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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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Clock Coloring Page

Clock Coloring Page

You can practice telling time with your students. It is so easy to do it. You can also print a few copies give one to each student as a homework assignment. 
13 Views 17,620 Pre-Int
Windsurfing Chose Me (Mixed Tenses & Verb Forms)

Windsurfing Chose Me (Mixed Tenses & Verb Forms)

Appropriate for intermediate, upper-intermediate, advanced and proficiency level students of English. Students have to fill the gaps with a suitable tense or verb form of the verbs in brackets. Th ...
16 Views 23,196 IntAdvExam
Song Worksheet: My Friends by Red Hot Chili Peppers

Song Worksheet: My Friends by Red Hot Chili Peppers

This is a gap filling activity. Students listen to the song, fill in the gaps and have a discussion on the topic suggested by the song. They also read a poem about written by Elisabeth Jennings (F ...
5 Views 12,361 Pre-IntIntAdvExam
Song Worksheet: Dreams by The Cranberries

Song Worksheet: Dreams by The Cranberries

This is a gap filling activity that includes listening to the song Dreams by The Cranberries. Later on, there are a few exercises related to the title of the song - Dreams. Since the word has hot ...
14 Views 29,117 IntAdvExam
Song Worksheet: Last Friday Night by Katy Perry

Song Worksheet: Last Friday Night by Katy Perry

This is a song that is great to teach about behaviour when it comes to culture and it is great to teach simple past actions. Teenagers and young adults may find it very interested and identify wit ...
9 Views 14,980 ElemPre-IntInt
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Prepositions: Moving House

Prepositions: Moving House

This is a listening exercise. The teacher reads the text - a conversation between a mover and a customer about where to place the furniture. While listening, students draw the furniture where it s ...
14 Views 14,971 Elem
National Cuisine and Culture (Travelling)

National Cuisine and Culture (Travelling)

This is a set of cards organised by countries (Italy, France, Kenya, Russia, etc.). On the card there are pictures which represent the country's cuisine and some tradition, typically associated wi ...
37 Views 26,953 BegElemPre-IntInt
Family Life Worksheet

Family Life Worksheet

A worksheet about family relationships. It includes four tasks: 1 Match each word with the corresponding definition. 2 Use the comparative or the superlative of the adjective between parentheses ...
8 Views 12,426 Pre-Int
Salad Vegetables: Vocabulary Test

Salad Vegetables: Vocabulary Test

Salad Vegetable Vocabulary Test is a single sheet containing 3 copies of a set of small photographs and ticksheet for vocabulary assessment. The photographs match 'Salad Vegetables Flashcards' w ...
7 Views 11,085 BegElem
Salad Vegetables Flashcards

Salad Vegetables Flashcards

Salad Vegetables Flashcards is a set of 12 photos with captions underneath. Can be used as straight flashcards, cut off captions and match with photos, print another set for find the picture pai ...
18 Views 17,857 BegElem
Body Verbs Worksheet

Body Verbs Worksheet

BODY VERBS What can you 'do' with the parts of your body? Verbs accociated with body parts. It has two exercises. 1st: match the verbs to the appropriate part of the body. 2nd: fill in the gaps in ...
20 Views 19,123 Pre-IntInt
Song Worksheet: An Englishman in New York by Sting

Song Worksheet: An Englishman in New York by Sting

This is a well known song by this famous pop singer, sting, that can be very useful if you are planning to deal with different culture and daily issues according to culture. You can work with the ...
18 Views 28,185 ElemPre-Int
Homographs 1

Homographs 1

The worksheet about homographs (words with the same spelling but different meaning) live, tear, bow, row, wind, wound, Polish/polish, invalid, used, present, lead. There is a short explanation of ...
11 Views 19,089 Pre-IntIntAdvExam
Pan Am Pilot Episode - Exercises

Pan Am Pilot Episode - Exercises

Exercises to be used after watching the pilot of episode of Pan Am series. I suggest the use of subtitles in english and some activity to practice vocabulary first (which is not includded) It coul ...
4 Views 9,300 IntAdv
Word Formation List

Word Formation List

This is a list of basic vocubulary and their formation as verb, noun or adjective. .. there is a word for example angry : anger angry .... ADMIT admission admittance admissible inadmissible admi ...
47 Views 157,459 Pre-IntIntAdvExam
5 Song Worksheets: If You Were A Song by Mark Sholtez

5 Song Worksheets: If You Were A Song by Mark Sholtez

The archive contains five worksheets on the song "If you were a song by Mark Sholtez based on the following grammar and vocabulary topics: 2nd conditional, prepositions, nature words, body par ...
16 Views 10,849 ElemPre-IntIntAdv
Birthday Party [End of Term Test]

Birthday Party [End of Term Test]

If you want your pupils to read a text about a birthday party and answer its comprehention questions, If you want to test them on vocabulary related to body parts, health and ailments, school rule ...
14 Views 17,630 ElemPre-IntInt
Happy Birthday in a Cutting Edge Style

Happy Birthday in a Cutting Edge Style

The worksheet is appropriate for upper-intermediate, advanced and proficiency level students of English. It's a mixed WORD FORMATION (form new words from the root words in brackets) and GAP FILL ( ...
5 Views 10,006 AdvExam
Antonym Bingo

Antonym Bingo

An easy and fun way to teach antonyms to Pre-Intermediate students. I let the students choose the words to read aloud. They picked a word out of a bag, read the word aloud, and told the class the ...
11 Views 37,732 Pre-Int
We Are What We Eat: Diet and Healthy Eating Worksheet

We Are What We Eat: Diet and Healthy Eating Worksheet

This is a short worksheet on the topic Diet and Healthy Food. There are four tasks in which provide some training of the vocabulary on the topic Food and suggest a certain differentioation between ...
22 Views 125,877 BegElemPre-Int
Do You Like Hamburgers?

Do You Like Hamburgers?

It's a worksheet based on a trailer of "Cloudy with a chance of meatballs" movie (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ceXQaPQD6k). You can work food vocabulary and Simple Present questions and short a ...
10 Views 14,822 BegElem
Prepositions of Place and Direction Worksheet

Prepositions of Place and Direction Worksheet

This is a worksheet on prepositions of place and direction for elementary students. There are 3 different activities in which students are asked to match the questions with the answers, look at t ...
33 Views 57,369 Elem
The Weather Multiple Choice Activity

The Weather Multiple Choice Activity

This is a multiple choice activity for teaching the weather related vocabulary. Recommended for elementary students who are asked to look at the picture and choose the correct option. The workshe ...
19 Views 22,264 BegElem
Culinary and Catering Business

Culinary and Catering Business

I designed this presentation for one of my students who studies catering at a college in Russia. She needs good knowledge of English for her future job in this business, that's why we are trying t ...
7 Views 17,393 Pre-IntInt
Family Vacation: Reading Comprehension Test

Family Vacation: Reading Comprehension Test

A reading comprehension worksheet with vocabulary, grammar, and pronunciation activities which target the use of present continuous and "going to" future for making holiday plans. It is suitable f ...
28 Views 84,966 Pre-IntInt

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