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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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Legal English Exam Paper

Legal English Exam Paper

This is a Legal English exam paper covering International Business Law for first semester students studying Legal English at a University. This paper covers the normal syllabus in Germany fo ...
6 Views 15,924 AdvExam
Classroom Language

Classroom Language

Worksheet on instructions used in class (Back to school). It's a match up exercise. Give it to your students at the beginning of the school year to interact in your English class. You can also cut ...
9 Views 12,075 Elem
Travelling

Travelling

Four short texts with the tasks: prereading, reading, postreading. Restoring the original order of the paragraphs, finding word(s) in the text which fit(s) with the definition slots, making up phr ...
9 Views 13,389 Int
Song Worksheet: I Don't Want To Be Your Mother by Rachael Yamagata

Song Worksheet: I Don't Want To Be Your Mother by Rachael Yamagata

Worksheet contains "fill in the gaps" activity. This beautiful song "I don't want to be your mother" by Rachael Yamagata will be usefull for pre-intermediate and intermediate students to improve t ...
1 Views 5,302 Pre-IntInt
Saint Patrick's Day Powerpoint

Saint Patrick's Day Powerpoint

A crash course in Ireland and St Patrick. Just a quick powerpoint slideshow of pictures and information to show my class some info about Ireland, a mystery to them. Contains some simple Irish (gae ...
34 Views 54,581 Pre-IntIntAdv
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Things in the Kitchen

Things in the Kitchen

This is for children to learn the names of the things they normally see in the kitchen. The pictures can be shown to children and a discussion started by asking several questions like the ones g ...
5 Views 17,015 BegElemPre-Int
Song Worksheet: What a Wonderful World

Song Worksheet: What a Wonderful World

This is a beautiful song to work about peace. Students fill in the blanks and then work a bit on vocabulary. Students express their opinion, talk about feelings and emotions. What makes the world ...
4 Views 16,722 ElemPre-IntInt
School Supplies Presentation

School Supplies Presentation

This ppt is for making children understand the names of the stationery / supplies names which they use in school every day. Ho wever many of them are not aware the names of these items. The ppt ...
7 Views 13,251 ElemPre-IntInt
Easter Trivia Quiz

Easter Trivia Quiz

This is a worksheet for Intermediate conversation class students, but can be used for other groups as well. I divide the students into small groups depending on the size of the class, and get the ...
21 Views 42,322 Int
Vocabulary Game

Vocabulary Game

This game helps students to revise simple vocabulary ( e.g. parts of the body, vegetables,etc). It can also be used as an icebreaker on a first day class. Students and teacher complete each item. ...
18 Views 13,962 Elem
On the Beach

On the Beach

People doing different things on the beach. The worksheet is meant to help pupils practsing the past progressive using three forms. the activity can be done as a pair work: Pupil A asks a question ...
8 Views 11,443 Pre-Int
Movie Worksheet: Along Came Polly

Movie Worksheet: Along Came Polly

Interesting activity for secondary students regarding the film "Along came Polly". It is a very motivating activity and very easy for medium level students in order to check their knowledges and c ...
4 Views 6,770 ElemPre-IntInt
Electronic Devices

Electronic Devices

This worksheet is for elementary students. It can be useful studying the topics connected with electronic devices, gadgets. It also can be funny to find out how techie your students are. In this w ...
8 Views 18,269 ElemPre-Int
Teach Days of the Week through a Song

Teach Days of the Week through a Song

Teach the days of the week with a catchy song from The Cure, 'Friday I'm in Love'. Good for beginner students. The worksheet includes before listening, while listening and after listening activiti ...
17 Views 23,775 BegElem
School Supplies

School Supplies

I made this bingo keeping in mind a few things. Children use a lot of stationery/school supplies items every day in the school, but they do not know the correct names of them or the correct pronu ...
4 Views 15,925 ElemPre-Int
3 Billy Goats Gruff

3 Billy Goats Gruff

An interactive ppt of billy goats gruff. I read to the children, I gave them the simple structure for 4 people (3 goats, 1 troll) and they had to come up the front and perform a re-inactment for t ...
10 Views 11,363 BegElemPre-IntInt
Under the Sea

Under the Sea

This is a ppt about the animals under the sea designed for private lessons to introduce vocabulary and promote discussion of animals and descriptions. Words include: lobster, whale, turtle, fish, ...
5 Views 13,110 BegElemPre-Int
The Little Fish Who Wanted to Be Beautiful

The Little Fish Who Wanted to Be Beautiful

A nice story and song for children to work with colours. Children listen to the story and then complete some missing gaps. Then they can listen to the story again and colour a picture of a fish. ...
6 Views 12,125 Elem
Video Worksheet: Peppa Pig. Pancakes.

Video Worksheet: Peppa Pig. Pancakes.

This week is Pancake Week in Russia. Here is a video worksheet for the episode Pancakes from Peppa Pig. Great for revision of Food and Cooking vocabulary. You can watch the episode here: http://ww ...
19 Views 30,393 BegElem
Homes and Houses

Homes and Houses

This word search about rooms in the house and outside was created to use in the class as a filler activity. Learners find the words given in the word search going up, down, forwards and backwards ...
8 Views 12,424 BegElem
What They Said, What They Meant

What They Said, What They Meant

I came across this while preparing a lesson on culture. It's not my own work but it's a great activity [kindly provided by http://www.ideels.uni-bremen.de]. Participants in IDEELS simulations com ...
12 Views 12,067 IntAdv
The Weather Flashcards

The Weather Flashcards

This is a set of flashcards for teaching or revising the weather related vocabulary at elementary level. They can also be used as classroom posters or for playing games.
20 Views 25,717 ElemPre-Int
English Language Quiz

English Language Quiz

This quiz can be used at the English lesson as a warming-up exercise. The main aim is to check how much children are aware of the information about the English language. It is advisable to divide ...
14 Views 16,121 ElemPre-IntInt
Song Worksheet: One Woman (UN Song for the International Women's Day)

Song Worksheet: One Woman (UN Song for the International Women's Day)

Choose-the-correct-option activity with the lyrics of One Woman, the song released by the UN to commemorate the International Women's Day 2013. It provides practise of basic aspects, basically the ...
9 Views 24,459 BegElem
London Beside the River Thames

London Beside the River Thames

London sights beside the River Thames. This worksheet is a crossword puzzle including the sights of London (London Eye, Madame Tussauds, Tower of London). The students have to fill in the solution ...
10 Views 14,727 Int

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