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 is based on video 3 - unit 3 New Headway Elementary 4th edition; you can use it to revise your students listening skills. They fill in missing (mostly) verbs into the texts. You wil ...
A compound word is made up of two words that come together to make one new word. Students are asked to draw a line from each word on the left to to the word on the right so that they form a compou ...
Indonesia has two seasons, this worksheet will tell students what the seasons are, what people have to do and what the weather is like during the season. This worksheet begins with the dialogue be ...
As part of the interdisciplinary program we have at school this worksheet is used to practice the use of conditional 2 and conditional 3 along with the first chapter about the French Revolut ...
This worksheet is a reading activity for high level learners with an excellent grasp of the English language. Students must read the paragraphs and fill the gaps using the word key at the bottom o ...
This worksheet is designed to be used with a YouTube video. It helps learners practise the use of past tenses to describe what happened in a short film. Play the video using this link: https://www ...
This worksheet contains four stories, students must choose one story and decide who of the four people they are going to help and then decide how they are going to help them to organize a charity ...
All of these words are associated with spring. Students are asked to fill in the missing letters to each word. This spring themed worksheet was created for primary/elementary children. We hope you ...
The spelling words on this worksheet are all associated with spring. Students look at the words and underline the correct one. This spring themed worksheet was created for primary/elementary ...
Do you cringe when you hear students misuse "for" and "since" when they are speaking? This is one page of examples and exceptions with a description of how to use these important everyday words. Y ...
5 common idioms beginning with 'bB'. Students need to match the idiom to the correct meaning, underline idioms in a paragraph, and then read sentences and fill the gaps with the idioms. There is a ...
5 everyday idioms beginning with 'b'. Students first need to match the idiom to the correct meaning, and then read example sentences and fill the gaps. There is a teacher's guide with answer key i ...
This is a worksheet for the first episode of the TV series London Central. It contains watching, writing and speaking exercises about the first acquaintance and some simple phrases for meeting new ...
This worksheet contains some very useful expressions related to transport and present perfect practice. It is recommended for elementary to intermediate students. The students have a look at the s ...
A very simple worksheet with some emojis and adjectives for feelings that students have to match. The adjectives are: happy, scared, angry, excited, bored, surprised, tired, hungry and worrie ...
This PPT is good for conversation classes, especially to work on unreal conditionals. It contains parts of Viola David's acceptance speech at the Oscars 2017. There are questions that give student ...
I use this activity at the beginning of the school year to make a revision of the basics: ame, age, expression of love and dislike, conjugation, etc.. Students usually love it. First I introduce t ...
A wonderful worldwide quiz name using the indefinite article. A fun way of fixing its rules. You can do it first by yourself, then in pairs, or even in groups and have fun in this game with your p ...
This maths worksheet asks students to complete as many of the sums as they can in 1 minute. This will help a child's basic calculation skills and make more difficult maths easier for them later on ...
It makes me wonder if students truly understand each other when chatting on an SN site so I made this multiple choice test to prepare them for the latest slang words on the Internet :) You may ass ...
Food vocabulary and puzzle for beginners. You can use it to teach food vocabulary but also for revision purposes. I created it for my Catering Industry ESL students. I start the lesson with b ...
Starting from the trailer of "The Cat in the hat" we help students revise colours, body parts and animals. Let´s foster studets´creativity by asking them to design their own imaginary ...
To celebrate the birthday of Dr. Seuss we have created this fun word search for your students to enjoy. Students are asked to find each character from books written by author Dr. Seuss in the grid ...
This is a short worksheet, which I think is useful for elementary students. I usually use it when teaching appearance. You can do this exercise dividing your students into groups or pairs. Y ...
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