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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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Pictures For Various ESL Purposes

Pictures For Various ESL Purposes

A set of pictures that can be used for variety of activities on various levels, for example in a first lesson with a new group, where there each learner is supposed to choose a given number of pic ...
5 Views 9,455 All
Faces And Colors Word Search

Faces And Colors Word Search

<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 ...
8 Views 14,368 Beg
Movie Worksheet: Happy Elephants Vocabulary Test

Movie Worksheet: Happy Elephants Vocabulary Test

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 ...
6 Views 10,317 Pre-Int
Halloween Song: It's Halloween-lo-ween! (WITH VIDEO)

Halloween Song: It's Halloween-lo-ween! (WITH VIDEO)

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 ...
16 Views 26,814 ElemPre-IntInt
Conversation Test: Asking For Personal Data

Conversation Test: Asking For Personal Data

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 ...
17 Views 25,744 ElemPre-Int
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Appearance Vocabulary Test With A Twist

Appearance Vocabulary Test With A Twist

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 ...
21 Views 19,685 Pre-IntInt
Airport Vocabulary Test

Airport Vocabulary Test

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, ...
18 Views 26,579 ElemPre-Int
Australia Questionnaire

Australia Questionnaire

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 ...
14 Views 21,827 ElemPre-Int
Writing A Poem Based on

Writing A Poem Based on "My Name" by Sandra Cisneros

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 ...
5 Views 12,829 Adv
Child Labor

Child Labor

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 ...
8 Views 10,548 Int
Hickory Dickory Dock: Teaching With Nursery Rhymes

Hickory Dickory Dock: Teaching With Nursery Rhymes

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 ...
14 Views 15,950 BegElem
Writing A Halloween Poem: Round About The Caldron Go

Writing A Halloween Poem: Round About The Caldron Go

'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, ...
25 Views 49,591 Pre-IntIntAdv
Movie Worksheet: Young Frankenstein by Mel Brooks

Movie Worksheet: Young Frankenstein by Mel Brooks

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 ...
14 Views 18,862 Elem
Halloween Marshy Mask

Halloween Marshy Mask

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 ...
7 Views 13,996 BegElemPre-Int
23 Mother's Day Clipart Pages

23 Mother's Day Clipart Pages

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!
14 Views 8,979 BegElemPre-Int
Song Worksheet: Luka by Suzanne Vega (WITH VIDEO)

Song Worksheet: Luka by Suzanne Vega (WITH VIDEO)

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 ...
9 Views 12,025 Pre-IntInt
Song Worksheet: Summer Holidays by Cliff Richard (WITH VIDEO)

Song Worksheet: Summer Holidays by Cliff Richard (WITH VIDEO)

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 ...
9 Views 23,703 All
Time Expressions

Time Expressions

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 ...
20 Views 25,935 Pre-IntIntAdv
Parts of the House Crossword

Parts of the House Crossword

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 ...
12 Views 18,670 Elem
My Room - There is/There are + Prepositions of Place

My Room - There is/There are + Prepositions of Place

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 ...
126 Views 180,430 Elem
Halloween Stencils Grand Collection: 53 Templates For Your Pumpkin!

Halloween Stencils Grand Collection: 53 Templates For Your Pumpkin!

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 ...
15 Views 25,951 All
Medicine Flashcards Collection

Medicine Flashcards Collection

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 ...
24 Views 15,816 All
Say, Tell, Speak?

Say, Tell, Speak?

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 ...
23 Views 18,317 ElemPre-IntInt
First Lesson Code of Conduct: EN/PL

First Lesson Code of Conduct: EN/PL

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 ...
13 Views 8,875 BegElem
Halloween Word Search

Halloween Word Search

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 ...
19 Views 21,735 Elem

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