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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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My Mother's Day: Reading Comprehension Test

My Mother's Day: Reading Comprehension Test

This is a reading comprehension paper for beginner and elementary levels. Students read then write about daily routines. The grammar focus is on simple present and adverbs of frequency with both f ...
17 Views 35,989 BegElem
Postcard From England: Reading Worksheet

Postcard From England: Reading Worksheet

A reading comprehension worksheet for ESL and EFL students suitable for pre-intermediate to intermediate levels, this test deals with travel experiences. The students are to answer some comprehens ...
19 Views 36,483 Pre-IntInt
Song Worksheet: What A Wonderful World by Louis Armstrong

Song Worksheet: What A Wonderful World by Louis Armstrong

The lesson consists of three traditional stages of the listening: pre-, while- and post-listening. Aim: the learners will be able to choose the appropriate words in the text, to understand the con ...
16 Views 23,558 ElemPre-Int
Easter Word Search II

Easter Word Search II

A simple word search for elementary students to reinforce previously taught Easter vocabulary. This word search can be used in the classroom or as a take home activity. Young learners will enjoy l ...
9 Views 55,648 Elem
Easter Eggs Worksheet

Easter Eggs Worksheet

With this worksheet, young students will practice the spelling of numbers and colours while having fun completing and colouring. I'm using this worksheet with two groups of first graders who are j ...
29 Views 28,421 Beg
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7 Classroom Language Posters

7 Classroom Language Posters

Here are seven simple posters (A4) with classroom language. Each poster contains an image related to the phrase/question: How do you say ... in English?, What's the meaning of this?, How do you s ...
36 Views 57,307 All
Money Makes The World Go Round: Money Vocabulary Worksheet

Money Makes The World Go Round: Money Vocabulary Worksheet

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A vocabulary worksheet. There are some basic expressions connected with the topic Money. Students have to find the described word or expression. The worksheet is appropriate for intermediate, uppe ...
16 Views 20,644 IntAdvExam
There Is / There Are Exercises

There Is / There Are Exercises

These simple and slightly monotonous exercises help beginner students to practice positive, negative and interrogative forms of construction "there is / are". However boring it might be, this type ...
21 Views 99,499 BegElem
Months of the Year Worksheet

Months of the Year Worksheet

You will find this way of teaching the months of the year very attractive and simple for your students. There is a picture dictionary followed by a pretty easy word search puzzle. The answer key ...
18 Views 32,406 Elem
Russian Superstitions

Russian Superstitions

This worksheet is a kind of a lexical test to revise what students know about the superstitions in Russian culture. Students must fill in the gaps with the offered words and choose synonyms or ant ...
11 Views 18,792 Pre-IntInt
The Weather Flashcards

The Weather Flashcards

This is a set of high quality flashcards, which can also be used as classroom posters, for teaching or revising the weather related vocabulary: sunny, cloudy, stormy, windy, snowy, hot, cold, etc
27 Views 35,741 BegElem
The Weather Worksheet

The Weather Worksheet

This is a very attractive worksheet for teaching the weather. It includes a picture dictionary which can also be used as a study sheet followed by a word search puzzle. The worksheet is available ...
37 Views 168,231 Elem
Flags, Countries And Nationalities

Flags, Countries And Nationalities

This worksheet is for students to practice countries and nationalities and remember some flags names. The students answer these simple questions: Is he/she from...?, Are you from...?, Are they fro ...
15 Views 64,145 Elem
The Pick Five No-winner

The Pick Five No-winner

A rather funny reading worksheet for both ESL and EFL students. It focuses on the use and form of the second conditional through a series of comprehension, grammar, and pronunciation activities. T ...
8 Views 8,002 Pre-IntInt
Musical Heroes

Musical Heroes

This reading comprehension worksheet may be suitable for ESL or EFL learners with pre-intermediate to intermediate levels. It focuses mainly on simple past, used to for past habits, and relative p ...
11 Views 23,772 Pre-IntInt
Animals Word Search

Animals Word Search

The students have got 36 pictures of animals that they have to find in the word search. They can first write the names of the animals under the correct picture to check the spelling and then start ...
5 Views 8,901 ElemPre-Int
Winx Club Season 4 Ending Song

Winx Club Season 4 Ending Song "Wake up"

Elementary song (with video) worksheet for kids teaching vocabulary related to magic and fairies and definitely - Winx Club; includes fill-in-the-gaps activity, matching activity for teaching verb ...
7 Views 11,735 BegElemPre-Int
Cooking Verbs

Cooking Verbs

This is a power point presentation to learn main cooking verbs, designed for those teachers who motivate their students taking cooking classes as part of daily teaching. I hope this will help col ...
21 Views 53,539 Pre-Int
Idiomatic Pairs of Words Connected with AND, OR, BUT

Idiomatic Pairs of Words Connected with AND, OR, BUT

The worksheet is about “Idiomatic Pairs of Words” such as: pros and cons, sick and tired, grin and bear it, take it or leave it, slowly but surely ,.. etc There is an introductory exp ...
13 Views 12,080 IntAdvExam
Easter Crossword

Easter Crossword

Let your students have fun before going on Easter holiday. Here is an easy crossword puzzle for them. Some clues are written in speech bubbles, others are given as pictures. When they complete the ...
17 Views 26,702 ElemPre-Int
Forrest Gump and American Realities

Forrest Gump and American Realities

The PowerPoint presentation focuses on the figures and events of American history depicted in the film "Forrest Gump". It helps EFL students to get the more profound understanding of the plot. The ...
11 Views 16,910 Pre-IntIntAdv
Magic Word: Animal Worksheet

Magic Word: Animal Worksheet

Using the names of animals, complete the fill in the blanks exercise. When you fill in those words, an extra word will appear in the box. I hope you like it and find this worksheet interesti ...
7 Views 7,666 All
Hair Styles

Hair Styles

It is a worksheet with different types of hair for boys and girls. It is used for describing people. You can write sentences using the information, such as: She has got a pony tail. He has got l ...
12 Views 26,107 Elem
Nouns From Adjectives [Nouns In -NESS]

Nouns From Adjectives [Nouns In -NESS]

A WORD FORMATION worksheet containing basic rules about how to form nouns from adjectives by adding suffix -NESS to the adjective. There are four rules, some examples and a corresponding exercise. ...
11 Views 35,472 IntAdvExam
Food Password Game

Food Password Game

Through this game students will revise food related vocabulary. How to play: - One student stands with back to this presentation. - The class gives the student clues to the vocabulary word on scr ...
12 Views 24,943 ElemPre-Int

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