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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This is a very useful worksheet for those who teach or learn collocations. It consists of four exercises on two pages: a matching exercise, opposites, synonyms and a gap-filling exercise. It can b ...
A PowerPoint presentation to revise/learn vocabulary on computers. There are 49 animated slides + 2 extra activities (slides 50 & 51). The extra activities are a speaking one to talk about the ...
36 pictures related to computers. The students have to match the names and the picures and write the names under the pictures. It's a way way of learning/ revising the vocabulary and then talk abo ...
In this worksheet there are 2 activities to practise vocabulary on countries and nationalities.There are 42 countries that the students have to find out in the word search. then the have to make a ...
Bingo cards to practice with kids the most common animals. Ages 6 and 7 English second language children. You can practice the name of each animal, the pronunciation and you can work with "can" to ...
A boardgame to see how well your students know expressions with do and make (the boardgame + cards for the game + rules). Students throw the dice and move according to the number shown by the dice ...
This worksheet contains vocabulary on clothes. The students have to do different activities:
1) they have to unscramble 26 names of clothes.
2) match the clothes and their names and copy the nam ...
1st step: show/hand out copies of this cloud text (I Have A Dream) and ask students to predict what the text about is or who the author is. Highlight that the larger words are larger because they ...
Two exercises to deal with jobs 1. Match the job title and its definition and make it a sentence using the present simple tense. 2. The job that would be impossible for someone who... For elemen ...
This is a pretty easy matching activity, suitable for elementary students who are asked to read the words and then match them with the pictures. Vocabulary included: Carolers, Holly, Star, Candle ...
Here's a classroom poster, which can also be used as a picture dictionary or a study sheet, for elementary students. There are 32 different sports presented by amazing illustrations of animals.
If you teach your Ss insects, why not play this board game? Feel free to change anything. Don't be afraid if your Ss might not know some of the insects in the board game - they can learn them whil ...
It's a simple board game to revise the natural phenomena and weather. Feel free to change anything to adapt the game to your Ss' needs. If you can, print it out on a black sheet of paper (or make ...
This is the 3rd ws concerning health problems. There are 20 sentences that the syudents have to complete by choosing the suitable wordds from the ones in teh box. Then they have to match the pictu ...
This is a worksheet to practice reading skills. There are 5 questions about global warming and 6 answers. Students have to match the right question with the right answer and think what could be th ...
Talking about preference has always been something fun. That's why I want to share what I've done in my class with "Preference" as a topic. This activity can encourage the students to talk about w ...
This worksheet is to get students working in groups to decide what the country is, their nationality and anything they know about the countries. This could be the capital city or famous buildings/ ...
This is a fully animated PowerPoint presentation, with audio for teaching or revising the weather related vocabulary. Students are asked to study the vocabulary , look at the pictures and then an ...
A very simple picture dictionary for teaching Christmas related vocabulary: bag of toys, bells, bulb, carolers, Christmas tree, presents, Christmas lights, wish list, toys, presents, reindeer,sle ...
A 2-page worksheet for teaching winter related vocabulary. The first page is basically just a picture dictionary, which can also be be used as a study sheet and the second page has a pretty simp ...
Here´s a set of high quality flashcards for teaching vocabulary related to winter. Each of the flashcards contains full colour illustrations and the corresponding word: snowman, snow-angels ...
Second part in the set of two worksheets on Thanksgiving. I have made to complement my thanksgiving topic.This is a crossword where students use the pictures as clues to solve the activity. Answer ...
Here's a set of 9 flashcards. Daily activies: sleep, have/take a shower, wash hands and face, brush teeth, do morning exercises and have breakfast. Recommended for elementary students, these cards ...
Worksheets for kindergarten: fruits. In the first worksheet students have to name all the fruits and make a selection between exotic fruits and ordinary fruits puting them in different basckes by ...
Colourful worksheet for you students!!! This test helps you to check your students' spelling of parts of the face. The task is to complete the gaps in the words. The worksheet contains 2 identi ...
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