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 colourful worksheet that will help you teach your students fruit and colours. Primary students will enjoy it, because they will have the impression that they are reading as older students do. Th ...
Use this word search as a warmer for your back to school lesson. Your learners will need to look for 19 words about the topic "school education in Britain". List of words used in this word search ...
Here's a wordsearch puzzle with cosmetics vocabulary. My students (mostly female) asked me to introduce make-up words for them. So I figured it would be an interesting activity for them to try to ...
Here is my second mini book. This time we will work with the body parts. Eight pages with different and simple tasks, labeling, matching, reading colouring, word search puzzle, a list of words t ...
I always thought that teaching the time is one of the hardest tasks. Not only for being a difficult topic but also because students find it boring. I am persistent and to overcome this problem I ...
This is a two-page worksheet about the family. The first page can be used as a classroom poster or a study sheet and on the second page you can find a word search puzzle and a matching activity ...
This puzzle worksheet will help ESL teachers to revise and recycle personality adjectives. List of words used in this word search: BALANCED, PREDICTABLE, SELFISH, TOLERANT, SENSITIVE, TALKATIVE, ...
This is a simple ESL word search activity for kids. Great way for them to play and learn new vocabulary. Hope you enjoy teachin animals with this elementary word puzzle! List of words used in th ...
A worksheet about how to write a formal letter of complaint. It contains a model letter in the form of a gap filling activity followed by a list of useful expressions students can use in formal co ...
This is a worksheet for practicing prepositional phrases and phrasal verbs. It collects the most important prepositional phrases and phrasal verbs with take,turn, come, go, break, look, put. It is ...
The Earth Day is on 22 April, and this worksheet will come in handy for this special lesson. There are three pages of Earth Day graphics (coloring cards that can be used as a mini-book), and the l ...
Make your students learn the usual vocabulary related to food and drinks in an amusing way. First they click on the pictures to read and listen the words. Then they have a multiple choice game to ...
Some Intermediate level vocabulary/key words for the topics of ethics/media bias. List of words used in this word search: CRITICAL, ACCURACY, PREJUDICE, VESTED-INTEREST, SUBJECTIVITY, PERCEIVE, T ...
Here´s a worksheet dealing with bedroom and furniture vocabulary and some grammar topics such as prepositions of place, there + To Be, some and any, etc. Especially designed to develop stude ...
I am starting a series of mini books which are meant to make vocabulary learning easy for young students. This one is quite simple and colourful with images dealing with Rooms in the House.
This wordsearch will help your Pre-Intermediate or Intermediate learners brush up their mass-media vocabulary. It's a good way to make sure they remember the spelling of these words, too.&nb ...
There are two main sources of energy: renewable and nonrenewable. This Earth Day/Earth Hour lesson activitiy contains several puzzles that will help your learners discover patterns and solve the p ...
Here's another activity that can work very well when used on or before the Earth Day or Earth Hour lesson. It is actually a play with detailed teacher's notes and the script which will help your l ...
This is an activity for your Earth Day or Earth Hour lesson that will increase your students'awareness of the energy sources that are around us and the ways energy is used. Hand the picture to gro ...
A set of 14 cards for food / fruit vocabulary which can be used for teaching new words, memory games, conversation cards, oral test, group work, classroom posters, etc.
This worksheet provides detailed instructions on setting up an 'Active Energy' outdoor game activity. It is best played in a large area such as a basketball cort, for example. It can also be easil ...
You can use this wordsearch at the beginning of a lesson. Brainstorm the words for different means of transport, ask students to find all these words in the word search and write them below. Then ...
Here's a wordsearch to practice landmarks for primary students in a bilingual school. List of words used in this word search: PENINSULA, DEPRESSION, CAPE, SHORE, CAVE, ARCHIPELAGO, PLATEAU, VALLE ...
This word search is not so easy and is meant for higher level students (Intermediate or Upper Intermediate) to practice vocabulary related to body parts.
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This is a complete beginner or elementary level word search with words referring to shapes and colors - hope you enjoy it! List of words used in this word search: DIAMOND, BLUE, PINK, PURPLE, REC ...
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