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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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Restaurant Role Play

Restaurant Role Play

This is a role play for paired students of mixed proficiency. One student plays a customer who finds a cockroach in their food while the other student plays the waiter. Depending on their speaking ...
42 Views 86,551 Int
Selling Ice to Eskimos - Persuasive Language Worksheet

Selling Ice to Eskimos - Persuasive Language Worksheet

A handout for teaching persuasive speaking skills Gives examples of different kinds of phrases and language used to convince, influence and sell. It can be used to teach debating and persuasion sk ...
19 Views 29,266 IntAdv
Song Worksheet: You're My Everything by Santa Esmeralda

Song Worksheet: You're My Everything by Santa Esmeralda

This is a gap-filling listening activity for the song Ýou're My Everything' by Santa Esmeralda. Hope you enjoy it!
7 Views 6,660 Pre-Int
Second Conditional Song Worksheet: If I Had A Million Dollars by Barenaked Ladies

Second Conditional Song Worksheet: If I Had A Million Dollars by Barenaked Ladies

Use this worksheet to teach/review second conditional with the song If I had a million dollars by Barenaked Ladies. There are three exercises for your students to practise the second conditional. ...
10 Views 29,613 Pre-Int
Abilities Worksheet: Let's Talk About Animals

Abilities Worksheet: Let's Talk About Animals

Grammar - controlled practice Students will be practicing the modal verb can (abilities) associated with the vocabulary of animals to talk about the things animals can or can't do. Afterwards they ...
15 Views 56,166 Elem
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Disasters PowerPoint

Disasters PowerPoint

This PowerPoint presentation could be rather useful while practicing vocabulary. It includes definitions and colorful pictures of some natural disasters and a word search box to check. The presen ...
27 Views 49,782 Pre-Int
Health And Body Taboo

Health And Body Taboo

It is a definition-speaking game. We define the words at the top without using the ones under them. It is great for speaking and we all enjoy it. We print it in cardboard or laminate it and cut th ...
42 Views 59,021 IntAdv
Crime Word Search

Crime Word Search

This is a simple worksheet with words dealing with criminal investigation. It can be used as one of the activities the aim of which is checking the students' understanding of crime-related vocabul ...
4 Views 13,176 Int
Sports Equipment Worksheet

Sports Equipment Worksheet

This is a simple matching activity for teaching or revising sports equipment related vocabulary. Recommended for elementary students who are asked to match the words given with the pictures.
16 Views 32,051 Elem
Types of Films Worksheet

Types of Films Worksheet

This is a worksheet for teaching types of films related vocabulary. There is a picture dictionary which can also be used as a study sheet followed by a pretty easy matching activity. The workshee ...
19 Views 38,819 ElemPre-Int
Let's Go To The Grocery Store!

Let's Go To The Grocery Store!

It's a "daily life" at the supermarket. Teach the students about the supermarket sections and some vocabulary (all of them are on the worksheet), before going to the grocery store. The activity is ...
13 Views 29,733 Elem
Present Continuous Crossword

Present Continuous Crossword

This worksheet is about Present Continuous tense practice for kids who are learning with Let's Go 2 by Oxford University Press. It 's very useful for people at beginning level of English. This han ...
19 Views 45,016 Beg
Movie Worksheet: Over The Hedge

Movie Worksheet: Over The Hedge

This activity was developed to teach young learners the variety of animals there are in the film. This film is about a bunch of animals that out of the blue realize a hedge in a place that used to ...
5 Views 13,002 ElemPre-Int
The USA And American Culture Lesson Plan

The USA And American Culture Lesson Plan

This is basically the beginning of a whole sequence about the USA and its culture. It was made for Belgian students (beginners-14/15 years old). The purpose of this sequence is to learn more about ...
17 Views 32,184 Pre-Int
Song Worksheet: Crazy Over Vegetables by Eric Herman

Song Worksheet: Crazy Over Vegetables by Eric Herman

This worksheet goes with the song "Crazy Over Vegetables" sung by Eric Herman and practices the names of vegetables. This worksheet has all the names of the vegetables in a box and they have to fi ...
11 Views 10,846 ElemPre-Int
Offering Directions

Offering Directions

This exercise teaches ways to ask and give directions in town. It shows maps and guides the students through it using animated arrows - my students appreciated it very much. It is a good idea to u ...
20 Views 17,736 Elem
Fruit Memory Game

Fruit Memory Game

This is a fruit memory game. The students are supposed to paint the fruits and write their names on the small pieces of paper. After that, they can cut the pieces and glue them on a thicker kind o ...
17 Views 40,480 BegElem
Fruit Vocabulary Worksheet

Fruit Vocabulary Worksheet

Fruit Vocabulary worksheet. This worksheet can be used as one page of a Picture Dictionary made by the students. Students can write the names of the fruits and color them. All extra pages (such as ...
18 Views 62,134 BegElem
Song Worksheet: The Rock Show by Blink 182 [Past Simple]

Song Worksheet: The Rock Show by Blink 182 [Past Simple]

Fun song, students listen for correct answers and fill in the blanks with the past simple forms of the given verbs. Also includes match-up exercises with colloquial/difficult phrases which appear ...
5 Views 10,229 Pre-IntInt
Body Parts Revision Worksheet

Body Parts Revision Worksheet

Revision of parts of a body and regular and irregular plural of some of them. Suitable for beginners and elementary students.
9 Views 17,321 BegElem
Sypmtoms PowerPoint

Sypmtoms PowerPoint

PowerPoint game practicing symptoms and illnesses where students choose a number from one to twelve and guess what it wrong with a person on the picture. Good way to practise new vocabulary relate ...
14 Views 29,818 BegElem
Song Worksheet: Somebody That I Used to Know by Walk Off the Earth [Subject/Verb Agreement]

Song Worksheet: Somebody That I Used to Know by Walk Off the Earth [Subject/Verb Agreement]

I use this for my TOEFL class when we work on subject/verb agreement (the verbs are in present and past tense). I do NOT pre-teach the vocabulary as I want them to get used to getting meaning from ...
13 Views 29,678 Pre-IntIntAdvExam
Telling The Time

Telling The Time

A pair work to review and tell the time. The students work in pairs and they ask each other the time. Ask students to choose a clock without telling their partner which clock it is. They have to ...
27 Views 43,946 Elem
Countries and Nationalities

Countries and Nationalities

This is a ppt activity for practising countries and nationalities. First students see a photo and then they have to guess the country it is associated with, and then tell the nationality. There ar ...
23 Views 37,064 Elem
Parts of the Body: Classroom Poster

Parts of the Body: Classroom Poster

This is a classroom poster which can also be used as a picture dictionary or a study sheet on parts of the body related vocabulary. The poster is available in both colour and black and white version.
29 Views 44,212 ElemPre-Int

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