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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This worksheet describes the political system of the USA. Students will speak about it using active vocabulary and scheme below. (Political words and word combinations are given for Russian learne ...
This worksheet describes the political system of the United Kingdom. Students can try to speak about it, using active vocabulary and scheme below. (Political vocabulary is given for Russian learne ...
Here is the next picture description worksheet. There is a big picture and two tasks -
1) answer the questions, and
2) choose true or false.
The exercises are not difficult. Present Continuous ...
This worksheet contains four different tasks which are all related to the picture description: 1) complete the sentences with Present Continuous 2) True or false, 3) Insert the correct prepositio ...
It´s a simple text about Penelope Cruz for beginners but it has comparitive /superlative to be and Simple present. Students like it as they can understand a lot. I usually use it when teach ...
This worksheet is very useful for beginners to practice the given topic. You can ask your students to write the construction "this is a ..then about the shapes attributes. It is a great practice. ...
It is an exercise for revising adjectives that describe personaliy.It can be used at the beginning of the lesson as a warm-up or as a filler activity at the end of the lesson.Students can work in ...
This is a very useful worksheet to practice shapes through listening and speaking.
Teacher's words: Listen to the teacher's instructions and blacken the circle needed. e.g. TASK 1: BLACKEN the va ...
Here's a 3 page worksheet with several activities on food vocabulary, some and any, indefinite articles and verb to like. Suitable for elementary students who are asked to complete affirmative, n ...
This is a simple matching activity, suitable for intermediate students, on parts of the body. The worksheet is editable / correctable (doc format) and it´s a available in both colour and bl ...
Two sets of questions about people in general. They are open, personal questions. Lots of side questions can spring form each one of them, and you can have quite a good conversation practice. It c ...
With this 3-page document you will be able to teach your pupils the different kinds of clocks that you can find, as well as how to understand and tell the time in English (something very hard for ...
This worksheet wil help you and your students to get to know the main and important functions of public relations. The study the definition of PR. It is nice to work with the group, to raise the d ...
Here's a lovely and colourful picture crossword, suitable for elementary students who are asked to look at the pictures and complete the crossword puzzle. This is a pdf document available in bot ...
This is a fully animated presentation for teaching Halloween related vocabulary. It includes a brief lesson followed by a matching activity. Each slide is illustrated with high quality graphics a ...
Here's a set of flashcards for teaching or revising Halloween related vocabulary: bat, mask, carving, cauldron, witch, jack O ´lantern, scarecrow, coffin, trick or treat bag, Dracula, skele ...
An idea of how to make postcard of 4 seasons - Autumn, spring, winter and summer. Power point presentation of how to write postcard to friends or family members. Step 1: refresh pupils about the 4 ...
This is a worksheet dealing with listening comprehension of British and American slang. It's pretty funny: Hugh Laurie, the British actor who plays the American Dr House, is invited to Ellen De Ge ...
I usually use these video documents as a warmer before dealing with the topic of GMOs (a recent news article, for example) The first one is a parody of Star Wars, and the second one is much more s ...
Reading comprehension on the song Born this Way by Lady Gaga. The students first do a listening activity on Acceptance and that one has to accept oneself before accepting others (I have a powerpoi ...
This is something I use in the computer lab, so the students can first do some quick research on the internet, then individually listen to the parts of the video they have most difficulties with. ...
A basic activity with fifteen fruits to complete as a spelling activity and a word search too. The teacher can read the names of the fruits and after play a spelling game orally, individualy or in ...
This is a classroom display for practising the weather every day.It never snows in the city I currently live that's why I didn't include snowy.You can color and laminate and hang up at the bulleti ...
This worksheet describes our feelings: angry, happy, tired and sad with different expressions and colours. Ask the children how they are feeling at the beginning of each class. How are you feeling ...
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