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 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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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. ...
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, ...
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 - ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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