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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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Revision Activities: Passive, Reported Speech, Phrasal Verbs

Revision Activities: Passive, Reported Speech, Phrasal Verbs

Some activities for revising phrasal verbs, passive tense, reported speech, forming the opposite of adjectives by adding a prefix. This worksheet was prepared for 2nd Bachillerato students (16 yea ...
17 Views 12,804 Pre-IntIntAdv
Electrical Appliances: Vocabulary Worksheet

Electrical Appliances: Vocabulary Worksheet

This is a worksheet to practice vocabulary about electrical appliances and related vocabulary. Students are offered a series of sentences with descriptions of the use of diverse electrical applia ...
18 Views 35,282 Pre-Int
Furniture

Furniture

There are 3 activities: 1-find the words in the wordsearch and write them under the right picture 2-look at the picture and complete the sentences using the right preposition of place (opposite- ...
8 Views 6,811 BegElem
Food and Drinks Activities

Food and Drinks Activities

There are 5 activities: 1-write the food in the right column countable (c) or uncountable(u) 2-find the food in the wordsearch and write them under the right item of food 3-choose the right opt ...
14 Views 23,498 BegElemPre-Int
Business Letters: Specific Language [For Spanish Users]

Business Letters: Specific Language [For Spanish Users]

This worksheet consists of English-Spanish vocabulary people usually use in business and commercial letters and emails. This worksheet can be useful for Spanish students of business English and al ...
10 Views 15,881 Adv
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Food and Drinks Worksheet

Food and Drinks Worksheet

There are 4 activities: 1- read and write countable(c) or uncountabe (u) next to the food 2-write there is, there isn't or there are, there aren't 3-complete the sentences using some, any, a o ...
25 Views 51,904 BegElemPre-Int
Giving Directions - Shops

Giving Directions - Shops

Worksheet to practice different skills: speaking - giving directions, vocabulary - shops and place prepositions, reading - definitions. First, as an individual activity, make students read the def ...
44 Views 63,901 Elem
Acceptance, Inner Peace and Lady Gaga

Acceptance, Inner Peace and Lady Gaga

A lesson on acceptance (it goes with my Lady Gaga song sheet). The students will participate in a discussion on achieving inner peace and at the end there is a video which I made using Lady Gaga's ...
15 Views 11,408 All
Fruit Flashcards

Fruit Flashcards

This is a very simple activity for beginners: there are 8 fruits: cherry, lemon, kiwi, orange, pear, apple, banana and grapes. You colour them with your children, cut the cards out and play. You ...
22 Views 38,123 Beg
How To Prepare An Omelette

How To Prepare An Omelette

This worksheet is an easy recipe with missing words: words are replaced with pictures to practise vocabulary. This ws can be used to practise the imperative form and verbs of preparation. It can a ...
17 Views 21,791 BegElem
How To Make Mayonnaise

How To Make Mayonnaise

This worksheet is the script of a video from videojug. I usually start with a pre-listening brainstorming to list the ingredients of mayonnaise. I ask my students to identify specific pieces of ...
11 Views 12,776 ElemPre-IntInt
Explaining Dishes

Explaining Dishes

In this worksheet there is a series of photos of French dishes with the list of main ingredients (in French). The aim is to use expressions such as "it contains", "is made from", "consists of" to ...
13 Views 19,366 ElemPre-IntInt
Halloween Cards

Halloween Cards

This lovely set of Halloween cards will help students send a spooky message to their friends. Just download these cards in pdf format, print, give them to your students and ask them to write thei ...
22 Views 13,539 BegElemPre-Int
HALLOWEEN Mini Book

HALLOWEEN Mini Book

Young students will love this adorable Halloween mini book. There are 8 pages with new vocabulary: Jack-O´Lantern, spider, trick or treat, witch, black cat, bat, etc. This pdf document is a ...
23 Views 21,439 BegElem
Cartoon Worksheet: Tangled

Cartoon Worksheet: Tangled

This worksheet was used in the middle of a project on negotiations. It's an oral comprehension on three parts of the Walt Disney movie: the start when Rapunzel tells the audience about her everyda ...
7 Views 20,413 Pre-IntInt
Evian Roller Babies Worksheet

Evian Roller Babies Worksheet

A little introduction to the "star interview" theme, here's an oral comprehension for intermediate EFL students, linked to a video available on Youtube "evian roller babies interviews". The kids l ...
2 Views 7,461 Pre-IntInt
Picture Adapted From Asterix in Britain: 2-Page Worksheet

Picture Adapted From Asterix in Britain: 2-Page Worksheet

This is a 2-page worksheet with Asterix and Obelix. The first page is an opportunity to practise present continuous/present BE-ING with the description of a picture (adapted) from the comic book A ...
16 Views 13,880 ElemPre-IntInt
Consonant-Vowel-Consonant Board Game

Consonant-Vowel-Consonant Board Game

This board game is a useful way to practice sounds, reading of consonant-vowel-consonant combinations. There are words to be read and pictures to be named. You can play with students in pars, grou ...
24 Views 36,264 BegElem
Song Worksheet: War by Bob Marley

Song Worksheet: War by Bob Marley

I did a lesson on Bob Marley's war song. I asked the students to listen to the song and then identify the singer. I then gave them a snap shot of his biography. I asked them to listen to the song ...
6 Views 17,622 Pre-Int
Irregular Verbs Game Board

Irregular Verbs Game Board

This is a simple game for lower level students. Make sure to have dice, and place markers for students (I used small stickers cut with the backing still on them). It can be adapted for many uses. ...
18 Views 26,464 BegElemPre-Int
Similes PowerPoint Presentation

Similes PowerPoint Presentation

A simile is the comparison of two unlike things using the word 'like' or 'as'. And in this presentation there are pictures for some of the similes. It is suitable for visual learners. This present ...
28 Views 48,992 Elem
Greetings And Farewells Worksheet

Greetings And Farewells Worksheet

This is a really easy worksheet for polite greetings and farewells. It is aimed at beginner students or as a reminder of what pupils should say when entering and leaving the classroom. As it is gi ...
14 Views 57,907 Beg
Second Conditional (Food)

Second Conditional (Food)

This worksheet can help you teach the 2nd Conditional with the help of suggestive images of certain countries and their specific types of foods/drinks. Ask your students to form sentences using th ...
13 Views 27,316 Int
Acronyms

Acronyms

In the worksheet you can find some of the acronyms with pictures. Some of the acronyms in the presentation are: NATO, SOS, EULEX, BBC, NBC, HTML, LCD, DVD, etc. This Power point presentation helpe ...
10 Views 19,161 Elem
American English vs British English: Intermediate Worksheet

American English vs British English: Intermediate Worksheet

Here's a 2-page worksheet for teaching the most common vocabulary differences between British and American English. There are two exercises in which students are asked to choose the correct word ...
7 Views 15,250 Pre-IntInt

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