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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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What Time Is It?

What Time Is It?

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 ...
8 Views 13,140 BegElemPre-Int
Save The World [Reading]

Save The World [Reading]

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 ...
12 Views 28,499 ElemPre-Int
Reading on the Environment

Reading on the Environment

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 ...
10 Views 14,442 Pre-Int
Jobs Wordsearch

Jobs Wordsearch

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 ...
4 Views 15,748 ElemPre-Int
Descriptive Words

Descriptive Words

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 ...
14 Views 18,097 Elem
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Speaking About Everyday Annoyances

Speaking About Everyday Annoyances

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 ...
11 Views 20,755 Pre-IntInt
Song Worksheet: Love of My Life by Freddy Mercury

Song Worksheet: Love of My Life by Freddy Mercury

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 ...
4 Views 15,695 IntAdv
Facts about Mother Russia

Facts about Mother Russia

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 ...
14 Views 13,614 Adv
Movie Worksheet: Freaky Friday

Movie Worksheet: Freaky Friday

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 ...
7 Views 30,342 IntAdv
Working with Films: Wall-E

Working with Films: Wall-E

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 ...
13 Views 18,179 ElemPre-Int
Supermarket Ad: Information-Gap Activity

Supermarket Ad: Information-Gap Activity

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 ...
32 Views 32,941 Int
Basic Domino

Basic Domino

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 ...
7 Views 12,553 BegElem
Barca Soccer and Lionel Messi

Barca Soccer and Lionel Messi

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 ...
14 Views 13,156 Int
Jobs and Occupations Elementary Worksheet

Jobs and Occupations Elementary Worksheet

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.
10 Views 29,464 Elem
Greetings and Farewells

Greetings and Farewells

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 ...
11 Views 37,578 BegElem
It's Party Time

It's Party Time

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 ...
8 Views 8,147 BegElem
Identifying Figures of Speech

Identifying Figures of Speech

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 ...
10 Views 30,977 Int
Double Puzzle [MAKE]

Double Puzzle [MAKE]

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 ...
6 Views 7,544 IntAdv
Facebook & SMS Language

Facebook & SMS Language

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 ...
30 Views 153,375 Pre-IntIntAdvExam
Dressing Up

Dressing Up

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 ...
6 Views 6,753 BegElem
Spain Goya Awards

Spain Goya Awards

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 ...
4 Views 8,467 Adv
SOng Worksheet: Just the Way you Are by Bruno Mars

SOng Worksheet: Just the Way you Are by Bruno Mars

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 ...
12 Views 19,405 Elem
Being Happier

Being Happier

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 ...
5 Views 7,802 Pre-IntInt
Talking About Love

Talking About Love

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 ...
4 Views 7,398 Pre-IntInt
What Are You Wearing?

What Are You Wearing?

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 ...
13 Views 60,728 BegElem

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