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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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Discuss, Chat or Talk about...

Discuss, Chat or Talk about... "Can You"

This is another of my conversation style worksheets. Obviously this one focuses on ability. My students usually work in pairs or small groups with this kind of worksheet. I have big classes, so on ...
21 Views 34,784 ElemPre-Int
Diagnostic Test

Diagnostic Test

This is a diagnostic test for elementary students. There are 4 pages with several activities in which students are asked to read the text, answer the questions, ask questions for the answers given ...
28 Views 81,286 ElemPre-Int
At School Worksheet

At School Worksheet

This is a 2-page worksheet for teaching classroom supplies related vocabulary. The first page is a picture dictionary witch can also be used as a study sheet and the second page has a simple multi ...
14 Views 17,683 ElemPre-Int
Back To School: Classroom Supplies

Back To School: Classroom Supplies

This is a pretty simple and easy multiple choice activity for teaching or revising classroom supplies related vocabulary. Recommended for elementary students who are asked to look at the pictures ...
13 Views 17,350 BegElem
Back to School: Classroom Verbs PowerPoint Presentation

Back to School: Classroom Verbs PowerPoint Presentation

This is a fully animated PowerPoint presentation with audio for elementary students. With this presentations students will learn the most common classroom verbs, they will also have visual suppor ...
8 Views 17,755 BegElem
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Art Spirituality

Art Spirituality

I use this file to introduce my students into the world of art. As I teach at a Cinema Institute for adults, I always try to give them something of their interests. And not only grammar stuff. Yo ...
3 Views 3,982 Elem
7 Simple Learning Centers You Can Do With Post-It Notes: Poster

7 Simple Learning Centers You Can Do With Post-It Notes: Poster

Here's our third collection of ideas on how post-it notes can help you teach. Below you will find a HI-RES Teachers' Room poster with 7 ideas on using post-its to create simple Learning Centers. ...
10 Views 35,926 All
7 Ways to Make Teaching Life Easier with Post-Its: Poster

7 Ways to Make Teaching Life Easier with Post-Its: Poster

Here's another collection of ideas on how post-it notes can help you teach (see Part One here). Below please find a HI-RES Teachers' Room poster with 7 of them. Click the image to view the full r ...
9 Views 43,162 All
7 Easy Icebreakers You Can Do With Post-It Notes: Poster

7 Easy Icebreakers You Can Do With Post-It Notes: Poster

We all love post-it notes, don't we?! Did you know that there are tons of activities you can do with them in your classroom? Well, check out 7 such activities below: we have created this HI-RES Te ...
31 Views 308,647 All
Role Plays: Relationships

Role Plays: Relationships

4 unusual and fun situations for students to role play. Tested in the classroom. Students love them and get all involved and enthusiastic. Perfect for intermediate level and up. For your convenien ...
54 Views 104,748 IntAdv
A Wonderful Meal

A Wonderful Meal

It is a text to exercise vocabulary concerning dishes and laying the table. The text describes a meal which is all wrong. The students have to find the mistakes and to replace the wrong words. It ...
13 Views 12,378 ElemPre-Int
Movie Worksheet: Faulty Towers [A Touch of Class Season 1 Episode 1]

Movie Worksheet: Faulty Towers [A Touch of Class Season 1 Episode 1]

Season one Episode one Faulty Towers: Read notes: gives the advanced students a unique and very challenging set of tasks. The themes brought up in the episode cover relationships crime, European ...
4 Views 14,860 IntAdv
Reading worksheet - Did you know? - TORONTO

Reading worksheet - Did you know? - TORONTO

This is a worksheet containing two short exercises on reading. The tasks are: true / false sentences and matching the words with their definitions.The text is short and easy and the exercises are ...
21 Views 25,915 ElemPre-IntInt
Job Information

Job Information

This is a worksheet about job description. Each student is given one job with all the information needed (workplace, company...) Students will ask questions such as: What do you do? Where do you w ...
6 Views 8,983 Elem
Video Worksheet: Mr Bean at a Judo Class

Video Worksheet: Mr Bean at a Judo Class

This is a multiple choice worksheet to practice simple past. Students watch Mr Bean's video and they have to choose the correct option according to what they saw in the video.     T ...
11 Views 21,810 Elem
Aches & Pains

Aches & Pains

This pictionary can either be pinned up in the classroom or given out to students in order to learn the vocabulary of aches and pains. Make sure you check the pronunciation before they go off to ...
10 Views 20,612 ElemPre-Int
Olympic Song Worksheet: Follow the Flame

Olympic Song Worksheet: Follow the Flame

This is a gap fill activity using the British Olympics 2012 'flame song'. The worksheet is a listening activity then a look at the vocab finding synonyms. Then adjectives, comparatives and superl ...
4 Views 11,638 Pre-IntInt
Movie Activities: Tangled

Movie Activities: Tangled

This is a set of activities based on the movie "Tangled". It includes vocabulary practice, mainly. The colouring activities are optional and there are 2 pictures (one of the princess for the girls ...
5 Views 13,359 ElemPre-Int
Back to School Activities

Back to School Activities

A new school year is almost here in many European countries. Here you can find 4 fun activities ideal for the beginning of the new school year with new classes. Let your students get to know you, ...
19 Views 31,697 Pre-IntInt
Discuss, Chat or Talk About...

Discuss, Chat or Talk About... "Phones"

This a conversation style worksheet that should get your students talking about the subject of mobile phones. There are eighteen conversation questions on the sheet that revolve around the topic o ...
30 Views 29,921 ElemPre-IntInt
12 Powerful Words: Quiz

12 Powerful Words: Quiz

Vocabulary,
The 12 powerful words are words that show up repeatedly in the academic setting. This is a quiz over those words with word bank. The 12 Powerful words: Explain, Summarize, Describe, Trace, Pre ...
5 Views 19,849 IntAdv
12 Powerful Words: Review

12 Powerful Words: Review

Vocabulary,
The 12 powerful words are words that show up repeatedly in the academic setting. This powerpoint is used as a review after the students have worked on the words a couple of times. One student si ...
4 Views 8,201 IntAdv
Food Picture Crossword

Food Picture Crossword

This is a picture crossword for teaching or revising food related vocabulary . Recommended for elementary students who are asked to complete the crossword using the across and down clues and then ...
16 Views 71,328 ElemPre-Int
Family Members Mingle

Family Members Mingle

Hi It can help the students to practice question making. After the cards are spread, the students are supposed to mingle and ask each other questions to find their family members. Questions regar ...
21 Views 13,183 Elem
Graded Dictations

Graded Dictations

This documents is made up of three different parts - 17 pages in all - exercises are composed of simple, compound and complex sentences so that you can easily use it with several different levels. ...
16 Views 26,227 Pre-IntIntAdvExam

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