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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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A Christmas Carol - Finding Answers in the Text

A Christmas Carol - Finding Answers in the Text

This is a holiday worksheet for Reading Comprehension. It addresses the Common Core Standard RI.1. This is a standard for 3rd, 4th, and 5th grade. This worksheet asks the student to find specific ...
10 Views 27,995 Elem
Appearance: Does It Matter? - Drop Dead Diva

Appearance: Does It Matter? - Drop Dead Diva

It's a worksheet related to beauty, which provides more than vocabulary, but a meaningful discussion about the importance of appearence with questions that are going to make your students think an ...
18 Views 20,134 Adv
Movie Worksheet: Enough

Movie Worksheet: Enough

A worksheet to work with the students after watching the film. The film can be found easily in youtube. I found out this is a way to make our students to be aware of what domestic violence is an ...
8 Views 19,802 ElemPre-IntInt
A Family [Oral Comprehension]

A Family [Oral Comprehension]

A simple oral comprehension quiz to use with students after learning some basics about countries, jobs, and family members. I use it after doing a similar, more difficult one before and grade the ...
3 Views 7,418 Pre-IntInt
Family Wordsearch

Family Wordsearch

Vocabulary wordsearch connected with family- up to 21 words! The vocabulary comes from Junior High School's student's book preparing ss for an exam. If your students love wordsearch, this is for t ...
9 Views 25,445 Pre-IntInt
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A Christmas Carol Booklet

A Christmas Carol Booklet

A printable simplified story that can be folded into a booklet. Ebenezer Scrooge was a rich, old man. He had a lot of money but no friends. He was very mean, he hated spending money and he hated ...
15 Views 23,010 ElemPre-Int
Describing Character Flashcards

Describing Character Flashcards

As I promised, I'm attaching now the flashcards which can be helpful during the lesson focused on the traits of character. It contains colourful funny pictures that can make your lesson more inter ...
10 Views 32,470 ElemPre-Int
Describing Character

Describing Character

Hello ! I would like to present you my new powerpoint presentation. It can help you to teach describing character by the technique of opposites. It contains many funny colourful pictures and can e ...
21 Views 19,421 ElemPre-Int
Animals & Insects Worksheet

Animals & Insects Worksheet

Tell students to use different colours to complete this activity. They have to join the names of the animals with their pictures. As an introduction to this activity the teacher can read the words ...
9 Views 13,033 BegElem
Cartoon Worksheet: Frog and Toad - The Garden

Cartoon Worksheet: Frog and Toad - The Garden

This worksheet can be used for children and for adult beginners and elementary students. It has a script and a few activities that may help you to have fun teaching and watching a wise cartoon wit ...
9 Views 14,203 BegElemPre-Int
Beauty Saloon and Fast Food Vocabulary Guide

Beauty Saloon and Fast Food Vocabulary Guide

The worksheet helps student learn new vocabularies through a simple reading exercise. The vocabularies are highlighted in each reading exercise. This will not only help student remember the vocabu ...
9 Views 10,489 Pre-Int
Disney Video Worksheet: Chimpanzees

Disney Video Worksheet: Chimpanzees

This worksheet can be used after or while watching the video of Disney Nature about Chimpanzees. This worksheet is designed specially for beginners and will help them with their listening and com ...
2 Views 14,108 BegElemPre-Int
Fun Family Tree

Fun Family Tree

This is a fun and colourful worksheet for beginners to practise their vocabulary about family. After studying some vacabulary students will fill in the spaces for each member of the family. They ...
11 Views 25,993 Elem
American and British English Pictionary

American and British English Pictionary

This is a picture dictionary, which can also be used as a classroom poster, for teaching or revising the differences between American English and British English. The vocabulary concerns food and ...
15 Views 17,343 ElemPre-Int
Imperatives with Aches and Pains

Imperatives with Aches and Pains

With this worksheet children can think and know the different aches and pains. They will need to write different recommendations for the different pains and aches using imperative form. They also ...
3 Views 17,807 BegElemPre-Int
The Story of Rudolph the Red Nose Reindeer

The Story of Rudolph the Red Nose Reindeer

Ask students to look at the pictures and the word under them. Make sure they understand the meaning of each word before starting to read the text. Explain that they are going to read the story of ...
38 Views 44,123 BegElem
The Names of Santa's Reindeer

The Names of Santa's Reindeer

Ask students to look at each of the eight pictures showing a reindeer that has one of its body parts missing (left/right eye, left/right antler, etc...). Tell them to read sentences 1-8 to find ou ...
15 Views 22,500 BegElem
Agreeing, Present Continuous, Health, Likes and Dislikes

Agreeing, Present Continuous, Health, Likes and Dislikes

This is a sheet for explanations. You can find the responses for Agreeing in Affirmative and Agreeing in Negative form. Also you can know likes and dislikes and how to use it. For Present Continuo ...
4 Views 10,695 BegElemPre-Int
Verb TO BE, Describing, Prepositions & Simple Present

Verb TO BE, Describing, Prepositions & Simple Present

This is like a general exam that has excersises of verb to be, describing, prepositions and simple present. Also you can downloaded and take the excersises you need. Here you can describe people, ...
8 Views 13,844 BegElemExam
Funny Language

Funny Language

I made this using the text that goes like this "English is the most widely used language in the history of our planet...". I used pictures and dictionary definitions to make comprehension easier f ...
15 Views 9,418 Pre-IntIntAdv
Can or May; May or Might

Can or May; May or Might

Grammar Year 7-9 (Australian English) SECTION 1 (6 questions): CAN is used when we mean we are capable of doing what we want to do. MAY must first of all obtain permission. E.g. I can play footbal ...
7 Views 21,550 IntAdv
Choose the Best Meaning for the Word

Choose the Best Meaning for the Word

Grammar Year 7-9 (Australian English). Beside each of the following words are three MEANINGS. Underline the correct one each time. One has already been done for you. E.g. 1. extend: at this mome ...
5 Views 26,381 Pre-IntIntAdv
Suffixes: -ary, -ery, -ory

Suffixes: -ary, -ery, -ory

Grammar Year 7-9 (Australian English) INSTRUCTIONS 1. Select one of the suffixes – ‘ary’, ‘ery’, or ‘ory’ – to complete the word correctly. 2. Write ...
9 Views 24,698 Pre-IntIntAdv
Apostrophes and Possessive Nouns

Apostrophes and Possessive Nouns

Year 7-9 Grammar worksheet (Australian English). Apostrophes as contractions; possessive nouns; plural possessive nouns. 1st section add the missing apostrophes (12 questions). 2nd section tick o ...
12 Views 40,661 Pre-IntIntAdv
Adding '-SION'

Adding '-SION'

Year 7-9 Grammar using Australian English. 1st section students add -sion to a root verb word to make a noun. 2nd section students correct list of incorrectly spelled words. 3rd section student ...
8 Views 9,495 Pre-IntInt

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