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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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House and Furniture: Living room

House and Furniture: Living room

This is a 2-page worksheet for teaching living room related vocabulary. It has a picture dictionary, which can also be used as a study sheet, followed by a simple matching activity to go with it. ...
25 Views 40,391 ElemPre-Int
Parts of the House (Vocabulary - Drawing and Coloring)

Parts of the House (Vocabulary - Drawing and Coloring)

Useful and enjoyable worksheet! Encourage your students to be architects! Get them drawing and painting a three-floor house, with all its parts (living room, dining room, kitchen, bathroom, bedroo ...
10 Views 27,307 Beg
Grammar and Vocabulary Exam (6th PRIMARY)

Grammar and Vocabulary Exam (6th PRIMARY)

This exam includes three grammar exercises and one vocabulary exercise. Grammar exercises include: complete the sentences with the present simple, name each activity (daily routine) and describe y ...
11 Views 11,467 Elem
Phrasal Verbs and Mamma Mia Movie

Phrasal Verbs and Mamma Mia Movie

Great for intermediate students! My intermediate students were practicing phrasal verbs and I incorporated them into the vocabulary and comprehension/discussion questions. Best to introduce the ...
16 Views 48,627 IntAdv
Alphabet for Kids

Alphabet for Kids

Here is a list of words for kids, I think this is just an easy way for kids to learn more vocabulary, the process is simple: the kids only have to learn a word for each letter of the alphabet then ...
22 Views 75,827 Beg
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Occupation Maze

Occupation Maze

This worksheet is about occupation words. It is for young learner students  and it is in fact a maze where your students will need to find a way out by connecting occupation words. I ho ...
6 Views 9,914 Beg
Christmas Activity Sheet

Christmas Activity Sheet

This is a fun activity sheet for students to do before Christmas. 1. They decorate the Christmas tree with the Christmas related objects and color it. 2. They read and circle the true information ...
33 Views 25,117 Elem
Free Time Activities 2 (30 Slides With Extra Activities)

Free Time Activities 2 (30 Slides With Extra Activities)

The 2nd ppt to revise vocabulary on hobbies. This time you've got 26 animated slides + 4 slides with extra activities to be done after watching both ppt. They're supposed to encourage students to ...
22 Views 38,810 ElemPre-IntInt
Thanksgiving Mini Book

Thanksgiving Mini Book

An adorable mini book for elementary students on Thanksgiving vocabulary: turkey, corn, pumpkin pie, harvest, pumpkin, cornucopia, Mayflower, native Americans, feast and pilgrims.
8 Views 35,074 BegElem
Free Time Activities 1 (26 Slides)

Free Time Activities 1 (26 Slides)

This is the 1st ppt with vocabulary about free time activites and hobbies. There are 26 animated slides with attractive clipart thanks to Philip Martin. There are extra activities to revise the vo ...
19 Views 35,747 ElemPre-IntInt
Thanksgiving Worksheet

Thanksgiving Worksheet

This is a two page worksheet for teaching or revising Thanksgiving related vocabulary. It includes a picture dictionary which can also be used as a study sheet followed by a pretty easy matching ...
25 Views 87,083 BegElem
Types of Music Worksheet

Types of Music Worksheet

This is a 2-page worksheet for teaching the different types of music: hip hop, classical, rap, opera, country, rock, pop, etc. It includes a picture dictionary followed by a wordsearch puzzle. Re ...
11 Views 31,747 ElemPre-Int
Lotto Game For Beginners

Lotto Game For Beginners

This is an easy lotto game that I play with my LD pupils. It is a fun and colourful way to learn new words. It is best to laminate the pages for continuous use. You show a card with a picture or a ...
8 Views 9,793 Beg
Thanksgiving Story

Thanksgiving Story

Thanksgiving is a very important American festival. With this simple and nice 8-page booklet your learners can find out about the origin of Thanksgiving Day. (In the U.S.A., it is celebrated on th ...
28 Views 26,060 Elem
School Subjects: 22 Slides

School Subjects: 22 Slides

A ppt to revise/learn vocabulary about school subjects. 22 animated slides + an extra activity, a speaking one to talk about school subjects. It's a good way to describe subject contents, likes an ...
18 Views 39,495 ElemPre-Int
What's There in Your Classroom?

What's There in Your Classroom?

A worksheet with 32 words about school objects and people. There are 32 pictures and 32 words that the students are asked to match and write the names under the correct picture. After doing the vo ...
9 Views 17,489 Elem
Trace And Color

Trace And Color

A worksheet about colors for very young students from 5 to 7 years old. The children trace the words of the colors, then they must color the pictures as requested. The pictures have their own colo ...
7 Views 17,459 Beg
Make a Fairy Tale: Boardgame

Make a Fairy Tale: Boardgame

An excellent way to get your pupils to use their imagination while developing the speaking skills. Students take turns rolling the dice and moving the counters around the board, they are asked to ...
29 Views 158,543 ElemPre-Int
Sports Vocabulary PowerPoint

Sports Vocabulary PowerPoint

I found this .ppt & edited it by adding more sports to it so you'll find more than 25 different type of sport. It will help your students recognize a wide range of sports with some questions a ...
16 Views 31,768 Elem
The House Pictionary

The House Pictionary

Vocabulary,
The worksheet is a self-made pictionary of the most representative house furniture and equipment, divided into 4 sections: the kitchen, the living room, the bedroom and the bathroom. There are no ...
15 Views 14,160 ElemPre-Int
Nationality Cards

Nationality Cards

I used this with an English elementary class. Each student gets one card. They have to introduce themselves based on the given information. This could be a way of learning about nationality. You c ...
9 Views 15,150 Elem
ESL Question/Answer Game

ESL Question/Answer Game

This is a good warm-up review game for getting-to-know-you questions. Cut the questions and answers apart. Give each student a slip of paper. Students walk around the room and read their questi ...
33 Views 63,927 Pre-IntInt
I Have A Curfew [TO BE ALLOWED TO]

I Have A Curfew [TO BE ALLOWED TO]

Short worksheet to develop the use of the structure: "I'm not allowed to...." Basically, this worksheet may be used with EFL students, as in my case. The topic of this handout can help you as teac ...
5 Views 13,850 Elem
Song Worksheet: Wonderful World by Sam Cooke

Song Worksheet: Wonderful World by Sam Cooke

Oldie but Goldie! It's just an easy gap filling exercise. My students (kids, beginner's level) enjoyed the song (listening and singing along) and we revised subjects in English. Might be easier at ...
6 Views 16,744 BegElem
Food Pictionary

Food Pictionary

Elementary food worksheet. Two parts: pictionary with illustrations on each word and a Matching game; you have to match the illustration with the correct word. Chicken, Fish, vegetables, fruit, ic ...
11 Views 30,926 BegElem

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