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 an easy matching activity for elementary students on Saint Patrick´s Day related vocabulary. Students are asked to read the words given and then match them with the pictures. The wo ...
The worksheet “Parts of a dress/an evening gown” is appropriate for elementary, pre-intermediate and intermediate students of English. There is a matching exercise at the beginning and ...
Power point presentation which illustrates the vocabulary used to describe people’s appearance. It was prepared for my junior high-school students. Includes also pictures one may describe w ...
The activity is aimed to improve speaking skills through using such structures as I find it.... I feel .... It makes me feel..... and adjectives describing different emotions. Students are asked t ...
This worksheet is for practicing measures of length -metric (centimeters, decimeters, meters and kilometers) and customary (inches, feet, miles and yards.) After you can relate these measures with ...
Use this worksheet when teaching about homes and different rooms and furniture. The worksheet contains 3 columns with a picture of the item of furniture. Students need to write the name of ...
This is a set of colourful cards that you can use as bingo or matcing cards for children in class. The aim is to find the animal according to the description. These cards are useful for reading ...
This is a song to work with in order to celebrate Halloween. Lots of fun for our kids. It deals with some parts of the body (face, nose, fingers, toes) and cardinal numbers (counting from 10 to 0) ...
Function/ structure: there are, there is, there aren't, there isn't Writing a text Expressing dreams ... students write about their dream houses, the questions can help them, push your students ...
The students can watch the video (several times, or in the computer lab) and they answer 14 questions about the history of Wikipedia. You can use this as an introduction to a class devoted to Wiki ...
45 minute documentary on the sinking of the Concordia. The worksheet includes a vocabulary matching activity, questions to answer while watching the documentary and a list of discussion questions ...
The additiont to the set of flashcards to check your students vocabulary on POST OFFICE vocabulary: post office, postman, letter, letterbox, envelope, post card, to write, to post, to read, to get ...
In this exercise students have to guess the missing words in the chain of associations. The teacher gives clues/definitions and also explains the connections between the words in the chain. Answer ...
This worksheet comprises 5 pictures, each representing a scene in the film Invictus. 5 groups of students (take more photos of other scenes if you need more groups) get 1 picture and 6 questions t ...
Invictus - Plot: Nelson Mandela, president of South Africa, decides to use the upcoming Rugby World Cup games to re-define South Africa and encourage coloured and white South Africans to cooperate ...
A simply designed page for you students to create their own inventions. It includes a space for drawing, and is good for language focus on question words "Why?" and "What?" It works well for any s ...
It's an easy activity in order to help your students recognize the parts of animal body. Students will be able to match the pictures with the names of animal body parts. It´s an interesting ...
This is a worksheet for beginners. It's a listening comprehension activity. Students watch the video from Discovery Channel's How it's made and answer the comprehension questions using the words i ...
This is a pretty easy multiple choice activity for elementary students on Saint Patrick'sDay related vocabulary. Students are asked to look at the picture and choose the correct word. This activ ...
This is a classroom poster which can also be used as a picture dictionary or a study sheet for teaching St. Patrick's Day realted vocabulary. The poster is available in both colour and black and ...
The paper has two kinds of pictures; Genetic Engineering.
1.Describe the food on the picture to the partners. Don’t use any parts of the name of the food. Let them try to name the food you ...
This song is a great opportunity to talk about physical appearance with your students. In this worksheet students will have a chance to activate their schemata by having a pre-activity that elicit ...
This is an exercise for upper-intermediate, advanced, and proficiency level students of English. It's an interesting subject on healthy diet, which is trendy and popular also among the young. Stud ...
Students have to complete the sentences, in this exercise kids learn to write basic sentences and they use vocabulary connected with farm animals. Then the teacher can do lots of activities using ...
This is a fun way for SS to practice the present simple with how much / how many, some / any and a /an. You can use it as a war-up or as a follow-up/review activity. Alternatively, assign the exer ...
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