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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Slovak ppt about fairy tale about Chicken Licken and her friends. It can be used for practicising must. It includes crossword, wordsearch and talking about pictures. There are animated pictures. I ...
The main goal of this worksheet is to develop the students' ability of understanding some parts of the body just by listening. This is a worksheet for beginners. I use it when I'm teaching the hum ...
This worksheet can be used for pair work. It will be a great tool for revising daily routine words. Your students will practice how to ask and answer questions in English using daily routine words ...
I found this poem somewhere on the internet and transferred it into a self-made poster, then decided to share it as it can be a perfect warmer during some of your November lessons. Pictures can he ...
This worksheet will help your little students to study the Have got/Haven't got grammar. Your kids can practise their reading and writing skills, see how plural and singular nouns are formed. You ...
This is a complete 6-page document to understand the electoral system in the USA. There is no proper activity, this is just important information about how it works. It is illustrated by some phot ...
An exercise for students to practice telling hours. It's a simple and easy way for them to learn. First activity is filling gaps and the second one is a matching activity with hours written in num ...
An after watching the movie activities worksheet. It includes a true/false statements and matching names and descriptions of the characters to their pictures. Great for practicing appearance descr ...
These flashcards are very useful for childen because children can see and tell the animal's name. You can print them twice and use them in a memory game. This activity is easy to understand, and ...
This colourful and informative presentation is devoted to the most historically important British Holidays. It is for intermediate and upper-intermediate students. The material is organised so tha ...
This is a fun worksheet for either the classroom or as homework. Students will have the chance to solve their, probably, first crossword! It is an activity that encourages thinking and revises bas ...
This is a reading tasks with follow up discussion tasks. I have added some explanations to the words I thought my students would find problematic to deal with. We also discussed the grammar struct ...
This is meant as an exam for large classes. It has got a first part to complete with there is or there are. Later there is a picture of a room and students have to complete the sentences with prpo ...
This worksheet is meant for elementary teenagers working with the present simple, time and routine. It's got a true or false too. First they have to match the pictutes to the activities. Later the ...
This is a very interesting text about how some of the today's popular customs, proverbs and everyday expressions came into being. The worksheet starts with a speaking warm-up, followed by the main ...
I made this PPT for my children while discussing the different tourist spots in India. These are the Famous Landmarks Of India too. I took the Indian political map alongside and asked the children ...
Intermediate Level. To practice coming to conclusions: "must be" and using "have to, don't have to" in the context of jobs. 1. Cut up the jobs and the adjectives and put them in separate columns ...
This worksheet focuses on simple past and present progressive. It also provides a vocab activity. It's a good activity to consolidate present progressive and past simple tenses, affirmative, posit ...
I made this Bingo on Habits For children to revise with them all the good and bad habits related to various situations. First the PPT on Habits For Children was shown. It was an interactive sess ...
It's a reading and speaking activity.There's a text with some information about Kate Perry; right after there's a text comprehension activity. Ater the teacher has corrected it, he/she can go thro ...
This worksheet helps students revise vocabulary related with clothes and accessories. It is an exercise where students are asked to match the picture with the corresponding word. It can be used as ...
Get your kids to start talking about paintings and art, by asking simple questions such as "What could be different in the painting?". Encourage them to explore the limits of their imagination by ...
This worksheet provides the lyrics of the song "Knock Knock Trick or Treat". For more information and examples of lesson plans for this song you can take a look at http://supersimplelearning.com/s ...
This is a colourful and simple matching activity for teaching jobs and occupations related vocabulary. Recommended for elementary students who are asked to match the words given with the pictures ...
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