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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I really like using songs in the classroom to reinforce grammar points or to teach vocabulary and expressions. I find that songs work especially well with teens so I always ask my students what so ...
This is a quick listening exercise for Christmas Lessons. Here you have the lyrics of the funny song "I want a Hippopotamus for Christmas" (you'll find it easily on Youtube!). Children will have ...
Based on the very popular game "guess who", I tend to use this when I teach feature-related vocabulary. My students tend to like it, be it kids or adults. You can describe the people on the sheet ...
Animal Bingo: a fun way to teach or review animal vocabulary! Kids always enjoy this game If you haven't played bingo with your class before, model how to "call bingo" first and then let your s ...
This is a funny way to practice listening at the last days of class before Christmas' holidays. Students will have to fill in the gaps on the lyrics. You can finish the activity with a karaoke con ...
This is a funny way to practice listening in the last days of class before Christmas holidays. Students will have to fill in the gaps of the lyrics, sometimes helped by little pictures. A good way ...
This power point presentation helps the students to learn the vocabulary and main characters involved in the Christmas story, when baby Jesus was born. After doing a brainstorming activity, studen ...
It is a worksheet about the classification of animals. There, students have to find 12 animals in a word search, then write them. After that, they have to classify those animals into amphibian, fi ...
This worksheet helps students to practice saying large numbers in English, as well as practising asking and answering questions in relation to describing homes. This is a speaking-based worksheet ...
This is a fully animated PowerPoint presentation, with audio, for teaching or revising bedroom and furniture related vocabulary: bed, lamp, wardrobe, mirror, bedside table and much more.
This is a lovely opposite adjectives mini-book for beginners. There are 12 adjectives to be learnt : big-small, fat-thin, clean-dirty, wet-dry, full- empty; clean-dry. The mini-book is availab ...
So many teachers have found a love for the song "Head, Shoulder, Knees and Toes", in class. The total physical response is a fantastic way to get students really involved. This worksheet is the ly ...
A worksheet for our students to understand the difference between England and the United Kingdom, usually confused. In it, they have to have a look at the map and fill in the text's missing spaces ...
This is worksheet which has a lot of difficult lexis (vocabulary) for advanced speakers of English. I choose difficult words at random and students have to guess the meaning by putting the words i ...
You can use this presentation to teach adjectives and how to use them with verb to be. I show my kids the slides and ask them to make sentences about the adjectives. You can also use this presenta ...
This PP is aimed at intermediate students. The first activity is to predict the definition of the opinion essay. Then students are given the plan and some useful information on writing opinion ess ...
Using Lily Allen's "Who'd have known," students find specific details from the lyrics (or the music video) which suppoer the topic sentence (of the relationship being good or bad). Great practice ...
Vocabulary about Thanksgiving, including vocabulary about food eaten on that day, and also about important things and people who are relevant about this day. Students will be able to learn meanin ...