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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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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 " ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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