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.
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Bingo game, designed for adults, focusing on some common and not-so-common kitchen vocabulary. Especially good for students with an interest in cooking or who work in a restaurant/kitchen. Upload ...
Simple bingo game, designed for beginner students, and would work with children or adults. Nice addition to a cultural lesson (although the images are somewhat stereotypical, I still think they're ...
The Olympic Games have started! This is a worksheet to start talking about them and see some new vocabulary. It's about the Olympic Flag, its rings and colours and the Olympic medals. There's a co ...
Just a simple game of Who's Who?/Guess Who?, made with adult students in mind. Have students play in pairs with different game sheets. Each student picks a person on their sheet and then they take ...
This is an activity I designed for pre-teaching some vocabulary from the text "Eye Contact". The text is found in the textbook Cambridge English for Business Communication (Professional English se ...
Contents: school vocabulary, possessive/demonstrative determiners, IN/ON/AT as time prepositions, Wh- words, months, days of the week, weather words. It's been done on the basis of Unit 1, from Wh ...
I am running two weeks of middle school summer classes with an Olympic theme (since the Games are currently happening in London!). These country profiles are for a lesson about different countrie ...
I am running two weeks of middle school summer classes with an Olympic theme (since the Games are currently happening in London!). This worksheet is for a lesson about different countries' Olympi ...
This is a worksheet for a group of adult beginners. They will enjoy the use of Sesame Street in class while the duration of the video (less than 3min) is quite manageable for them. You can use thi ...
A fun game, made with adult students in mind! I find my adult students enjoy bingo as much as the kids ;) This bingo set uses pictures of items that get used everyday (or, at least, on a regular b ...
This is a worksheet to train the vocabulary on body parts and make the descriptions of people. It can be used as a training exercise or as a test to check how well your students have learnt the ne ...
Taking full advantage of the Olympic Games in London, I have been working with this interesting and motivating topic with my students, making a link with different topics. This worksheet I have ma ...
This activity is good for practicing verbs in the Past Participle, so students get used to them when using the Present Perfect Tense. I also used some phrasal verbs to check their meaning and to h ...
It's a board game based on the game "perfil". This board game contains two categories: person and country. The teacher prints the board and the cards. At the classroom, the teacher divides the stu ...
My spelling worksheet is a systematic and fun spelling guide for 3rd graders. it contains digraphs, compound words, phonemes, puzzles,, sorting of words in alphabetical orders. There are two work ...
I have been doing a series of classes on the 2012 London Olympics with my Korean middle school students. My students always seem to appreciate music in class, so I made a gap fill for "Proud" - a ...
I taught the students about the structure of a newspaper article, specifically using the inverted triangle. I then divided the class into groups and asked them to write a news article together. I ...
This is a video session practice on the movie Seven for students to get a general idea of the plot and to keep track of the different pieces of evidence they should remember when retelling the sto ...
This is a 2-page worksheet for pre-intermediate students on sea creatures related vocabulary. The first page is a picture dictionary which can also be used as a study sheet and the second page has ...
This is a simple word search where students can review vocabulary related to the weather, calendar, days of the week, and seasons. After they find the word they have to write it under the correct ...
This is a simple "fill in the gaps" exercise made with the song "green eyes" by Coldplay. Students will enjoy listening to this song while trying to find the right word that goes with each sentenc ...
Younger students will have fun meeting and colouring (they can paint the original colours or maybe their flag colours) the 2012 Olympic (Wenlock) and Paralympic (Mandeville) Mascots. You can also ...
This is a worksheet for elementary students on public places related vocabulary, giving directions and prepositions. The first page is basically just a study sheet with some grammar explanations a ...
This is a guide for adolescents who are elementary students. It's quite simple to do, they listen to the song and put the words in the correct place. First, I elicited the meanings of the words ad ...
A two-page Word document. Children answer questions about pictures of four rooms in a house. Suitable for revising vocabulary items such as rooms in a house, furniture, objects, colours; and gramm ...
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