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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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Water Cooperation

Water Cooperation

this is a video / listening class. You can start the class talking about water, the size of our planet , how much water there is ... how big the population is. It's about the water on our planet ...
7 Views 10,775 Int
Christmas Matching Worksheet

Christmas Matching Worksheet

This worksheet is used for my pupils before Christmas period. They learn some vocabulary words about Christmas. They only have to match the pictures with the words. It is a very easy activity. Onc ...
3 Views 11,657 Pre-Int
Present Simple (Routine) Sentence-building Game

Present Simple (Routine) Sentence-building Game

The objective of this worksheet is for beginning ESL students to construct sentences in the present simple in a fun way – turning it into a game. It requires a certain amount of time and pre ...
17 Views 30,390 BegElem
Check vs Control

Check vs Control

Vocab activity with general rules, examples and test sheet for use of verbs 'check' and 'control'. Can be used for business or non business, levels from pre int and up. Second page shows various p ...
3 Views 8,263 Pre-IntIntAdvExam
Song Worksheet: Just Give Me a Reason by Pink

Song Worksheet: Just Give Me a Reason by Pink

This worksheet is composed of six exercises. The first one consists of filling the gaps. In the second one, the students must put the lines in the right order. In the third one, they have the choi ...
15 Views 25,460 Int
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Answers : Why Take a Gap Year?

Answers : Why Take a Gap Year?

This worksheet contains the answers and summary concerning the video " why take a gap year?". My students sum it up in French since it is their mother tongue. Nevertheless you can adapt the third ...
9 Views 9,509 IntAdv
Happy Saint Patrick's Day

Happy Saint Patrick's Day

Happy Saint Patrick's Day! How many words can you write with these letters? With the letters that appear in "Happy Saint Patrick's Day" students create new words. There are six columns so that stu ...
4 Views 11,973 All
Song Worksheet: Lovesong by The Cure

Song Worksheet: Lovesong by The Cure

It is a simple song you may want to use at a St. Valentines day lesson. If you chose the original version by The Cure, some words might be a bit difficult to make out. So I chose Adele. It is quit ...
5 Views 8,678 Pre-Int
Directions and Places Game

Directions and Places Game

This is a teaching tool that can be printed and laminated to keep for a useful resource. It includes a town map with streets (colour names), and shops, school etc. It has simple quiz cards to be u ...
57 Views 127,861 BegElemPre-Int
Phoning in an Emergency

Phoning in an Emergency

This sheet gives students information needed to help them make an emergency phone call for fire, police and ambulance. It also helps students understand the difference between an emergency and non ...
20 Views 61,859 ElemPre-IntIntAdv
24 Question Cards [General Questions]

24 Question Cards [General Questions]

24 general questions to cut out and have students ask each other. This was very useful because the topics are varied and random, containing different structures, so it's good to get people speakin ...
56 Views 58,207 Pre-IntInt
Monster's Inc. Adjective Worksheet (Beginner and Intermediate)

Monster's Inc. Adjective Worksheet (Beginner and Intermediate)

This is a worksheet for the movie Monster's Inc. This worksheet helps practice using adjectives and describing people, or in this case monsters! Worksheet one is for basic adjectives, such as blue ...
7 Views 18,014 ElemPre-Int
Monster's Inc. Descriptions and Worksheet

Monster's Inc. Descriptions and Worksheet

This is a fun activity about the movie Monster's Inc. I did this activity during a winter camp with an elementary class in South Korea and they loved it. Depending on the level of your students, y ...
12 Views 20,083 BegElem
Movie Worksheet: The Notebook

Movie Worksheet: The Notebook

This is a simple worksheet about the first minutes of the movie "The Notebook". I've made it for the St Valentine's day and my students loved it! The students must watch a small extract from the t ...
9 Views 15,733 ElemPre-IntInt
Wild Animals Matching Activity

Wild Animals Matching Activity

This is a pretty easy matching activity for revising wild animals related vocabulary. Recommended for elementary students who are asked to match the words given with the pictures. The worksheet i ...
10 Views 15,262 Elem
In the Office Picture Dictionary

In the Office Picture Dictionary

This is a picture dictionary which can also be used as a classroom poster for teaching office related vocabulary. There are 30 new words illustrated with pictures for easy memorization. The worksh ...
15 Views 43,495 ElemPre-Int
Song Worksheet: Everlong by Foo Fighters

Song Worksheet: Everlong by Foo Fighters

Gap fill activity using the song Everlong by The Foo Fighters. It can be used as a warmer for Halloween, as it contains references from an 80's horror film, The Evil Dead, or as a review for verbs ...
7 Views 15,799 IntAdvExam
Song Worksheet: London Calling by The Clash

Song Worksheet: London Calling by The Clash

Lyrics gap fill of London Calling by The Clash. It could be used as a warmer or filler, for adults or teens who like punk rock. It could also be included in a longer lesson about the city of Londo ...
11 Views 18,509 IntAdvExam
Phrasal Verbs Practice

Phrasal Verbs Practice

This worksheet is intended for learning new phrasal verbs and practice. You will find different activities and key. If you work with Solutions Upper-intermediate coursebooks (Oxford), this workshe ...
9 Views 6,800 Adv
Famous Couples in British Literature

Famous Couples in British Literature

This is a very helpful worksheet to inspire your students to read the great works of English writers. The task is quite simple. Ss are to connect the title of the book, the name of the author and ...
26 Views 17,801 Pre-IntIntAdvExam
Vocabulary and Re-write

Vocabulary and Re-write

From EC Club Jakarta, Indonesia to you. This worksheet is designed for children in Elementery or Beginner Level. Age 4+. The children have to match the pictures with the words and re-write the wo ...
3 Views 6,331 BegElem
Shooting Gallery - Asteroids from 15 February 2013

Shooting Gallery - Asteroids from 15 February 2013

This is a reading and listening worksheet about two asteroids that came near the Earth on 15 February 2013. One of them hit Russia. There are two newspaper articles about the events, I put them t ...
11 Views 9,903 Pre-IntInt
Basic Computer Skills

Basic Computer Skills

This can be a web based program or just a stand alone handout. It goes through mouse skills, keyboard and typing tips, opening and closing programs, accessing CDs and DVDs, searching for files an ...
7 Views 12,728 BegElem
Reading Comprehension, Family, Describing People

Reading Comprehension, Family, Describing People

This is a test we use at the end of an unit, kids must be able to read, answer the questions, mark true or false and ask questions for the given answers. They have to complete some sentences with ...
28 Views 93,106 Elem
Reading Comprehension: Sandy Hook Elementary School Shooting.

Reading Comprehension: Sandy Hook Elementary School Shooting.

This worksheet is about the event that occurred recently in December in the USA. Since my students were working on the social issue of weapons in the USA, I decided to make them read an article ab ...
9 Views 15,204 Int

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