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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This is a set of four flashcards which can also be used as classroom posters for teaching the Seasons related vocabulary: summer, spring, autumn and winter. Recommended for elementary students.
Once students know first and second conditionals, students can produce more sentences using the photos as prompts. Ideas: you can show just two students the photograph and they need to mime it to ...
In this worksheet students have to find the phrasal verbs in the wordsearch and match them with the provided pictures and then they have to write the verbs down. It is a little bit difficult, and ...
This is useful worksheet for learning jobs and professions. The task is to read the advertisements and find out what profession is needed. Then write them down. As for me I use this activity as a ...
This worksheet is going to be very helpful for busy teachers. It contains not only words but expressions and idioms...
While composing it I referred all words to a definite topic...e.g. "the bedr ...
A simple reading about a town and questions to answer from text. Students can easily find the answers with some key words from the questions. I did this with my students and it was successful! ...
This is a Power Point presentation to introduce vocabulary at the early stages of teaching the topic “Jobs and Prefessions”. It is an easy and fun way for the elementary learners to ge ...
This is a song meant for Elementary students who have already seen "going to Future". Students should read the song together with their teachers before starting to work on the song for them to und ...
Introducing yourself to other people. This is a ws to teach your beginner students to interact with other people, greets and farewells are very important in everyday linguistic interactions and st ...
You can use this worksheet before St.Valentine's Day or when learning about holidays all over the world. There is funny matching exercise where students have to guess which tradition belongs to wh ...
Worksheet can be used for elementary, pre-intermediat or even intermediate students. There you have words to translate or define and task for a video (writing down the advice that are given in vid ...
This is a matching exercise and very easy. It includes some extreme sports's pictures and learners are supposed to match the names of the sports with the pictures. It's suitable for the learners w ...
A word formation worksheet appropriate for upper-intermediate, advanced and proficiency level students of English. The text is taken from Care2 website. It is about the most handsome and charitabl ...
This is a set of my new bookmarks for kids. This set consists of 3 fact files about English-speaking countries: the USA, the UK & Australia. Here your pupils can find the basic information abo ...
This is a crossword puzzle based on the vocabulary included in Unit 11, Cash in Hand, of Premium Level B2 course published by Person Longman. It can be used as a revision exercise at the end of th ...
An exercise useful for Business students or anyone studying Advanced English. The worksheet teaches many ways to describe changes. It is particullarlly useful for learners who are working on prese ...
'Vegetable Vocabulary Test' is a single sheet containing three copies of a set of small photographs and ticksheets for vocabulary assessment. The photographs match 'Vegetables Flashcards' which ...
A set of 12 vegetable photographs with captions underneath. Can be used with captions for learning the words or remove captions for matching. Make two sets and play find the matching pairs. A m ...
This is a worksheet for beginner or elementary level. I recommend to you, first off make a warming up according to Easter and then use this worksheet, the students will color the worksheet and the ...
Through this colourful game young students will learn the cardinal numbers. It is played with dice and counters, when students land on a square they are asked to make a sentence using the picture ...
It's a very touching songs that will lead to tons of debates about respect and acceptance. It's good to speak about values and how difficult moments can be turned into something good. Please, ...
The worksheet contains the lyrics of the song" Here I am by Bryan Adams. These lyrics are used to teach tenses, contractions and auditory and visual perception skills. The song can be used during ...
Instructions for two games that English children like to play. Good for practicing giving instructions. Students read two descriptions of two games. They can translate or/and just play the games. ...
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