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.
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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A great guide from an authentic material piece to talk about relationships. This is an scene from the TV show Friends Season 7 Episode 17 The One With The Cheap Wedding. If you want to hav ...
A worksheet to commemorate Whitney Houston's death. I have done it at my students' request. The worksheet consists of three exercises which must be done while listening to the song and two other p ...
There are 10 weird New Year superstitions descriptions with pictures. Give the pictures to the students first and let them guess (make their own) superstitions. Then give them true stories random ...
Song about firework in which several atmospheric phenomena appear. The 4th of July is also mentioned as a national holiday in the U.S. The activities are on the right-hand side of the page: fill i ...
What comes to your mind when you think about a gift? Do you think of getting or giving? In the worksheet there are famous quotes about gift giving. Can be a good warm-up exercise to discuss those ...
Cut the pictures and give them to the students. Let them think why this can be a bad gift and in what country this superstition exists. Then cut the stripes with "action - result" information and ...
This is a discussion worksheet based on the main information given in a video lesson # 49 by Misterduncan. The vocabulary is great here! Phrases to express hunger, food proverbs ect included!
You can cut and use these adjectives for following activities: 1) choose one word and describe this type of person, let others guess what word you've chosen; 2) show this type of personality, let ...
This is a very simple dialog about holidays for kids. The grammar point is Past Simple questions (Did you...? Were you...?). Read the example of the dialog to the students, then put them in pairs ...
There are four photos of different people with some information about them (name, age, country, job, languages, hobbies, abilities etc). The task is to describe their lives using given informatio ...
A worksheet based on famous people. Characters describe themselves, giving cues to students to find out who they are. They generally talk about their profession and relavant social/public activiti ...
A board game for young learners. It's a good way to test your students' knowledge in alphabet, numbers, vocabulary. You can divide a classroom into two or three teams and play this board game. You ...
This is an easy yet fun and effective activity that you can try to learn about countries, nationalities as well as places of origin. Hope it works for you. You only need to print the cards as many ...
You are going to join the name with the picture. Color the pictures and make more sentences using the expression used to, make a conversation with your classmates using this expression. The idea i ...
A simple exercise to test phrasal verb knowledge and match them with their non-phrasal equivalent. The teacher should read the sentences to the group and they must try to find their way through th ...
A WORD FORMATION exercise for upper-intermediate, advanced or proficiency level students of English. However, the teachers can adapt it to the level of their students' knowledge. I am not the auth ...
To create this worksheet I used real quotations with various people's opinions about this holiday that were shared on the Internet. You can give the worksheet out to your students asking them to ...
This worksheet will provide your students with the chance to practice food vocabulary and the use of the structures such as like, don't like, love and hate in the different forms. Afterwards, stud ...
This activity and worksheet are designed for practice or review of urban map-reading and related prepositional phrases (e.g., next to, across the street from). Although they may be completed indi ...
This worksheet focuses on the subject 'money' and clothes vocabulary. There are 13 pictures with their prices. Students can practice 'how much' structure by this worksheet. I used the currency of ...
This is a worksheet for teaching Carnival related vocabulary. There is a picture dictionary which can also be used as a study sheet followed by a simple matching activity in which students are as ...
This is an exercise on mixed tenses and verb forms & word formation for upper-intermediate and advanced students of English. Students have to find the correct tense or verb form for the verbs ...
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We've honestly tried to find a decent 'No cell phones' classroom poster/sign around, but after googling for 10 minutes all we could see was a bunch ...
A nice family crossword for beginners. You can use it in your lessons. İt is useful for writing skill and remembering the vocabulary of family. Or you can use this family crossword as the hom ...
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