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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This Power Point Presentation can be used for teaching writing addresses on the envelopes. It was created to teach Russian-speaking students to address a letter in English but it will be useful fo ...
This worksheet is ideal to use when you wish to test your primary students if they know the spelling of numbers. It goes from number 1 to 100 and, as you can see, it is pretty simple to explain ho ...
It is a song worksheet based on the famous song “WHAT A WONDERFUL WORLD” by Louis Armstrong, and it is to be used as a listening activity to practice the use of adjectives, some voca ...
Spin, Dreidel, Spin Mini-book.
What a great project for students to take home! Every time they teach the game to a friend, they can share the little book and review the rules.
This is a two-page ...
This worksheet is aimed at practising present simple, mostly in affirmative sentences. The worksheet consists of 5 exercises. Exercise 1 deals with filling in the gaps with the correct forms of ve ...
To be used as a warm-up, fun game, prequel to introducing/revising Clothes-related vocabulary. Designed to be printed on A4 sheet and cut in four. All letters (except Q) belong to at least one wo ...
This worksheet is devoted to the topic "Musical films". It includes different types of activities: reading, listening, speaking, watching). The text for listening is taken from the bbc resource s ...
This is a printable Hanukkah invitation template that your learners can complete and use.
The text goes:
You are invited to a Hanukkah party. Happy Hanukkah!
Date, time, place, rcvp.
Color each of the dreidels and punch a hole directly through the hole provided. Put a string through all of the holes and make a holiday decoration you can hang across the door or anywhere!
Dreidel Cube game where learners create the cube and play with it.
Directions to make:
Color the entire Dreidel
Cut the Dreidel out
Fold shaded areas and glue or tape together as a cube ...
Put letters in order and find a domestic animal: chicken - horse - cat - donkey - dog - pig - duck - sheep. This worksheet is for beginners, age group - children. You can do this activity after s ...
This one of my favourite songs from the 90s, despite it being from a boy band. The song is slow and the words clearly sung, so useful for a fun esl class. Here's my lesson plan: 1. Hand out the w ...
This worksheet contains different kinds of vocabulary work dealing with the topic economic activity. Special attention is paid to the word usage of: economic, economical, economically, economize e ...
It is a worksheet about Personal Information. Students learn how to ask and give personal information and can practise the four skills with it. It is very useful at the beginning of the school yea ...
Worksheet on the song "Have You Ever Really Loved a Woman" (by Bryan Adams). A beautiful romantic song will help you introduce Present Perfect. It also deals with feelings and senses. It suits eld ...
These are cute masks with instructions on cutting/folding them - please feel free to give to your beginner learners as a homework assignment, or do it with them in class. Great for all sorts of pa ...
Here's a nice collection for an amazing Thanksgiving lesson: 25 big and bright Thanksgiving images that can be also used as flashcards. Print them out full size and decorate your classroom to cele ...
This woksheet will help to check country-study awareness of your students. It can be used during the lessons which are dedicated to Britain and its sights. You may use it in the beginning of the ...
This worksheet (3 pages) is about Famine. Sts have to make a list with immediate needs and future needs, make up sentences by using must, can, will, should, might and could. On the last page sts h ...
This is a wonderful song that takes love, caring and hope into account. The activity is based on pronunciation and use of English. It can be used to practice diphthongs and features of connected s ...
This worksheet helps you revise the past simple tense by combining the grammar activity with a guessing game about celebrities who are dead. A) in a first step you introduce a celebrity step by st ...
This worksheet requires students to match up pairs and opposites. The vocabulary is mostly relelvant for travelling and tourism. The vocabulary includes nouns, verbs and adjectives. The vocabulary ...
This is a simple wordsearch using vocabulary related to tourism - particularly relevant to seaside locations. The worksheet allows students to translate the vocabulary into their own language. It ...
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