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.
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This song can be used as an icebreaker with advanced levels so that students can discuss what the author of the song may be trying to express with it. A good idea can be to ask students if they ev ...
19 rules: explanation of how to separate words into syllables. Intermediate and advanced levels. Really helpful fo those who are teaching how to separate words in syllables in English. Including e ...
Vocabulary about physical appearance, including height, weight, hair style, complexion and other features. Then they have to describe some famous people. And finally they have to do the followin ...
This is an activity I've used with adolescents as an icebreaker on our very first day. We've dicussed the topic of feeling and if they have ever felt the same way the author of the song describes. ...
Print out the material according to the number of students in the classroom. Each student will have one worksheet and walk around the classroom asking his/her classmates the questions provided on ...
The famous song of Frank Sinatra with a word list (vocabulary) and 2 activities:
1. students have to open the brackets to put the verbs into present perfect.
2. the students have to put verbs fr ...
This is a lovely multiple choice activity for revising Spring related vocabulary. Recommended for elementary students who are asked to look at the pictures and choose the correct word. The worksh ...
This is a worksheet for teaching restaurant related vocabulary. There is a study sheet with restaurant vocabulary, useful words and phrases and food related adjectives followed by an activity in ...
This is a article reading and understanding worksheet. It is about the Immigration Issues in the UK. The article is from a UK news paper. The students read the article and then review the Vocabula ...
This worksheet contains some American idioms that can be used for students in their conversation and their writing. It is for personal enrichment of vocabulary where the students have to match the ...
This worksheet is the last (so far) of my word-formation series. There are two exercises. In the 1st one the students have to fill in the gaps with the correct form of the word in brackets (noun, ...
Moods and Feelings pictures - you can use them in the classroom to introduce emotions. The Ss draw out one slip of paper with an emoface on it. They have to guess the emotion expressed by th ...
When I first learned numbers in Spanish I couldn't remember them at all. That was until my teacher pointed out the similarities between the lower numbers and the higher numbers - it clicked immedi ...
XXThis sheet contains questions related to the video by Michael Jackson 'Thriller'. I think it is suitable for Halloween or to use with descriptions and the present simple, for example. They are o ...
Match the holiday with the date it happens. It can be used with children, but adults may like to play it too. I used both American and Brazilian holidays to play this game. Teachers may handle one ...
This worksheet is about -ible and -able suffixes which are frequently mixed in the words. Although a lot of grammar books do not pay attention to this fact, this grammar rule is of immense importa ...
I found this worksheet once on a language learning portal. It is a great role-play for practising the past continuous in a communicative, fun way. Make sure you first teach the past continuou ...
Mingling activity asking about different disasters, using the 'Find someone who' format. It is followed by a pair or small group activity of putting disasters into categories. Useful when the top ...
This replaces the previous file. I have updated it a little, based on student feedback. One student has a room to let, the other wants to rent a room. Using the sheets students write th ...
I used this beautiful song, "Simple Math," to review the grammar of second conditionals (imaginary situations). I also removed rhyming words and asked students to fill-in-the-blanks with the word ...
This worksheet is about different fruit and vegetables. The target is beginner students. The aim here is to help students to learn new words and be familiar with different kinds of fruit and veget ...
List of useful words and expressions on the topic. It can be used for classroom discussions or it can be handed out for a written composition about sleeping. Students can also write some questions ...
Australiana themed Word Search. I think It could be easy for all levels, provided you have already presented the particular Australiana material to your class(s). List of words used in this word ...
Everyone has a dream. Ideal for business conversation. Students can use their creativity to come up with information. Design a business card to go along with the information and exchange informati ...
In this worksheet the students will learn vocabulary related to sports; they will have to read different texts about people talking about their favourite sports. After that they will have to decid ...
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