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 useful for young children. It is for children who started learning English as a second language. It is all about reading and writing exercises. The first part you colour or draw ...
This worksheet is useful for young children. It is for children who started learning English as a second language. It is all about listening exercises. The first part you work with numbers by aski ...
This worksheet is useful for young children. It is for children who started learning English as a second language. It is all about listening exercises. The first part you choose a part of the face ...
This worksheet is useful for young children (older children than the first worksheet). It is for children who started learning English as a second language. The first part is about Easter where yo ...
This worksheet is useful for young children. It is a colour by number worksheet. This one is for children who started learning English as a second language. Here you can see if they have learnt th ...
This worksheet is useful for young children. You can use it as an activity for fast finishers children or simply as a relaxing activity after a long full and fun day of carnival activities. You ca ...
This worksheet is good for speaking on the theme Friendship. It contains some questions about friends and friendship. Students can answer these questions in group or in pairs. Besides questions th ...
It's a nice listening worksheet with a very funny song - "dumb ways to die". It may be useful for Elementary - Intermediate students. It may be used as a relaxing warm-up to the topic about danger ...
This is an actual worksheet for developing reading and writing skills. Students are to read and correct the mistakes. It helps to teach children to be honest, kind and attentive to people. It is v ...
This is a PowerPoint that I have prepared. There is character which is called Bernard the dog. In the pictures we see Bernard in different actions and 'Like' sentences are used. This is an appropr ...
There is a lesson plan which you can use four skills succesfully. It icludes basically a reading about Pluto. There are speaking, reading, writing, listening and pronunciation activities. This wou ...
This activity is a 'True- False' kind. In the video there is some amusement about school rules and you can develop it by adding different questions. The video URL is given at the bottom of the act ...
This worksheet contains a lot of information about great and famous people' contributions to develop their countries. Students should know their heroes and be proud of them. It can be used after t ...
This worksheet is to be used together with the slides "A mirror before your very eyes". It contains the song lyrics, the questions to be asked as a warm-up as well as the ones to be asked during c ...
These slides are based on adjectives and questions related to it. It has been designed for intermediate/upper intermediate students. There are also 2 songs, and both of them are full of examples o ...
This is a worksheet based on the movie "Arthur Christmas". There are four activities to do during and after watching: writing names of the characters, true/false statements, drawing a map of Arthu ...
I've prepared this sheet to give my students new Christmas vocabulary on the threshold of Christmas 2013. Frist they learn the words, then I give them a Speaking task, where they have to explain a ...
Have fun with your students before the New Year and Christmas! Good idea for listening + watching. This is the ready handout for teachers, made on the famous cartoon Merry Madagascar. You can use ...
Ice-breaker. With the use of superlatives and antonyms, students can work in small group to get to know more about their classmates. This activity works best with small groups of about three to ...
These are cards with various vocabulary. They can be used for games. The aim is to engage students into conversation and improve their vocabulary knowledge. The way it can be played is as follows: ...
This worksheet is about fruits and vegetables (the unit of food and drink). I made it for my students to stick it in their copybooks, the pictures are very clear and they have the names on them. A ...
Christmas vocabulary worksheet - match the words and the pictures. Solution is at the end of the worksheet - print only the first page. It is possible to play bingo with the vocabulary, using the ...
This a very good song from Switchfoot which helps to revise the present continuous tense. Make sure that while completing exercise 1 and 2 student must not look at the lyrics. You can ask them to ...
This is a game I often use with my students, and it works well every time. The file contains two pages, one with pictures of ten famous cities and the other with short ad-like descriptions of the ...
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