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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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Around The World Dishes - Internet Searching

Around The World Dishes - Internet Searching

Use this worksheet in a computer lab to practice Internet search skills. Students need to find the name of the country that goes with each flag and then find the famous dish associated with the co ...
6 Views 11,563 Int
Weather Reporter

Weather Reporter

Weather girl/boy activity: The document has weather symbols to cut out and use. I usually get the student to draw a Map of Spain or other country and have them choose five cities. They make up a w ...
19 Views 28,756 All
Personal Information Review

Personal Information Review

This worksheet will help students introduce themselves and others. They will review questions about personal information, the pronounciation of the alphabet in English in order to be able to spell ...
13 Views 28,307 Elem
Song Worksheet: Call Me Maybe by Carly Rea Jepsen

Song Worksheet: Call Me Maybe by Carly Rea Jepsen

This song activity presents the topic of homophones and spelling. It is a good task to help review spelling and general knowledge of vocabulary. It can be used without the song in which teachers h ...
14 Views 24,887 Pre-IntIntAdv
Puzzle on Clothes

Puzzle on Clothes

Clothes from every season of the year, completely basic, will help to practice vocabulary and recognize spelling. It contains pictures too, so it can be used as introduction or practice after clas ...
7 Views 8,661 Beg
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Let's Go to the Mall

Let's Go to the Mall

This worksheet includes: - activities you can do at the stadium, at a park, at a friend's house, at the mall. - making invitations: let's go to the mall, let's listen to music - scrambled sentence ...
3 Views 10,169 ElemPre-Int
Free Time Activities: Sports Likes and Dislikes

Free Time Activities: Sports Likes and Dislikes

This worksheet includes several exercises: reading comprehension about likes and dislikes, questions about the text. Students will have to read and understand a short text, complete a chart, answe ...
24 Views 67,114 ElemPre-Int
How to Compare People from our Family Tree

How to Compare People from our Family Tree

This worksheet includes a chart that explains how to compare people, and makes the differences between long a nd short adjectives. Students will have to classify long and short adjectives, and the ...
5 Views 8,773 ElemPre-Int
How to Describe People? Part 1

How to Describe People? Part 1

This worksheet includes some words and definitions of adjectives, plus exercises like: fill in the blanks, completing a chart, describing certain characters, and classifying adjectives. The idea i ...
15 Views 13,609 ElemPre-Int
Family Tree

Family Tree

This worksheet includes different exercises. Students will read a comic strip and complete a family tree according to it. Then they will have to answer some questions about the text, and then agre ...
13 Views 17,119 BegElem
Family Birthdays

Family Birthdays

This worksheet has been created to practice telling dates, birthdays and giving descriptions. It includes: - Reading comprehension item - questions with: how old, when, who, what - pronouns: he, ...
6 Views 7,461 BegElem
There is / There are: Classroom Stationery and Furniture

There is / There are: Classroom Stationery and Furniture

This worksheet was used as a test for 5th graders. It includes exercises about there is and there are and vocabulary related to the classroom stationery. The exercises include scrambled sentences, ...
6 Views 11,968 BegElemPre-Int
Identity Flashcards

Identity Flashcards

This document contains identity flashcards to have students (especially elementary or pre intermediate students) revise basic tools to introduce themselves. It aims at being a model for them to us ...
6 Views 16,291 ElemPre-Int
Introducing Yourself

Introducing Yourself

This worksheet contains a teenager's ID useful to revise some basics (name, age, nationality, personality, etc...). After an oral presentation of the girl, the students are asked to fill their own ...
9 Views 20,607 Pre-IntInt
Travelling

Travelling

This worksheet is useful to make pupils revise nationalities and countries. There is also a pairwork activity where they can manipulate the present perfect. It ends up with a third-person summary. ...
7 Views 14,210 IntExam
Ordinal Numbers [for French Speakers]

Ordinal Numbers [for French Speakers]

I made this worksheet to make pupils revise ordinal numbers and dates easily. It consists of completing the charts and there is some homework as well. This worksheet can be completed together wit ...
3 Views 20,254 ElemPre-IntInt
Cardinal Numbers

Cardinal Numbers

I made this worksheet to make pupils revise cardinal numbers easily. Its consists of completing the charts and there is some homework as well. This worksheet can go together well with the one I ma ...
5 Views 26,199 ElemPre-IntInt
Food and Eating Habits

Food and Eating Habits

This is a worksheet I made to work on eating habits. I used some obvious clichés about the French and the English to make my pupils react and because it's more fun for them as they know the ...
16 Views 50,906 ElemPre-IntInt
Country Mouse and City Mouse

Country Mouse and City Mouse

This worksheet was thought for children in primary education in their third grade. This is about Town Mouse and Country mouse. This a dialogue between them. Children can read it, play a ...
9 Views 21,941 Elem
After Sales Dialogue [Complaint]

After Sales Dialogue [Complaint]

This is a cloze test in the form of a dialogue. Students could work in pairs or small groups in order to complete the conversation using the words given. When they have finished they could act t ...
17 Views 26,768 Pre-IntInt
Vocabulary & Expressions

Vocabulary & Expressions

This worksheet is for more advanced students and is in two parts. In the first part students have to complete the sentences using one of the words given and in the second part find the correct de ...
6 Views 10,019 AdvExam
Birthday Vocabulary

Birthday Vocabulary

This vocabulary may be useful for your students when they need to talk about their birthday parties and also students will use some verbs for celebrations. The power point presentation will contai ...
8 Views 13,881 Elem
Family Tree [The Simpsons]

Family Tree [The Simpsons]

This worksheet is especially assigned to elementary students. It consists of family words together with genitive case. Students should answer the questions according to Simpson´s family tree ...
10 Views 38,876 BegElem
The Alphabet Flashcards

The Alphabet Flashcards

It is a power point presentation for beginners about the alphabet, in which you will find the picture and the name of the animal and at the end a song of the alphabet . You can use it to introduc ...
10 Views 27,459 Beg
Slangs

Slangs

Some nice slangs that students use almost everyday. An activity to link word to picture and after that fill in the blanks with them, students can write the translation too. It can be used just as ...
13 Views 19,980 All

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