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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Provide beginner students with a colour reference they can create themselves. Then give the opportunity to write something about the colour practicing basic prepositions (next to, beside, above, u ...
It can be a homework or a filler during the Halloween season. Students have to put together the sentences of a Halloween story using the codes given in the table. It is ideal for elementary level ...
This is Jeopardy for students studying English for Tourism and American culture. The 6 categories reflect different areas of study including types of Transportation and verbs used in travel. The f ...
A simple worksheet with clear rules (can be alternated, of course) will help your students practice the most common irregular verbs in a funny way. Students have to say or find all the forms, tran ...
A worksheet for Japanese students. There are instructions in Japanese and some Japanese definitions for various English words. The worksheet contains two exercises: 1. connect the English and Japa ...
This is a Reading Worksheet for Pre-Intermediate to Intermediate ESL learners, especially who are majoring in agriculture. This reading worksheet has three sections. The first section is discussio ...
This is a word search with basic appearance vocabulary to help busy teachers with kids students. You can use it to help children to describe the appearance and personality of people, it's a good w ...
This is a picture dictionary which can also be used as a study sheet or a classroom poster for teaching or revising the most common cooking verbs. The file is available in both colour and black a ...
This is a worksheet for teaching air transportation related vocabulary at elementary level. There's a picture dictionary, which can also be used as a study sheet followed by a wordsearch puzzle. ...
This is a simple missing letter activity for teaching or revising Halloween related vocabulary. Recommended for elementary students who are asked to complete the words with the missing letters. T ...
This is an interactive board game which is aimed for teaching or revising Halloween related vocabulary at elementary level. Students are asked to spin the wheel, count the number of spaces in the ...
This is a cross-thematic worksheet that combines different skills: language understanding (as a reading comprehension activity), basic computer knowledge (surfing the net) and cultural awareness ( ...
Students get questions on stripes of paper, and have to offer their vision of solving the problem. Questions are developed for 12-15 year-old students. You may foster class discussion, or ask some ...
This PPT will help them learn the vocabulary of colours and also the pronunciation. It could also be done individually if you are lucky enough to have a computer room available. I have added sou ...
This is a nice worksheet for the little ones. Once they have learned the vocabulary for the different colours, get them to match the words with the colours. Depending on the level and the number ...
This is a telephone conversation with missing words. The words are given at the bottom of the page, but if the level of your class is quite high get them to over the words before doing the exerci ...
This is a cloze test with the missing words in a little box on the left of the text. A good way of starting any reading comprehension passage is to hand out A4 blank sheets to everyone, put just ...
I used this worksheet with someone working in a Chemist's, but it could be used with any student. After all they need to know what can be found in that shop. This is just a pictionary and the im ...
Once the students have learned all about Halloween and practised using the vocabulary, hand out this worksheet to check on their knowledge. Better to do it in class and not for homework because t ...
This could be used as a poster for the classroom, especially if you enlarge it, and/or handed out to students for them to learn the vocabulary. Work on the explanation of each item and the pronun ...
This 26-page PPT can be used either to introduce the vocabulary around Halloween or to revise it. On each page there is a picture illustrating the vocabulary and students have to answer the quest ...
This is the poem to practice regular and irregular plural form of nouns in English...it's excellent for Phonetic lessons. You should be able to read it out loud or use it for narrow transcription. ...
A simple worksheet about the topic: Environment - endangered species and Fauna. It's a simple text for intermediate students that can be used either as a test or as motivation to start the unit on ...
This worksheet was created by myself. It basically consists of a family tree. It has different exercises each of which aim to teach students, mostly at elementary level, the names of different mem ...
Song activity sheet (gap fill) to review the Present Simple Tense. There is the answer sheet as well. This song can also be used for discussion about cities: What is the song about? Who is the sin ...
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