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.
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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Alphabet with the pronunciation, specially for Spanish students of English. It is a simple worksheet for beginner students who need to learn the alphabet together with the pronunciation of the let ...
This is a great opportunity to let your students think about their families and their chance to education. This movie 'Matilda' gives a great start for a teacher who needs some segments connected ...
Children have to complete the texts with verb to be and nationalities or countries. The pictures help them to recognize nationalities. It's useful to practice vocabulary about nationalities and co ...
It is a letter soup where children have to find the names of twelve animals. They can only see the picture of the animal. Then, they have to write the name of the animals and describe them with on ...
This is an interesting activity for your students to use past tense and question formation. In pairs they have to prepare an interview to a famous person, the dates and facts are provided. 10 minu ...
This is a simple and colourful activity for elementary students who are asked to use the across and down clues write the correct words in the numbered grid given and then match them with the pictu ...
By introducing this fully animated PowerPoint presentation into your classes students will have fun while learning means of transport related vocabulary. Students will also have visual and audio ...
This accompanies the lyrics worksheet I submitted (gap fill). There are key expressions with definitions at the top, followed by an activity for students (translate the verbs into own language an ...
Gap-fill based on this famous song by Beyonce. Great for reviewing tenses with higher levels, plus there are quite a few idiomatic expressions to work on too (see other worksheet). Can also be u ...
A three-task song worksheet for all levels (except for complete beginners). Excellent lyrics written as a boy's letter to his parents from a summer camp.
Task 1: Filling in the missing words {yo ...
This worksheet is on two pages because it's used for pair work. Each student has a sheet (Student A and Student B). Student A plays the part of the doctor and has to give advice from the prompts ...
Practice worksheet for correctly using simple present and present continuous. Complete the sentence by selecting the correct tense of the verb provided. Verbs are all sports verbs of Summer Oly ...
This song is a good pace for beginner and elementary students, allowing them to catch words by using a gap fill activity. There is a pre-listening task of matching words which may take beginners l ...
It is a mingling activity for Pre-Intermediate to Intermediate level learners. Probably useful to get to know each others. Although best suitable to be used in the beginning of the course to getto ...
The first part is a matching exercise - picture + word, the second part is suitable for pair work - Ss use the weather vocabulary and cardinal points to complete the map with a weather report. Thi ...
This provides students with a lot of discussion. My students talked for ages about these two subjects: strange foods from around the work and animals/insects they don't like. This class will take ...
This is a picture crossword for teaching or revising hobbies and leisure activities related vocabulary. Recommended for elementary students who are asked to complete the crossword puzzle using the ...
This listening is good as a starter or supplementary activity and lasts between 25-40 minutes depending on the students' level. There is a vocabulary activity at the beginning to prime students fo ...
This is a worksheet for teaching or revising office related vocabulary and prepositions of place. recommended for elementary students who are asked to decide whether the sentences describing the p ...
The following activities can be used as warm-up activities, to elicit vocabulary about sports & olympic games. It has a a crossword about olympic games sports. You can also find a dialogue abo ...
To develop reading comprehension skills through the implementation of different strategies. According with the information of the text, students must complete the chart. In the second activity st ...
The text is from the NY Times Learning Network and I created a vocabulary exercise using 10 words from the text. To introduce the article I used the title, The Roswell Incident, as a hangman sente ...
This game (board and situation cards) was created to revise and practice functional language: apologizing, socializing and asking for help. Originally tailored to upper-intermediate and advanced s ...
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