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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This worksheet is an introduction to the days of the week. It also provides some background information about The Beatles and uses their song 'Eight Days a Week'. Students need to fill in the miss ...
This worksheet is a webquest about Nessie, the Loch Ness Monster. Students look up information on a website and practice their reading skills (scanning/skimming). The sheet is meant for intermedia ...
This is a decoding activity for teaching clothes related vocabulary . Recommended for elementary students who are asked to use the hints in the decoder at the top of the page to help break the co ...
This is a reading comprehension worksheet on health and food. Recommended for intermediate students who are asked to read the text and then find evidence for the statements given. The answer key ...
This is a conversation plan that can be adapted for all levels and be used in both groups and individual classes. It is extensive and my students of all ages seemed to enjoy it as it was relevant ...
This Power Point presentation will help you on the Ecological topics about saving our flora and fauna. People use different methods and they have made various parks as National, Nature Reserve, Zo ...
It's a creative free writing worksheet which you can use for your elementary students, words are given - let your students use all the words and describe a tiger in their own words. You can use th ...
It's a lesson plan for elementary students to teach them how wild animals moms take care and protect their kids! You can use this lesson plan to teach your students that animals are also somewhere ...
The worksheet includes a fill in the blanks activity and four follow-up questions for students to discuss in groups. You may add a warm-up activity, such as a prediction about what kind of rehab t ...
I made this after one unit with a b1 class so we could see how they were getting on. Uses present simple tense and continuous. As well as past simple. Affirmative/negative/interrogative. Telling t ...
Here you can find two wheels to teach students different parts of the body. You can print this material and fast a tack to the arrow. Then roll the arrow and make your students guess which part of ...
This presentation offers speaking tasks on inventions: giving opinions, making up sentences, predicting, describing. Past tenses are also revised here, Past Simple in particular. Useful phrases fo ...
This worksheet addresses the Valentine's Day topic with revision of past tenses and Passive Voice. It offers three activities: choosing the correct answer, putting verbs into the correct tense and ...
This worksheet is ideal to introduce family members to elementary students, specially for children. Because they love cartoons and in my country they watch this tv program all the time. It can als ...
You can use this activity to teach or to revise professions. Students listen to the song and write missing words. The song is easy, melody is simply, so students can sing this song.
In this worksheet, the student must describe Phoebe: build, height, hair, nose, eyes.... The beginning is written and the students have hints to complete the description.Then the student can descr ...
In this exercise, students must introduce the characters of "Friends" (surname, age, origin, likes and dislikes etc). The first one is Chandler, the beginning of the sentences is already written. ...
Students should look at the map of a town and describe it using the right prepositions of place: on the left/right of ..., near, opposite, in front of, behind, between, in. This worksheet may be u ...
This is a 2-page worksheet for teaching or revising nature and environment related vocabulary. There´s a picture dictionary which can also be used a s a study sheet followed by a wordsearch ...
Two dice for revising the time 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 PPT will help you to demonstrate some well-known places of interest to start a new unit about London and its historical centre the City. It can be used to train some speaking skills about the ...
This is an exercise to describe someone physically, first they choose the correct form : Be or Have ( is or has ) to describe the character then the students must write the description of t ...
This simple worksheet will help to practice time prepositions together with discussing holidays, can be used as a matching game as well. It can be used in different countries for different types o ...
This is a game teaching spelling of days of the week for beginners, especially for pupils. Teacher's notes included. It can be used as a kind of lotto game. Please note to prepare the proper numbe ...