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.
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This Pptx may be used when you give new vocabulary for flowers or revise it. It is animated, pictures appear first, captions appear after you click again. The last slide provides a matching activi ...
This worksheet is meant to be used to practise first conditional. Although the target language is "If you go to San Francisco, you'll see the Golden Gate Bridge", you can use it with other subje ...
A nice and easy fill-in-the-gaps worksheet to go through the lyrics of Stevie Wonder's memorable song, 'I Just Called to Say I Love You'. I usually present this song when I teach adult students so ...
With this game, students will work in a group of four to find out where various shops and people are placed on a imaginary town. Divide the class into groups of four students. Give them the blank ...
Worksheet about the movie version of the musical Mamma Mia! based on ABBA songs. It contains 5 comprehension activities about some of the scenes of the movie (up to minute 39 more or less).There a ...
This activity is adapted from 'Ratatouille' worksheet. It is based on The incredibles dinner scenes. Students watch the video and fill in the worksheet. Follow up activity, students create their o ...
Movie worksheet about Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. It contains some comprehension activities of some of the scenes of the movie (from the beginning to minute 37, when the children and their ...
A great song to use for PAST TENSE practise, PHRASAL VERBS, TIME IDIOMS and CONTRACTIONS I haven’t included the full lyrics this time … do some of the work yourself with the students! ...
This is a very nice song that can be used to teach the use of different expressions with the meaning "being the same". It can be used in the "Frienship and relationships" unit, your adult students ...
Over a hundred printable Taboo Game cards with template for beginner and intermediate students. The objective of the game is for a player to have his/her partner(s) guess the word on his/her card ...
This is a set of cards for teaching or revising family related vocabulary. They are excellent for vocabulary building and discussion practice! Challenge your students to build / say one sentence ...
This is a worksheet for teaching or revising adjective formation at elementary level. There are 3 activities in which students are asked to identify the adjectives in the text given, match the no ...
It is a worksheet to work with grammar (have got) and vocabulary (new: parts of the body - recycled: numbers and colours). It is intended for kids since it has got monsters and their descriptions. ...
This is worksheet about the Story of the First Thanksgiving based on the youtube video of Ellen Degeneres Show. It is really funny and I recommend to use it with older learners. There are eleven m ...
This is a very nice song that can be used to teach the use of the simple future to make promises, especially in pre-intermediate or intermediate levels. It is also connected with love or true frie ...
This board game is based on NEF beginner. The things which are being practised are: 1-10, countries - flags, nationalities - a person and a flag, to be - making full sentences positive, negative a ...
Speaking activity. In the file you have a set of cards containing a proper noun, a nationality and a job. Students have to construct sentences with this information. The teacher will give each stu ...
This is a Bingo to discuss good habits & manners with children. Along with playing the Bingo at every call the teacher can ask students to comment on the phrase called out. She can also discus ...
Some of you will prefer to let students listen once first, others may find different ways of doing it depending on the level of the students. I would suggest playing the video / song verse by ver ...
A great teacher-friendly speaking activity for low levels working on Time/ Questions/ 3rd person singular Simple Present. Teachers can choose the best question formation to suit. Expand by havin ...
This worksheet is about physical appearance and personality traits in general. There are also exercises about DEGREES OF COMPARISON (Comparative of superiority, equality, inequality, superlative). ...
As you can see, I love series! This worksheet is about physical appearance: height, build, hair and eyes... Also the usage of verbs TO BE and TO HAVE to describe people. It is based on NEW GIRL, S ...
This worksheet contains a family tree with names and ages. There are two exercises that help practising the relations within a family. It uses both possessive adjectives and possessive 's. The fam ...
This worksheet consists of two exercises: a crossword puzzle and a gap-fill exercise. It can be used for practising or revising the vocabulary related to natural disasters. It is fun and you can c ...
Students have to find mistakes in given sentences and pictures help them understand any unknown words (the words I thought would be unknown are in bold). Then they can practice questions in pairs. ...
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