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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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Past Tense Practice with Holiday

Past Tense Practice with Holiday

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 ...
9 Views 31,432 Elem
Toys Crossword

Toys Crossword

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 ...
7 Views 18,610 Beg
Means of Transport Decoding Activity

Means of Transport Decoding Activity

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 ...
7 Views 9,312 ElemPre-Int
Describing Character Worksheet

Describing Character Worksheet

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 ...
10 Views 18,789 ElemPre-Int
Environment Worksheet

Environment Worksheet

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 ...
24 Views 71,885 Pre-IntInt
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Happy Halloween Flashcards

Happy Halloween Flashcards

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 ...
20 Views 22,654 BegElem
Matching the Colours with the Words in the Box

Matching the Colours with the Words in the Box

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 ...
5 Views 10,744 Beg
Hey Arnold Activity

Hey Arnold Activity

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 ...
6 Views 8,636 Adv
Thematic Book 1: Back to School

Thematic Book 1: Back to School

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 ...
7 Views 9,938 Beg
Song Worksheet: Last Friday Nigh by Katy Perry

Song Worksheet: Last Friday Nigh by Katy Perry

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 ...
6 Views 15,481 Pre-IntIntAdv
Video Activity - Monster High (young kids)

Video Activity - Monster High (young kids)

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 ...
8 Views 14,930 Beg
Video Activity - Monster High (kids & teens)

Video Activity - Monster High (kids & teens)

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 ...
5 Views 14,829 Elem
The New American Dream

The New American Dream

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 ...
4 Views 11,260 IntAdv
Risk of Cyber Attack

Risk of Cyber Attack

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 ...
2 Views 5,836 IntAdv
Ordinal Numbers and Telling the Time

Ordinal Numbers and Telling the Time

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 ...
44 Views 61,152 Elem
Easy Test for Early Beginners (Colors, Numbers 1-10)

Easy Test for Early Beginners (Colors, Numbers 1-10)

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 ...
16 Views 34,332 Beg
Mind Your Manners

Mind Your Manners

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 ...
9 Views 11,745 ElemPre-IntInt
Find The Words

Find The Words

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 ...
7 Views 11,342 BegElem
Giving Advice - Problem Cards

Giving Advice - Problem Cards

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 ...
37 Views 107,879 Pre-Int
Past Simple Speaking Activity

Past Simple Speaking Activity

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 ...
54 Views 192,329 ElemPre-IntInt
Parts and Objects in the House

Parts and Objects in the House

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 ...
12 Views 33,574 Beg
Music Powerpoint

Music Powerpoint

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 ...
15 Views 25,649 IntAdv
Countries, Nationalities and Languages Activity (Vocab Practice)

Countries, Nationalities and Languages Activity (Vocab Practice)

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 ...
10 Views 19,913 BegElemPre-Int
London [Presentation]

London [Presentation]

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 ...
21 Views 27,715 BegElem
Bio-data

Bio-data

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 ...
3 Views 12,262 Int

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