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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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Saint Patrick's Day Mini-Book

Saint Patrick's Day Mini-Book

Young students will love this adorable mini book. There are eight pages with vocabulary: Saint Patrick, horseshoe, pot of gold, pipe, beer, hat, Leprechaun and Irish flag.
19 Views 26,446 BegElem
Food Bingo

Food Bingo

This is a set of colorful cards that you can use as bingo or matching cards for children in class. The aim is to find the right picture. These bingo sheets are for young learners. This game is exc ...
7 Views 19,627 Elem
Days of the Week with Winnie-the-Pooh

Days of the Week with Winnie-the-Pooh

This worksheet is good for training the days of the week. My kids love Winnie-the-Pooh and his friends, so they did this exercise with pleasure. It requires some initial knowledge of the days of ...
13 Views 15,730 BegElem
Animal Crossword

Animal Crossword

It´s an animal crossword.Students must find out the names of wild animal in the crossword. this worksheet can be useful for elementary students when they are working the class of natural sci ...
11 Views 13,117 Elem
Cryonics: Death in the Deep Freeze

Cryonics: Death in the Deep Freeze

50 minute documentary on Cryogenics and a woman who has cancer who decided to be frozen. Vocabulary and definition matching exercise. Questions to answer while watching the documentary. Discussion ...
7 Views 11,079 Adv
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Ask and Answer Name and Age

Ask and Answer Name and Age

This worksheet is about asking and answering name and age. I use it to make students train the writing odf the questions and of the answers. After the writing exercise students should talk with ea ...
13 Views 22,427 BegElem
Describe Your Bedroom

Describe Your Bedroom

I made this worksheet for my 4th grade students. It´s a final worksheet for the theme "House", where they describe their bedroom, wether they like it or not. Students answer questions, usin ...
12 Views 32,003 Elem
Whitney Houston: Biography Pairwork Worksheet

Whitney Houston: Biography Pairwork Worksheet

This pairwork activity is useful to make students ask questions, find answers. That's when the grammar comes in and becomes useful for them. All my students find this kind of pairwork tasks intere ...
8 Views 12,222 Int
Describing People Bingo

Describing People Bingo

Flashcards with children for describing people. There are 12 colourful flashcards with 12 descriptions which can be used for activities with children. They can describe colours of clothes, hair, ...
26 Views 73,650 ElemPre-Int
Would You Like...? Eating Out Worksheet

Would You Like...? Eating Out Worksheet

This worksheet contains several activities. The first one is a vocabulary activity; in the second one there are sentences which can be useful when going out for dinner or ordering food, and finall ...
18 Views 31,292 Beg
Basic Critical Reading Skills Exercises

Basic Critical Reading Skills Exercises

The worksheet reviews some critical reading skills. The questions are on tone, bias, purpose and making inferences. These are four multiple choice questions that can also be used as a short quiz. ...
10 Views 31,529 Adv
Are You An Environmentalist?

Are You An Environmentalist?

A speaking/writing activity for Intermediate students on their carbon footprint. Two students interview each other and then each can write a summary of what the other person said. An alternative ...
17 Views 11,459 IntAdv
Movie Worksheet: Black Swan

Movie Worksheet: Black Swan

This worksheet was designed not only to practice physical descriptions vocabulary, but also to foster students to express their opinions about some specific questions. This an excellent movie nad ...
7 Views 10,830 Pre-IntIntAdv
The ABC for a Great Year at School

The ABC for a Great Year at School

"The ABC for a great year at school": to talk about rules in the classroom. It is great as a beginning of the year activity. Each student can have a photocopy and they can read it together with th ...
31 Views 33,967 All
Fantastic Uses of Baking Soda for Personal Care: Gap Fill / Cloze

Fantastic Uses of Baking Soda for Personal Care: Gap Fill / Cloze

This worksheet is appropriate for intermediate, upper-intermediate and advanced students of English. Students have to fill each gap with ONE WORD ONLY. There is the KEY included also for the first ...
6 Views 7,089 IntAdvExam
Fantastic Uses of Baking Soda - WORD FORMATION

Fantastic Uses of Baking Soda - WORD FORMATION

This is the first worksheet of two: the second will be uploaded right after this one and the KEY = answers will be included. This worksheet is appropriate for intermediate, upper-intermediate and ...
4 Views 7,270 IntAdvExam
Travel Conversation Questions

Travel Conversation Questions

Travel conversation questions with a focus on Past Simple, Present Perfect and Present Simple. Good as a warm-up to any text book unit concerned with travel. Adaptable to all levels and teenage ...
17 Views 65,468 All
Song Worksheet: Spending My Time by Roxette

Song Worksheet: Spending My Time by Roxette

Spending my time - by ROXETTE... It's a very nice song to share with your students, especially with teenagers who will definetely feel identified with it!
8 Views 13,719 Pre-IntInt
Confusing Words

Confusing Words

This is an informal business e-mail which contains confusing words (e.g. affect/effect, raise/rise) from which the student choose. The worksheet can be used as an extension exercise after having t ...
22 Views 40,580 IntAdv
Phrasal Verb Equivalents 1

Phrasal Verb Equivalents 1

This exercise is about remembering phrasal verbs by associating them with their non-phrasal equivalents. In the first part the students work in pairs to match the phrasals with their meanings. The ...
15 Views 14,475 IntAdvExam
Habitats: Where Do These Animals Live?

Habitats: Where Do These Animals Live?

Students cut out the animals and stick the pictures to the right place on the map. It is an exercise for revising the topic. They colour the continents and write the names. Students use Present si ...
8 Views 12,918 BegElem
Selling Gadgets Door to Door Role Play

Selling Gadgets Door to Door Role Play

This is a role-play/improvisation where the students take it in turns to play the part of a door to door salesperson. They have to try to convince unenthusiastic buyers to purchase one of the new ...
24 Views 21,416 Pre-IntIntAdvExam
Bingo - Duck, Rabbit, Bird

Bingo - Duck, Rabbit, Bird

Vocabulary,
Bingo sheets. These bingo sheets are for young learners, who just started with English and are using Cheeky Monkey pupil´s book. It can be also used as a game Pairs - if you cut it and colo ...
3 Views 7,704 Beg
Description of Appearance: Flashcards

Description of Appearance: Flashcards

Flashcards with cartoon chracters for describing people. There are 12 flashcards which can be used for activities with children. They can describe colours of clothes, hair, eyes and some body part ...
11 Views 38,785 BegElem
Saint Patrick's Day Flashcards

Saint Patrick's Day Flashcards

This is a set of cards for teaching or revising Saint Patrick´s day related vocabulary. They can be used as conversation cards, memory games or classroom posters.
17 Views 41,784 BegElemPre-Int

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