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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Here is a power point presentation about foods. You can split the class in three groups. A type of food will be on the screen and, in groups, they have to discuss and dicover the food origin. I fo ...
This is a power point presentation showing some problems we normally have. You can play with your students asking them to give each other a possible solution for those. Or you can make them act it ...
Worksheet to practice vocabulary (animals). Students must match the correct word for each animal(picture) and write the name in the box below each picture. You can show them flashcards of these an ...
Halloween Myths and Supestitions. This presentation may help when speaking about superstitions and myths relating to Halloween. There are some images of well-known characters and some stories abou ...
Interview for students to practice speaking about their feelings in different situations. Great for practicing participles with -ed and -ing. Interview is for students to work in pairs. It contain ...
Sometimes I find out that the children have troubles with exercise I consider easy. That is why I make easy revision worksheets. This one contains several easy grammar exercises - plural of nouns ...
Something different to add to your carnival class with teens or adults, this listening worksheet consists of true/false gist questions and multiple choice detailed listening questions. Answer key ...
In this presentation you will find some flash cards for feelings. The whole matter is that "the more senses your child can use, the better understanding they can get". So in this presentation chil ...
Little children learn better if they enjoy their learning. Board game is an effective way to do so. In this activity little children can practice some warm up activities, speak about what they can ...
Two dice for revising Saint Valentine's Day related vocabulary . Recommended for elementary students who are asked to to roll both dice and then make a sentence by using the picture clue provided.
This is a matching activity for revising Valentine's Day related vocabulary. Recommended for elementary students who are asked to match the pictures with the words given. The worksheet is availabl ...
This is an interactive board game which is aimed for teaching or revising the past simple. Students are asked to spin the wheel, count the number of spaces in the game and make a correct sentence ...
This is a matching activity to teach or review the first conditional. It introduces some superstitions used in England. Once students understand the meaning of superstition and learn how to use th ...
Here's a video session on the first episode of New Girl. Listening comprehension activities with pre-watching and after-watching speaking exercises. I recommend using it with ADULTS ONLY since som ...
This worksheet is based on the 8th episode of season 2 of Modern Family and it includes spotting idioms and phrases, filling in the blanks and a space for students' discussion. It also suggests a ...
It's a pair work exercise to go over vocabulary dealing mainly with numbers (time - money - ordinal numbers) but also question words. After the pairwork exchange, you can evaluate the students or ...
Power Point Presentation (ppt) to talk about England and London. It brings three slides, one with personal questions, another one with the difference between UK and England and a third one with th ...
This is a ppt with the already known game: Desert Island. It's great to learn new vocabulary and practice speaking. "You are on a desert island. There is a motor boat and you are the only one who ...
Work the film Along Came Polly in class in order to learn expressions and English words in a funny and practical way. Activities: correct the underlined mistakes, match the pictures with the actor ...
We train young cooks and nutrionists at our school. This exercise enhances the students to get familiar around the kitchen and enriches their vocabulary by translating the words they know in Danis ...
Writing activity: Write numbers in words. Fill in the missing letters (days of the week). Write the jumbled words correctly (days of the week). It can be used as a writing and spelling tas ...
These are several questions to practise routines, telling the time and prepositions of time. I give one to each student, then they decide the partner they are going to ask to and the partner mus ...
These slides are designed especially for pre-intermediate and intermediate. However I am quite sure it can be assigned to all levels (see worksheet). It consists of exercises firstly based on the ...
This five-page worksheet is designed especially for pre-intermediate and intermediate. However I am quite sure it can be assigned to all levels. It consists of exercises firstly based on the song ...
It's a lovely 6 minute cartoon about love at first sight. It can be watched and used almost with all levels as it's a silent cartoon. As for the discussion it can be changed a bit according to yo ...
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