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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Identity and description: filling in an ID form, asking questions to get to know someone, using prompts in order to write a short biography, describing a character (clothes) - present simple/pres ...
This is a game to practice elementary vocabulary about Halloween. It´s a little difficult to make the paper figure. I add a youtube link to follow the instructions in Spanish to make it. Whe ...
This worksheet is a combination of listening to a radio interview “Animal Countdown” with Tim Collins from “Animal Watch” and speaking about the topic " Endangered animals" ...
This speaking worksheet titled 'Endangered Species' is based on topics fom the Internet about endangered animals in Kazakhstan.The worksheet is organized in a way that 3 groups should try to comp ...
Hello, this is the 6th activity of a series to come dealing with pronunciation. These are activities I create to use in class, this story was taken from Listen To English from where you can downlo ...
There you can find many shopping activities, including "Shopping" vocabulary, texts about British shops and examples of dialogues. These exercises will be useful for beginners. You can watch the v ...
In this worksheet there are 24 pictures with daily routine activities and their names + a wordsearch activity. The students have to match the pictures and the names and then find out the words in ...
This worksheet includes listening,reading comrehension and a crossword about the topic of apology and forgiveness. The students are asked to listen to the song and to complete the lyrics. Then the ...
This worksheet is a combination of listening, reading comrehension and writing about the topic of solidaity. The students are asked to listen to the song and to complete the lyrics. Then they will ...
This is a simple worksheet based on a five minute video from a Halloween episode of Friends. It includes one true/false exercise and six listening comprehension questions. It's meant for intermedi ...
I've used this to practise Simple Past in an oral exam. It can be used as a dialogue between two ss being evaluated (one asks some questions and the other answers them) or as a monologue in which ...
It's not only a poem. It's an idea how to conduct a nice, short and easy lesson introducing the topic of Halloween. I've done it with my Ss and they loved it! Have fun! Here's the beggining of th ...
Animal riddles for beginners, especially young learners. First, I read the riddles to my students and they guessed the animals. Then, I divided the class into two groups and handed out the riddles ...
A multiple choice exercise to revise vocabulary about farm animlas mostly. The students are given three names and they have to choose the correct one. After doing the exercise thestudents can do s ...
Students practise banking vocabulary in this roleplay between a potential client and an account manager. They have already studied and know words such as bank account, deposit, loan, interest rate ...
This wordsearch can be used as a revision activity. After teaching Parts of the body, students may have fun looking for the previously studied vocabulary. After all the words have been found, stud ...
This is a very simple matching activity for revising feelings and emotions related vocabulary. Shy, angry, confused, happy, sad, scared, lost, hurt, etc. Suitable for elementary students.
This is a fully animated presentation, with audio, for teaching or revising phrasal verbs. Students are asked to choose the correct alternative to complete each sentence. Suitable for intermediat ...
It can be used with children of 3rd grade up to 6th. First practise the questions orally with flashcards, so the students get more familiar with the written exercise. Show pictures of animals and ...
Two different activities to revise/ learn vocabulary on Halloween. In the 1st activitiy the students have to write the correct words under the correct picture (the keywords are on page 2). The 2nd ...
The activity contains a matching exercise on the theme "Halloween". Students have to connect pictures and words of the halloween symbols: a witch, a hounted mansion, a cemetery, jack o'lantern, a ...
Oscar winner for his performance as Anton Chigurh in "No Country for Old Men" (and the first Spaniard nominated for a Best Actor Oscar for Before Night Falls), and the romantic lead in Woody Allen ...
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1-choose the right option
2- read the descriptions and match
3- match the adjectives with their opposites
4- complete the sentences using the right word
5- match the a ...
Presentations in Power Point for children to explain and suprise a little what our body can do. It asks and give time for guessing or answering the questions. It contains funny pictures. The clue ...
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