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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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Listening Comprehension: Why Take a Gap Year?

Listening Comprehension: Why Take a Gap Year?

This worksheet is composed of three parts: in the first one, the students must answer the questions about the global comprehension. In the second one, they must answer questions as well but more p ...
8 Views 24,602 IntAdv
Ideas for Business Conversation

Ideas for Business Conversation

This contains 10 different scenarios that are good for group or individual classrooms. Students must discuss what the best solution would be for each problem in the scenario. What would they do ...
19 Views 63,529 Pre-IntIntAdv
Business English Vocabulary

Business English Vocabulary

Fill in the blanks with the business vocabulary words in the box. These words are commonly used in the workplace. It is useful for business English quizzes, tutoring or the classroom. Not recom ...
14 Views 30,240 Pre-IntIntAdv
Hobbies

Hobbies

This is a worksheet about hobbies and free time activities. The activity is about completing the words given with the missing vowels. It can be used at the beginning of a lesson as a warm-up activ ...
4 Views 9,638 BegElem
What a Dilemma!

What a Dilemma!

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 ...
14 Views 9,536 Pre-Int
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Travel Ad: Information-Gap Activity

Travel Ad: Information-Gap Activity

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 ...
23 Views 29,804 Int
Means of Transport Dice II

Means of Transport Dice II

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.
5 Views 11,400 BegElem
Famous Families on Tv Shows

Famous Families on Tv Shows

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 ...
19 Views 17,001 ElemPre-IntInt
Eating Out: The Most Dangerous Restaurant in the World

Eating Out: The Most Dangerous Restaurant in the World

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 ...
22 Views 28,792 Pre-IntInt
Internet Addiction

Internet Addiction

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 ...
22 Views 41,453 Pre-Int
Synonym and Antonym Worksheet

Synonym and Antonym Worksheet

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 ...
11 Views 27,457 Int
Listening Comprehension and Language Test

Listening Comprehension and Language Test

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 ...
9 Views 22,899 Pre-Int
Animals Fortune Teller Craft

Animals Fortune Teller Craft

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 ...
2 Views 11,273 Beg
Celebrities and Their Old Jobs: Before They Were Famous

Celebrities and Their Old Jobs: Before They Were Famous

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 ...
17 Views 23,755 Beg
What Food Do You Like?

What Food Do You Like?

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 ...
12 Views 19,959 BegElemPre-Int
Reading: Fired Hospital Cleaner

Reading: Fired Hospital Cleaner

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 ...
8 Views 9,807 Int
Reading: Texting Turns 20

Reading: Texting Turns 20

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 ...
19 Views 34,966 Int
Daily Phrases 1

Daily Phrases 1

Daily Phrases 1 I have prepared this paper in order to teach my beloved student significant daily expressions which are definitely helpful for our daily life. This paper contains ten daily express ...
13 Views 25,124 All
Crime and Punishment: Speaking Activity + Glossary of Crimes

Crime and Punishment: Speaking Activity + Glossary of Crimes

Speaking Activity: Crime and Punishment This activity consists of three main parts: - Glossary of crimes - Words and Phrases related to the speaking activity "Crime and Punishment" - Discussion qu ...
25 Views 49,899 IntAdv
Business Vocabulary Test

Business Vocabulary Test

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 ...
16 Views 48,957 ElemPre-Int
Idioms - State of Mind

Idioms - State of Mind

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 ...
8 Views 9,889 Adv
Valentine's Day Around the World - Vocabulary, Synonyms, Speaking, Reading

Valentine's Day Around the World - Vocabulary, Synonyms, Speaking, Reading

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 ...
25 Views 44,521 Pre-IntInt
Valentine's Day Colouring and Vocabulary

Valentine's Day Colouring and Vocabulary

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 ...
9 Views 14,022 BegElem
Good Night Mr Bean Video Activity

Good Night Mr Bean Video Activity

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 ...
13 Views 48,307 Elem
Clothes & Accessories Worksheet

Clothes & Accessories Worksheet

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 ...
10 Views 14,350 Pre-Int

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