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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Moon Landing - Did the US really step on the moon? This is the question!!!! After watching the Fox documentary, students will be able to answer it. This is a worksheet on three parts of the docum ...
This is a vocabulary worksheet. The topic is "Work/Working Day". It helps students build-up their word power. Though the story itself is sad my students really loved working at it, and it was in f ...
This presentation can be used as a warmer or cooler activity. The SS have to guess the location of the rabbit. It can be used as a reading, speaking or spelling activity. I used it as a warmer bef ...
This worksheet is a great alternative for a listening activity. Your students will love listening to a current song and learning the lyrics to it. This is an editable document so you can make it ...
This worksheet is about most famous travellers and explorers of all times. Students match them and have reading comprehension. Students must read silently before the teacher's explanation, then th ...
This is a pair work matching game dealing with animals related vocabulary. There are 30 picture cards and 30 word cards; the aim of the game is to match the words and pictures. The instructions a ...
This is a pretty simple matching activity for teaching kitchen appliances related vocabulry. Recommended for pre-intermediate students who are asked to match the words given with the pictures. Th ...
This is a 2-page worksheet for teaching phrasal verbs at intermediate level. The first page is basically just a study sheet and the second page has 3 activities in which students are asked to mat ...
I just designed this lyrics worksheet with the "empire state of mind" song from alicia keys in order to practice (what is it like?) question. I think the song is great, given that it depicts the n ...
This is a song activity with the famous Christmas song by Wham. It's an old song but teenagers know it well. It is a fill-the-gap activity for students from 13 to 18. You can use it as a warming ...
It is a mixture of grammar and vocabulary. The grammar is to teach how to use verbs in the correct tenses (subject verb agreement). The vocabulary sheet is to increase students' vocabualry. We can ...
This powerpoint presentation is about animals. It can be used for article in book Project 2, Tom Hutchinson, p. 28. It practises using present continuous tense, there is/ there are, vocabulary abo ...
This activity was created for engineering students at a Mexican university. They are all FCE level and most are in their last year of studies. Using a (fake) resume of a recent graduate was a wa ...
This is a Power point presentation used for introducing or revising human body parts, includes the whole body, the head, the eye, and the hand. It contains two works of art from Botticelli and Van ...
A worksheet to help us introduce the topic "Technology". It's a matching exercise: students have to choose the right word for each picture (of a technological device). It can be used in different ...
This is a classroom poster I made for my little guys (aged 3 to 8) about the days of the week. You can use it as a classroom routine device (kids come to the front and show the correct wagon when ...
This is to practice comparatives and a few superlatives. After watching the video, students have to choose if the sentence is true or false and correct the mistakes. Each sentence has a mistake. ...
A simple, short worksheet to add to a lesson on clothing / fashion that asks students to label 11 arrows (pointing to parts of clothing) with their matching words (e.g cuff, brim, waist, collar). ...
A worksheet containing many exercises about physical description: text reading, text comprehension,vocabulary work and practicing writing physical description. You may start reading the text to te ...
Perfect Song to talk about Human Values! This song is played by a group of street singers from almost all countries put together by a producer. Today, they have CDs, DVDs and have concerts all ov ...
This is a .doc file to work with young adults about secrets and appearances. It is to be used progressively throughout the movie as they discover the secret of this typical American family that ar ...
This worksheet is supposed to be used together with the song. The students are asked to fill the gaps in the lyrics while listening. The exersise can be modified according to your student's level. ...
Many EFL students find idioms hard to be understood, that's why they avoid using idioms while they speak English. They always find some problems in using the idioms in sentences properly. The b ...
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