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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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Native Americans

Native Americans

Read about Pocahontas and answer the questions. Then fill in information about a Native American tribe of your choice. Teachers can expand by adding more to the table. There is also a short vocabu ...
16 Views 14,852 Int
Describing Famous People

Describing Famous People

Students will practice adjectives, opposites, verb to be and describe physical appearance. They will also practice reading and writing. The topic is appealing to the students' interests. Students ...
14 Views 57,706 Elem
Thanksgiving Wordsearch Puzzle

Thanksgiving Wordsearch Puzzle

This is a simple wordsearch puzzle for teaching or revising Thanksgiving related vocabulary. Recommended for elementary students who are asked to read the words given and then find them in the gr ...
21 Views 43,786 ElemPre-Int
In the Office Worksheet

In the Office Worksheet

A worksheet for teaching office related vocabulary. Students are asked to study the words then find them in the wordsearch puzzle and then match the words with the pictures. Recommended for eleme ...
7 Views 22,879 ElemPre-Int
House and Furniture: Bathroom

House and Furniture: Bathroom

This is a 2-page worksheet for teaching bathroom related vocabulary. It includes a picture dictionary which can also be used as a study sheet followed by a framework activity. Recommended for ele ...
12 Views 12,785 ElemPre-Int
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Germs, Germs Everywhere

Germs, Germs Everywhere

This word search is to correspond to a lesson on germs and prevention or spread of germs through healthy habits and good hygiene. List of words used in this word search: SICK, POISONS, CLEAN, SPR ...
8 Views 11,425 Elem
Graphic Animals Wordsearch

Graphic Animals Wordsearch

This is my first wordsearch. I think it is easier and more interesting for children to play with wordsearches when there are many pictures of nouns. The words are: pig, cat, sheep, horse, bird, c ...
5 Views 6,535 BegElem
Writing Descriptions

Writing Descriptions

I designed this activity for students who find it hard to write descriptions (they generally write very short texts). In this worksheet they are asked to compare descriptions and choosing the best ...
11 Views 21,534 BegElem
Jobs Matching Activity

Jobs Matching Activity

This is a simple activity for teaching or revising jobs and occupations related vocabulary. The worksheet is recommended for elementary students who are asked to read the words and then match the ...
15 Views 26,125 Elem
The Greek or Latin Roots for -ped- Quiz

The Greek or Latin Roots for -ped- Quiz

A vocabulary quiz using the Greek or Latin root (-ped-) for decoding some of our English words, for example: biped, tripod, pedicure, peddler,pedal, pedestrian,impediment, quadruped, centipede, an ...
8 Views 21,100 Adv
Eating Out Worksheet

Eating Out Worksheet

A warm up useful for preparing "In a restaurant" dialogues. At first, students create their own menus. They think of their own ideas or just use the ideas presented in the box. Then, they work wit ...
24 Views 31,256 ElemPre-Int
School Puzzle

School Puzzle

Basic vocabulary on school. There are 20 pictures with classroom vocabulary. The names are missing, so the students have to write down the names of the objects/people and then find these words in ...
5 Views 8,794 Elem
Problems While Travelling

Problems While Travelling

This double puzzle worksheet can be used by the students who study the topic "Travel". They can do it in pairs or independently. The teacher can use it at any time of the lesson for a change. Aft ...
8 Views 15,958 Pre-IntInt
Transport and People

Transport and People

This worksheet is a word search puzzle for students who study topics "Transport" or "Travel" aimed at pair or individual work at the lesson. It can be used as a warmer or at any time of your lesso ...
6 Views 7,227 Pre-IntInt
Festival in Peru

Festival in Peru

A reading focus on a traditional religious believe in Perú which is the main Catholic festivity here and it is one of the biggest processions around the world. It all started in the early m ...
3 Views 5,870 Pre-IntInt
Idiomatic Crime

Idiomatic Crime

The first task is to match up the idioms on the left with the definitions on the right. This can either be done by just giving the students the worksheet or by enlarging it and cutting it up for a ...
17 Views 21,691 AdvExam
Family Members

Family Members

Students write the words of the members of the family of the image. then they look at the picture and complete the test below. At the end they listen to their teacher and numbers the family membe ...
18 Views 26,133 Beg
House and Furniture: Kitchen

House and Furniture: Kitchen

A worksheet for teaching or revising kitchen related vocabulary. The first page is basically just a picture dictionary followed by a simple activity in which students are asked to match the words ...
11 Views 16,742 ElemPre-Int
House and Furniture: Bedroom

House and Furniture: Bedroom

This is a 2-page worksheet for teaching bedroom furniture related vocabulary. The first page is basically just a vocabulary sheet, which can also be used as a picture dictionary, and the second p ...
15 Views 17,773 ElemPre-Int
Board Game - WH Questions

Board Game - WH Questions

Aim: to ask and answer WH questions, practise speaking in a fun way. This game is for elementary, pre-intermediate or intermediate levels, depending on what would you like to focus on. It is for p ...
40 Views 67,537 ElemPre-Int
Parts of the House

Parts of the House

Very useful exercises for practice the parts of the house( kitchen, bedroom, living room, toilet, kids room, garage etc.) There are two excellent exercises. First one is to put the words from the ...
51 Views 169,466 ElemPre-Int
Toys

Toys

Vocabulary
It's an exercise about toys. You should fill in the gaps with the correct word from the box. The name of the toys are: car, doll, teddy bear, doll house, boat, and ball. Its good for elementary pu ...
11 Views 52,585 Elem
Present Continuous Board Game - Easy Verbs

Present Continuous Board Game - Easy Verbs

This is a present continuous board game with easy verbs, I normally use it with my 10 year old children. Students say a sentence according to the picture and also its symbol (tick or cross) which ...
27 Views 57,124 BegElem
Animal Adjectives

Animal Adjectives

This is a very easy activity anyone can use to pre-teach small children basic vocabulary. Animals with adjectives. As a pre-activity, you give the children the worksheet and you make up a simple ...
11 Views 22,722 Beg
Song Worksheet: Price Tag by Jesse J

Song Worksheet: Price Tag by Jesse J

Activities for advanced learners related to a song dealing with the money topic. This worksheet includes a gap-filling activity, a matching one, a multiple-choice exercise and finally some discuss ...
19 Views 25,090 Adv

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