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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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Project Management Explained Simply

Project Management Explained Simply

This is the worksheet I designed to go along with Market Leader Unit on Project Management. I used it with my Advanced students, but I believe it would also be suitable for Upper Intermediate, may ...
5 Views 11,078 IntAdv
Classroom Art Show [With Survey]

Classroom Art Show [With Survey]

This ppt has a number of art pieces that can be printed out and posted around the classroom. On the last page is a survey that the students can fill out as they browse. The vocabulary may need t ...
8 Views 5,773 IntAdv
Sports Of The Summer Olympic Games [Matching]

Sports Of The Summer Olympic Games [Matching]

This worksheet is about some of the more well known sports of the Summer Olympic Games. Students read a text and then do a matching exercise about the sports they read about. The matching is made ...
9 Views 17,259 Pre-IntIntAdvExam
Song Worksheet: I Believe in Father Christmas by Greg Lake

Song Worksheet: I Believe in Father Christmas by Greg Lake

    This is a fairly simple song, which is clearly and slowly sung/spoken. Students listen to the song several times with sheet two, hiding the missing words by folding over the bo ...
4 Views 6,465 ElemPre-Int
Hobbies and Interests [cards]

Hobbies and Interests [cards]

A set of cards with vocabulary concerning hobbies and interests (including verbs like, love, enjoy, prefer). You can use them in different ways: 1) As a simple exercise: students make sentences co ...
11 Views 33,242 BegElem
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Video Worksheet: Christmas Gifts

Video Worksheet: Christmas Gifts

In exercise 1, students discuss some questions about gifts. Then, they watch the first video and answer the questions in exercise 2. After that, they watch the second video and answer the questio ...
16 Views 36,566 IntAdv
Have Got Has Got: Personal Descriptions

Have Got Has Got: Personal Descriptions

To practice the use of "have got" and "has got" with elementary students after explaining the verb "have got". I used it with my pupils as a test. It contains two exercises, in the first one they ...
15 Views 29,151 BegElem
What Is There On The Table? [There Is/Are & There Was/Were]

What Is There On The Table? [There Is/Are & There Was/Were]

Oral activity in which students have to explain what they see in the picture they have in their worksheets. There are two different worksheets, and they will also be expected to ask their partners ...
24 Views 20,428 Elem
Quiz: How Fashionable Are You?

Quiz: How Fashionable Are You?

This is a funny quiz to test the importance students give to fashion and their looks. A good way to express their opinion on the influence fashion has on our lives and the value others give to u ...
25 Views 54,479 Pre-IntInt
Christmas Classroom Poster

Christmas Classroom Poster

This is a classroom poster which can also be used as a study sheet or a picture dictionary for teaching or revising Christmas related vocabulary. Recommended for elementary students but it can ea ...
21 Views 18,655 ElemPre-Int
Christmas Matching Activity

Christmas Matching Activity

This is a colourful matching activity for teaching Christmas related vocabulary. Recommended for elementary students who are asked to match the words given with the pictures. The worksheet is ava ...
24 Views 29,824 Elem
Song Worksheet: All I Want for Christmas is You by Mariah Carey

Song Worksheet: All I Want for Christmas is You by Mariah Carey

All I want for Christmas is You, sung by Mariah Carey. First, students study the vocabulary related to Christmas, and then complete the song using those words. Students are going to love singing ...
9 Views 49,370 BegElemPre-Int
What Are They? (Jobs)

What Are They? (Jobs)

This worksheet makes students practise vocabulary about jobs through answering questions such as "What is he?". Questions are also asked in the plural (What are they?), so that students can practi ...
8 Views 12,222 BegElem
Christmas Battleship Game

Christmas Battleship Game

Like a battleship game, the card on the top is to write your partner's answer when asking the question. The bottom card is used to hide your answers, to let your partner guess on it !
18 Views 20,113 Elem
Listening Exercise - Filthy Cities: Medieval London

Listening Exercise - Filthy Cities: Medieval London

Comprehension activity created from a youtube upload of the BBC documentary Filthy Cities: Medieval London. Gap fill exercise plus some words and phrases to research to help expand vocabulary. Cre ...
8 Views 14,373 IntAdvExam
Walter Mitty: Character Analysis

Walter Mitty: Character Analysis

This worksheet is based on the short story, "The Secret Life of Walter Mitty" by James Thurber. It helps students to organize information pertaining to Walter's four main dreams. The organizer a ...
5 Views 14,103 Pre-IntIntAdv
Nouns - Irregular Plural [Boardgame]

Nouns - Irregular Plural [Boardgame]

The boardgame practices Noun Plurals, mostly irregular. Students in pairs or groups use dice and take turns making the nouns in the pictures plural and making sentences with them (another option m ...
17 Views 56,027 Pre-IntInt
School Timetable

School Timetable

You can use this blank timetable for practising vocabulary - school subjects. It is mainly for beginners who can revise new vocabulary (school subjects) and at the same time have a lot of fun doin ...
13 Views 34,015 Elem
Rooms in The House PowerPoint Presentation

Rooms in The House PowerPoint Presentation

By introducing this fully animated PowerPoint presentation into your classes, students will have fun while learning rooms in the house related vocabulary. Students will also have visual support ...
22 Views 33,572 BegElem
Jeopardy! Final Game for an Elementary Course

Jeopardy! Final Game for an Elementary Course

It's a presentation created to review the whole material of an elementary course before students get to writing their final test. The presentation contains an interactive game "Jeopardy!" I think ...
39 Views 52,810 Elem
The Human Body Classroom Poster

The Human Body Classroom Poster

This is a picture dictionary which can also be used as a study sheet or a picture dictionary for teaching or revisng the human body related vocabulary. The file is available in both colour and bl ...
14 Views 15,265 ElemPre-Int
Writing: Famous Person

Writing: Famous Person

This handout has guidelines for a writing assignment about a famous person. The students have to write a paragraph about a person, but through their point of view. They have to write a 10-12 line ...
16 Views 44,318 ElemPre-IntIntAdv
Song Worksheet: Last Christmas by George Michael

Song Worksheet: Last Christmas by George Michael

This is the typical Christmas song "Last Christmas" sang by George Michael. I have jumbled the different parragraphs of the song for the students to listen to it and order the parragraphs. It is v ...
8 Views 16,864 Elem
Song Worksheet: Mistletoe and Wine by Cliff Richards

Song Worksheet: Mistletoe and Wine by Cliff Richards

This is the typical Christmas song " Mistletoe and wine" sang by Cliff Richards. You can fill in the missing words and have some fun watching the video from youtube. I will also submit another w ...
6 Views 9,828 Elem
Roleplay: Going to the Doctor

Roleplay: Going to the Doctor

This is a roleplay. It can be used to enable students to practice using health and sickness vocabulary. There are three roles. Hugo, Diego and the Doctor.
57 Views 123,967 BegElemInt

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