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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This is a worsheet for teaching comparatives and superlatives. There is a conversation with some comprehension questions, there is also a chart with an explanation about comparatives and superlati ...
This food worksheet includes a speaking task, two vocabulary exercices and a proverb activity. Really useful to spread the vocabulary learners may have. This worksheet is focused on ways of cookin ...
This worksheet offers a gap fill activity, a present simple / present continous activity, an irregular verbs activity, a speaking activity (students imagine her side of the story and come up with ...
The presentation contains vocabulary practice connected with X-mas time. First students try to guess what they see in the picture. It is followed by a short quiz consisting of fourteen questions. ...
This worksheet includes a warm-up speaking activity, a fill-in exercise recycling most of the verb tenses and a post-listening task where students are asked to create a happiness mind map. This s ...
Four common idioms in English to do with politeness: the done thing- mind your p's and q's- excuse my French - bow and scrape. They are explained and there is space to practise their usage. This ...
This is a pretty simple worksheet for teaching or revising holidays related vocabulary at elementary level. There is an easy activity in which students are asked to complete different sentences wi ...
This is a set of 33 high quality cards / flashcards for teaching or revising sports related vocabulary. They are excellent for vocabulary building and discussion practice! Challenge your students ...
This is a worksheet for teaching or revising telling the time. It includes a picture dictionary which can also be used as a study sheet followed a pretty simple matching activity in which students ...
This worksheet is useful to practice How long ...(duration of activities and tenses ...)
It's an exercise with questions about duration of daily activities. You can develop a conversation about i ...
A worksheet with two exercises practising ten colours from the Basic colours handout Exercise one = ten sentences to fill in the colour: 1. Grass is 2. The moon is 3. The walls are Exerci ...
A simple worksheet containing a set of 30 images to be used as a warmer or filler. Cut the pictures into cards. Ss put them face down. Then they take turns and according to their level, they can.. ...
This is a simple and easy worksheet for teaching or revising the parts of the face. Students are asked to label the picture and then draw the parts of the face following the directions as given. T ...
This is a 2-page worksheet for intermediate students on phrasal verbs with for. There is a study sheet with colourful illustrations followed by 2 different activities in which students are asked t ...
This is a wordsearch using some olympic sports vocabulary. It can be used for a beginners / pre-intermediate level, or for children. It contains 12 words such as weight lifting, fencing, relay rac ...
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This is a fun follow-up speaking activity for practising superlatives. There are 24 cards. Cut them and give one to each student. They should answer the question: 'Who's the ... student in the cla ...
This listening gap-fill and speaking activity sheet is designed to help students learn and detect some common idioms and expressions as well as giving them some informal English. It works well as ...
This worksheet contains a story and a set of pictures that can be used in order to teach or revise the names of certain animals and also the parts of their bodies. There are also two lesson plans ...
With this colourful classroom poster students will learn 22 new words related with summer: sun, bag, flip-flops,lifebelt, ball, hat, snorkel, mask, t-shirt, wave, sun lotion, sand, sand castle, et ...
This is a worksheet for revising cooking verbs. There is a picture dictionary which can also be used as a study sheet followed by a pretty easy matching activity. The worksheet is available in dif ...
A relatively simple vocabulary and sentence worksheet but with good discussion questions and the end. The vocabulary exercise helps the student practice noticing slight differences between very si ...
This worksheet contains chores vocabulary and present simple tense. There are four different activities: reading, a combination related to the vocabulary, speaking and writing. Teachers can edit i ...