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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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Snakes and Ladders Board Game: Past Simple

Snakes and Ladders Board Game: Past Simple

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 than has to create a cor ...
12 Views 26,236 Pre-IntInt
The Riddle That Will Make Your Students Speak =)

The Riddle That Will Make Your Students Speak =)

First of all I ask 2-3 students to read the text. then let them try to guess. as soon as the answer is found i work with them a second activity with the same riddle. I some of them to retell the a ...
38 Views 71,609 Elem
Song Worksheet: It Will Rain by Bruno Mars [alternative]

Song Worksheet: It Will Rain by Bruno Mars [alternative]

I prepared this worksheet as a reward for a 14-year-olds class. It features simple yet effective exercises to revise vocabulary on feelings and verbs. Since this song repeats many parts, I recomme ...
7 Views 12,821 ElemPre-IntInt
Valentine's Poem

Valentine's Poem

Brainstorm the Valentine symbols and learn the Valentine poem with a help of corresponding images. Young learners may first match the words with the pictures and then colour the pictures according ...
10 Views 18,887 BegElem
Snakes and Ladders Board Game

Snakes and Ladders Board Game

Snakes and ladders Procedure: Divide the class into groups of four students. Give each group one game board, one die, and four tokens. Position all the students' tokens on the square marked " ...
21 Views 47,111 ElemPre-Int
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Describing Appearance - Personality Adjectives

Describing Appearance - Personality Adjectives

A worksheet to practise adjectives and words used to describe appearance and personality. Based on Access 3 student's book and companion, particularly unit 7. It contains a matching activity with ...
20 Views 86,253 ElemPre-Int
Saint Valentine's Day Presentation

Saint Valentine's Day Presentation

I made this presentation long ago. Once I used it during my lesson, students loved it very much. This presentation is for senior students, intermediate or upper-intermediate level. It's colorful ...
44 Views 36,078 IntAdv
St. Valentine's Day Boardgame

St. Valentine's Day Boardgame

This is a lovely and colourful boardgame for revising St. Valentine's day related vocabulary. Students advance on the board with dice and counters when they land on a square they are asked to mak ...
29 Views 71,538 BegElem
St. Valentine's Day Classroom Poster (Updated)

St. Valentine's Day Classroom Poster (Updated)

This is a classroom poster which can also be used as a study sheet or a picture dictionary for teaching St. Valentine's day related vocabulary. The Picture dictionary is available in both colour ...
26 Views 22,043 BegElem
Months of the Year: PowerPoint Presentation

Months of the Year: PowerPoint Presentation

This is a fully animated PowerPoint presentation for teaching or revising the months of the year. Recommended for elementary students who are asked to listen and study the new vocabulary and then ...
22 Views 42,985 BegElem
Warm-up With Different Tense Questions

Warm-up With Different Tense Questions

You can play a board game using dice and asking and answering the questions. Or you can cut this worksheet into squares, hide them in a cap and let your students choose a random question from ther ...
18 Views 19,226 Pre-Int
ABC Restaurant

ABC Restaurant

An exercise focusing on brainstorming students to recall as many words as they can on the given topic. In this one it is "Restaurant" :) You can use it while revising the vocabulary on the topic f ...
7 Views 18,791 ElemPre-Int
Alphabet Shopping Questionnaire/Vocabulary

Alphabet Shopping Questionnaire/Vocabulary

This worksheet practices question formation, "where do you...", "do you like...", food vocabulary, and "some" + noun. It is excellent for elementary level conversation classes and as a speaking a ...
11 Views 13,333 Elem
Sentence Transformations for KET

Sentence Transformations for KET

This is a worksheet with sentence transformations for the KET exam, preparing for Writing part 1. Students often find difficult this part of the KET exam so these sentences can help them prepare i ...
8 Views 15,842 ElemPre-Int
Jobs and Occupations

Jobs and Occupations

Hi! I did this worksheet for the very first day of class. The idea is that students learn how to say what they do in their lives! Obviously, I selected a few jobs. Make a special point telling apa ...
32 Views 124,860 BegElem
20 Discussion Questions on School & Education

20 Discussion Questions on School & Education

Twenty questions on school for pre-intermediate and intermediate teenagers. I use this to revise the names of school subjects, times, comparatives etc. It is basically a conversation class where e ...
18 Views 34,483 Pre-IntInt
Weather Worksheet

Weather Worksheet

This worksheet is used to encourage the pupils to ask and answer questions about the weather using the weather adjectives. Getting the pupils to work in pairs asking and answering to compare the w ...
8 Views 14,739 Elem
Travelling Solo: Reading LP with Speaking Component

Travelling Solo: Reading LP with Speaking Component

This is a lesson plan that I have used a lot. In fact, it's become my "go to" first lesson plan with adults in General English or Conversational classes. I've always received positive feedback fro ...
25 Views 28,253 IntAdv
Great Horoscope For 2012

Great Horoscope For 2012

I made this at 2010, but I changed the year to 2012. You can use this to teach Future Simple as well as personality adjectives. You can also practice reading techniques. In the end your students ...
42 Views 43,549 Pre-Int
St. Valentine's Day Matching Activity

St. Valentine's Day Matching Activity

This is a very simple matching activity on St. Valentine´s for elementary students, At the bottom of the page is a list of words students are asked to match them with the pictures. The work ...
29 Views 31,252 ElemPre-Int
St. Valentine's Day Worksheet

St. Valentine's Day Worksheet

This is a 2-page worksheet for teaching St. Valentine's day related vocabulary. There is a picture dictionary which can also be used as a study sheet followed by a simple wordsearch puzzle. The w ...
29 Views 44,577 ElemPre-Int
American English vs British English Worksheet II

American English vs British English Worksheet II

This is a worksheet for teaching or revising the most common vocabulary differences between American and British English. Recommended for intermediate students who are asked to match the British ...
28 Views 58,385 Pre-IntInt
Word Formation Activity

Word Formation Activity

33 sentences to practise the use of prefixes and suffixes to form new words. The students have to fill in the blanks with the correct from of the words in brackets, so they have to decide which pa ...
20 Views 39,362 Pre-IntIntAdv
Information Gap Worksheet: Colours

Information Gap Worksheet: Colours

This is an information-gap worksheet to work in pairs. Students revise the colours in English, while they have a conversation between them. I allways use this activity at the beginning of the scho ...
8 Views 13,205 Beg
Song Worksheet: This Light Between Us by Armin Van Buureen feat. Christian Burns (WITH VIDEO)

Song Worksheet: This Light Between Us by Armin Van Buureen feat. Christian Burns (WITH VIDEO)

A nice song for teenagers and adults with many activities to do while listening. Students have to choose the correct words, complete the lines with necessary pronouns, match the two columns, reord ...
10 Views 9,940 Pre-IntInt

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