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!
Become a part of the BusyTeacher.org community, where you'll find 14,321 vocabulary worksheets to download and use in your lessons every day! There's no limit to what you can do when you make our worksheets a part of your lessons, so start by taking a look at the recommended ones below.
Create awesome-looking custom word searches in seconds!
Make A Word Scramble:
Instantly create custom word/sentence scrambles for your class!
Make A Double Puzzle:
Generate double puzzles your students will love - hours of fun!
ESL Articles
View our latest knowledgebase articles that will help you become a better English teacher. Learn from
professional teachers and put a bit of your own creativity into it!
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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. ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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, ...
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. ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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.
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 ...
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 ...
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 14,727Int
Got a great worksheet on
Vocabulary?
Tell us about it and become a BusyTeacher contributor!