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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It's a song by Miley Cyrus that I prepared for my intermediate students. It has two different excercises: correct the mistakes and fill in the blanks. It is good for the Earth day. You can have a ...
Get the young learners a set of vocabulary about nature. It covers the elements and landmarks we might see in the nature, such as river, waterfall, flower, etc. Let the students write those words ...
This is a list of idioms related to weather. You can use this worksheet to introduce them to your students or let them guess what the idioms mean and then discuss their ideas in a class. Both the ...
It's a vocabulary lesson during which studens learn how to describe physical appearances. Can be a lot of fun. Start the lesson with an activity that will pre-activate students' knowledge. Make su ...
Betting game is similar to grammar auction. Students need to decide whether the sentences are correct or wrong and bet between 10 and 100 points on each sentence. This one is designed for revising ...
This is a very simple matching activity for teaching or revising cooking verbs. Recommended for elementary students who are asked to match the verbs with the pictures.
This is a worksheet for revising computer related vocabulary. There is a picture dictionary followed by a wordsearch puzzle. The worksheet is available in both colour and black and white version.
Create an inspiring environment and encourage learning with this amazing days of the week poster. Recommended for elementary students but it can easily be adapted for older students.
This is a reading comprehension worksheet for intermediate students who are asked to read text, match each word / phrase with its equivalent in the context of the text, fill in the table with the ...
This worksheet may fit beginners and help them practice the simple future in a fun way as it starts with a poem and contains various comprehension, vocabulary, grammar and pronunciation easy activ ...
By using this presentation students can learn the basic cooking vocabulary such as peel, slice, chop... and some other useful words - e.g. spoon, fork, plate...They can use it for understanding a ...
This is a set of 30 ABC flashcards flashcards (26 letters plus 4 cards with letter combinations - ñh, sh, ph, th) which you can use while presenting alphabet at your lessons. There is a picture an ...
This is a worksheet where the students take the role of people who are in charge of a travel agency and are confronted with four different scenarios. They face problems that may happen during a to ...
It is a wordsearch for training some character and personality adjectives: shy, confident, bubbly, selfish, secretive, caring, outgoing, chatty, adventurous, dreamy, fun-loving, home-loving, hard- ...
This worksheet is provided for those who want to teach the students about 3 dimension shapes such as sphere, cone, and cube. The definition of the shape is provided along with examples of the real ...
Through this lovely game students will learn the animals related vocabulary. It is played with dice and counters when the students land on a square they are asked to make a sentence using the pic ...
This is a guessing game to introduce 'the media'. Through a multiple choice exercise the students will learn some vocabulary related to the theme. They are invited to choose one of the answers: if ...
This is a bio of a very important person in history. I use it in a recital where students pretend to be the wax statues in a museum of American History (like in the movie " a night at the museum" ...
A fun Easter worksheet. I decided to share this colourful worksheet with you, because my pupils liked it very much. The task is to unscramble the words, using the table below and after to re ...
This is a great activity to do with Elementary/Pre-intermediate students, but can also be adapted for higher levels. Watch The Wrong Trousers with your students and pause the film in four places, ...
In this worksheet there are some comprehension questions about the film and a glossary translated into Spanish. Also there are lyrics for two of the songs in the film. A certain emphasis is done o ...
This is a useful worksheet for time telling. The students have to draw the time on the clocks and then to find out and read the secret phrase. My pupils liked it very much, so I decided to share ...
Study to write down in a correct spelling about things around the house. First tell the students about the things, then ask them to complete the blanks, or you can also point at a picture randomly ...
This worksheet is about reviewing different topics for basic level, such as colors, shapes, alphabet, etc. The activities you can find in this worksheet are the following: An exercise about the al ...
"Keep your Head Up" is a song performed by Andy Grammer and the exercise provides the students with definitions and vocabulary from the song. Students will be interpreting some of the lines which ...
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