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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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The Marquis and Miss Sally: Short Story Worksheet [O. Henry]

The Marquis and Miss Sally: Short Story Worksheet [O. Henry]

The worksheet contains a short story by O. Henry (The Marquis and Miss Sally) with several assignments to check students` understanding and help them learn lexical material the story provides. ...
8 Views 12,560 AdvExam
Living & Non-Living

Living & Non-Living

The lesson plan and worksheet are attached for Kindergarten level for Living and Non-Living determination. The worksheet can be used for remediation or assessment. The worksheet shows pictures o ...
2 Views 10,161 BegElem
What Color Is Your ...? Interview

What Color Is Your ...? Interview

Kids love asking questions and coloring :) In this activity children walk around the class, choose a partner and ask about the color of their school objects - "What color is your (eraser)?" Then, ...
9 Views 13,734 Beg
Song Worksheet: I'm Only Me When I'm With You by Tailor Swift

Song Worksheet: I'm Only Me When I'm With You by Tailor Swift

Songs are a great opportunity of grasping everyday english and expressions we hardly ever find in books. In this worksheet, students complete the lyrics of the song by both choosing the correct ph ...
1 Views 6,229 Pre-IntIntAdv
Describing Physical Appearance

Describing Physical Appearance

It's a collection of useful vocabulary items necessary to describe people's physical appearance. It can be used in compositions or speaking activities. I usually give out a photocopy and explain t ...
20 Views 98,237 Int
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Song Worksheet: What A Wonderful World by Louis Armstrong [Alternative]

Song Worksheet: What A Wonderful World by Louis Armstrong [Alternative]

The worksheet presents the song by Louis Armstrong "What a Wonderful World" with blanks which the students have to fill in with the words connected with colours. The words to fill in are provided ...
12 Views 45,981 BegElemPre-Int
The Future

The Future

Hi everyone! This is a fun worksheet to use at the end of your lesson or to practice the future. First teach the pupils the rules. The pupils receive a worksheet. There they can find plans of dif ...
13 Views 20,014 Pre-IntInt
Nouns, Adjectives, Verbs

Nouns, Adjectives, Verbs

The tasks help students to revise word building (forming adjectives from nouns; making adjectives with prefixes im-, in-, il-, dis-; making adjectives adding ed/ing, describing things and people ...
12 Views 39,181 Pre-IntInt
Animals: Complete Beginner Vocabulary Worksheet

Animals: Complete Beginner Vocabulary Worksheet

This is an useful complete beginner vocabulary worksheet, with pictures, to teach young learners about different kind of animals and their names. I am using this worksheet with my two groups of s ...
21 Views 19,911 Beg
Before, At and After School

Before, At and After School

Reading activtiy about what students do before, at and after school. They cut and glue the pictures to complete the text about a student' s day. Finally, they read the text again ans answer questi ...
22 Views 12,313 Elem
Natural Disasters Worksheet

Natural Disasters Worksheet

By introducing this worksheet into your classes, students will have fun learning natural disasters related vocabulary. There is a picture dictionary followed by a matching activity.
24 Views 94,449 ElemPre-Int
Spring PowerPoint Presentation

Spring PowerPoint Presentation

This is a fully animated PowerPoint presentation with audio for revising spring related vocabulary. There is a vocabulary lesson followed by a multiple choice activity.
24 Views 35,421 BegElem
Spot The Differences

Spot The Differences

Find the difference in the two pictures of Frosty, the snowman, taken this winter. Complete the sentences with the given vocabulary. Students read the statement, find the corresponding information ...
33 Views 34,087 BegElem
Song Worksheet: Call Me Maybe by Carly Rae Jepsen

Song Worksheet: Call Me Maybe by Carly Rae Jepsen

This activity contains fill in the gaps exercises, identify the mistake in the sentence, organize the sentence. It's fun and very easy to understand! You can use it for beginner level students. & ...
14 Views 22,364 BegElem
Movie Worksheet: Partly Cloudy

Movie Worksheet: Partly Cloudy

I used this worksheet for my intermediate students. Before watching the video (Partly Cloudy, a Pixar CGI animated short film directed by Peter Sohn) the students get acquainted with the main hero ...
14 Views 27,545 IntAdv
Describing People

Describing People

Contains most of the target language and some photos for better visualization. At the end students have to describe famous people. Feel free to change the photos of celebrities (e.g. to ones famou ...
29 Views 28,255 ElemPre-Int
Personal Profile: Simple Present Worksheet

Personal Profile: Simple Present Worksheet

It is a simple worksheet to work simple present tense writing about personal facts. You can find different types of activities to practise the verbal tense. Moreover, you will find a reading compr ...
32 Views 89,206 Elem
Movie Worksheet: The Amazing Adventures of Mr. Bean

Movie Worksheet: The Amazing Adventures of Mr. Bean

One can use this worksheet together with Mr. Bean 'The examination' video (10-minute clip) to teach some personality traits/temporary state of mind adjectives and prepositions that go with them, e ...
8 Views 16,957 Int
Movie Worksheet: Patch Adams Project

Movie Worksheet: Patch Adams Project

Some activities based on the film Patch Adams for Pre-Intermediate and Intermediate students. Activities include ordering the events in the film, some comprehension questions and adjectives for de ...
5 Views 20,940 Pre-IntInt
Song Worksheet: Who Needs Love? by Razorlight

Song Worksheet: Who Needs Love? by Razorlight

The worksheet consists of 3 tasks: filling in the gaps, correcting the mistakes in lyrics and putting the lines in correct order. I would also recommend translating the lyrics with the students in ...
3 Views 7,307 Pre-IntInt
Quiz: Titanic, the movie (with answers)

Quiz: Titanic, the movie (with answers)

Since we're commemorating the 100th anniversary of the Titanic tragedy, after doing a quiz on the historical facts (available on this website in my publications), I made up this quiz on the movie, ...
7 Views 16,761 Pre-IntIntAdv
Quiz on the Titanic (the real, historical one!) [WITH ANSWERS]

Quiz on the Titanic (the real, historical one!) [WITH ANSWERS]

Since we're commemorating the 100th anniversary of the sinking of the Titanic, I thought it would be interesting to talk about the real events, (using worksheets found here!) and as a warmer, I de ...
4 Views 11,281 Pre-IntIntAdv
Real Conversation Questions

Real Conversation Questions

With adults or young adults in mind, this sheet is a selection of questions that English speakers will often ask or be asked on first introductions. This could act as a prompt for a role play or ...
48 Views 64,071 Pre-IntIntAdv
Natural Disasters

Natural Disasters

It is a matching activity to teach natural disasters. Students will learn the kinds of natural disasters via pictures. It is suitable for elementary and pre intermediate students. You can ask ques ...
16 Views 50,457 ElemPre-Int
The RCMP

The RCMP

This is a intermediate/upper intermediate reading on the RCMP from the Encylopedia of Canada website. Questions after different sections for comprehension and images to keep the interest. Possibl ...
5 Views 11,959 IntAdv

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