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 1 page worksheet helps students to review the simple past tense with some regular and irregular verbs. It can be used as an intro to the past tense or as a simple review for students. I intro ...
This fun, colourful crossword is for young beginners has picture clues for the words ball, bike, car, computer, doll, plane, puppet, robot, teddy and train (the vocab used in Incredible English Le ...
This is a decoding activity for teaching of revising means of transport related vocabulary. Recoomended for elementary students who are asked to use the hints in the decoder at the top of the pag ...
This is a worksheet for teaching adjectives related to character and personality at elementary level. There are 3 activities in which students are asked to look at the pictures and label them with ...
This is a 4-page worksheet for teaching or revising environment related vocabulary at intermediate level. There are 6 activities in which students are asked to use the words in the box to complet ...
Flashcards can be a very useful tool to use with younger learners. Using flashcards can help improve visual memory, association and comprehension so here's a wonderful set of high-quality Hallowe ...
It is a worksheet for beginner level especially children who will learn/had already learnt the subject colours. It is an activity which can be done after teaching children the colours. Children wi ...
The following activity is designed for students of upper-Intermediate and Advanced level. It is suggested to play the video without subtitles. The worksheet is divided in two parts, in the first ...
This is a mini Dictionary for kids. The subject is back to school: you can find pictures and words of objects related to school (mainly school material). The kids have to read the words and then t ...
This is a great activity using the Katy Perry video: LAST FRIDAY NIGHT, which is very funny. It's made for Pre-Intermediate Level, but it can be adapted. I worked complete the gaps (conversation p ...
This is a VERY BASIC LEVEL / KIDS LEVEL activity which uses the official video from the Monster High TM. I created it for Halloween, using its vocabulary and working with the song as well. Basical ...
This is an activity which uses the official video from the Monster High TM. I created it for Halloween, using its vocabulary and working with the song as well. Basically it's done for Kids or Teen ...
This is a worksheet I use in conversation classes when speaking about money. The students can watch the video online at home. Grammatically, I get the students to underline the different tenses an ...
This is a worksheet for German speakers and ideal for upper conversation classes.It should not start a political discussion, but rather one about the cyber world. My intention is mainly to practi ...
I used this worksheet with my younger students after eliciting and practicing the ordinal and cardinal numbers. I also worked with the time and played "Time battleships" game to review telling the ...
It's a very easy test for early beginners to revise words they have known for each letter, as well as colors and numbers from 1 to ten! It contains pictures and the students are requested to write ...
This story is to teach children the usage different of words related to manners in various situations. The teacher has a print out of a story with her /him. In that print-out few words related to ...
It's a word-finder for beginners. It contains basic vocabulary of family, toys, and rooms at house. The words to be found are placed beneath the task, so we can cut the list out and hand it after ...
This is a pair activity for practising giving advice. There are ten problem cards. Choose ten students who will tell their partner about his/her problem. Then the partner will give them advice. I ...
It is an amazing simple past tense speaking activity for beginner to intermediate ESL learners. There are 24 past simple speaking prompts that designed like a quiz. They choose the number they wan ...
This worksheet is about parts of the house and some objects we can find in each room. This exercise is for basic students. It contains two exercises;in the first one, students have to write the n ...
I prepared this ppt to have some of the latest songs with some activities. The idea was to motivate intermediate students to sing along with music they might find interesting. There are matching e ...
Simple yet fun way to practice vocabulary related to countries, nationalities and languages. Divide your students into teams of 4 and have them compete against each other to complete the first wor ...
It is a short presentation of London. It contains lots of pictures about the most famous places of London and some typical things you can find in this famous city. Your students can watch this wo ...
This worksheet requires the students to provide personal information. This is useful for lessons on getting to know each other, completing forms or job application. This will test students' abilit ...
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