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!
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Well the first part of the guide is necessary to create a word puzzle and paste here with the words of the story. So students can familiarize first with the vocabulary of the story and then solve ...
Student 'A' receives 'Adventure Travel' Handout 'A' - Student 'B' receives 'Adventure Travel' Handout 'B'. Without looking at each other's handout, they should describe their travel ads to each o ...
Two dice for teaching or revising means of transport related vocabulary at elementary level. Students are asked to roll the dice and make a correct sentence by using the picture clue provided.
Here is a good way to introduce the family vocabulary. If your students love watching all these series and movies, they'll recognize the characters and their family relation. After showing the fam ...
As I have four conversation classes (Level A2+ -B1+) getting them to speak is sometimes a problem.I try to keep my sheets a bit controversial in order to engage their interest.They enjoy speaki ...
Reading comprehension. Students are asked to read a text and answer a series of comprehension questions. First, students should find out the right missing word with refernce to the text in order t ...
This is a worksheet about the synonyms and antonyms. Students have to write down the synonym and / or antonym of the given word in the list of table. The aim is to provide a practice to students ...
Listening comprehension - checking in at the airport - followed by a series of varied language exercises. The first activity is in fact a filling in gaps task using six vocabulary items amon ...
A great craft that kids love - cut out the square, and fold along the lines. add colours and numbers for spelling practice, and use the animals (i replaced the 'fortunes' with simple vocabulary, a ...
This power point presentation is for beginners. It is a funny way to introduce past simple of verb be, jobs and prepositions of place. You can make it like a game and ask your students to guess th ...
This power point presentation was made for adult students. The objective of it is to discuss the food that they like and talk about some international dishes. It can be used with beginners to pre ...
This is a reading activity about a newspaper article, which tells us the story of a hospital cleaner who got fired for speaking her native language in the workplace. It's surprisingly a good way t ...
This is a reading activity about "texting", which turned 20 in the end of 2012. It's a surprisingly good way to make students read, discuss the vocabulary and talk. There are a few questions about ...
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This is a short test on business vocabulary and expressions. It consists of two exercises: in the first one you have to match the words to make collocations, and in the second one you have to comp ...
PowerPoint presentation includes pictures to accompany the idioms regarding the state of mind or general state or health of a human organism. Examples are simple and are used often in English lang ...
This activity is aimed at an able pre-intermediate group up to upper-intermediate. It talks about Valentine's Day traditions from around the world and introduces new vocabulary to students in form ...
This is aimed at beginner and elementary children aged between 3-8 years old ideally. This can be used as a fun worksheet to introduce new valentine's day vocabulary and practice writing, or it ca ...
Watch this video and answer the questions according what you watch and understand. It is an enjoyable video to share with your class while practising vocabulary. After watching you can use the vid ...
A picture dictionary with some words related to clothes and accessories. There are common words like skirt, blouse, trousers, shorts or more uncommon words like beanie hat, pom-poms, scrunchy, cro ...
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