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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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End-of-term 1 Exam Worksheet

End-of-term 1 Exam Worksheet

This is an end-of-term 1 test. It consists of three main parts: - Reading comprehension: text + questions - Language: *Task 1: Provide the right tense or form of bracketed words. *Task 2: Matchin ...
9 Views 14,581 Adv
The Origins of Flag Day

The Origins of Flag Day

''That the flag of the United States shall be of thirteen stripes of alternate red and white, with a union of thirteen stars of white in a blue field, representing the new constellation.'' This w ...
7 Views 10,611 ElemPre-IntInt
The United States Flag

The United States Flag

This is a reading text about the origin of the American flag. The flag of the United States is one of the oldest national standards in the world. General George Washington first raised the Co ...
6 Views 18,931 Pre-IntInt
MyPyramid Coloring Sheet For PreSchoolers

MyPyramid Coloring Sheet For PreSchoolers

This is a simple 1-page coloring page designed to help your preschoolers have fun while learning something important: nutrition and the importance of eating right. There is a pyramid for them to c ...
6 Views 11,823 Beg
Heads Up: Real News About Drugs And Your Body. Student's Materials - Year 1

Heads Up: Real News About Drugs And Your Body. Student's Materials - Year 1

Welcome to Heads Up: Real News About Drugs and Your Body, a drug education series. This 16Mb full-color worksheet brings you real news about the effects drugs can have on people's brain, body, and ...
6 Views 11,847 ElemPre-IntInt
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The 500 Hats of Bartholomew Cubbins: Book Project

The 500 Hats of Bartholomew Cubbins: Book Project

This cool 5-page worksheet kindly provided by Evan-Moor Corp is based on the 1966 book by Dr. Seuss, and comes packed with a 'make-a-book' project instructions and a writing template. Great for a ...
8 Views 13,056 Pre-IntInt
Jobs Crossword

Jobs Crossword

This is a crossword about jobs. Colorful and easy, to teach vocabulary and present simple. It includes 14 words and the corresponding description of the job as the clue. Words: Postman, seller, ha ...
23 Views 26,822 BegElem
Story Writing/Planning Sheet/Tips

Story Writing/Planning Sheet/Tips

Here's a planning sheet with examples for students who like to write stories. They often don't know how to start and this sheet might help them. There's an empty sheet as well for the students to ...
17 Views 19,048 ElemPre-Int
Describe a Picture

Describe a Picture

This activity will help your students practice in picture discussion. Also They can revise weather vocabulary, seasons vocabulary and Present Simple and Continuous.
24 Views 29,545 Elem
Gameboard + Vocabulary Cards for Conversational English

Gameboard + Vocabulary Cards for Conversational English

Here's a gameboard + some vocabulary cards suitable for inter/uppermediate level or higher. Students have to choose one card and move over the board and collect all ten words which are on the card ...
26 Views 22,393 Adv
Halloween Poem

Halloween Poem

This is a short and simple Halloween poem that can be used to set the mood for the special Halloween lesson that you are of course already preparing :) We know you are! It also has a few Hallowee ...
9 Views 18,525 All
Phrasal Verbs Worksheet for Polish Learners

Phrasal Verbs Worksheet for Polish Learners

This worksheet was made to help FCE exam level learners whose L1 is Polish to understand the idea of what phrasal verbs are all about. There are a few rules and a lot of practice exercises. You ...
4 Views 5,922 IntAdvExam
Time Flies When You are Having Fun:Time Idioms

Time Flies When You are Having Fun:Time Idioms

A short activity based around 8 time themed idiomatic phrases. The first activity involves a bit of cutting up by the teacher. Learners can then match up the phrases and with their meanings. The p ...
31 Views 78,149 Int
Rap Music and Censorship

Rap Music and Censorship

This is a reading text on a very interesting topic, namely how much censorship there should be in song lyrics in general, and in rap songs in particular. There are a few post-reading comprehensio ...
4 Views 12,042 IntAdvExam
Five Days of Halloween

Five Days of Halloween

Use this 3-page Halloween worksheet to get your learners familiar with the history of Halloween, have them speak or write about Halloween costumes, create jack-o'-lanterns, paper bag Halloween mas ...
11 Views 20,360 ElemPre-IntInt
Likes and Dislikes

Likes and Dislikes

This is to practise the constructions "I like doing smth", "I hate doing smth", etc. and suits both for beginners and elementary learners. The students can be asked to fill in the table for thems ...
35 Views 46,335 BegElem
Election Lesson Plan

Election Lesson Plan

This amazing 5-page worksheet is a lesson plan for a fun lesson about elections. It contains a reading text about the nature of an election, election graphing activities, an election vocabulary wo ...
15 Views 35,540 IntAdvExam
American Elections Lesson Plan

American Elections Lesson Plan

This is a comprehensive lesson plan on the American elections: it contains 4 pages with a reading piece, and a 10-question comprehension checking quiz with multiple choices. This lesson plan was k ...
4 Views 15,210 IntAdvExam
Personal Robot: Going To

Personal Robot: Going To

The worksheet called "My Own Personal Robot" helps to work at "be going..." structure (positive and negative forms) when speaking about plans for future and also to discuss some questions concerni ...
30 Views 26,831 ElemPre-Int
Hot topics: Relationship, Workplace

Hot topics: Relationship, Workplace

Discussion materials based on an article published in an august issue of the Psychologies magazine. The article proves an interesting and thought-provoking read, giving a rich source for enriching ...
13 Views 17,561 IntAdvExam
What is the Weather?

What is the Weather?

A short exercise to practice the weather vocabulary. It contains the easiest words which describe the weather outside. It may be used within the class exercises or given as a homework assignment. ...
16 Views 20,515 Elem
Can and Can't for Kids

Can and Can't for Kids

In this worksheet, kids look at the pictures of sports and hobbies and then put the words in order to make a CAN / CAN`T sentence. As a follow up they use the same pictures to do a read and ma ...
37 Views 89,053 Beg
A Visit to Hampton Court

A Visit to Hampton Court

It is a worksheet I have made for the teachers who'd like to visit Hampton Court Castle with their students. It deals with the castle's history and draws the students' attention to the interesting ...
11 Views 11,284 Pre-IntIntAdv
Spiders on a Web: Halloween Activity

Spiders on a Web: Halloween Activity

A seasonal project for the holiday of Halloween where students create a spider's web and put their spiders onto it. Full teacher's notes for this great Halloween activity are kindly provided by Te ...
18 Views 33,903 BegElem
Food Counters (Containers)

Food Counters (Containers)

This is a set of cards, each of them contains the name of some food container that we use.  Examples: a cup of, a bowl of, a piece of, a bottle of, a loaf of, etc. Perfect for those lesson ...
9 Views 18,154 BegElem

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