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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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Ireland's Unusual Places to Stay

Ireland's Unusual Places to Stay

This is a reading worksheet with some questions so teachers can know that their students have understood the text. It is very useful because it is a real text taken from a BBC source. Ideal for pe ...
11 Views 14,634 IntAdvExam
The Story of Chicken Licken

The Story of Chicken Licken

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 ...
12 Views 22,403 BegElem
Song Worksheet about Parts of the Body: California Kind Bed by Rihanna

Song Worksheet about Parts of the Body: California Kind Bed by Rihanna

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 ...
2 Views 12,433 Beg
Daily Routine

Daily Routine

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 ...
11 Views 33,557 Beg
Months of the Year: November

Months of the Year: November

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 ...
22 Views 13,620 Elem
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Reading and Writing Practice: I've Got/I Haven't Got

Reading and Writing Practice: I've Got/I Haven't Got

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 ...
10 Views 21,092 BegElem
American Presidential Elections 2012

American Presidential Elections 2012

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 ...
7 Views 8,362 Pre-Int
What Time Is It?

What Time Is It?

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 ...
13 Views 12,866 Elem
Secret of the Wings (Tinker Bell Series)

Secret of the Wings (Tinker Bell Series)

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 ...
6 Views 5,687 ElemPre-Int
Animal Flashcards

Animal Flashcards

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 ...
15 Views 29,019 BegElem
British Holidays: Customs and Traditions

British Holidays: Customs and Traditions

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 ...
11 Views 20,950 IntAdv
Student's Crossword

Student's Crossword

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 ...
4 Views 6,009 BegElemPre-Int
The Paralympic Games

The Paralympic Games

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 ...
6 Views 11,203 Int
Description of a Room

Description of a Room

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 ...
15 Views 12,731 Elem
Routine Present Simple

Routine Present Simple

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 ...
6 Views 13,697 Beg
Life In The 1500 - Intermediate Reading

Life In The 1500 - Intermediate Reading

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 ...
16 Views 14,674 IntAdv
Famous Landmarks of India

Famous Landmarks of India

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 ...
6 Views 13,153 ElemPre-IntInt
Conclusions Worksheet: That Must Be, Have to, Don't Have to

Conclusions Worksheet: That Must Be, Have to, Don't Have to

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 ...
11 Views 14,168 Int
Movie Worksheet: The Big Bang Theory [Worst Bed Story Ever]

Movie Worksheet: The Big Bang Theory [Worst Bed Story Ever]

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 ...
7 Views 11,225 Elem
Bingo On Habits For Children

Bingo On Habits For Children

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 ...
7 Views 15,292 ElemPre-IntInt
Kate Perry

Kate Perry

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 ...
5 Views 7,933 Elem
Clothes and Accessories

Clothes and Accessories

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 ...
6 Views 21,108 Elem
Speaking Worksheet - Talking About Art

Speaking Worksheet - Talking About Art

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 ...
7 Views 23,920 Pre-IntIntAdvExam
Halloween Song:

Halloween Song: "Knock, Knock Trick or Treat"

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 ...
16 Views 43,637 BegElem
Jobs and Occupations Matching Activity

Jobs and Occupations Matching Activity

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 ...
8 Views 18,427 Elem

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