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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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.
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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, ...
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 ...
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. ...
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 ...
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 ...
"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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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!
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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.
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