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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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8 Spooky Halloween Coloring Pages

8 Spooky Halloween Coloring Pages

Halloween is the holiday of scary surprises - let your students have fun coloring these amazing Halloween images! Very detailed, they will look wonderful on your classroom walls - or your learners ...
11 Views 35,043 BegElem
Guess The Animal! PowerPoint Worksheet

Guess The Animal! PowerPoint Worksheet

It's an interesting way to practice animals vocabulary. This material may be used while introducing new lexical units or at a point of checking. You will definitely need an OHP or a laptop to demo ...
27 Views 27,441 Elem
Halloween Clipart Collection: 68 Color Halloween Images for Your English Lessons!

Halloween Clipart Collection: 68 Color Halloween Images for Your English Lessons!

What Halloween symbols do your students know? What about you - are you sure you know enough about them? OK, jack'o lanterns and black cats, but is there anything else that your ESL learners s ...
36 Views 57,314 All
Halloween Poem: Jack-O-Lantern

Halloween Poem: Jack-O-Lantern

This is a short French song about Halloween ( It is translated into English). The students trace the song (poem) then read/sing it. This is suitable for beginner and elementary students between ...
10 Views 22,043 BegElem
Song Worksheet: Paper Planes by Mia (Slumdog Millionnaire)

Song Worksheet: Paper Planes by Mia (Slumdog Millionnaire)

This is a worksheet intended for upper intermediate students. Students are asked to cope with pre- while- and post listening activities. The song of Mia (from Slumdog Millionnaire) is quite contro ...
9 Views 17,237 IntAdv
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Movie Worksheet: Twilight

Movie Worksheet: Twilight

This is a pre, while, post-viewing worksheet based on a short part of the famous Twilight film. It is the scene where Bella and her schoolmates talk about the school event. Students are asked to f ...
17 Views 21,961 IntAdv
Oceans: Newspaper Article with Exercises

Oceans: Newspaper Article with Exercises

This is an article for upper-intermediate and advanced students. It is taken from the Daily Telegraph, and I've prepared the new vocabulary and comprehension questions about the article.
23 Views 30,102 Adv
A Good Pet: Reading Worksheet

A Good Pet: Reading Worksheet

This worksheet contains a short reading text and a bunch of spelling/reading activities about it. Skills: Spelling Words with Silent e, Spelling, Vocabulary, Visual Memory. This worksheet was ki ...
23 Views 19,920 ElemPre-Int
Present Simple and Halloween

Present Simple and Halloween

This is a test with questions about the verb 'to be' (present tense), personal pronouns and Halloween vocabulary. In the Halloween exercise, the students look at the pictures and put the names of ...
18 Views 22,094 Beg
Bats: Reading Worksheet

Bats: Reading Worksheet

This is a reading worksheet about bats with some after-reading activities: Questions about bats, What does it mean? Spell Long 'e', What Says 'er'?.   Example from the text: There are almos ...
13 Views 15,305 ElemPre-Int
Halloween Classroom Decorations Collection: 21 Worksheets

Halloween Classroom Decorations Collection: 21 Worksheets

Celebrate this Halloween in style with these 21 Halloween classroom decoration worksheets! Your learners will love these decoration materials (and yes, it's a good idea to ask them to decorate you ...
32 Views 43,561 All
The Suitcase Game

The Suitcase Game

This is a very useful - and funny - warm-up, especially for groups on their first lesson. You can create more versions of this game, with different destinations. Instructions are included, but bef ...
11 Views 10,734 ElemPre-Int
Comparative Cards

Comparative Cards

This set of cards is intended for activation and practice of comparative adjectives. Cards in red contain various popular names: from cartoon and fairy-tales characters to famous politicias, actor ...
60 Views 35,038 ElemPre-Int
Edinburgh Festivals

Edinburgh Festivals

This worksheet deals with some of Edinburgh Festivals, like Mela Festival, Storytelling Festival, Imaginate Children's Festival and some others. At first comes a short introduction (gap text with ...
9 Views 11,935 Pre-IntInt
Heads Up: Real News About Drugs And Your Body. Teacher's Lesson Plans - Year 1

Heads Up: Real News About Drugs And Your Body. Teacher's Lesson Plans - Year 1

Dear teacher. How can we talk to teens about drugs? There is a simple approach: telling the truth. Welcome to Heads Up: Real News About Drugs and Your Body. This drug education program is a series ...
4 Views 13,112 ElemPre-Int
Chanukah Bingo

Chanukah Bingo

To play this game print all 5 Chanukah Bingo sheets. Each player gets a different bingo board. Use one of the Chanukah bingo sheets to cut every square out separately. Place these cut squares in a ...
3 Views 15,724 BegElemPre-Int
Compound Words

Compound Words

Write a word in the blank between each set of words. The trick is that the new word must complete a compound word both to the left and to the right of it. The first one has been done for you.  ...
15 Views 15,204 ElemPre-Int
A Puzzling Proverb

A Puzzling Proverb

Fill in the answers to the following clues. Then, transfer the letters to the corresponding numbered blanks to reveal a famous proverb. This worksheet was kindly provided by Teacher Created Mater ...
14 Views 14,192 ElemPre-IntInt
Everyday Dialogues

Everyday Dialogues

A set of model dialogues for your students to practice. They refer to everyday situations e.g.: at a hotel, at a restaurant,at a travel agent's, at the cinema, in a clothes shop and a shoe shop, ...
158 Views 144,793 ElemPre-Int
Addition and Subtraction Worksheet

Addition and Subtraction Worksheet

Place + and – signs between the digits so that both sides of each equation in this worksheet are equal. This math worksheet about addition and subtraction was kindly provided by Teacher Cre ...
4 Views 18,752 BegElemPre-Int
Calculator Fun: Math Worksheet

Calculator Fun: Math Worksheet

Do each math problem on your calculator. Then, turn the calculator upside down to find an answer for each of the clues. This worksheet was kindly provided by Teacher Created Materials, Inc and ca ...
12 Views 36,653 BegElemPre-Int
Adjectives Scramble

Adjectives Scramble

This scramble puzzle lists 10 adjectives that describe people, five positive and five negative. Give one sheet to a pair of students and ask them to unscramble. These are more challenging adject ...
6 Views 11,449 IntAdv
Borrow vs. Lend: Polite Requests Worksheet

Borrow vs. Lend: Polite Requests Worksheet

This is a lesson about using polite requests in everyday situations. It starts with the teacher walking aroud the class and asking students to lend her their belongings such as pens, pencils ...
14 Views 33,621 ElemPre-Int
Out and Indoor Activities

Out and Indoor Activities

I've made this worksheet for introducing some new words (outdoor and indoor activities) to my beginner Ss and practice Present Simple using like/dislike while interviewing each other. They ask que ...
27 Views 20,119 BegElem
Hidden Animals

Hidden Animals

Hidden in each sentence is the name of an animal. Each can be found either in the middle of a word or by combining the end of one word with the beginning of the next. Underline the animal name in ...
23 Views 30,930 BegElem

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