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 worksheet is for pre-intermediate students. In the first part - there are 4 texts about the US most famous symbols (about dollar, the flag, the White House and the Statue of Liberty) First of ...
This is a selling skills roleplay to be used by a pair of students, intermediate level and above. Student A is selling exercise bikes and has the features of three different models; they must ask ...
It is part of a project named Positive Piece of News Project. Love, dedication, building confidence in loss, past tense and environmentally friendly activities. It is about getting involved. ...
Yo-Yee School Subjects - Flashcards / Pictionary worksheet for young students. You can hand out this worksheet as a Pictionary / Vocabulary List. Also students can circle the correct answer of th ...
This can be given as a game. A student is a cook, he needs to cook one of the dishes. There are some ingridients there. He gets a card of a dish and five cards of products. They are not suitable f ...
Used with pupils studying in building construction. Pupils must match the different types of safety equipment they must have on a building site to protect their body. Then they must explain what s ...
You can use ZOO animals flashcards to learn beginners new vocabulary. You can play "What is missing" or ask questions like: What is it? What colour is a zebra? Where is a zebra? You can play chara ...
Not just for listening to the song, one of my favourite songs, but also for speaking time, we can start by showing some photographs of people, one person in each photograph, and we can use that qu ...
A basic practice about descriptions and how to create them. It includes vocabulary and different exercises that let the student develop a clear understanding about how to use adjectives to talk no ...
As students have a problem about listening skill and they are sleepy after lunch time, I found that listening to music is a helpful activity to cope with those problems. Last Christmas is a cool s ...
This power point was designed to practice students' speaking on Modals or Auxiliary Verbs, as well as to help them differentiating the function of modal verb. There are 20 questions slides for you ...
This is a simple and easy worksheet for teaching music related vocabulary at elementary level. There´s 2 different activities in which students are asked to label the pictures with the word ...
This is a lovely classroom poster which can also be used as a study sheet for teaching the alphabet at elementary level. The young children learn how to pronounce the alphabet singing the song. ...
A computer class is needed or students should do this task at home. Students go to the site of "Shakespeare's Globe" and try to answer the questions in the worksheet. We did the activity in class, ...
This is a PowerPoint presentation about stereotypes. The first part [long] is about nationalities - it's a presentation with discussion 'Do you think this is true or false?'. The second part [shor ...
Here is a read-and-match activity devised to get your students talking, laughing and learning/revising vocabulary in an unusual context. Use it to generate a discussion about gender stereotypes, d ...
I use this as an extra credit possibility for my students. Students choose a recent event and prepare an oral presentation of it (news flash - in depth look etc...) They can use note cards, but ...
A nice song to warm up your students. It can be used as a debate starting point (for example "love"). There are several slang vocabulary words and collocations. Hope your students'll enjoy it!
You can use this worksheet when dealing with food, especially for little kids or beginner students. The purpose of this game is not only to work on vocabulary but also on numbers. You can even cha ...
It's a power point presentation about football. In the beginning,there are some questions to be discussed in pairs or in groups. Right after, there's a quiz about football world, this activity can ...
This is a bingo I made to practice the alphabet with true beginners. You must print a set of cards with a letter of the alphabet on them so you can call letters randomly. Moreover, you can play in ...
This board game is great for creating culinary conversation. The download includes the board and 20 vocabulary cards (3 sheets in total). It's okay for a strong elementary class upwards. It's impo ...
The Alphabet Song (or Abc Song) is a fun and an effective way to teach The English Alphabet to young learners. After studying the letters of the alphabet, you can teach the song to your students, ...
This upload includes a worksheet of prelistening activities and a gap fill for students to complete while listening to the song. Prelistening worksheet: Section A: students discuss the 4 photos fr ...
This is a prelistening worksheet for the song Ready or Not by Bridgit Mendler. In Part A, students discuss the 3 famous people mentioned in the song and what they know about them. In Part B, stude ...
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