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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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Olympic Song: This is 2012

Olympic Song: This is 2012

First, students watch the video "This is 2012" by the Glory Boys and listen to the song. They have to use the lyrics to solve the activities. In order to understand this song it is necessary to l ...
14 Views 10,928 Pre-Int
Camping Wordsearch Puzzle

Camping Wordsearch Puzzle

This is a wordsearch puzzle for teaching or revising camping related vocabulary. Recommended for elementary students who are asked to find the words in the puzzle and then match them with the pict ...
17 Views 59,838 Elem
Animals and Present Simple Worksheet

Animals and Present Simple Worksheet

This is a worksheet for revising both animals related vocabulary and the present simple tense. There are 2 pages with activities in which students are asked to make questions and then choose the c ...
8 Views 26,153 Elem
Ailments and Injuries Worksheet

Ailments and Injuries Worksheet

This is a 2-page worksheet for teaching ailments and injuries related vocabulary. There´s a picture dictionary which can also be used as a study sheet followed by a decoding activity. The wo ...
13 Views 31,251 ElemPre-Int
Shapes and Colors

Shapes and Colors

This is a worksheet to review shapes and colors. It can be used a few days after you have teached these topics, so you can see if your students remember the vocabulary. Students are asked to put t ...
12 Views 18,131 BegElem
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Jobs Queue

Jobs Queue

Jobs Queue [Job Line Up] by Ron Lewis I use this after my ESL students have completed other worksheets and practiced speaking with jobs flashcards. This ...
9 Views 8,856 Pre-IntIntAdv
Healthy Habits Word Search

Healthy Habits Word Search

It's an excellent warm up. This crossword is about personal care items.  Enjoy it..
8 Views 22,950 BegElem
Sun Behind a Cloud

Sun Behind a Cloud

This is a very simple activity where children can color, cut and fold two images (sun, cloud raining). Once this craft is ready, they'll be able to hide the sun behind a cloud. The idea is to crea ...
9 Views 9,537 Beg
Jewerelly and Accessories Worksheet

Jewerelly and Accessories Worksheet

This is a worksheet for teaching Jewerelly and Accessories related vocabulary. There are 3 activities in which students are asked to match the words given with the pictures and write a small compo ...
9 Views 9,104 Pre-IntInt
What's the Hobby?

What's the Hobby?

This ws consists of 20 pictures, 20 sentences and a list with 20 hobbies. The students have to write the name of the hobby under the correct picture and then match the hobbies & the sentences. ...
18 Views 22,195 ElemPre-IntInt
Movie Worksheet: The Big Bang Theory [The Large Hadron Collision]

Movie Worksheet: The Big Bang Theory [The Large Hadron Collision]

The Big Bang Theory - Valentine's Day Leonard gets a trip to Switzerland to meet the Large Hadron Collision and decides to take Penny with him, since it's Valentine's Day. Sheldon hates the idea, ...
10 Views 25,367 ElemPre-IntIntAdv
Green Lantern Movie Activity

Green Lantern Movie Activity

Simple activity to be done after seeing the movie.The first execise is very simple, just to choose the best alternative. The second one is to complete the Green Lantern's Oath, and the third one - ...
2 Views 6,753 ElemPre-Int
Short Quiz

Short Quiz

This is a short quiz for an ESL English course I gave this June in Summer school. This worksheet contains types of sentences: declarative, imperative, interrogative, and exclamatory. It also has a ...
8 Views 13,229 BegElemPre-IntInt
Toys (Circle and Word Search)

Toys (Circle and Word Search)

I'm working with the book "Little Bugs 1", I created this worksheet for students to recognize toys studied previously. There are two activities, in the first one, students need to circle the toy d ...
7 Views 9,601 Elem
What Are The Wild Animals Doing?

What Are The Wild Animals Doing?

The pupils watch and describe safari pictures using the present continuous. I added some phonetics to practise saying the names of some wild animals (zebras, leopards, giraffes, lions etc...). Thi ...
13 Views 11,984 ElemPre-Int
Phonetic Chart for British English: Vowels & Diphthongs

Phonetic Chart for British English: Vowels & Diphthongs

A good chart is hard to find – too boring or too distracting in my experience. I’ve tried to strike a balance between functional and attractive. After years of teaching I still think ...
20 Views 33,256 All
Who's Better?

Who's Better?

Excellent to practice comparatives. "Who's Better?" is a worksheet to be used with the video at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SogBz3aAle0. Ss will enjoy watching two teen dancers perform in the s ...
11 Views 19,882 BegElemPre-IntInt
Rowan Atkinson's Biography

Rowan Atkinson's Biography

Mr. Bean's real identity is revealed. This worksheet contains Rowan Atkinson's biography as well as reading comprehension questions and the key. This worksheet was designed for Mexican ELL's in th ...
11 Views 18,283 BegPre-Int
Personality Adjectives Worksheet

Personality Adjectives Worksheet

This is a worksheet suitable for intermediate students on personality adjectives. There are two different activities in which students are asked to match the adjectives with their opposites and fi ...
13 Views 40,274 Pre-IntInt
Clothes Vocabulary Worksheet

Clothes Vocabulary Worksheet

A power point presentation to teach about clothes vocabulary, colors and how to describe what people are wearing. The last two slides are activities to reinforce the content. In the first activity ...
34 Views 90,956 BegElemPre-Int
Countries and Nationalities

Countries and Nationalities

A power point with famous people from all over the world to teach about countries and nationalities. The teacher can use it to review the names of the countries and the nationalities of people who ...
36 Views 45,350 ElemPre-IntInt
Family Members Puzzle Game

Family Members Puzzle Game

By providing the students with a picture of The Simpson's Family tree, they have to look carefully in order to find out what the mistery word is. This activity can be used as a warm up or revision ...
11 Views 25,313 Beg
Adult and Baby Animal Names: Matching Activity

Adult and Baby Animal Names: Matching Activity

This is a worksheet where students have to match the name of an animal to what you call the baby version of the animal - "bear" and "cub," for example. There are 14 animals in all. I made this for ...
9 Views 25,066 ElemPre-IntInt
Song Worksheet: Lemon Tree by Fool's Garden

Song Worksheet: Lemon Tree by Fool's Garden

If you are teaching the present continiuos tense and adding -ing to infinitives, this song is ggreat fun for elementary and preintermediate students. I am sure that you will enjoy this song by Foo ...
14 Views 36,700 ElemPre-Int
Video Worksheet: Medical Tourism

Video Worksheet: Medical Tourism

This worksheet is based on the video programme about medical tourism. The cartoon images make it even more interesting to watch. The previewing activities can include a short discussion on various ...
6 Views 19,718 IntAdv

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