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 game of crosses and naughts for students who study countries and nationalities but instead of grids there are pictures of diffrent countries and people who live there. If a student wants ...
This is a very simple power point for teaching or revising cooking verbs. Recommended for elementary students. BASIC cooking verbs and Utensils, for a basic RECIPE, useful to practice first and ...
A worksheet to do whilst watching Fawlty Towers 'A Touch of Class' episode. Some comprehension questions (a few with multiple choice answers) and some vocabulary. I did this worksheet with an elem ...
It's a reading task, with vocabulary and use of English exercises as well as a writing activity everything on the topic "London". The reading task has two parts, firstly, students have to match ea ...
I have tried this activity when teaching feelings. I cut out the adjectives/feelings cards. I read out a story. I would pause after a few sentences. The children had to show the respective cards ...
Texts are on the topic of the history of America, develop reading and comprehensive skills of pupils, check their ability to understand given information and readiness to answer the questions to t ...
This is a worksheet for teaching jobs and occupations related vocabulary. Students are asked to study the new vocabulary, find the words in the puzzle and then match them with the pictures.
This is a worksheet for teaching jobs and professions related vocabulary. Recommend for pre-intermediate students who are asked to study the words, find then in the puzzle and finally match the w ...
This worksheet was designed for students in Year 1. They will identify the healthy foods on the worksheet then write and draw what their favourite healthy food is. After discussions about healthy ...
This worksheet consists of 2 exercises dealing with healthy/unhealthy food and habits. In 1 there are 20 pictures that the students have to name and put into the correct column: healthy /unhealthy ...
This is a very simple worksheet for revising bathroom related vocabulary. Students are asked to find the words in the puzzle and then label the picture. The worksheet is recommended for elementar ...
Here is a boardgame for teaching or revising colours related vocabulary. Recommended for elementary students who are asked to make a sentence using the picture clue provided on the square where t ...
This is a worksheet for teaching or revising house related vocabulary. Recommended for intermediate students who are asked to match the words given with the pictures.
Do the the pre-watching activities with the students. Watch the video called "How it's made - Potato chips". While watching, students do the next set of acitivities. After watching, students do th ...
Watch the video from Youtube and then read the worksheet. When watching it for the second time pause after each section and do the exercises on the worksheet. I hope you will have fun.
This is a listening worksheet. As students listen, they put paragraphs in the correct order. When they listen to the song again, they focus on filling the gaps with words next to the paragraph. To ...
20 sentences, some of which are grammatically correct and some of which aren't. Put ss into groups and give them the sheet; give them some time to look at the sentences and decide which are correc ...
Simple boardgame for revising weather vocabulary. Students name the type of weather that they land on, and go up the rainbows and down the lightning bolts. Fully adaptable. Vocabulary: hot, cold, ...
This is a very simple worksheet for teaching or revising clothes related vocabulary and order of adjectives. Recommended for pre-intermediate students who are asked to complete sentences putting ...
This is a worksheet for teaching countries related vocabulary. Recommended for elementary students who are asked to study the new vocabulary and then find the the words in the word search puzzle. ...
This worksheet is designed to help identify parts and structure of simple information texts. While the reading text is specifically on Turtles, it is meant to be a stepping stone to apply its com ...
This worksheet is a test in which you have a reading comprehension activity, use of english and writing, where students have to use the three tenses, past simple, past continuous and present perfe ...
This worksheet is based on the following video (see below).
Students watch the video in full and then in shorter parts while filling in the activities.
The worksheet introduces the topic of science and technology. It describes various gadgets invented and involve a discussion about the advantages and disadvantages of scientific and technological ...
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