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.
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This is a fun activity to revise common adjectives of description. There is a picture of a famous person on one side of the domino and an adjective on the other side. As with normal dominoes, the ...
This worksheet scaffolds writing for students who have learned some adjectives of description. They are given ideas for a person/character to describe and some adjectives to use, or the opportunit ...
The worksheet contains 5 different activities for the same song: fill in the gap with the word you hear, complete with the words from the box, number the lines in the correct order, choose the wor ...
I used this song to discuss bullying with an advanced group. It is a very interesting song to discuss this issue since the singer describes how other kids bullied her when she was a little girl an ...
When teaching an Animals Unit this will be useful to learn, explain and use Animals Habitats vocabulary. This is a fun and interesting way not only to know new vocabulary but to learn it by repeat ...
Match each part of a house: choose the correct part to put the numbers into the table. Work with a partner or alone to do this activity. The picture contains some parts of the house to practice in ...
A webquest about basic facts of Scotland: geography, population, historical facts, famous personalities, bands and singers, etc. Kids are asked to answer questions and complete sentences thanks to ...
This is a current events activity using the passive voice. Students will read the information and then create passive voice questions and answers for discussion. Two examples are given. It can be ...
This worksheet provides cliparts so that students can practise modal verbs of obligation (must- musn't - can't) in the classroom. They can stick it on a cardboard and write the rules. Then they ca ...
The worksheet is based on a cheerful song "Lautar" by a Moldovan singer Pasha Parfeny, who took part in Eurovision Song Contest 2012 in Baku. The worksheet contains blanks and explanations or exer ...
This is a worksheet for teaching drinks related vocabulary. There is a picture dictionary which can also be used as a study sheet followed by a pretty simple matching activity.
This is a worksheet for revising giving directions and places in town related vocabulary. Students are asked to look at the map and give directions. Recommended for elementary students.
Two dice for revising colours related vocabulary. Recommended for elementary students who are asked to to roll both dice and then make a sentence by using the picture clue provided.
This worksheet uses words from Madonna's "Love Profusion" so students are able to practice countable and uncountable nouns.
I'd reccommend first having the students fill out the chart, ...
This worksheet is composed of various photographs representing Egypt. It can be used as warm-up activity, ice-breaker before discussion about travelling. Students can be asked to find the similari ...
This "Events and time" worksheet will help students to create their own sentences about different events. Also, learners will practice "time" by writing 'time' in two ways. In addition, you c ...
Some of my pre-intermediate level students wanted me to make a worksheet with this song because they love it so much. I had a listen, and I instantly fell for it too! The singer goes a bit fast, b ...
A fun worksheet to practice the family members and the genitive 's with your students. look at the family tree and identify the names of the family members (Anne and Paul Mason's relatives).
This worksheet provides various sentences/phrases that may be used in a phone dialogue. I played the telephone game with my class as a warmer, and then we went over some phone vocabulary together ...
This worksheet has a crossword about animals. Students have to complete the crossword by reading the sentences underneath the crossword. Each sentence gives information about each animal of the cr ...
With this worksheet students can practice the simple present tense by filling the blanks with the correct information about the animals of the pictures. This worksheet has several pictures of ani ...
A list of sections in the restaurant (in the dining room, in the toilets, in the kitchen, in the bar), there is the word and then the explanation in Spanish. This is a very interesting list for st ...
A very funny way to teach your pupils/students about wild animals. You can also practise some structures such as It has got, It likes, It can, It lives. Here are the videos:
This is a very simple worksheet for teaching rooms in the house, prepositions and furniture related vocabulary. Recommended for elementary students who are asked to label the picture and fill in ...
This is a 2-page picture dictionary which can also be used as a classroom language poster for teaching body language related vocabulary. Available in both colour and black and white version.
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