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.
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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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 ...
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 ...
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- ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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. ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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