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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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Alphabet Wordsearch

Alphabet Wordsearch

This is a simple wordsearch with basic vocabulary - one word for each letter of the alphabet. The worksheet also asks the students to translate the vocabulary into their own language. This workshe ...
14 Views 13,701 Elem
Pairwork Activity - Describe an Image

Pairwork Activity - Describe an Image

Describe Vince, Mary and Frank. Listen to your partner describe Rosa, Louise and Richard. For each person, find at least one difference between your picture and your partner's picture. Perfect to ...
12 Views 24,143 ElemPre-Int
Experimental Travel

Experimental Travel

‘Sick of sightseeing? Tired of tour guides? Then why not try experimental tourism, a novel approach to travel that starts with a quirky concept and can lead anywhere from Bora Bora to a bus ...
9 Views 12,403 IntAdv
Adventurous Dining

Adventurous Dining

The best of weird and wonderful dining. Tired of eating at the same boring restaurants? Looking for a change? Here are some restaurants that offer original menus, original locations, and original ...
26 Views 21,312 Pre-IntIntAdv
A Guide to Great Walls

A Guide to Great Walls

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 ...
10 Views 12,575 AdvExam
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Song Worksheet: Three Little Birds by Bob Marley (WITH VIDEO)

Song Worksheet: Three Little Birds by Bob Marley (WITH VIDEO)

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 ...
5 Views 14,198 Pre-Int
Parkour Reading Worksheet

Parkour Reading Worksheet

Reading worksheet about this amazing sport - parcour! Ever climbed up a building? Bounced off walls? Or jumped from rooftop to rooftop? Parkour practitioners do it every day. Parkour is the &ldqu ...
20 Views 13,119 Pre-IntIntAdv
Alan's New School

Alan's New School

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 ...
42 Views 28,380 ElemPre-Int
Heidi: Part One

Heidi: Part One

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 ...
33 Views 25,228 Pre-Int
Halloween Vocabulary Quiz Worksheet

Halloween Vocabulary Quiz Worksheet

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 ...
15 Views 20,665 Beg
Telling Time Activity: How Much Time?

Telling Time Activity: How Much Time?

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 ...
11 Views 15,815 ElemPre-Int
10 Realistic Fruit and Vegetable Flashcards

10 Realistic Fruit and Vegetable Flashcards

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 ...
21 Views 102,242 BegElem
6 Basic ESL Emotion Flashcards

6 Basic ESL Emotion Flashcards

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, ...
20 Views 30,549 BegElem
Nutrition Worksheet: Why Are Vitamins Important?

Nutrition Worksheet: Why Are Vitamins Important?

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 ...
5 Views 14,548 Pre-IntInt
History Of The Jack O'Lantern

History Of The Jack O'Lantern

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 ...
15 Views 27,199 Pre-IntInt
Making A Halloween Potion: Beginner Worksheet

Making A Halloween Potion: Beginner Worksheet

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 ...
15 Views 17,789 BegElem
Alphabet PowerPoint Presentation

Alphabet PowerPoint Presentation

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 ...
21 Views 43,545 Elem
Nouns And Verbs That Go Together

Nouns And Verbs That Go Together

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 ...
13 Views 17,433 Pre-Int
Memory Game With Phrasal Verbs

Memory Game With Phrasal Verbs

TAKE OFF, PUT UP WITH, MAKE FOR, TAKE UP, KEEP ON, MAKE UP, PUT ON, KEEP UP WITH Print each set of phrasal verbs and meaning in coloured sheets, cut them. arrange your students in pairs and give o ...
16 Views 29,727 Pre-Int
Countries Bingo

Countries Bingo

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 ...
5 Views 8,761 Pre-Int
Christmas Quiz

Christmas Quiz

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 ...
12 Views 20,084 All
Library Application Vocabulary Test

Library Application Vocabulary Test

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 ...
7 Views 18,480 Pre-IntInt
Cut and Paste Halloween Fun

Cut and Paste Halloween Fun

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 ...
19 Views 64,944 Elem
Origin Of Halloween Worksheet

Origin Of Halloween Worksheet

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 ...
32 Views 106,114 IntAdv
Winnie The Pooh and Halloween Video Worksheet

Winnie The Pooh and Halloween Video Worksheet

This task is perfect for children and teenagers at intermediate level or at least pre-intermediate, with the elementary students will require a lot of your help to do the tasks. Students get a wor ...
16 Views 27,159 Pre-IntInt

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