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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Interesting historical facts about the most famous walls which ever existed in the world. The texts concern The Berlin Wall, The Great Wall of China, Hadrian's Wall and Eboracum (York). The worksh ...
Here is a short biography of Bob Marley with the text of one of his best songs. You can have students first read a short article about the artist and then listen to this song downloaded from a CD ...
Reading worksheet about this amazing sport - parcour!
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A simple and easy to read text about school (a letter to a friend) suitable for elementary/pre-intermediate levels. It´s useful for checking your students´ reading competence as the fo ...
A very nice reading passage for pre-intermediate levels. I've enjoyed a lot making this worksheet and included many comprehension exercises(4 pages). So, I really hope you like it.
It has: 1) a v ...
I made this Halloween vocabulary quiz worksheet puzzle myself when I introduced Halloween vocabulary to my primary students. They have English as a second language. If you'd like I could give you ...
Two exercises reinforcing "time" vocabulary, specifically how much time is in a minute, day, week, month, year, century..
This telling time activity includes process of elimination fill-ins and c ...
This is a set of 10 realistic fruit flashcards for your ESL classroom. It also contains several vegetable flashcards (pepper and tomato). These color flashcards will work wonders for your presenta ...
This is a set of 6 basic emotion flashcards - all presented by a cute cat! You can use these free flashcards to present the following emotions to your pre-schoolers or elementary learners: angry, ...
The worksheet presents a text on theimportance of vitamins for our health, the description of the basic vitamin groups and the food where it can be found. The 3 exercise follow the text: finding t ...
A reading comprehension on Jack O' Lantern's Story. It consists of a text in the first page and an activity page on the second. In the activity page you can find a wordcheck activity, a reading co ...
A Halloween worksheet for young beginners. Pupils learn some Halloween vocabulary (spider, pumpkin, lizard, snake, eye, frog. T may also choose to pre-teach the words 'witch' and 'cauldron'), prac ...
It is the English alphabet presentation in PowerPoint format with pictures to help students understand the letters better. In the orthography of Modern English, thorn (þ), eth (ð), wynn ...
Roller coaster ride, claim to fame, open doors, dream came true, lucky break, take a chance There are 6 nouns and verbs that go together, print as many as you need, arrange your sts in pair give o ...
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This pre-intermediate level material can be presented in both ways: as a poster or a table with the names of the countries and their capitals, and as a game. So you can ask students to check their ...
A set of interesting trivia questions concerning Christmas to be used in a Christmas quiz. This is not a worksheet for learners, but a set of questions (with answers) for the teacher, to be rewrit ...
A worksheet to be used after discussing filling in forms in English and performing library application dialogues on the basis of this authentic library application card (which isn't my own, I foun ...
Children identify the words that match with the pictures. They cut the words and paste them under the Halloween pictures. You also can dictate the order you want your pupils cut the words, so they ...
In this worksheet students read a text about the history of Halloween and answer true/false questions after the text. Before the text there's a list of vocabulary that might be new to the students ...
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