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 is a reading activity about film awards. First they read the text and then they will have to produce something similar to what they have just read. Then they have two different cards with dif ...
In this worksheet our students will learn vocabulary connected to sports. In the first activity they will see the difference among do, play and go. They will also learn vocabulary connected to di ...
Student grammar error correction worksheet with typical errors made in forming the present simple, comparative and superlative structures. Ideal for Young Learners, Beginners, Elementary classes ...
Song worksheet with student section and teachers answers. Lyrics of Billy Idols hit Dancing with Myself - recently used on TV ads so popular with teenagers again. Missing prepositions in gap fill ...
This is a powerpoint presentation of the parts of the body using the theme of wild animals. I use it before starting humans' description with beginners or elementary students. I show them the powe ...
-Text comprehension: True / False sentences -Questions on the text -Present Simple Tense; -Question words; -Position of adverbs of frequency; -Telling the time, -Completing a dialogue and writin ...
The worksheet is intended for pre-intermediate to advanced students of English. It can be used as a warmer or an additional exercise for students who wish to learn more. Students have to find the ...
I used it with advanced students. It's also important they're 17 or more, because of the topic. Students have to order the stanzas, fill in the gaps, discuss the theme of the songs, try and explai ...
This is a PowerPoint presentation for teaching or revising Saint Patrick's day related vocabulary. There is a lesson with audio followed by a multiple choice activity to reinforce the vocabulary.
This is an easy worksheet for primary children It´s about typical illnesses children have. They only have to read and match pictures and illnesses. You can add other illnesses and make simil ...
This worksheet is made to assess the students of grade 11 on their ability to analyze a text, compare two texts, rewrite a text, and to make a summary statement of a narrative text. The Basic Comp ...
Simple and clear explanation of expression in 'giving instructions', you can find some useful expressions about giving instructions. I also put time sequence: first, next, then and finally. I star ...
SCRABBLE is a really good game, I hope your students enjoy it! What you need to know about this game is: 1: using the letters students make a word. 2: they have to count the total of points they g ...
A nice worksheet for a buildings and places lesson. The students will learn about the characteristics of the buildings. It focuses on three different places, the temple, playground and mosque ...
3 activities to identify different types of transport & their uses. 1- a picture activity to identify types & functions through it 2- to identify the functions by associating the transpor ...
This activity should be used in class of big number of students. They must find people from their country, asking where they are from and where in that country. A: Where are you from? B: I'm from ...
In this ws the students have 27 pictures and two lists of words: in the 2st one there are V-ing froms and in the 2nd there are nouns. The students have to match both columns to form two-word compo ...
More practice with word formation. The students have two exercises: in the 1st one they have to fill in the blanks with the correct noun from the given adejctive; in the 2nd one, they have to give ...
This is a memory board game I made for beginners. It's a fun way to review some basic vocabulary about clothes. Print it out and make small black squares to cover each square. Try to encourage stu ...
Words for taboo. The students have to explain the first word in each box and at the same time avoid using the other related words in the same box. The vocabulary has been chosen pretty much at ran ...
This is a mixed skills worksheet that you can make use of according to your focus. There are reading, speaking, writing, and pronunciation activities. All the activities are designed according to ...
This is a worksheet for elementary students on part-time jobs. Students are asked to read the text, answer the questions and write a small composition. The worksheet is available in both colour a ...
This is about your house, street, town. Your task is to fill in the name of the street, town and the number of the house, your phone number. You can color it and add some more information. This w ...
A few activities to do while and after watching the film. This worksheet is already present on ESLprintables.com in my page. I hope you don't mind having seen it somewhere else. I used it to focus ...
This is a 2-page worksheet for teaching building and places related vocabulary. There 2 different activities in which students are asked to label the pictures with the words given and match the w ...
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