14,321 FREE Vocabulary Worksheets
BusyTeacher Home » Vocabulary

FREE Vocabulary Worksheets

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!


Become a part of the BusyTeacher.org community, where you'll find 14,321 vocabulary worksheets to download and use in your lessons every day! There's no limit to what you can do when you make our worksheets a part of your lessons, so start by taking a look at the recommended ones below.

Filter by Level
NEW
  • Complete Beginner (2981)
  • Elementary (7231)
  • Pre-Intermediate (5938)
  • Intermediate (5254)
  • Upper-Intermediate Advanced (3048)
  • Exam Level (771)
  • Suitable for All Levels (676)
Clear filters
Filter
Dramatically improve the way you teach:




Make A Word Search:

Create awesome-looking custom word searches in seconds!

Make A Word Scramble:

Instantly create custom word/sentence scrambles for your class!

Make A Double Puzzle:

Generate double puzzles your students will love - hours of fun!

ESL Articles
Rate this Category
4.5 out of 5, rated by 30 teachers




Sort by: Most Recent | Most Viewed | Rating
Myths and Legends Title Page

Myths and Legends Title Page

This is a five-part worksheet that lets the students evaluate the myth or legend that they read in class. There is a Yes/No section that asks what they think about the story; another one calls for ...
5 Views 13,795 Beg
Myths and Legends Part 4

Myths and Legends Part 4

This is a five-part worksheet that lets the students evaluate the myth or legend that they read in class. There is a Yes/No section that asks what they think about the story; another one calls for ...
5 Views 11,590 Beg
Myths and Legends Part 3

Myths and Legends Part 3

This is a five-part worksheet that lets the students evaluate the myth or legend that they read in class. There is a Yes/No section that asks what they think about the story; another one calls for ...
4 Views 10,513 Elem
Myths and Legends Part 2

Myths and Legends Part 2

This is a five-part worksheet that lets the students evaluate the myth or legend that they read in class. There is a Yes/No section that asks what they think about the story; another one calls for ...
3 Views 9,539 Elem
Myths and Legends Part 1

Myths and Legends Part 1

This is a five-part worksheet that lets the students evaluate the myth or legend that they read in class. There is a Yes/No section that asks what they think about the story; another one calls for ...
5 Views 16,710 Elem
Put BusyTeacher in your inbox

Sign up for the BusyTeacher Weekly and be the first to get direct links to our latest teaching articles, worksheets and lesson plans. Goes out to 323,134 subscribers every Wednesday.
See last week's issue.

Days of the Week, Months and Dates Worksheet

Days of the Week, Months and Dates Worksheet

This is a pretty easy worksheet for elementary students on dates, months and days of the week. There are 3 easy activities in which students are asked to write the missing letters to complete the ...
24 Views 50,644 Elem
Tracing Worksheet: Classroom Items

Tracing Worksheet: Classroom Items

When teaching new vocabulary I usually try to present a word not only orally, but also in writing. This particular worksheet can be used when teaching classroom items. It enables to present the ne ...
4 Views 24,406 Beg
Aches & Pains - Matching

Aches & Pains - Matching

This is basically a matching exercise which will back up the pictionary I sent before. Students have to match the pictures with the different aches and pains. You could then put them into pairs ...
9 Views 18,517 BegElemPre-Int
Natural and Human Landscapes: Powerpoint Presentation

Natural and Human Landscapes: Powerpoint Presentation

Here goes a power point presentation about some natural and human landscapes. It might come handy for classes in which this kind of vocabulary is going to be taught. It may be also useful to train ...
8 Views 15,450 All
Farm Animals: Flashcards

Farm Animals: Flashcards

You can use Farm animals flashcards to learn beginners new vocabulary. You can play "What is missing" or ask questions like: What is it? What colour is a hen? Where is a hen? You can play charade ...
16 Views 28,571 BegElem
Discuss, Chat or Talk about...

