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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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My Favourite Star

My Favourite Star

This is a mind map to help pupils select the necessary information on the internet in order for them to write a quiz about their favourite star. They can also use it to do a guessing game about st ...
6 Views 12,608 Pre-Int
Future Forms Cartoons

Future Forms Cartoons

Grammar can be fun. Here you will find a selection of cartoons which illustrate various uses of different future forms (Will, going to, Present Continuous & Present Simple). It can be used as ...
34 Views 45,381 Int
Biography Puzzle

Biography Puzzle

Students work in groups and try to gather each person's biography. Then I suggest they write it fully changing some words, adding some linkwords to make the text more readable. Then we can ask pup ...
9 Views 10,849 Pre-Int
What Time Do You...?

What Time Do You...?

This is a speaking activity to practice the time as well as some daily routine verbs. WARM UP: Recall some daily routine verbs and ask to the class waht time do they do these activities. Drill: W ...
3 Views 10,543 BegElem
PPT On Habits For Children

PPT On Habits For Children

The PPt is to introduce the children to various situations related to habits. Each slide was shown and the children were asked to describe the situation and the words/phrases related to hab ...
10 Views 20,435 ElemPre-IntInt
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To the Top [Words Beginning With T]

To the Top [Words Beginning With T]

This worksheet can be used for students to practice writing words that begin with 't' There are self-explanatory pictures next to each word.
3 Views 8,047 Elem
Traditions Brainstorming Organizer

Traditions Brainstorming Organizer

This worksheet was created for a traditions unit. I wanted my students to have an organizer to work with while doing partner work. For my activity, students would think about their own tradition ...
3 Views 8,155 IntAdv
Obama's Victory Speech

Obama's Victory Speech

In this activity, students watch and listen to Obama's victory speech in the 2012 election. In the first phase, while listening to Obama's speech, they have to complete the transcript with the mis ...
12 Views 23,737 Pre-Int
Obama Acceptance Speech Activity

Obama Acceptance Speech Activity

Students can read part of President Obama's acceptance speech and practice new vocabulary, synonyms, and figures of speech. Discussion questions are included for partners or small groups to pract ...
12 Views 28,498 IntAdv
Ice-breaking and Hand-shaking

Ice-breaking and Hand-shaking

This is a set of cards for a mingling activity for a new group of students who don't know each other very well. It is supposed to be used at the first or one of the first lessons. The students go ...
19 Views 23,193 Pre-IntIntAdv
Case Study - Death of the Rock Star

Case Study - Death of the Rock Star

Work in groups of 5 (maybe 6).This is a case study the ultimate goal of which is to find the criminal and reconstruct the possible murder scenes and scenarios. In fact, there is no single right an ...
27 Views 27,833 Pre-IntIntAdv
S and Z Sound Words

S and Z Sound Words

This worksheet is used to introduce students to the sounds S and Z. I used a video from YouTube so they could hear the sounds and then used my worksheet. The SS match the pictures to the words and ...
6 Views 18,615 Beg
Towards Zero Waste

Towards Zero Waste

Lesson plan on topic of Ecology. Practice speaking and listening. You need to have an Internet accsess in class to watch youtube-videos, or somehow download them. Download the presentation https ...
7 Views 7,670 Pre-IntInt
Song Worksheet: Electrical Storm by U2 [Gap-fill and Vocabulary]

Song Worksheet: Electrical Storm by U2 [Gap-fill and Vocabulary]

Students listen to the song 'Electrical Storm' by U2, completing a gap-fill exercise. Song will most likely need to be replayed at least one extra time. Following this, there are a few questions ...
4 Views 8,497 IntAdv
Idioms & Phonetics

Idioms & Phonetics

Hello, this is another activity dealing with phonetics symbols, this time it is a text about idioms. The purpose of the task is to choose the correct sound of some words in the text; it's somethin ...
12 Views 19,053 All
Writing a Postcard

Writing a Postcard

Activities in the worksheet: 1. Match the pictures to the places, the countries, things to do and the food. 2. Think where you can stay at/in: 3. Imagine you went to one of the places in ex.1. Us ...
14 Views 35,018 Pre-IntInt
7 Best Ways to Introduce New Vocabulary: Poster

7 Best Ways to Introduce New Vocabulary: Poster

Please welcome: '7 Best Ways to Introduce New Vocabulary' - our new reference poster for busy teachers that contains 7 creative ideas to help you teach new vocab. Click on the image below to view ...
11 Views 175,457 All
What's the Weather Like? Matching Activity

What's the Weather Like? Matching Activity

This is simple matching activity for teaching the weather related vocabulary. Recommended for elementary students who are asked to match the words given with the pictures. The worksheet is availa ...
14 Views 12,101 ElemPre-Int
Caramel Shortcakes

Caramel Shortcakes

I used this worksheet about caramel shortcakes to teach vocabulary and measures. I asked students to change the measures of the ingredients in ounces into grams and then for the recipe to fill th ...
5 Views 11,164 ElemPre-Int
Video Lesson: My Family

Video Lesson: My Family

In this video lesson students watch an episode of the BBC series "My family". Although subtitles to the episode might be helpful for weak students, this episode has actually been chosen since, eve ...
10 Views 20,972 Int
Who Is She?

Who Is She?

In this exercise students should write a brief text about Ashley. In their text they should include personal information about her; pieces of information that the teacher expects them to provide a ...
4 Views 5,682 Elem
One-word Compound Noun (Closed Forms)

One-word Compound Noun (Closed Forms)

In this worksheet there are 27 pictures and two lists of words. The students have to form nouns by choosing a word from each list and then write the correct compound word under the correct picture ...
4 Views 12,762 ElemPre-IntInt
Song Worksheet: Sizzlin' by Juli Fabian & Zoohacker [Parts of the Body]

Song Worksheet: Sizzlin' by Juli Fabian & Zoohacker [Parts of the Body]

Juli Fabian is a talented Hungarian jazz singer while Zoohacker is a very good dj. This song is often played by the Hungarian radio stations so students are familiar with it but anyone can easily ...
2 Views 7,691 Pre-Int
Movie Worksheet: Persuasion [Letter From Captain Wentworth]

Movie Worksheet: Persuasion [Letter From Captain Wentworth]

I used this worksheet with the adaptation of Persuasion (2007) with Sally Hawkins and Rupert Penry-Jones. Students compare the letter from the Jane Austen's novel with the one Anne is reading in ...
2 Views 10,055 ElemPre-Int
Bath - The Royal Crescent

Bath - The Royal Crescent

Please find a worksheet which can be used with the audio recording of chapter 11 of the following site: http://visitbath.co.uk/janeausten/audio-tour/individual-chapters. You can open or download t ...
3 Views 4,279 ElemPre-Int

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