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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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Song Worksheet: Eight Days a Week by The Beatles

Song Worksheet: Eight Days a Week by The Beatles

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 ...
8 Views 20,793 Elem
Loch Ness Webquest

Loch Ness Webquest

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 ...
6 Views 11,478 Pre-Int
Women's Wear Decoding Activity

Women's Wear Decoding Activity

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 ...
11 Views 9,079 ElemPre-Int
Fast Food Reading Comprehension Worksheet

Fast Food Reading Comprehension Worksheet

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 ...
25 Views 94,077 Pre-IntInt
Social Networks and Safety Online

Social Networks and Safety Online

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 ...
15 Views 23,399 Pre-IntIntAdvExam
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Parks

Parks

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 ...
16 Views 10,311 ElemPre-IntInt
Tiger: Creative Writing Worksheet

Tiger: Creative Writing Worksheet

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 ...
6 Views 20,689 ElemPre-IntInt
Mothers of the Wild

Mothers of the Wild

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 ...
4 Views 10,384 Elem
Song Worksheet: Rehab by Amy Winehouse

Song Worksheet: Rehab by Amy Winehouse

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 ...
4 Views 13,528 Adv
A2 Review

A2 Review

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 ...
9 Views 10,655 Pre-IntInt
Parts of the Body Wheels

Parts of the Body Wheels

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 ...
7 Views 10,487 Elem
Inventions: Past Tenses + Giving Opinion

Inventions: Past Tenses + Giving Opinion

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 ...
18 Views 24,592 Pre-IntInt
Grammar Revision for Valentine's Day [Intermediate]

Grammar Revision for Valentine's Day [Intermediate]

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 ...
14 Views 19,443 IntAdv
The Simpsons Family Tree

The Simpsons Family Tree

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 ...
18 Views 52,465 BegElem
Song Worksheet: People in My Town [Professions]

Song Worksheet: People in My Town [Professions]

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.  
11 Views 27,952 BegElemPre-Int
Describing Someone (Phoebe and

Describing Someone (Phoebe and "Friends")

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 ...
3 Views 9,372 All
Introducing 'Friends'

Introducing 'Friends'

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. ...
4 Views 6,389 ElemPre-IntInt
Places Around the Town: Prepositions of Place

Places Around the Town: Prepositions of Place

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 ...
56 Views 128,186 ElemPre-Int
Nature Worksheet

Nature Worksheet

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 ...
14 Views 18,937 ElemPre-Int
Telling the Time Dice

Telling the Time Dice

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.
36 Views 36,480 BegElem
The City of London Tour

The City of London Tour

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 ...
27 Views 34,733 ElemPre-IntInt
Describe the Simpsons

Describe the Simpsons

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 ...
8 Views 16,068 All
When is it? Preposition Worksheet

When is it? Preposition Worksheet

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 ...
13 Views 9,658 ElemPre-Int
Days of the Week Game

Days of the Week Game

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 ...
8 Views 43,490 BegElem
Toast Toppings

Toast Toppings

[b][/b]This elementary worksheet gives pupils an opportunity to taste different types of toppings and talk about taste and texture. 
4 Views 5,434 Elem

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