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.
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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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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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- ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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.
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 ...
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, ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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