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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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Phrasal Verbs Word Search

Phrasal Verbs Word Search

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 ...
4 Views 7,644 Adv
Classroom Objects Practice Sheet

Classroom Objects Practice Sheet

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 ...
17 Views 74,772 Elem
Tell The Time

Tell The Time

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 ...
20 Views 19,371 Elem
Describing People

Describing People

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 ...
16 Views 16,863 Pre-IntInt
Personality Adjectives Flashcards

Personality Adjectives Flashcards

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 ...
30 Views 96,759 ElemPre-Int
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Song Worksheet: Somebody To Love by Queen

Song Worksheet: Somebody To Love by Queen

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 ...
23 Views 52,239 Pre-IntIntAdv
Movie Worksheet: Being Human E01S01

Movie Worksheet: Being Human E01S01

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 ...
6 Views 11,895 AdvExam
Modes of Transportation

Modes of Transportation

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 ...
13 Views 37,900 BegElemPre-Int
Countries & Nationalities Worksheet

Countries & Nationalities Worksheet

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 ...
7 Views 10,790 Pre-IntInt
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Movie Worksheet: "Friends" Episode - A Baby On The Bus

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 ...
7 Views 11,000 AdvExam
Song Worksheet: Song for Dad [WITH VIDEO]

Song Worksheet: Song for Dad [WITH VIDEO]

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 ...
3 Views 21,769 IntAdv
Nothing But Sports! [32 Images]

Nothing But Sports! [32 Images]

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 ...
21 Views 35,968 ElemPre-Int
Hobbies and Sports

Hobbies and Sports

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 ...
11 Views 23,545 BegElemPre-Int
Types Of Food

Types Of Food

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 ...
9 Views 15,236 BegElem
Past Simple - Regular Verbs Table

Past Simple - Regular Verbs Table

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 ...
21 Views 45,221 ElemPre-IntInt
Video Session: Robin Hood - Men in Tights

Video Session: Robin Hood - Men in Tights

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 ...
3 Views 9,716 IntAdv
Writing Movie Reviews: Tim Burtons' Corpse Bride

Writing Movie Reviews: Tim Burtons' Corpse Bride

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 ...
10 Views 19,860 IntAdv
Feelings and Emotions Worksheet

Feelings and Emotions Worksheet

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 ...
14 Views 37,372 ElemPre-Int
Consonant Blends Board Game

Consonant Blends Board Game

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 ...
4 Views 26,448 BegElem
Work

Work

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 ...
22 Views 14,440 ElemPre-IntInt
Food Word Search Puzzle

Food Word Search Puzzle

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 ...
10 Views 22,577 Elem
The Seasons

The Seasons

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 ...
17 Views 21,336 BegElem
The Apartment Building: Reading Worksheet

The Apartment Building: Reading Worksheet

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 ...
15 Views 23,282 Pre-IntInt
What Do They Do In Their Jobs? 25 Images [part 2]

What Do They Do In Their Jobs? 25 Images [part 2]

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 ...
19 Views 21,109 ElemPre-IntInt
What Do They Do In Their Jobs? 25 Images [part 1]

What Do They Do In Their Jobs? 25 Images [part 1]

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 ...
20 Views 19,040 ElemPre-IntInt

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