Discuss, Chat or Talk about... "Family"

This is another of my discussion worksheets that I use with my adult students. They pretty much all have the same format. Each worksheet has 18 discussion/conversation questions that revolve aroun ...
32 Views 25,638 ElemPre-IntInt
Parts of the House (gaps+colouring)

Parts of the House (gaps+colouring)

This is a good activity for kids, to practice tha spelling of the words "living room", "bathroom", "bedroom", "kitchen" and "garden". Ask students to draw a garage on the left side of the house, w ...
7 Views 38,218 Beg
Song Worksheet: Without You by David Guetta

Song Worksheet: Without You by David Guetta

Song worksheet - Listening Comprehension: Without You by David Guetta (featuring Usher). This worksheet practises listening comprehension and consists of four exercises. Students have to listen to ...
7 Views 14,470 ElemPre-IntInt
Classroom Language PowerPoint Presentation

Classroom Language PowerPoint Presentation

Here's a fully animated PowerPoint presentation with sentences, images and audio so young students can understand classroom related vocabulary. It can be used to teach basic vocabulary related to ...
31 Views 54,396 Elem
School Supplies Interactive Boardgame

School Supplies Interactive Boardgame

This is an interactive boardgame for teaching school supplies related vocabulary. Recommended for elementary students who are asked to spin the wheel, count the number of spaces in the game and n ...
15 Views 21,543 Elem
Elvis Presley - Biography & Song; Active & Passive Gap-fill

Elvis Presley - Biography & Song; Active & Passive Gap-fill

This Elvis Presley biography is a good reading practice, as well as a gap-fill exercise where our learners decide whether to use active or passive. There's a song ''Suspicious Minds'' with a link ...
25 Views 70,288 Adv
A Visit To The Farm Worksheet

A Visit To The Farm Worksheet

This is a worksheet for elementary students on farm animals related vocabulary and present simple tense. There are 4 different and simple activities in which students are asked to match the words ...
10 Views 11,615 Elem
Sport at Heart: the Official Clip of the London Olympics [ANSWERS]

Sport at Heart: the Official Clip of the London Olympics [ANSWERS]

You'll find the answers to the worksheet Sport at Heart. First of all, the students must pick out the different monuments they can recognize. Secondly, they must match the sportsmen and sportswome ...
4 Views 10,460 IntAdv
Sport at Heart: the Official Clip of the London Olympics

Sport at Heart: the Official Clip of the London Olympics

First of all, the students should work in a computer room or a language laboratory in order to check the information they need on the Internet. The first part is based on the visual aspect of the ...
7 Views 11,726 IntAdv
Listening Comprehension: Tell Me about Your Last Vacation

Listening Comprehension: Tell Me about Your Last Vacation

This worksheet is composed of three exercises. In the first one, the students must say if the statements are true or false. In the second one, they must answer the questions and in the third one, ...
27 Views 51,137 Int
Movie Worksheet: Kony 2012 (for Dutch speakers)

Movie Worksheet: Kony 2012 (for Dutch speakers)

I put this worksheet together in my first year of teaching topical subject of early part of 2012 introduce the difficult words: Friendship, SAFETY, the law, keep in touch, spreading ideas, oppres ...
1 Views 6,071 All
My Eating Habits

My Eating Habits

This activity is directed to beginner/elementary students and is supposed to be done after they have been practicing food and meals vocabulary. The questions are personal and the students should a ...
14 Views 34,284 BegElem
Reading Worksheet - Did You Know? - MOON TRIPS

Reading Worksheet - Did You Know? - MOON TRIPS

This is a worksheet containing two short exercises on reading. The tasks are: true / false sentences and matching the headlines with the paragraphs. The text is short and easy and the exercises ar ...
16 Views 17,890 ElemPre-IntIntAdvExam
Discuss, Chat or Talk about...

Discuss, Chat or Talk about... "Feelings and Emotions"

A conversation style worksheet that revolves around the topics of feelings and emotions. Generally speaking I use these worksheets with large classes, but they work just as well with small groups. ...
34 Views 100,961 Pre-IntIntAdv
Discuss, Chat or Talk about...

Discuss, Chat or Talk about... "Dating"

Here is another of my conversation sheets. I hope you find it useful. I work at a university in South Korea and for me this kind of sheet works well. Korean students often have an imbalance in the ...
19 Views 17,239 Pre-IntIntAdv

Got a great worksheet on Vocabulary? Tell us about it and become a BusyTeacher contributor!

Submit a Worksheet