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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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Going Out For Dinner

Going Out For Dinner

This worksheet is about the use of the structure be going to. In this worksheet our students will learn how this form is used in affirmative, negative and interrogative structures. They will also ...
9 Views 12,458 Elem
Wedding Traditions

Wedding Traditions

In this worksheet the students will have to read a text about different wedding traditions and then they will have to do different comprehension activities. They will improve their vocabulary by m ...
14 Views 19,552 Elem
Seasons of the Year

Seasons of the Year

This is a simple worksheet appropriate for complete beginners and elementary students of English. The students are supposed to learn the names of the seasons of the year and learn how to answer th ...
14 Views 12,368 BegElem
The Day the Music Died

The Day the Music Died

This worksheet is a humble tribute to three great musicians, besides being a unit on music and history that can be adapted for all levels: Part I (Buddy Holly) is thought for Pre-Intermediate stu ...
19 Views 28,690 Pre-IntIntAdv
Battleship

Battleship

I use this game fairly often, students like it, even adults. You can practise any grammar structure with it, this one is for reported/embedded questions. They call out coordinates by making correc ...
14 Views 15,235 BegElemPre-IntIntAdv
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Word Formation: Derivatives From The Root Word USE

Word Formation: Derivatives From The Root Word USE

There are numerous derivatives from the root word USE. This exercise aims at the consolidation of these expressions. There are examples of: useful, useless, usefulness, misuse, abuse, disuse, abus ...
7 Views 20,398 IntAdvExam
Friends Around the World

Friends Around the World

Used in conjunction with a unit about nations, nationalities and languages. This worksheet can be used to develop awareness about different nationalities and the connecting names of the country, l ...
3 Views 8,686 BegElemPre-IntInt
Places of Worship Brainstorming

Places of Worship Brainstorming

This worksheet can be used for a variety of exercises related to places of worship, religious celebrations and religion. We used them as a place for students to reflect on the differences between ...
4 Views 7,813 ElemPre-IntIntAdvExam
Collocations In Context 1

Collocations In Context 1

Collocations are a big challenge for many of us as English learners. That's why I have decided to create tasks dealing with prepositions and collocations in real contexts. The texts I have used ar ...
11 Views 17,546 IntAdvExam
Love Story Of A Modern Era

Love Story Of A Modern Era

Easy worksheet for pre-intermediate or intermediate students. They can read a text about a couple who started dating thanks to facebook and revise verb patterns quickly. Later they can learn few w ...
64 Views 86,974 Pre-Int
Headgear Worksheet

Headgear Worksheet

This worksheet is seven pages long. It is appropriate for elementary to advanced students of English. It contains various kinds of headgear from the hat to the warbonnet of an Indian tribal chief. ...
6 Views 6,564 BegElemPre-IntIntAdv
Sports Picture Dictionary + Matching Activity

Sports Picture Dictionary + Matching Activity

This is a picture dictionary followed by a matching activity for teaching or revising sports related vocabulary. The worksheets is available in two different sizes (formats). Recommended for elem ...
13 Views 14,331 ElemPre-Int
At The Restaurant Worksheet

At The Restaurant Worksheet

This is a picture dictionary which can also be used as a study sheet followed by a wordsearch puzzle for revising restaurant related vocabulary. The worksheet is available in both colour and blac ...
12 Views 25,151 Pre-IntInt
Short Test For Beginners

Short Test For Beginners

Hi! This is a short test for beginners to revise different items. It is a short text with some comprehension, true or false statements+ justification questions and some grammar related to ...
11 Views 17,687 Beg
It's Carnival Time!

It's Carnival Time!

There are two fun worksheets for my young students for Carnival time. They love this activity! The task is easy: they must paint following directions, so students can enhance learning of the numbe ...
18 Views 32,132 Elem
Describe Someone

Describe Someone

This is a worksheet to synthesize the words or expressions you've just seen about describing someone. Read the worksheet with the pupils and make them colour the eyes and hair.
7 Views 6,555 Beg
What’s Your Favourite Colour?

What’s Your Favourite Colour?

This a worksheet for young learners. When you have just learned the colours, give this worksheet to the pupils and make them colour the spots.
7 Views 13,758 Beg
Clothes Memory Flashcards

Clothes Memory Flashcards

This set of cards is designed to help students practice or review common clothing vocabulary. Printed double-sided, the cards can be used as flashcards; printed on two separate sheets, they can b ...
24 Views 34,284 BegElem
Short A Words: Memory Flashcards

Short A Words: Memory Flashcards

This set of cards is designed to help students practice or review words with the "short a" sound. Printed double-sided, the cards can be used as flashcards; printed on two separate sheets, they c ...
5 Views 12,440 BegElem
Typhoid Mary: Reading

Typhoid Mary: Reading

Informative article: It gives facts about a real-life medical mistery. What is typhoid? What are typhoid fever symptoms? Where Is Typhoid Fever common? What are the causes? What is the treatment? ...
7 Views 8,992 Pre-Int
The Underground Railroad: Reading Activity

The Underground Railroad: Reading Activity

It's a wonderful reading about how black people escaped from slavery, beginning the journey from the USA to Canada. In the second slide you can find some questions with this you can work their kno ...
13 Views 11,329 Pre-Int
St. Valentine's Day Wordsearch

St. Valentine's Day Wordsearch

A simple worksheet where students have vocabulary related to St. Valentine's Day (both pictures and words). The students have to find all the words under the pictures in the wordsearch. It's best ...
24 Views 73,690 BegElem
Technical Equipment & HAVE GOT (Yes/No Questions)

Technical Equipment & HAVE GOT (Yes/No Questions)

There's a list of basic technical equipment at home (e.g. TV set, radio, computer, laptop, ....) and means of transport (e.g. car or sports car, bike or bicycle, scooter, plane, space shuttle, etc ...
2 Views 6,135 BegElem
What Time Is It?

What Time Is It?

This worksheet can be used at the moment of teaching the hour. Teacher can implement it and at the same time can make students interact while asking activities to their partners. At the end, compl ...
14 Views 9,611 BegElem
Movie Worksheet: Psych - Scarry Sherry

Movie Worksheet: Psych - Scarry Sherry

Video class to help students to improve their listening and reading skills. The first time, the students watch it both language and subtitle in English, or just the audio. The idea is to elicit t ...
3 Views 5,463 ElemPre-Int

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