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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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Relationship Nicknames Worksheet

Relationship Nicknames Worksheet

This is a Valentine's worksheet, it will help you to teach your students some of the romantic nicknames but also some idioms related to this specific day. To finish the lesson I also added a Bob ...
8 Views 11,073 Pre-IntIntAdv
Be A Perfect Poet For Valentine's Day

Be A Perfect Poet For Valentine's Day

Your students can be perfect poets for Valentine's day! I wrote poem lines in alphabetical order with full of lovely words.I provided an example for how to write an acrostic poem.You can write a p ...
14 Views 16,213 ElemPre-IntIntAdv
Saint Valentine's Day PowerPoint Presentation

Saint Valentine's Day PowerPoint Presentation

This is a PowerPoint presentation for teaching or revising Saint Valentine's day related vocabulary. This is a very simple vocabulary lesson with audio followed by a matching activity. Recommende ...
35 Views 45,053 BegElem
Adjective Formation Worksheet

Adjective Formation Worksheet

This a very simple worksheet for teaching adjective formation. Students are asked to join the words to the prefixes and suffixes to form adjectives and write the correct adjective starting or end ...
6 Views 14,683 ElemPre-Int
Saint Valentine's Day Multiple Choice Activity

Saint Valentine's Day Multiple Choice Activity

This is a multiple choice activity for teaching Saint Valentine's Day related vocabulary. Recommended for elementary students who are asked to look at the pictures and then choose the correct opt ...
14 Views 21,046 BegElem
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The Story of Us: Listening Comprehension

The Story of Us: Listening Comprehension

This worksheet although a love song it is not the typical lovey dovey one. It talks about heartbreak with an upbeat tempo. It has several mini activities that must be done, not just fill in the b ...
16 Views 22,111 Pre-IntIntAdv
Jobs / Professions

Jobs / Professions

Vocabulary,
I made this in 2011. It is appropriate for elementary to pre-intermediate students of English. There is an alphabetical list of jobs and professions, some pictures of them to complete, and an exer ...
20 Views 32,681 Elem
School Stuff

School Stuff

This worksheet is for students to learn school stuff. There are some pictures and they have to fill in the name of the things which are in the central column mixed with other school things. It is ...
7 Views 10,753 Pre-Int
Blank Timetable Template

Blank Timetable Template

This timetable chart is for students to complete it with their subjects and their extracurricular activities. They can also practice the names of the days of the week as they have only the beginni ...
12 Views 41,437 ElemPre-IntInt
The Occupy Movement Video Lesson

The Occupy Movement Video Lesson

It's a video lesson about the Occupy Moviment with listening and conversation activities. Intermediate and on levels. Students discuss the political scene in the world and learn about this movemen ...
6 Views 6,264 IntAdv
Snakes and Ladders Past Simple

Snakes and Ladders Past Simple

Version with sentences. Very popular game created to practice formation of Past Simple sentences. The worksheet contains regular and irregular verbs. Rules: each player throws the dice and moves ...
21 Views 49,071 Pre-IntInt
Euro 2012 Worksheet: Coloring Flags Part B

Euro 2012 Worksheet: Coloring Flags Part B

It goes with the coloring flag activities. Students will learn about different interesting places in Europe and about the history of the Euro Cup. I make the students work in teams and have them d ...
11 Views 7,741 All
Jokes for ESL Adults

Jokes for ESL Adults

This worksheet contains some jokes for ESL students, to add some humour to your class, and also to look at some puns in English. Works best with a higher level but can be good for Intermediate stu ...
15 Views 45,285 IntAdv
Find Someone Who: Getting To Know Each Other

Find Someone Who: Getting To Know Each Other

You can give this worksheet to your students and you can ask them to stand up, move around the class and ask questions to their classmates. Then they can note down their classmates' names next to ...
7 Views 17,478 Pre-IntInt
The Typical Millionaire

The Typical Millionaire

What's the typical millionaire like? What are our stereotypes about rich people? Give students 8 common ideas of what's it like to be a millionaire and make them discuss in pairs or groups if thi ...
17 Views 20,119 Pre-IntIntAdv
ECCE Writing

ECCE Writing

Some easy plans, explanations and topics in order for students to tackle more efficiently the Writing Part of the ECCE examination. There is an explanation of every possible essay or letter type r ...
11 Views 44,180 IntExam
Ultimate Survival Discussion

Ultimate Survival Discussion

Ultimate survival is an awesome topic for outdoor lessons or language camps. This worksheet is a discussion lesson on the topic. 1) Students discuss the questions in small groups; 2) After they h ...
10 Views 40,185 Pre-IntIntAdv
Subcultures (

Subcultures ("I Am Different, So I Am Unique")

How to use a worksheet: 1) general discussion (What is a subculture? Do you believe one should differ from the others to be unique? How are the members of subcultures different? etc.) 2) matching ...
13 Views 13,967 ElemPre-IntInt
The Universe

The Universe

These are two different games in order to find words related to the universe. The first is a crossword,the definitions of different elements in the universe are given and they have to write the co ...
6 Views 13,237 Elem
Computer Parts

Computer Parts

The worksheet contains a picture for labeling the main parts of the computer. Depending on the level, you can add up more difficult items. When the vocabulary work is done, ask the students if th ...
7 Views 26,715 BegElemPre-Int
Mass Media Report

Mass Media Report

How to revise all Media Vocabulary quickly? Make your students reporters! In pairs they ask each other questions from this "Mass Media Quiz" to investigate if Mass Media is important for them or ...
15 Views 35,577 BegElem
What's the Weather Like?

What's the Weather Like?

Hello. First, this worksheet will review the seasons. Second, a short poem/song to relax. Third, this worsheet will help you to practise how to make suggestion. According to the given weather the ...
13 Views 19,221 ElemPre-Int
Travelling Box

Travelling Box

This worksheet is a nice warm-up game for Beginner/Elementary students. Topic - Traveling, grammar point - past simple, present perfect. Give students time to write down the answers to the questi ...
5 Views 9,079 Elem
Fun With Letters

Fun With Letters

Vocabulary
Letters – R, T, B, E, U Rules: how many words of three or more letters, including plurals, can you make from the five letters, using each letter only once? No foreign words or ones beginni ...
2 Views 13,430 Elem
30 Different Ideas for Conversation Classes

30 Different Ideas for Conversation Classes

In this worksheet, I share some of the ideas I always use for conversation classes. The ideas are presented into 30 different topics concerning the subject of the class or the grammar lesson, such ...
49 Views 57,651 BegElemPre-IntIntAdv

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