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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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Draw and Color the Shapes

Draw and Color the Shapes

Low level kindergarten, follow the instructions for drawing number of shapes and coloring This is a very basic level. It's meant for a lower level beginner class with students known for low atten ...
5 Views 16,199 Beg
Expressing Opinions: Capital Punishment

Expressing Opinions: Capital Punishment

This worksheet is intended to encourage students to discuss capital punishment and what they think of it. The lesson is introduced by a song called " The Iron Lady" and then students are given an ...
5 Views 15,572 Adv
Euthansia - Argumentative Writing

Euthansia - Argumentative Writing

The worksheet is intended to teach argumentative writing and the suggested layout. Students are prompted to the lesson by a short video about the topic of "Euthanasia". They first watch the video ...
8 Views 9,860 Adv
ABC Spelling Game

ABC Spelling Game

In pairs, students will take turns spelling the words to each other. They must write down the letters they hear under the pictures. At the end the students colour every picture they correctly spel ...
13 Views 14,764 BegElem
Back To School: Bookmarks

Back To School: Bookmarks

Here's a lovely set of back to school bookmarks to motivate your students on the first day of the school year! Print, cut, laminate and give them to your students. I'm sure they will love them.
10 Views 20,024 ElemPre-Int
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Prepositional Verbs PowerPoint Presentation

Prepositional Verbs PowerPoint Presentation

Here's a fully animated PowerPoint Activity with audio for revising prepositional verbs. Recommended for intermediate students who are asked to fill in the blanks by choosing the correct preposit ...
19 Views 21,545 Pre-IntInt
Jobs and Occupations Flashcards

Jobs and Occupations Flashcards

This is a set of 33 high-quality flashcards which can also be used as classroom posters for teaching or revising jobs and occupations related vocabulary. They are excellent for vocabulary building ...
39 Views 44,980 ElemPre-Int
Classroom Language for PE

Classroom Language for PE

This is a presentation for students to learn the language Physical Education teachers use in the classroom, especially instructions. It was designed for a bilingual class, but it can also be used ...
9 Views 12,929 BegElem
Human Bingo: How I Spent My Summer Holiday

Human Bingo: How I Spent My Summer Holiday

Human Bingo (game): How I spent My summer Holiday, Intermediate Level (level can be adjusted). Depending on the level, the teacher might read/discuss and the questions/ statements in class first. ...
12 Views 46,959 Pre-IntIntAdv
The Simpson Family

The Simpson Family

This is a very helpful presentation to practice Family Members vocabulary. The students look at the images, listen to the teacher's pronunciation of the vocabulary and repeat. Later, they describe ...
12 Views 26,205 BegElem
Song Worksheet: Breakaway by Kelly Clarkson [Review Prepositions and Phrasal Verbs]

Song Worksheet: Breakaway by Kelly Clarkson [Review Prepositions and Phrasal Verbs]

A gap fill exercise with Kelly Clarkson's song Breakaway. A good tool to introduce or review prepositions and/or phrasal verbs. Can be used with the theme of 'breaking the mould', 'habits', 'daily ...
8 Views 26,580 Pre-IntIntAdvExam
Postcard to a Classmate

Postcard to a Classmate

It's such fun getting a postcard! Students are given a sample postcard, which they can use as a model. They can cut out the blank postcard, make a drawing on the other side about their holiday (th ...
10 Views 29,570 ElemPre-Int
Countries and Nationalities

Countries and Nationalities

With this activity students can easily match the different countries and nationalities and can also improve the spelling. First it's important to show some of the flags according to your country o ...
31 Views 140,479 Beg
How To Write Emails In English

How To Write Emails In English

This is a PowerPoint presentation describing some basic rules when writing formal/informal emails in English, introducing some common phrases and things to avoid. It also includes two examples of ...
39 Views 91,482 IntAdv
Conversation Cards: Going on Holiday

Conversation Cards: Going on Holiday

This worksheet is very useful when you cover the topic Traveling. There are many questions with pictures which SS can use at the lesson. The SS can be divided into pairs. Ask them to interview eac ...
24 Views 39,541 ElemPre-Int
London: Vocabulary, Reading Comprehension, Writing

London: Vocabulary, Reading Comprehension, Writing

It is a modified article from Wikipedia. It talks about London, a brief history and states its importance to the world. It also contains information about London's sightseeings. It contains a voca ...
23 Views 53,697 Pre-IntInt
School Subjects

School Subjects

In this ws there are 4 different activities to revise vocabulary on school subjects. 1) the students have to choose form the list of subject and complete the exercise with the suitable subject. ...
25 Views 60,562 ElemPre-Int
Discuss, Chat or Talk About...

Discuss, Chat or Talk About... "Growing Up"

Here is another of my themed conversation worksheets. As the title says this sheet focuses on your formative years and how they went. If you like this worksheet please take a look at my others. I' ...
24 Views 17,260 ElemPre-IntInt
What Do You Do in Class? (19 Slides)

What Do You Do in Class? (19 Slides)

This ppt consists of 19 slides to revise/learn vocabulary about activities children do in class (18 slides)+ an extra activity to make they speak about the way they behave in class or what they do ...
12 Views 11,051 ElemPre-Int
Solar System

Solar System

These are three activities to deal with vocabulary related to the solar system. In the first activity students will have to answer questions, in the second activity they will have to classify the ...
5 Views 21,037 Elem
Adjectives to Describe Feelings

Adjectives to Describe Feelings

The activity contains cards with adjectives describing feelings and their descriptions. Print and cut out the cards. Put them on the table. The student must match the word with its description. T ...
21 Views 43,208 IntAdv
Movie Worksheet: Friend's Episode about Hotels

Movie Worksheet: Friend's Episode about Hotels

A listening and speaking lesson with a clip from a Friend's episode. The lesson is about 80 minutes long depending on the level. The theme is 'hotels' and fits nicely with a travel topic. It conta ...
20 Views 41,461 IntAdv
School Supplies Worksheet

School Supplies Worksheet

This worksheet is a very simple way of revising "have got". It stars with a simple sentence to write after observing a dialogue and then pupils will do a pairwork which allows them to revise short ...
6 Views 8,936 ElemPre-Int
A Cup of Kindness. Stories from Scotland

A Cup of Kindness. Stories from Scotland

This is the test I wrote for my 16-year-old students based on a reading book from Oxford University Press Bookworms Library Stage 3. The answer key is at the end of the exam paper. Hope it's usefu ...
6 Views 12,649 Pre-Int
Classroom Verbs Matching Activity

Classroom Verbs Matching Activity

This is a worksheet for teaching or revising some of the most common verbs used in the classroom: listen, ask, experiment, study, write, learn, etc. Recommended for elementary students who are a ...
12 Views 31,536 Elem

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