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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.


With 14,321 vocabulary worksheets available, you can find material on a wide range of topics relating to your lesson or students’ needs below - including business, medical, animals, holidays, and many more. You’ll also find worksheets on idioms, colloquialisms, phrasal verbs, and even slang vocabulary.


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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Spring Vocabulary

Spring Vocabulary

Useful for adults & younger at the beginning level. Alphabetizing. Spring weather terms. Especially good for those new to the Roman alphabet. R pronunciation. The 5" crocus label can be a spri ...
14 Views 31,433 BegElem
Say or Tell: Reported Speech Presentation

Say or Tell: Reported Speech Presentation

This presentation shows the difference between the usage of two verbs: tell and say in reported speech. A laptop is needed to give presentation. Examples and explanation are included, plus explan ...
17 Views 12,925 Pre-IntInt
SAY - TELL - SPEAK - TALK [for RU speakers]

SAY - TELL - SPEAK - TALK [for RU speakers]

This is a theory worksheet to help your learners understand the difference between such synonyms as SAY-TELL-SPEAK-TALK. This can be used for Russian students and I hope will be very useful. The w ...
24 Views 12,875 All
Countries and Nationalities Presentation: Ask Your Partner

Countries and Nationalities Presentation: Ask Your Partner

This presentation provides additional practice in countries and nationalities topic. A laptop is needed. There different pictures with questions presenting well known notions, people or places fr ...
5 Views 12,465 ElemPre-Int
Mother's Day Poetry

Mother's Day Poetry

A great tutorial on writing a perfect Mother's Day poem! Detailed instructions for the students and the teacher, lovely examples and suggestions on how exactly your students  should write one ...
15 Views 25,434 ElemPre-IntInt
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Vocabulary Worksheet: Fruit

Vocabulary Worksheet: Fruit

This is a nice worksheet to enrich students' vocabulary on FRUIT. There are 30 pictures around their names. Students have to look at the pictures and match them with the given the names. They wr ...
15 Views 15,118 ElemPre-IntIntAdv
Physical Description Flashcards

Physical Description Flashcards

A set of 27 cards for Physical description vocabulary which can be used for teaching new words, memory games, conversation cards, oral test, group work, classroom posters, etc.
46 Views 102,164 ElemPre-Int
Health PowerPoint Presentation

Health PowerPoint Presentation

It is a collection of six slides which contain seven words each, all related to the topic of health. The words appear on the screen one by one every four seconds. The aim of the exercise is to do ...
22 Views 21,154 Int
Design a Zoo

Design a Zoo

This is a worksheet to be used to consolidate the use of demonstrative pronouns "this", "these" and to recapture the usage of plural form. I ask my kids to brainstorm the names of zoo animals. The ...
10 Views 10,707 Elem
Mother's Day Crafts: Mom's Wish Express

Mother's Day Crafts: Mom's Wish Express

Here's a lovely Mother's Day project that your learners will love and their mothers will adore! It's an accordion-folded card that's very easy to make and looks great. This project was kindly pro ...
17 Views 35,756 BegElem
Stereotypes in Multicultural Europe

Stereotypes in Multicultural Europe

How to be tolerant in a multicultural area? The term ‘Multicultural’ describes the culturally diverse nature of human society. Students need to acquire knowledge, skills and values tha ...
49 Views 36,141 Elem
Categorizing Newapapers

Categorizing Newapapers

This lesson plan was created for cooperative group work. Students have to work in 3 groups. Their skills can be improved integratively as during the lesson they need to speak, read, match definiti ...
16 Views 13,828 Pre-Int
Jobs - Board Game

Jobs - Board Game

With this easy board game, students will practise vocabulary related with jobs and occupations. They have to make a sentence according to the square they land on. I think it is a different and fun ...
21 Views 38,456 ElemPre-Int
Food / Countable and Uncountable Nouns / Quantifiers

Food / Countable and Uncountable Nouns / Quantifiers

Complete worksheet on countable and uncountable nouns, use of quantifiers, containers and quantities and food vocabulary. It includes a grammar guide and more pages with 7 different tasks.
116 Views 198,700 Pre-IntInt
Jobs and Occupations Flashcards

Jobs and Occupations Flashcards

A set of 24 Jobs and occupations Flash-cards which can be used for teaching new words, memory game, conversation cards, oral test, group work, classroom posters, etc.
31 Views 39,975 ElemPre-Int
Classroom Language Worksheet

Classroom Language Worksheet

Students are supposed to match the pictures with the correct collocations. This is quite useful to teach the students what language the teacher is going to use during their classes. It helps them ...
15 Views 32,482 Elem
Adjectives to Describe Character and Personality

Adjectives to Describe Character and Personality

A different activity for the students learn adjectives related to character and personality. It has a picture dictionary on the first page (which can also be used as classroom poster or a study sh ...
89 Views 168,156 Int
Lofty Passenger Space: Transport Reading Worksheet

Lofty Passenger Space: Transport Reading Worksheet

This is a reading exercise with a gist, a detail task, and a vocab exercise for upper intermediate studetns or above. It can be used when talking about travel, airtravel, holidaysm or architecture ...
13 Views 12,490 AdvExam
Adjectives: Painting Pictures with Words

Adjectives: Painting Pictures with Words

Students use adjectives to complete the paragraph. You may add a word bank to scaffold for less proficient students. They also have an opportunity to draw a picture of the scene described in the p ...
9 Views 12,104 Pre-IntIntAdv
The Adventures of Perseus

The Adventures of Perseus

This worksheet was created to practise the new vocabulary from the text 'The Adventures of Perseus'. The students have to fill in the blanks in the text with the provided words. The full text 'The ...
10 Views 10,267 Pre-IntInt
Holidays Worksheet

Holidays Worksheet

This worksheet is about holidays and the dates when they are celebrated. In this worksheet students have a calendar and holiday's representative pics, ss have to cut the holiday pics and paste the ...
11 Views 23,932 Elem
Let's Read and Write About: My School Timetable

Let's Read and Write About: My School Timetable

This is the 6th part of my worksheets "Let´s read and write about..." In this worksheet student read the text on the given topic, then they will do some post-reading tasks to check comprehe ...
36 Views 36,228 ElemPre-Int
Family Elementary Worksheet

Family Elementary Worksheet

I made this family worksheet for my first lesson with elementary students. There are some vocabulary pictures, new topic words, one matching activity (family members with descriptions) and homewor ...
31 Views 52,987 Elem
Around the City: Where Do You Want To Go? Model Dialogue

Around the City: Where Do You Want To Go? Model Dialogue

This is a model dialogue and a city map to practise places around the city (school, art gallery, museum, fruit market, etc.) and prepositions of place (opposite, next to, between) as well as intro ...
44 Views 50,959 Elem
Let's Read and Write About: My Room

Let's Read and Write About: My Room

This is the 5th part of my worksheets "Let´s read and write about...´ Student have to read the text on the given topic, then they work on some tasks about the text. Students have to d ...
35 Views 28,644 ElemPre-IntInt

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