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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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Celebrities - Plastic Surgery

Celebrities - Plastic Surgery

Students have to complete the gaps with a word or two while watching a video about unsuccessful plastic surgery. It's suitable for the topic of beauty, physical appearance.  
8 Views 11,258 Int
Colour Idioms

Colour Idioms

In this ppt presentation students have to choose the meaning of an idiom with a name of a colour in it from three possible variants. My students of pre-intermediate level found it great fun. It co ...
11 Views 17,695 Pre-Int
Discuss, Chat or Talk About...

Discuss, Chat or Talk About... "Help"

Here is another of my themed conversation worksheets. This worksheet covers the topic of help. Personally, I love using this kind of sheet to stimulate conversation. I hope you find it useful, and ...
22 Views 19,566 ElemPre-IntInt
Podcast Worksheet: As It Ages

Podcast Worksheet: As It Ages

Listening exercise: podcast taken from http://www.scientificamerican.com/podcast/episode.cfm?id=why-paper-yellows-as-it-ages-12-04-17 Ss will practice their listening skills as they fill in the g ...
2 Views 15,964 Pre-IntInt
English Alphabet

English Alphabet

This workshees displays a square with all the letters in the English alphabet in different colours together with the phonetic transcription of each one. It can be useful when students are already ...
15 Views 31,527 ElemPre-Int
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Suffixes in English

Suffixes in English

This is a reference worksheet about word formation by means of suffixes in English. It includes a classification of sufffixes according to the grammatical category they create (noun suffixes, adje ...
25 Views 96,796 Pre-IntIntAdv
Prefixes in English

Prefixes in English

This is a reference worksheet about wordformation by means of prefixes in English. It includes a classification of prefixes according to overall meaning (neoclassical, negative, measure, reversati ...
29 Views 74,910 Pre-IntIntAdv
How It's Made: Frozen Pizza

How It's Made: Frozen Pizza

It's the short worksheet which contains tasks according to the video "Hot it's made. Frozen pizza". It has vocabulary, correct order task and simple questions about pizzas. I hope, it will be usef ...
16 Views 14,033 Pre-IntInt
Elementary Test

Elementary Test

Hi! I´m sharing this test I've prepared for an elementary student. The aim is to check if the following topics were understood: verb TO BE (reading with comprehension questions), HAVE/ HAS ...
17 Views 15,995 Elem
Snake Fact Sheet Template

Snake Fact Sheet Template

A really simple fact sheet template for snakes. This one is for the world's most deadly snake - the Fierce Snake - but you can change the heading and picture for other snakes. The students must r ...
4 Views 6,292 IntAdv
The Old Witch: Halloween Story for Young Learners

The Old Witch: Halloween Story for Young Learners

Halloween is coming soon, so I've decided to make a power point presentation of a short Halloween story "The Old Witch" by the Grimm Brothers. The presentation is colourful and all slides are mov ...
15 Views 29,745 BegElem
P.o.S. (Part of Speech) - Newspaper Activity

P.o.S. (Part of Speech) - Newspaper Activity

Learning Grammar using newspaper. Objectives: To identify Parts of Speech from newspapers. Construct sentences based on the “formula” made with different parts of speech. Procedure: 1. ...
9 Views 42,414 BegElemPre-Int
Scavenger Hunt for Newspaper-in-Education Activity or the Press Club

Scavenger Hunt for Newspaper-in-Education Activity or the Press Club

A fun and simple newspaper activity to use in classroom. Students find each item in the newspapers, cut it and paste it. Write the number besides the item and write the page number where they foun ...
7 Views 27,952 BegElemPre-IntInt
The 5 Senses

The 5 Senses

This worksheet provides vocabulary on the five senses and all related about it (verbs , organs) your students will have to write and read to get the correct accuracy for the whole topic. It might ...
8 Views 27,825 Elem
Song Worksheet: What A Wonderful World by Louis Armstrong

Song Worksheet: What A Wonderful World by Louis Armstrong

We always end up using this song, don't we? It's a great one, because it's a well-known of everyone, and also slow enough for beginners. The point is to fill-in the gaps with the names of the colo ...
11 Views 23,569 BegElem
Food Idioms

Food Idioms

There are two pages in this activity: one of them is entirely in English, and the other has its exercise bit in Portuguese (I used it with beginners, so they weren't able to understand the exercis ...
15 Views 14,705 ElemPre-IntIntAdv
Poster: Color Idioms

Poster: Color Idioms

Not really an activity; I have made this one so students can get to know different expressions (in this case, using colors - I used "colors" as in American English). I always try to make them use ...
22 Views 39,658 ElemPre-IntIntAdv
Poster: Parts of the Body (Collage)

Poster: Parts of the Body (Collage)

Page 1: cards with the names of some parts of the body. Page 2: a picture of a human body, with brackets. The students are supposed to cut the cards with the words (or maybe you can do it beforeha ...
10 Views 18,125 BegElem
Daily Situations

Daily Situations

The following is a set of daily situations where learners can face every day in their life, working, traveling…in fact, there are 30 situations where role A and B are clearly stated. Teache ...
40 Views 38,868 All
Pre-Intermediate Test

Pre-Intermediate Test

Practise the PRESENT CONTINUOUS (affirmative, negative and interrogative forms), sentences to complete with CAN & CAN´T and vocabulary about CLOTHES (They find the words in the wordsearc ...
8 Views 11,449 Pre-Int
Easter Coloring Worksheet

Easter Coloring Worksheet

This is an easy activity worksheet for children. They can practice colors and forms. At the same time you can tell them about the tradition of Easter eggs. Children will enjoy it and they will hav ...
6 Views 14,795 Beg
Colors Word Search

Colors Word Search

This is an easy warmer or ice-breaker I prepare for the first class with a group of primary beginner level students who I don't know yet what they already learned. A letter soup with colors just t ...
2 Views 7,543 Beg
Microsoft Word Review

Microsoft Word Review

This worksheet is great for review. If you are a computer/technology teacher and you are teaching your students Microsoft Word, this is a great review to study from. Ask the students to tell you ...
8 Views 14,774 All
Easy Hint for Better Speaking

Easy Hint for Better Speaking

Here is just a hint to help the kids improve their speaking skills. It can be used for speeches, but also for role-plays, in pairwork (talking about a selected topic), creative writing. I think it ...
67 Views 236,203 ElemPre-IntIntAdvExam
Prepositions Discussion Followed by Multiple Choice Questions

Prepositions Discussion Followed by Multiple Choice Questions

Picture for discussion and multiple choice questions. A really fun picture of a witch's room with many opportunities for discussion. Would be good for Halloween. Then 11 multiple choice question ...
10 Views 12,255 ElemPre-Int

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