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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To review the usage of phrasal verb. Students have to find the phrasal verbs and then put them in three categories: separable, always separated and inseparable. List of words used in this word se ...
This is a worksheet for practicing the classroom objects that can be used as a reinforcement and revision before the exam and can focus more on spelling. It contains a matching exercise and a word ...
This is a worksheet combined with reading, listening and writing parts. The listening part is up to the teacher: the teacher will tell the time and the students should draw it. You can use it as a ...
This is an activity I used with very intermediate students at a Brazil hight school. The aim of the lesson was to practive the describing people with: appearence and character, learn new vocabula ...
This is a set of cards for teaching personality adjectives: generous, outgoing,attentive, calm, intelligent, aggressive,rude, shy, etc These cards can also be used to play games or as conversatio ...
This song from the band Queen is great to work with indefinite pronouns some-, any, - no and every-. in this exercise the student has to complete first with the name of the pictures and then liste ...
A vocabulary worsheet for BBC series Being Human (UK) - E01S01. Can be used after watching the episode on the lesson or as a homework. The episode might be used with advanced groups on Halloween l ...
This is suitable for young students who are learning the skills in vocabulary. Different kinds of transportation is included in the exercise. Students will fill in the blank with the correct name ...
Target: vocabulary practice. Individual and group work. There're 2 stages for this activity: 1. Students get a card (or two) with a country name. They write down what to call one person from this ...
In this episode, number 6 of the second season, Joey and Chandler have to take care of Ross´s baby for a day and they accidentally forget him on the bus. There are other secondary stories to ...
This is a good song for intermediate and upper intermediate students. It is the story of a man that looks back on his relationship with his father and has a more mature view of his dad. Students h ...
32 pictures with different sports and a list of sports. The students have to match the sport and the name and write it under the correct picture. The ws can be used to talk about the students' fav ...
This is a one page activity that will test the skills of of the student on how well they know their vocabulary words on the different hobbies and sports. Students will complete the sentences using ...
Students will identify the different kinds of food on the space provided. This is a very good material for Beginner and Elementary students. Children will love the colorful and interesting picture ...
This is a Past Simple worksheet with rules of the regular formation of some verbs in the past. It also has a small fill-in-the-gaps activity using some regular and irregular verbs in the Past Simp ...
Robin Hood - Men in tights is a parody of Robin Hood films directed by Mel Brooks. Its use of puns as a humorous resource makes this film both entertaining and linguistically rich for ESL students ...
This is for my (higher level) second year SHS students to look at paragraph writing. In this class we focused on writing movie reviews- first they look at a review of the movie Twilight, then we ...
This is a very simple worksheet for teaching feelings and emotions related vocabulary. It includes a picture dictionary which can also be used as a study sheet followed by a wordsearch puzzle . S ...
The board game is the follower of my previous worksheet about consonant blends. for consolidation you can practice it and you will be pleased with the results. Try it! It is also useful for studen ...
There are 5 activities:
1- complete the paragraph using the words from the box
2-match the jobs with the places
3-read the sentences and choose the right word
4-read and match the two halves
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Students will find some food vocabulary in a puzzle. The vocabulary contains both countable and non-countable nouns.There is also a reading comprehension activity that consists of reading two text ...
There are four activities:
1- read the descriptions, and write the seasons next to them
2-write the months next to the right season
3-look at the pictures and write true or false
4-write the ...
This is a reading comprehension worksheet for pre-intermediate students. It practices prepositions of place. It can be used as an ice-breaker for intermediate students or to review prepositions wi ...
This is the 2nd ws about jobs, with 25 new jobs to describe. Sudents have to choose a verb from the given list to fill in the sentences, then they will have a sentence to describe what these peopl ...
There are 25 pictures for 25 jobs. Sudents have to choose a verb from the given list to fill in the sentences, then they will have a sentence to describe what these people do in their jobs. They c ...
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