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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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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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. ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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.
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 ...
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 ...
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? ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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