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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<p>This is a simple wordsearch where your learners have to find the following vocabulary: blue, face, mouth, red, ears, green, nose, yellow, eyes, hair, orange. The children revise the ...
A simple worksheet created to test learners' vocabulary concerning animals after watching the film 'Happy Elephants' from the DVD to Nowa Era's 'English Explorer 1' (the film is connected with uni ...
An excellent Halloween song for children as well as teenagers. Let students read through the tasks connected to the lyrics and play the video. Students have to fill in the gaps, order the sentence ...
A test originally created for unit 1c from Nowa Era's 'English Explorer 1.' It is suppose to test the learners' knowledge of vocabulary and structures necessary to give some basic personal info in ...
A worksheet created to test learners' knowledge of non-typical vocabulary concerning appearance. I originally created it to test my learners' knowledge after using photocopiable worksheet 'Music 1 ...
A short and simple worksheet testing learners' vocabulary connected with traveling by plane, based on naming pictures. Vocabulary tested: seatbelt, hand luggage, boarding card, check in, get off, ...
This is a comprehensive quiz about australia. Questions about geography, animals, the flag, the aborigines, the currency, Ayers Rock, the flying doctors, sport. This can be used as a worksheet to ...
Poetry writing assignment for the first week of school. Students will write an original poem based on "My Name" by Sandra Cisneros. This is a great way to learn students' names in that first wee ...
It's a lesson about 'Child Labor'. Students will first work in pairs to match each comment with its appropriate picture. Second, they will sit in groups to answer and discuss some questions. The s ...
With a little bit of preparation, this activity will turn into a great lesson-long project that your young learners will simply love!
They will create a mouse headband and will be happily practic ...
'Round About The Caldron Go' is a 5-page Halloween poetry lesson plan with detailed teacher's instructions for every stage of the holiday lesson.
Vocabulary building, 'while you read' activities, ...
This is a worksheet to work with the film "Young Frankenstein" by Mel Brooks. This film is a parody of the famous gothic novel "Frankenstein" written by Mary Shelley in 1818. I've worked with Mary ...
Print out this Halloween Marshy mask. Mount the print out to heavy paper stock if you want - it will make the mask more durable. Cut along the outside dotted line. Cut along the dotted lines for t ...
This collection will come in handy during the Mother's Day lesson. You can also use these clipart pages as flashcards.
Happy teaching, and don't forget to congratulate your own Mom!
Song cloze: Luka Discussion on child abuse. Child abuse is one of the most dramatic things that happens in our lives, abusing children has become normal in some countries. Kids are defenseless and ...
This is similar to a song gap-fill but with a twist. It can get quite competitive and it`s a good activity to get Ss energized. - Divide Ss into groups of 4 and give each group the word cut ...
This worksheet allows students to distinguish time expressions used with the present simple and time expressions used with the present continuous. This worksheet could be used to test students' p ...
This is a worksheet with pictures of the parts of the house as clues. It can be used as a revision tool after teaching the vocabulary. Students look at the pictures and fill in the crossword with ...
The worksheet contains a picture of a room and a gap-filling exercise. Students look at the picture and complete the sentences with the prepositions of place from the box. Also, they revise the ve ...
Halloween is coming, and it's coming soon. Are you ready to celebrate it the right way? Presenting our biggest collection of Halloween stencils for pumpkin-carving. From black cats and skeletons t ...
This is a collection of twenty-two flashcards (two in each A4 page) about medicine and health, mainly presenting things you can find in hospitals and first aid-kit. There are such words as differe ...
Say, speak, tell or talk? What's the difference? When do we use them? What are the rules of using them? There's a short explanation that will give you a general idea of how to use each of these ve ...
For the very first lessons. Creating the code of conduct together with the students in an unusual way. Moreover you can present bits and pieces of Present Simple Tense using just this worksheet. C ...
The topic of this word search is Halloween. It is a very good activity with dozens of Halloween words to find. As a variation, split your students into two teams and give them this handout. Which ...
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