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.
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A simple beginner time sheet with two sections, first section is to read the sentence "It's ____ o'clock and fill in the time. The second section is to read the time as it is written (i.e. three-t ...
This text is about how to stop global warming. There is a small description and then some tips to help stopping the global warming. I asked text questions. Actually my aim was to revise the topic ...
It's a factsheet about the environment used as a springboard for tenses. The fact sheet can be used to predict how much waste is produced each year and then some true and false questions follow. T ...
A very useful to to teach and practice vocabulary, different from those common professions you always teach or study. I hope you like it! After your students find the words they can write sentence ...
I used this worksheet with my ESL beginner students. This worksheet allows them to relate appropriate descriptive words with noun e.g. person, place, or object. Considering this material for hig ...
This worksheet can be used to teach vocabulary as well as speaking about everyday annoyances. The teacher can begin with a list of contemporary annoyances and elicit how they annoy the students. I ...
The worksheet is based on the song by Mercury 'Love of my life'. Students put the lines of the song in order in a kinesphaetic activity for the first part of the song and then fill the gaps f ...
you can revise knowledge about articles and break famous stereotypes about Russia. It consits of three questions and 7 facts about Russian culture, nature, geography, language...Here you find answ ...
This worksheet includes character analysis, plot analysis, and theme analysis questions. Questions vary from matching to ordering to direct and indirect ones. My students watched the whole movie ...
An integrated activity between English and technlogy for secondary students in their sencond year. They have to watch the film first, half of it in the english class and the rest in th echnology ...
Student 'A' receives "Tom's Supermarket Handout 'A'." - Student 'B' receives "Tom's Supermarket Handout 'B'." Without looking at each other's handout, they should describe their supermarket ads to ...
This is a domino worksheet prepared for beginners who learnt to be, nationalities, numbers and some other very basic words. What they need to do is to pair all the pieces, so that domino is comple ...
Video activity about Barcelona soccer and Lionel Messi and it can be used with students who like soccer. Also you can find vocabulary and answer key. I hope you enjoy it! It contains two links wh ...
This a worksheet for teaching or revising jobs and occupations vocabulary. Recommended for elementary students who are asked to match, find the words and label the pictures.
List of common greetings and farewells to use in conversations. It has both formal and informal questions and probable responses. It can be used as a helpful handout for the students when they are ...
This is a power point presentation useful for introducing vocabulary related to things we use as decorations in a party and other expressions about it. It is suitable for use with children and wit ...
Different activities where students are required to identify simile, metaphor, personification, pun and onomatopoeia. Students are required to identify and provide definitions for various figures ...
This is a short activity to revise the use of the verb: to make (as a phrasal verb, idiom). It could be used after having taught several idioms, expressions and phrases with "MAKE". I have used wi ...
The following worksheet contains two exercises to practice speaking. The first one includes a discussion on Facebook. This is an up to date topic and students may have a lot to say on it. The seco ...
This worksheet has been developed according to Happy Earth 2 Unit 2 vocabulary. You can use it, however, for the topic of carnivals, dressing up parties and in-this-vein celebrations. It has much ...
A speaking activity for advanced learners about the last Spanish Goya Awards Ceremony which has created a great controversy. It includes a reading with some questions to be answered. The article i ...
This is a fun activity to work parts of the body, descriptive adjectives, present simple, time expressions and of course listening. A great moment to do it could be on Valentine's Day but it coul ...
This is quite a good reading text with conversation questions. It is a general text with no particular emphasis on grammar. I have used it as a homework sheet for my upper adult conversation class ...
Again, this is a worksheet I use in my adult conversation classes. It is quite personal, so perhaps not suited to cultures where this is frowned on. My students enjoy talking about themselves, so ...
Worksheet for level A1, beginners, esp. younger kids that can write colors and clothes words. Created to revise how to write the names of different clothes and the names of different colors in E ...
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