than just of a relaxation. This worksheet can be used for discussion. It c ...
6 Views 20,270 Pre-IntIntAdv
Clothes Game

Clothes Game

This presentation recalls the clothes vocabulary in a 30 guessing game. Students in groups have 30 seconds to guess which clothing it might be. It is a nice warm up or wrap up to pre/intermediate ...
15 Views 18,496 ElemPre-IntInt
Websites

Websites

This worksheet is aimed to work with active vocabulary  to the lexical topic "Websites". It contains three tasks, one of them is a translating one, composed in Ukrainian. Another two tasks ma ...
5 Views 9,949 Int
Movie Worksheet: Peppa Pig. Shopping.

Movie Worksheet: Peppa Pig. Shopping.

Great for revision of Shopping and Food vocabulary. Very funny and easy to understand. The worksheet includes a vocabulary list, a 'tick the words that you hear while watching the episode' task an ...
16 Views 18,233 BegElem
Chocolate for All Occasions

Chocolate for All Occasions

It is about where chocolate comes from and why it is considered something special. It is a reading comprehension exercise that engages students and they will have to put  their thinking caps ...
28 Views 18,324 ElemPre-Int
Food

Food

This ppt is about learning food vocabulary. That's useful for teaching students in elementary or other people who need to learn English. This ppt has a picture, words to read and practice to prono ...
4 Views 10,808 Elem
Things in a Circus

Things in a Circus

Who amongst us does not carry fond memories of a visit to the circus when we were young? A circus is a fascinating visual experience which gets etched deep into our memory. I have used the theme o ...
9 Views 14,690 BegElemPre-IntInt
Song Worksheet: Fields of Gold by Sting

Song Worksheet: Fields of Gold by Sting

Students love to listen to music. So every lesson I try to find some new song with beautiful lyrics for them. This one can be used for pre-intermediate students to discuss topic of love and of cou ...
4 Views 15,658 ElemPre-Int
Transport for Kids

Transport for Kids

Let the kids play with the vocabulary they are learning. This worksheet will be useful to teach some key vocabulary of the topic 'means of transport'. They will discover such words as Bus, Car, Tr ...
10 Views 13,004 Beg
English Is Fun!

English Is Fun!

This PPT contains several word and vocabulary games. It can be used at back-to-school lessons or occasionally for classroom entertainment. Some teachers may use it to test some aspects of English ...
30 Views 35,477 ElemPre-Int
Easter Picture Crossword

Easter Picture Crossword

This is a pretty simple picture crossword for teaching Easter related vocabulary. Recommended for elementary students who are asked to complete the crossword puzzle by using the picture clue prov ...
4 Views 27,089 Elem
Parts of the Body

Parts of the Body

This worksheet will allow you to work on some words such as beak, tail, wing, eyes, body and head. Students will be discovering the words. It can also be useful to revise the alphabet. Since it in ...
13 Views 15,779 Beg
Toys and Means of Transport

Toys and Means of Transport

This worksheet will be useful to revise some vocabulary: Toys and Means of Transport. It can be used as a picture dictionary too. In the first task, learners will do a crossword. Then, they will b ...
11 Views 24,865 Beg

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