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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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Movie Worksheet: Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

Movie Worksheet: Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

This is a worksheet designed to work with 10 - 12 year -old students while watching the movie. It focuses on rhymes, word families, indoor and outdoor activities, adectives and physical descriptio ...
12 Views 17,510 Elem
Comparatives and Superlatives Worksheet: Preserving Our Planet

Comparatives and Superlatives Worksheet: Preserving Our Planet"

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 ...
14 Views 24,681 Pre-Int
Food (Advanced Learners) + Answer Key

Food (Advanced Learners) + Answer Key

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 ...
10 Views 13,954 AdvExam
Song Worksheet: Loving You by Aloe Blacc

Song Worksheet: Loving You by Aloe Blacc

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 ...
4 Views 9,069 Pre-IntInt
Christmas: PowerPoint Presentation

Christmas: PowerPoint Presentation

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. ...
25 Views 35,657 ElemPre-IntIntAdv
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Song Worksheet: How to Save a Life by The Fray

Song Worksheet: How to Save a Life by The Fray

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 ...
3 Views 11,826 IntAdv
Idioms About Polite Behaviour

Idioms About Polite Behaviour

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 ...
10 Views 29,647 Int
Holidays Elementary Worksheet

Holidays Elementary Worksheet

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 ...
6 Views 24,841 Elem
Sports Elementary Flashcards

Sports Elementary Flashcards

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 ...
26 Views 21,914 BegElem
Telling the Time Elementary Worsheet

Telling the Time Elementary Worsheet

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 ...
21 Views 16,964 BegElem
How Long... It Take.... (you/him/her/...) to ...?

How Long... It Take.... (you/him/her/...) to ...?

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 ...
11 Views 7,800 Int
What Colour Is...?

What Colour Is...?

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 ...
7 Views 18,229 BegElem
Make a Sentence!

Make a Sentence!

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.. ...
16 Views 12,840 BegElemPre-Int
The Face Elementary Worksheet

The Face Elementary Worksheet

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 ...
6 Views 17,558 Elem
Phrasal Verbs with For Worksheet

Phrasal Verbs with For Worksheet

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 ...
19 Views 21,470 Pre-IntInt
Olympic Sports Wordsearch

Olympic Sports Wordsearch

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 ...
7 Views 17,668 ElemPre-Int
7 NEW Back-to-School Ideas for a Great Class: Poster

7 NEW Back-to-School Ideas for a Great Class: Poster

Check out 7 new back-to-school lesson ideas, they may save you some time! Below please find our third high quality print-friendly Back To School poster. We encourage you to download and print ...
15 Views 98,961 All
Superlative Speaking Cards

Superlative Speaking Cards

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 ...
37 Views 65,633 Pre-IntInt
Song Worksheet: Lose Yourself by Eminem

Song Worksheet: Lose Yourself by Eminem

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 ...
13 Views 57,580 IntAdv
Storytelling:

Storytelling: "Monkey Puzzle" Animals

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 ...
14 Views 14,404 ElemPre-Int
Summer Fun Classroom Poster

Summer Fun Classroom Poster

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 ...
18 Views 68,438 ElemPre-Int
Cooking Verbs Worksheet

Cooking Verbs Worksheet

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 ...
28 Views 75,186 ElemPre-Int
Song Worksheet: Love Song by The Cure

Song Worksheet: Love Song by The Cure

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 ...
3 Views 13,460 ElemPre-IntInt
Chores

Chores

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 ...
8 Views 7,983 ElemPre-Int
Dates, Months & Numbers

Dates, Months & Numbers

Students will have the opportunity to practise numbers , months & dates in a fun way.
28 Views 106,195 BegElem

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