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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 Matching Activity

Saint Patrick's Day Matching Activity

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 ...
18 Views 44,234 BegElem
Parts of a Dress

Parts of a Dress

Vocabulary,
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 ...
8 Views 11,697 ElemPre-IntInt
Describing Appearance Worksheet

Describing Appearance Worksheet

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 ...
16 Views 41,164 Pre-IntInt
Emotion Activities: Speaking Worksheet

Emotion Activities: Speaking Worksheet

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 ...
18 Views 47,696 Elem
Metric Measures of Length Worksheet

Metric Measures of Length Worksheet

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 ...
4 Views 10,687 Pre-IntInt
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Which Room Does the Furniture Go In?

Which Room Does the Furniture Go In?

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 ...
9 Views 16,673 Beg
Animal Bingo

Animal Bingo

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 ...
17 Views 13,066 BegElem
Halloween Song Worksheet:- Bony Fingers, Bony Toes

Halloween Song Worksheet:- Bony Fingers, Bony Toes

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) ...
11 Views 15,286 BegElem
My Dream House

My Dream House

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 ...
42 Views 117,302 Pre-IntIntAdv
The History of Wikipedia

The History of Wikipedia

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 ...
25 Views 20,000 IntAdv
Terror at Sea: The Sinking of the Concordia

Terror at Sea: The Sinking of the Concordia

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 ...
17 Views 16,849 IntAdv
Post Office TEST

Post Office TEST

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 ...
8 Views 13,794 ElemPre-Int
Missing Word Association Definitions

Missing Word Association Definitions

Vocabulary
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 ...
5 Views 10,887 Adv
Movie Worksheet Invictus in Pictures

Movie Worksheet Invictus in Pictures

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 ...
6 Views 15,501 IntAdvExam
Movie Worksheet: Invictus

Movie Worksheet: Invictus

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 ...
7 Views 45,095 IntAdv
Make Your Own Invention [TEMPLATE]

Make Your Own Invention [TEMPLATE]

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 ...
9 Views 30,244 ElemPre-Int
Animal Body Parts Worksheet

Animal Body Parts Worksheet

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 ...
20 Views 75,431 Elem
How It's Made: Bubble Gum

How It's Made: Bubble Gum

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 ...
11 Views 15,928 Beg
St Patrick's Day Multiple Choice Activity

St Patrick's Day Multiple Choice Activity

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 ...
28 Views 35,701 Elem
St. Patrick's Day Classroom Poster

St. Patrick's Day Classroom Poster

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 ...
16 Views 24,543 ElemPre-Int
GM Foods: Pictures for Description and Discussion

GM Foods: Pictures for Description and Discussion

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 ...
11 Views 20,479 Pre-Int
Song Worksheet: Just The Way You Are by Bruno Mars

Song Worksheet: Just The Way You Are by Bruno Mars

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 ...
15 Views 41,411 Pre-Int
Onions For Better Health: WORD FORMATION

Onions For Better Health: WORD FORMATION

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 ...
14 Views 17,685 IntAdvExam
Farm Animals

Farm Animals

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 ...
10 Views 28,657 Elem
Personality Quiz: Are We Alike?

Personality Quiz: Are We Alike?

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 ...
17 Views 12,950 Elem

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