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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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Famous Person Role-play Game

Famous Person Role-play Game

This is a role-play game for intermediate and advanced students. They have to work in pairs, one student will be a famous person and the other one will be the interviewer. Students will practice t ...
27 Views 66,709 IntAdv
Spelling and Editing Worksheet

Spelling and Editing Worksheet

Edit short paragraphs for spelling errors, grammar errors, apostrophe use, capitals and full stops. Students can read the paragraphs independently, in small groups or in class. Discuss what error ...
7 Views 26,872 Elem
Guess The Title Of The Fairy Tale/Tales With The Clues Given

Guess The Title Of The Fairy Tale/Tales With The Clues Given

This activity is related to Fairy Tales. The teacher reads out the clues in any order of her/his choice. The children have to tell the name/names of the story(ies). The children form two groups A ...
18 Views 43,628 ElemPre-Int
PPT on Paralympics [London 2012]

PPT on Paralympics [London 2012]

I am sending herewith an activity which includes a Powerpoint on various sports activities which took place in the recently concluded Paralympics. The Powerpoint presentation can be shown to ...
7 Views 9,324 ElemPre-Int
Song Worksheet: Wonderful Life by Hurts

Song Worksheet: Wonderful Life by Hurts

This worksheet is useful for students who want to improve their speaking skills. You can find some information on the group and the song. It also includes some exercises. When a student finishes ...
2 Views 8,480 Pre-IntIntAdv
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Naming Pictures for Vocabulary Development

Naming Pictures for Vocabulary Development

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This worksheet was primarily created to develop and enrich the vocabulary and penmanship of my students with special needs. The students will choose the correct name of the pictures from the given ...
6 Views 10,520 BegElem
Frog Cycle

Frog Cycle

A science activity to practice cycles. There is no need to specify instructions because the paper itself shows students what they have to do. It is a nice activity for kids who like pictures and c ...
2 Views 6,599 BegElem
Friends Worksheet: The One with the Cheesecake

Friends Worksheet: The One with the Cheesecake

Watch this episode with your students and check their listening and comphreension about it. Go through the video describing each scene and asking them question to check if they understood. Then do ...
6 Views 13,611 BegElem
Make Or Do?

Make Or Do?

Especially designed for Spanish speakers so that they understand the difference between make and do in English. Variety of vocabulary, you may need to go through a few words with students. I desi ...
17 Views 15,736 Pre-IntIntAdv
The Best Holiday of My Life

The Best Holiday of My Life

This ws could act as the 2nd part of my ws "What went wrong on holiday", but this time with "good things". There are 3 different activities to practise the simple past of both regular & irregu ...
31 Views 256,935 ElemPre-Int
Test: Questions, Present Simple / Daily Routine and Animals

Test: Questions, Present Simple / Daily Routine and Animals

This is a test I made for my 8-years-old student. It consists of four excercises: tick the correct name for the animal, guess the animal's name, choose the correct word for the question (who-what- ...
11 Views 18,004 Elem
The Very Hungry Caterpillar [For Young Learners]

The Very Hungry Caterpillar [For Young Learners]

This is a Power point presentation of the short story for kids "the very hungry catepillar." The whole presentation is colorful. It can be used to teach food, days of the week and numbers. The pre ...
24 Views 22,975 BegElem
The Price Is Right

The Price Is Right

With this worksheet students will practice numbers from 0 to even millions. The presentation shows some images with different products and their price (as of 2012) in dollars. Students are divided ...
27 Views 47,903 Elem
Colours Wordsearch

Colours Wordsearch

This is a worksheet for elementary, pre-intermediate or intermediate level (you can adapt it) to practise vocabulary about colours and things related to those colours. It contains an activity or g ...
3 Views 7,223 ElemPre-IntInt
Introducing Yourself

Introducing Yourself

This worksheet provides an activity where the student can practice the use and difference between I am and I have. Describing himself or herself. It is common for complete beginners to confuse whe ...
14 Views 18,716 Beg
Video Worksheet: Step by Step [Rules of the House]

Video Worksheet: Step by Step [Rules of the House]

The first part of an episode, so it is only 7 minutes long to watch. Youtube link is in the document. My students love this show and pick up new vocabulary while enjoying themselves. I usually go ...
7 Views 11,273 Pre-IntIntAdvExam
Family Worksheet

Family Worksheet

A simple and easy worksheet for teaching family related vocabulary. There are 2 easy activities in which students are asked to look at the family tree and complete the sentences.
20 Views 21,294 Elem
Fruits: Interactive Boardgame

Fruits: Interactive Boardgame

Here's the second interactive boardgame. This one is aimed for teaching or revising fruit related vocabulary at elementary level. Students are asked to spin the wheel, count the number of spaces ...
12 Views 14,808 BegElem
Animals: Do You Know My Name?

Animals: Do You Know My Name?

This is a nice matching exercise to teach about animals for kids. The kids have to match each picture with the names of animals in the box provided.
9 Views 14,916 Beg
Who Am I Describing?...

Who Am I Describing?...

This worksheet can be used at the end of a lesson on descriptive adjectives, or as revision for them. The students must choose three classmates and describe them using only descriptive adjectives, ...
8 Views 15,920 ElemPre-IntIntAdv
Song Worksheet: Born to Die by Lana Del Ray

Song Worksheet: Born to Die by Lana Del Ray

This is a fun (but slightly depressing!) song which contains some slang words for vocabulary practice! It also has gap-fill, matching and word choice exercises. I would recommend this for adult le ...
3 Views 16,523 Pre-IntInt
Images to Practice the Present Continuous Tense [The Office]

Images to Practice the Present Continuous Tense [The Office]

This powerpoint presentation contains images from the television sitcom "the Office". After students are shown the images they have to say or write on their notebooks what the people in the pictur ...
26 Views 40,269 All
The Commonwealth of Australia

The Commonwealth of Australia

This text is about the country, its history, geography, political system and endemic animals. The material will be useful for cross-cultural lessons about English-speaking countries. There you can ...
11 Views 17,045 Pre-IntInt
Living Room

Living Room

Target: young learners of English. There is a short and simple reading passage with a living room description. Grammar structures used: There is, there are (positive, negative forms as well as q ...
18 Views 24,122 BegElem
Koala

Koala

It's a short reading passage about a koala for young learners of English. There are two versions of the text. A shorter and less complicated one and a little bit more detailed and complex one. Bot ...
11 Views 15,361 BegElem

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