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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A fun whole class activity for the first day of class! It stirs up conversation and makes your students comfortable with each other. It can also be used as a warmer or filler when you feel the nee ...
A bumper list of oral questions, about 80 pages in total. Hope you get some good use from it. Topics include: Advertising, Health, Beauty, Television, Crime, Dating & Love, Films, Fears. All q ...
A song worksheet for elementary students for the song "These are a few of my favourite things (Sound of Music)". It has pre-teach vocab, pre-listening prediction questions, and points of discussi ...
This is a great way to teach students about different tastes. Each student gets a worksheet and I go around placing different things in each shape - sugar in sweet, salt in salty, a cup of black c ...
After practising telling the time, food and times of the day this is a worksheet that puts it all together. Students draw the time in the circles and then fill in what they eat. Once they have fil ...
This is a great acitivty to practice food and taste i.e. spicy. Here is a worksheet of food pictures and words. Students cut out the foods and words and play Snap (the card game). I made this work ...
It's a full lesson plan with all the attachments for activities planned. It can be used to introduce the topic "Crime and Punishment". It involves a lot of group work and will make your students u ...
This is an interactive powerpoint presentation that can be used as an additional material within the topic "environment and nature". The main focus is on the "ecology" of our emotions. It helps to ...
A worksheet to help students learn about phrasal verbs and their use. Students read a diary extract and underline all the phrasals and phrasal expressions they can. Then they complete a gap fill e ...
Pupils use the Internet and visit a specific website to complete their worksheet. The purpose is to know more about London, its monuments, shops, attractions, people... It's a virtual visit of Lon ...
This is a vocabulary worksheet designed for Intermediate & Upper-Intermediate students: a word search based on vocabulary related to the field of entertainment which requires students to class ...
I was greatly impressed by the book "Dancing the Dream" written by Michael Jackson. This presentation can help to make the lessons devoted to the environmental protection brighter. It can be used ...
This worksheet can be used for a guided writing session. Activity 1 triggers students' opinions about school (what they like/don't like, how they feel at school). Activity2, students are asked to ...
Two-page worksheet includes two hotel reviews (one positive, one negative) with typical vocabulary found on web sites like Tripadvisor.com. The second page has discussion questions about hotels d ...
It is a pair work activity. Student A has to face the picture and explain it. Student B faces back to the picture projected, listens to the explanations and draws. Allow max 3 min to do the task. ...
This is a 2-page worksheet for teaching homographs at elementary level. The first page is basically just a just sheet, which can also be used as a picture dictionary, and the second page has an ac ...
This is a very simple matching activity for teaching or revising colours related vocabulary at elementary level. Students are asked to match the pictures with the words given. The answer key is i ...
Guess the food in a short food description. Food riddles. We are studying about foods and how they help make us strong. We are learning what is good for us and what is not good for us to eat. We w ...
This PPT can be used to improve SS' speaking skills on the topic HOME. Students can match the words with the pictures. You can give grammar construction There is-there are in the affirmative, nega ...
Students create new words using the letters in "It's cold in January" There are seven columns for them to complete. The new words can be from different categories or related to a specific topic (i ...
Here is a crossword with negative prefixes. Students are to fill in the crossword with words beginning with im-, in-, un- or ir-. There are 17 words, mostly adjectives and a few verbs. It is a one ...
This crossword will help you to revise clothes vocabulary (jeans, skirt, shirt, hat, trousers, socks, tie, hat, shoes, t-shirt, dress) with your students. There are pictures instead of words, so i ...
Hello :) Here is my latest worksheet. It is for beginners. Via this worksheet, you can practice days of the week after introducing them. It includes 3 parts. First part is writing the missing lett ...
This worksheet contains the biography of Mark Twain which is followed by a reading comprehension exercise and some exercises to practise the Past Simple tense - regular and irregular verbs; affirm ...
Hello :) this worksheet was prepared to practice "will". Students can learn the different usages of "will" such as making an offer, prediction, planning and also spontaneous decisions. There are ...
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