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 game is designed to help my students retain vocabulary related to hotel amenities and services in an interesting way. Give each student a piece of vocabulary bingo and ask them to work indivi ...
This is a board game with the words related to Fairy Tales. What you need: A rolling dice Tokens (counters) of different colours Rules For The Game Two children can play at a time. Children need t ...
Here's the Student's Sheet with some extra vocabulary for elementary students. Topic- clothes and shopping. This class was prepared for Chinese students. Level - beginner/elementary. Students will ...
Some extra vocabulary for elementary students. Topic- clothes/shopping. This class was prepared for Chinese students. Level - beginner- elementary. Students will learn or review the vocabulary, an ...
Here's a boardgame for revising buildings and places in town related vocabulary. It's played with dice and counter when students land on a square they are asked to make a correct sentence by usin ...
This is a picture dictionary which can also be used as a classroom poster or a study sheet. Recommended for elementary students who will learn 18 new words: hospital, airport, post office, school ...
This classroom language activity can be used in many ways, the easieast as a matching exercise once the sentences have been presented and practised in the classroom. It can also be used as a memo ...
This activity involves watching a video on YouTube (see below). In the video (12mins) a pilot talks us through the different stages of flying and the sounds and noises associated with the airplane ...
This is a matching exercise to help with teaching or consolidating some more interesting adjectives of emotion at Elementary or Per-Intermediate level. Shocked/ashamed/proud/jealous/exhausted/terr ...
Teachers can use this worksheet to have students of intermediate level practice their interviewing skills such as questioning, analyzing, decision-making… The class will be divided into two ...
This is an activity for the movie "Ferris Bueller's Day Off". It's nice to show the movie (subtitles in English on) to the class and do the activities in the class that follows. This two sheets of ...
An easy exercise with pictures to practise the colours with simple vocabulary. It can also be modified to practise articles (a/an/the). The worksheet contains 13 pictures, and an incomplete senten ...
A fun after reading activity for intermediate and advanced students to practice analyzing character traits, character development, and supporting examples with events from the book. Students can ...
Pair work speaking activity: Students A and B have different pictures. First, teacher elicits the needed vocabulary with the whole group. Secondly, students work on the questions individually, w ...
Stare or glare? Watch or view? Can your students tell the difference? Why don't you check? This worksheet is intended for upper-intermediate and advanced students who wish to expand their vocabula ...
I use this powerpoint game activity to get students talking and using their limited English vocabulary. I divide the class in two groups or teams. One person comes to the front of the class, ...
In this ws there are 30 pictures about school and 3 options per picture. The students have to choose the correct option according to the picture. The key to the exercise is provided. The ws can al ...
This an exercise I use on the first day of class with new groups that I haven't met before. It's a nice alternative to having all your students coming up with robotic responses like my name is Pi ...
This worksheet aims at helping our pupils understand the song "Sunday Bloody Sunday " by the Irish group U2 . It's a pleasant way to make them feel concerned with the ' troubles" in Northern Irela ...
This is my picture dictionary for young learners of English. It contains Halloween vocabulary :-) . You can use it to teach beginners Halloween vocabulary. You can also play: What is that? or How ...
My students find it confusing and difficult to learn vocabulary, especially vocabulary related to clothes. Therefore, I designed this worksheet as a matching game to help my students remember bett ...
I used this animated PP to tell my students about this famous writer: her family, education, private life, novels, writing style. PP gives some information on women's writes in the 19 century. It ...
Handout of summarized notes on spelling and pronunciation. It is focused on 3rd person singular -s, -ing ending in present continuous, and -ed in past simple. It helps foreign learners to realize ...
This poster can be used at beginner, elementary or pre-intermediate level if you are teaching about going shopping in Britain or creating dialogues at the cafe and restaurant as well as talking ab ...
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