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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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Car Accidents

Car Accidents

This worksheet is useful when teaching police officers as well as supplementing an exercise with the same topic. It teaches students important vocabulary at the same time giving them the opportuni ...
5 Views 11,040 Pre-IntInt
Bonfire Night/Guy Fawke's Night (UK Holiday) Video Worksheet

Bonfire Night/Guy Fawke's Night (UK Holiday) Video Worksheet

This worksheet includes gist and detailed listening questions related to a YouTube video about Bonfire Night (or Guy Fawke's Night). This is a British holiday which is celebrated on November 5th. ...
17 Views 39,240 Int
Halloween vs Bonfire Night PPT

Halloween vs Bonfire Night PPT

This is a short (one slide) interactive PowerPoint 'presentation'. A student has to choose which of the given words belong to Halloween topic and which to Bonfire Night. It's essential to prepare ...
12 Views 20,105 ElemPre-Int
Traffic Offences

Traffic Offences

I have used this worksheet when teaching police officers at pre-intermediate/intermediate level. It proved very useful because they first guessed the missing words and then they had the complete s ...
8 Views 8,427 Pre-IntInt
Chocolate Cake Recipe

Chocolate Cake Recipe

This simple worksheet revises the vocabulary flour, sugar, eggs, chocolate, butter and milk in a gapfill exercise, then the students have to cut up and order the instructions (they could glue them ...
15 Views 73,785 Elem
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Wordbuilding 1

Wordbuilding 1

This the first part of a collection of 40 exercises for you to practise wordbuilding in order to help you to be able to get round Cambridge Use of English section of the examination. The exercis ...
13 Views 15,510 IntAdvExam
Countries, Nationalities, Flags

Countries, Nationalities, Flags

This is a worksheet that comes in quite handy if you have to revise some vocabulary to do with countries, nationalities and jobs and at the same time testing a bit of geographical knowledge and re ...
14 Views 31,461 ElemPre-Int
Health Vocabulary: Medical Specialists

Health Vocabulary: Medical Specialists

This worksheet is for intermediate or upper-intermediate where the students can know the vocabulary of the different types of doctors. The students will learn different vocabulary by means of read ...
13 Views 21,411 IntAdv
Wedding Pictionary

Wedding Pictionary

Here you will find some pictures and vocabulary related to weddings. You can use this worksheet in different ways. For instance students can translate in their mother tongue the vocabulary. It can ...
4 Views 14,605 Pre-Int
What's Happening - Present Continuous Revision

What's Happening - Present Continuous Revision

A Revision exercise for Present continuous and the verb "to be" in two parts. Can be used for Speaking or Grammar revision. Students or teacher can ask questions to elicit negative form answers. ...
11 Views 17,807 BegElemPre-Int
Calling All The Monsters: Halloween Song Worksheet

Calling All The Monsters: Halloween Song Worksheet

If you're teaching preteen girls who are into the Disney Channel (think Selena Gomez, Miley Cyrus, etc.) then they'll love this song! It's quite repetitive and catchy, although the lyrics aren't v ...
6 Views 13,481 BegElemPre-Int
Beginner Level Halloween Reading

Beginner Level Halloween Reading

For low level learners working on calendar and/or holidays I hope this reading will provide a reasonable challenge. The main focus is reading comprehension using WH questions as well as Yes/No qu ...
18 Views 46,192 BegElem
How to Write a (GOOD) Summary

How to Write a (GOOD) Summary

This handout has been developed to guide students when they have to write a summary in English from a narrative text. It divides the process into different stages to make it easier and more meanin ...
20 Views 29,129 ElemPre-Int
Bonfire Night [Guy Fawkes]

Bonfire Night [Guy Fawkes]

This is a range of activities for all levels of students based on the plot by Guy Fawkes to blow up the Houses of Parliament. Use the activity for your level of students. There are various activi ...
12 Views 29,382 BegElemPre-IntIntAdv
Halloween for Elementary Students

Halloween for Elementary Students

The worksheet contains a short article about Halloween and two exercises on reading comprehension. It is good for low elementary students, just present simple was used. Vocabulary is included on ...
54 Views 171,038 Elem
'Garfield' Worksheet - Vocabulary and Speaking

'Garfield' Worksheet - Vocabulary and Speaking

<p>This lesson is woven around a 'Garfield' comic strip. You can start by showing this trailer from YouTube (see below) and asking ss to guess the movie. Then ss may be asked to te ...
4 Views 11,824 Pre-IntIntAdv
Vincent Van Gogh (Practicing Simple Past Tense)

Vincent Van Gogh (Practicing Simple Past Tense)

Hey guys, this worksheet is designed to practice Simple Past Tense. It is a simple introduction of Vincent Van Gogh taken from the Internet. Students work in pairs and they have to ask each other ...
17 Views 18,812 ElemPre-IntInt
Song Worksheet: Because You Loved Me by Celine Dion

Song Worksheet: Because You Loved Me by Celine Dion

Song by Celine Dion "Because you loved me" with lots of simple past verbs (regular & irregular). There are several activities included: pre-listening tasks, while-listening tasks and post-list ...
3 Views 15,473 Elem
Means of Transport Boardgame

Means of Transport Boardgame

This is a boargame for teaching means of transport related vocabulary. It's played with dice and counter when students land on a square they are asked to make a correct sentence by using the pict ...
8 Views 17,919 ElemPre-Int
Means of Transport Matching Activity

Means of Transport Matching Activity

This is a simple ans easy worksheet for teaching or revising means of transport related vocabulary at elementary level. There's a picture dictionary followed by an matching activity. The workshee ...
12 Views 18,533 BegElem
Parts of a Car Worksheet

Parts of a Car Worksheet

This is a 2-page worksheet for teaching parts of a car related vocabulary at intermediate level. There's a picture dictionary which can also be used as a study study sheet followed by a wordsearc ...
11 Views 22,368 Pre-IntInt
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Test "History of Halloween"

The test is given to check up students' comprehension of the video devoted to the history of Halloween. The video is not so difficult for understanding and it might be shown to kids and elementary ...
8 Views 22,444 ElemPre-Int
'SHOPPING' Word Bank (With Gap-Fill)

'SHOPPING' Word Bank (With Gap-Fill)

Vocabulary practice for Intermediate Level learners. Have your students complete the fifteen sentences about SHOPPING with the words on the left. Words include: cash, cashier, customers, fitting ...
20 Views 31,462 Pre-IntInt
Halloween: Reading Comprehension and Word Search

Halloween: Reading Comprehension and Word Search

This is a text about Halloween describing the origin of this celebration and the typical activities done on this day. After reading the text, the students answer some questions to check their comp ...
22 Views 94,121 Elem
Exploring Scotland's Historic Whisky Trail

Exploring Scotland's Historic Whisky Trail

This reading worksheet contains a text and some questions so teachers can be sure that their students have understood the text. This worksheet can be used as a reading or listening activity. Ideal ...
6 Views 9,397 IntAdvExam

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