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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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Kitchen Bingo

Kitchen Bingo

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 ...
31 Views 38,834 IntAdv
UK Bingo

UK Bingo

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 ...
6 Views 13,549 BegElem
The Olympic Flag

The Olympic Flag

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 ...
14 Views 14,757 Beg
Who's Who/Guess Who - Adult Version

Who's Who/Guess Who - Adult Version

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 ...
9 Views 30,861 BegElemPre-Int
Vocabulary Domino for the Text

Vocabulary Domino for the Text "Eye Contact"

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 ...
6 Views 8,956 Pre-IntIntAdv
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Test for Beginner/Elementary Level

Test for Beginner/Elementary Level

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 ...
22 Views 25,945 BegElem
Olympic Country Profiles Activity (Country Profiles)

Olympic Country Profiles Activity (Country Profiles)

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 ...
4 Views 11,177 Pre-IntInt
Olympic Country Profiles Activity (Worksheet Version 1)

Olympic Country Profiles Activity (Worksheet Version 1)

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 ...
3 Views 11,572 Pre-IntInt
Short Video Worksheet for Adults: Cookie Monster in the Library

Short Video Worksheet for Adults: Cookie Monster in the Library

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 ...
10 Views 11,697 BegElem
Everyday Items Bingo - Adult Students

Everyday Items Bingo - Adult Students

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 ...
16 Views 32,889 ElemPre-Int
Human Body and Describing People

Human Body and Describing People

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 ...
7 Views 18,750 Elem
Olympic Games: Comparatives and Superlatives

Olympic Games: Comparatives and Superlatives

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 ...
41 Views 74,541 Elem
Song Worksheet: Haven't Met You Yet by Michael Bublé

Song Worksheet: Haven't Met You Yet by Michael Bublé

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 ...
13 Views 38,342 Int
Person and Country Boardgame

Person and Country Boardgame

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 ...
10 Views 17,128 Adv
Spelling Worksheet

Spelling Worksheet

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 ...
3 Views 10,151 Elem
London 2012 Olympics Song -

London 2012 Olympics Song - "Proud" by Heather Small

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 ...
6 Views 14,675 Pre-IntInt
Newspaper Writing Guidesheet

Newspaper Writing Guidesheet

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 ...
9 Views 31,527 IntAdv
Movie Worksheet: Se7en

Movie Worksheet: Se7en

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 ...
4 Views 14,905 IntAdv
Sea Creatures Worksheet

Sea Creatures Worksheet

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 ...
5 Views 9,701 Pre-IntInt
Calendar and Greetings Word Search

Calendar and Greetings Word Search

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 ...
5 Views 14,333 Elem
Song Worksheet: Green Eyes by Coldplay

Song Worksheet: Green Eyes by Coldplay

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 ...
3 Views 20,313 All
London 2012 Mascots

London 2012 Mascots

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 ...
3 Views 8,106 Beg
Public Places, Giving Directions and Prepositions Worksheet

Public Places, Giving Directions and Prepositions Worksheet

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 ...
34 Views 102,718 Elem
Song Worksheet: Umbrella by Rihanna

Song Worksheet: Umbrella by Rihanna

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 ...
6 Views 14,022 ElemPre-Int
Rooms!

Rooms!

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 ...
29 Views 25,826 BegElem

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