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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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Food And Drink Speaking Cards

Food And Drink Speaking Cards

Here you'll find sixteen speaking cards related to the topic of food and drinks. You can use them if you have 5-6 minutes left and want to spend them on speaking practice. The level of students i ...
16 Views 27,466 Pre-IntInt
Conversation Lesson About Toys

Conversation Lesson About Toys

This is a lesson plan to be used for a conversation class with intermediate students (1 up to 3). The lesson subject is very fun and attractive to all ages. You can use any other YouTube video if ...
7 Views 7,699 Pre-IntIntAdv
The Seasons: Classroom Poster

The Seasons: Classroom Poster

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.
24 Views 18,288 BegElem
Conditionals: Healthy Habits

Conditionals: Healthy Habits

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 ...
16 Views 24,337 Pre-IntInt
Phrasal Verbs Wordsearch With Pictures

Phrasal Verbs Wordsearch With Pictures

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 ...
10 Views 22,808 IntAdv
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Who's Needed?

Who's Needed?

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 ...
11 Views 7,847 Pre-IntInt
Home Sweet Home: Speaking Lesson

Home Sweet Home: Speaking Lesson

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 ...
16 Views 24,064 ElemPre-Int
Things To Do In Brighton: Reading Worksheet

Things To Do In Brighton: Reading Worksheet

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! ...
11 Views 13,462 Elem
Jobs and Professions Powerpoint

Jobs and Professions Powerpoint

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 ...
41 Views 88,089 BegElem
Song Worksheet: Big Night by Big Time Rush

Song Worksheet: Big Night by Big Time Rush

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 ...
5 Views 9,472 Elem
Introducing Yourself

Introducing Yourself

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 ...
14 Views 36,534 Beg
Valentine's Day Worksheet

Valentine's Day Worksheet

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 ...
10 Views 13,428 All
10 Great Healthy Habits for a Healthy New You

10 Great Healthy Habits for a Healthy New You

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 ...
16 Views 25,901 ElemPre-IntInt
Extreme Sports

Extreme Sports

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 ...
14 Views 32,815 ElemPre-Int
Not Torturing - Loving Animals (Word Formation)

Not Torturing - Loving Animals (Word Formation)

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 ...
2 Views 6,664 AdvExam
Bookmarks: USA, UK, Australia Fact File

Bookmarks: USA, UK, Australia Fact File

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 ...
27 Views 17,294 Pre-IntIntAdvExam
Money Crossword Puzzle

Money Crossword Puzzle

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 ...
6 Views 18,212 Adv
Describing Change in a Graph

Describing Change in a Graph

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 ...
8 Views 17,147 AdvExam
Vegetable Vocabulary Test

Vegetable Vocabulary Test

'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 ...
8 Views 13,674 BegElem
Vegetable Flashcards

Vegetable Flashcards

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 ...
16 Views 19,381 BegElem
Easter Worksheet: Color & Cut

Easter Worksheet: Color & Cut

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 ...
20 Views 16,391 BegElem
Cardinal Numbers Elementary Boardgame

Cardinal Numbers Elementary Boardgame

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 ...
10 Views 18,942 BegElem
Song Worksheet: Something More by Nick Vujicic

Song Worksheet: Something More by Nick Vujicic

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, ...
5 Views 7,877 Pre-IntIntAdv
Song Worksheet: Here I Am....This Is Me by Bryan Adams

Song Worksheet: Here I Am....This Is Me by Bryan Adams

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 ...
7 Views 19,956 Pre-IntInt
Games in the Park

Games in the Park

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. ...
6 Views 9,093 Elem

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