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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A basic lyrics gap-fill activity for beginner students for the "Baby Shark" song from Super Simple Songs. You can find the video file on Youtube. I used this worksheet as the first part of the les ...
I used this lesson with middle school pre-intermediate and intermediate students. The worksheet has three parts, the first is a lyrics gap-fill to get students familiar with the lyrics. Part two a ...
This is a worksheet that I put together for my adult A1 class but I think it would also work well for an A2 class or any other for some good old music culture, for that matter. It contains a biogr ...
This tense chart was made with law enforcement-related example sentences, otherwise it is a normal chart :) I have been teaching law enforcement English for 9 years now, and I made this chart for ...
This is an activity to play with young learners. The objective is to make sure they know the color by the name. There are 11 colors divided between the colors chart, they are: red, yellow, blue, g ...
Maui's Song from Disney cartoon "Moana" with fill-in the gaps exercise. Good as a warm-up activity and may be used as pre- or post- reading activity for the text "Maui makes the sun go slower" fr ...
This is a very fun game to review some idioms such as time flies, good money, all ears, talk of the devil, over one's dead body and etc. The instruction of the game is included and this game is tr ...
I have designed this PDF to review some animals that live in the rainforests, in polar regions and on African plains. It contains a bingo game. Cut the cards and give each team a card. Cut the li ...
Use this worksheet with You Tube clip: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Gv0H-vPoDc - Weird Al Yankovic's song about bad grammar. At the end of the song, you will find exercises for students ...
This game is appropriate for young learners at elementary level. It's related to Backpack 2. You have to divide the class into two groups. Each group should choose a letter, click on it, if they ...
This power-point presentation is appropriate for young learners. It's helpful for learning or reviewing the shapes such as rectangles, triangle, oval, square, circle, etc.. It also contains s ...
This game is appropriate for young learners at elementary level. It's related to animal vocabulary items. You have to divide the class into two groups. Each group should choose a letter, click on ...
This power-point presentation is appropriate for young learners. It is based on story book (Monkeying around- Penguin Readers Starter Level).Hope you find it useful. It contains some examples.
This power-point presentation is appropriate for young learners. It's helpful for teaching letter L. It contains some examples. It shows how to write the letter and the sound.
This power-point presentation is appropriate for young learners. It's helpful for teaching letter K. It contains some examples. It shows how to write the letter and the sound.
This power-point presentation is appropriate for young learners. It's helpful for teaching letter J. It contains some examples. It shows how to write the letter and the sound.
This power-point presentation is appropriate for young learners. It's helpful for teaching letter I. It contains some examples. It shows how to write the letter and the sound.
This power-point presentation is appropriate for young learners. It's helpful for teaching letter H. It contains some examples. It shows how to write the letter and the sound. Hope you find it u ...
This power-point presentation is appropriate for young learners. It's helpful for teaching letter G. It contains some examples. It shows how to write the letter and the sound. Hope you find it u ...
This power-point presentation is appropriate for young learners. It's helpful for teaching letter F. It contains some examples. It shows how to write the letter and the sound. Hope you find it u ...
This power-point presentation is appropriate for young learners. It's helpful for teaching letter E. It contains some examples. It shows how to write the letter and the sound.
This power-point presentation is appropriate for young learners. It's helpful for teaching letter D. It contains some examples. It shows how to write the letter and the sound.
This power-point presentation is appropriate for young learners. It's helpful for teaching letter C. It contains some examples. It shows how to write the letter and the sound.
This power-point presentation is appropriate for young learners. It's helpful for teaching letter B. It contains some examples. It shows how to write the letter and the sound. Hope you find it us ...
This power-point presentation is appropriate for young learners. It's helpful for teaching letter A. It contains some examples. It shows how to write the letter and the sound. Hope you find it us ...
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