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.
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I used this worksheet with 10 year-old children and they loved it. You can work the use of can/can't, extensive and intensive listening, and descriptions. The characters, song and the movie are we ...
Two tasks - wordsearch (students' task is to find the hidden words, such as ears, hair, leg, ugly, shy etc) and dividing words into groups (body parts and adjectives). Great for practicing vocabul ...
It's a worksheet I use to work with my pupils after a stay at the mountains! There are words they need to use to write an article after their stay. It's a vocabulary sheet. They need words they di ...
A very basic worksheet using a cloze activity, a spaghetti match up and sentence builder for young children with very weak reading, writing and vocabulary ability. It was typed up in Microsoft Wor ...
This is a poem for complete beginner kids. The grammar spot here is Presents Simple (A cat has..., What does it say?, It says...) Learn animals and their babies, match them with the sounds they m ...
Pick up job advertisements or let the students decide themselves what job they want to apply for. Go through the application form and teach how to fill in the blank in a proper way. After working ...
This is a very simple matching activity for revising jobs and professions related vocabulary. Students are asked to match the words given with the pictures. The activity is available in both colo ...
Getting to know exercise for senior students:
1) ask everyone "Who Are You?", encourage them to answer differently (e.g. I am Nick/American/a boy/teenager etc.), then ask to think and explain wh ...
This is a getting to know each other exercise for beginner/elementary level kids. The task is to write about 3 things about yourself on each part of Ziggi's body and then talk about it using the ...
Use this worksheet to teach countable and uncountable nouns as follows: 1.Use the images to teach vocabulary: There are some flowers in the vase. After you are done with this, make them ask each o ...
Superstitions! What things are said to bring good or bad luck? What do they say will happen if... That's what the worksheet is about. There are 3 activities: 1) defining G (good luck) and B (bad ...
This worksheet is a 2 column box with some British vocabulary their American equivalents. It also covers some grammatic differences between English in UK and US. The material is taken from Video ...
We often talk about celebrations and holidays to our students, but we rarely discuss gift giving which is a great part of any holiday season. This worksheet contains 11 common gift giving mistake ...
It is a worksheet of 4 exercises. the two first are connected because in the first students have to find some words in a word search and then fill in the gaps with those words in the exercise numb ...
This is a guided task for intermediate students attending level 6 - it may be done through pairwork. It allows students to make a gist about the possibilities and the odds involving space explorat ...
Creative tasks for elementary level students ... it includes reading and vocabulary tasks... it is a suggestive activity to let them work in pairs or to inspire them to design a poster or a projec ...
I made it a couple of years ago but you can still use it to demonstrate differences between present perfect and past simple and try a similar exercise about Rihanna. It can also be used simply as ...
Good worksheet to check oral comprehension. Good practice to answer, What, Where, Who, Why and How questions. Good link with American customs for New Year's Eve Esl students: 12 + Needs to be use ...
It's a test on the lesson Robin Hood and the Black Cloak for 7th grade. Textbook - Pathway to English ( Scrapbook). It contains fill-in exercises with words ectracted from the text, recognizing in ...
A very thorough worksheet dealing with business e-mails: how to address different people depending on your relationship, giving reasons for writing, reminding the reader of any previous meetings, ...
A Business English telephone worksheet for pre-intermediate and above students dealing with expressions used both when calling and answering the phone, asking for repetition, stating reason for yo ...
I printed out the cards and laminated them and put them in a non see through bag. Think of a phrase and put it on the board as blank spaces (_ _ _ _) Vowels cost $100 dollars and $1000 to solve. ...
Map with street names, avenues, and blocks with different locations such as the bank, cinema, hotel etc. Really useful for teaching directions. You can ask the student how to get to the bank and t ...
This is an intermediate/upper intermediate level worksheet.It can be used to teach personal adjectives indirectly or it can be used in revision lesson.You can support it with videos about zodiac. ...
An hour long lesson on Household Waste Management, using the lyrics and music of the song 'Down By The River'. These activities in this handout stretch listening, speaking, comprehension and writi ...
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