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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Easy and simple powerpoint presentation with picture explanations and descriptions of each season (Spring, Summer, Autumn and Winter). And a few questions at the end to start conversation. Good to ...
A simple Powerpoint Presentation with basic fruit vocabulary. I find it useful for children and beginners, to teach new vocabulary and after I usually hand out a worksheet and play games like "gue ...
This activity can be used as a listening practise task. It includes tasks like complete the gaps and order the sentences. It can basically used to build the students' listening skills. It is a pop ...
Template to help trace the complete Alphabet & Numbers from 1 to 10. Has sentences ruling with three lines to help kids achieve correct size and position of letters and numbers. Also has space ...
This worksheet is for a christmas lesson based on watching a funny and kind christmas cartoon MERRY MADAGASCAR. There you can find plenty of activities, such as answering the questions, saying tru ...
This worksheet is for an unusual Christmas lesson. There you can find different activities that can be both: a good listening task that is fun to watch and to do and a topic for an interesting dis ...
Patterns to be used for giving advice with some sentences provided as practice. Suitable for pre-intermediate and intermediate levels. After having worked with the sentences given, students might ...
This worksheet is about the functions of money. Students are given the descriptions of three major functions of money (Medium of exchange, Store of value, Unit of account). The task is to match fu ...
Two dice for revising means of transport 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 is an easy wordsearch puzzle for revising school subjects related vocabulary at elementary level. Students are asked to find the words in the puzzle. The answer key is included.
This is an easy wordsearch puzzle for revising wild animals related vocabulary at elementary level. Students are asked to find the words in the puzzle. The answer key is included.
This is an easy wordsearch puzzle for revising home animals related vocabulary at elementary level. Students are asked to find the words in the puzzle. The answer key is included.
A word search to practice descriptive adjectives for pre-intermediate students, used as a revision after a module on how to talk about feelings. I started by asking students what they were afraid ...
This is a great song to practise idioms such as "as sweet as sugar", "as old as time" etc. First give them to the students without the examples from the table at the bottom and ask them to fill in ...
Pupils must find letters to create sentences about road safety. Each letter of the alphabet corresponds to a number. Example if the letter A corresponds to number 1, you write down A on each box w ...
Here is a powerpoint presentation aimed at ESL learners at a beginner level. The subject is Places Around Town and there are seventeen slides. It is simple and bright for young learners. At the en ...
This is a powerpoint presentation aimed at ESL learners at a beginner level. It goes through different types of weather and uses full sentences e.g. "The weather is sunny". It also has sounds whic ...
Here is a worksheet for more advanced ESL learners to work on their knowledge of phrasal verbs. This sheet focusses on the common particle "down". It is short but can be teamed with the presentati ...
Here is a Powerpoint presentation which explains the different uses for phrasal verbs using "Down". This is one in a series I am uploading so it is only focussed on the one common particle. It is ...
A short worksheet to test how much the ESL learner knows about the phrasal verb "up", or for them to practise using it. If they don't know the phrasal verbs then they can be explained. This is for ...
Here is a Powerpoint presentation for more advanced learners. The title is Phrasal" Verbs, but it is one in a series and this one focusses on the common particle "up". It gives an explanation of t ...
Here is a worksheet for ESL learners at a basic level learning the names for places around town. It helps them to put the names in a sentence when using the third person e.g. "In her town there is ...
Here is a simple straight-forward powerpoint presentation to help ESL learners to tell the time in English. There are 9 slides which go through all the main points on the clock with images. It als ...
This is a great activity to get students using the simple present and simple past tense (depending on who they have to make 5 clues about). Students are given one of the 10 famous people featured ...
Students have to read through the definitions of the phrasal verbs. Using their current knowledge, they have to put the correct phrasal verb in the sentence. The flags represent the meaning of t ...
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