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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Target: Young learners Grammatical structure: comparative forms of adjectives (there are only 6 adjectives used SMALL, BIG, LIGHT, HEAVY, SHORT, LONG). There are images of animals being compa ...
Target: youngest learners of English as a Second/Foreign language. Aim: checking how well your students know names of body parts (face). Skills being tested: reading, writing and listening. There ...
A worksheet for young learners of English. All you need to do is print it out, cut it out and match pictures with descriptions. Only simple grammatical structures are used (verb TO BE, and HAVE). ...
If you need to work with students job hunting, then this worksheet will certainly help you. The students have to fill in the Curriculum Vitae using the information about Dominique at the bottom o ...
Once you have been over things like "how to write your CV" you could hand out this worksheet which, on the first page, gives examples of some job advertisements and get them to choose the one they ...
This worksheet is probably better for children and will back up vocabulary already learned in class. They have to match the words with the pictures. The teacher could go over the pronunciation o ...
This worksheet I just use as a handout after having taught the alphabet and put the table up on the board. Once pronunciation has been practised I then hand out the worksheet for individual work. ...
This worksheet is mainly for the younger ones, but could be used with older students. They will already have learned the colours and alphabet so with this worksheet in the first part they have to ...
This worksheet could be handed out at the beginning of a new class. It will help them get to know each other in an instructive way. Students start off individually answering the questions on the ...
These are sets of bingo cards that I created for my sixth graders students. The cards were created with some of the vocabulary that we used during the school year: solar system, meteorite, creatur ...
The aim of this set of study- and worksheets is to help (adult) students memorize very common irregular verbs according to given categories because of 1) the form of the infinitive vs. both the si ...
"Ask Anita", a 'newspaper advice column' that features three problems about clothing - have your students READ the problems and DISCUSS possible solutions. After your students come to an agreemen ...
This is a worksheet for teaching or revising personal characteristics related vocabulary at intermediate level. There are 3 activities in which students are asked to write the opposite using a pre ...
This is a short documentary about a popular activity with tourists in Amsterdam, that combines sightseeing with beer drinking. It describes the activity, there are interviews of locals and touris ...
This worksheet has an article about music and its effects on humans followed by analysis questions. Excellent to practice main idea and paragraph structure. It could be used to find context clues ...
Analysis worksheet that helps students develop social skills as well as reading and writing. It is a good activity to practice descriptions, comparing and contrasting and make connections. It coul ...
Essential vocabulary for describing houses, great for an intro or a quick revision. The pictures can be cut out and used later on in memory games (snap...). Colourful and memorable way of introduc ...
My paper is not a worksheet, it is class rules for all levels to implement classroom management at the beginning of the class session. It is used to set up discipline in class for all students at ...
This is a worksheet to review the names of vegetables. It has a lot of pictures and a summary. It contains matching activities, dividing into groups and some simple writing exercise. It can be use ...
Alphabet practice on PQR letters. Simple exercises to review alphabet, learn sounds of each letter. Exercises on connecting upper-case letters and lower-case letters; colouring pictures; tracing a ...
Alphabet practice on MNO letters. Simple exercises to review alphabet, learn sounds of each letter. Exercises on connecting upper-case letters and lower-case letters; colouring pictures; tracing a ...
Alphabet practice on JKL letters. Simple exercises to review alphabet, learn sounds of each letter. Exercises on connecting upper-case letters and lower-case letters; colouring pictures; tracing a ...
Alphabet practice on GHI letters. Simple exercises to review alphabet, learn sounds of each letter. Exercises on connecting upper-case letters and lower-case letters; colouring pictures; tracing a ...
Alphabet practice on DEF letters. Simple exercises to review alphabet, learn sounds of each letter. Exercises on connecting upper-case letters and lower-case letters; colouring pictures; tracing a ...
Alphabet practice on ABC letters. Simple exercises to review alphabet, learn sounds of each letter. Exercises on connecting upper-case letters and lower-case letters; colouring pictures; tracing a ...
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