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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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Stuff and Things

Stuff and Things

Students practise using all-purpose words like “stuff” and “things” to ask for things they don’t know the word for in English. Rationale: This class focuses on commu ...
3 Views 8,646 Elem
Birthday Project

Birthday Project

This is a great project to try with young learners - especially when teaching one-on-one. Preparation: 1. Reproduce the table from the first page of this worksheet for students and make two over ...
7 Views 11,483
In the Mood

In the Mood

First write down five things that you want to do tonight. Then, make some plans for tonight with a partner. Use this example conversation to decide what to do and then fill out the details of wher ...
3 Views 7,280 Elem
Families and Relationships

Families and Relationships

This worksheet provides vocabulary practice on phrasal verbs, idioms and other expressions related to the following lexical topics: families, relationships and friends. It also includes some oral ...
15 Views 15,684 Int
Bookmarks

Bookmarks

Offer these bookmarks to your students for coloring as a reward for exceptional work or for good behavior.  This worksheet is kindly provided by Teacher Created Resources, Inc.   The ...
8 Views 7,072 BegElem
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Harrods

Harrods

A text about Harrods (the department store in London) with some additional comprehension exercises, such as matching, filling in the gaps with the words from the context, mistakes search and mista ...
27 Views 19,300 ElemPre-Int
My Healthy Menu: Writing Template

My Healthy Menu: Writing Template

Pupils design a healthy menu taking into account the six food groups (food pyramid). They can work in pairs or in small group, and the worksheet can be extended in DIN A-3 size. They can also sti ...
12 Views 25,915 BegElemPre-Int
My Holidays: Writing Template

My Holidays: Writing Template

Children write about their last holidays - great for practicing the simple past. This does not have to be a real story - they can write an imaginary one, too. Also, if you are teaching the future ...
28 Views 47,272 ElemPre-IntIntAdv
Song Worksheet: Because You Loved Me by Celine Dion (WITH VIDEO)

Song Worksheet: Because You Loved Me by Celine Dion (WITH VIDEO)

This is useful to practice listening, writing and pronunciation of verbs in the past. Besides, it is a beautiful song that can be used with different levels. You can always combine it with some ba ...
22 Views 25,984 All
Halloween Collection: 40 Pumpkin Carving Stencils For A Spooky Halloween Decoration

Halloween Collection: 40 Pumpkin Carving Stencils For A Spooky Halloween Decoration

If you think it's high time to do something special with your class this Halloween, this collection is for you. The archive contains 40 pumpking-carving stencils. Pumpking is the symbol of Hallowe ...
13 Views 32,495 All
Trick-Or-Treat Goblin: Halloween Project

Trick-Or-Treat Goblin: Halloween Project

Instructions for a Halloween project where your students will create a cute cut-and-fold Trick-or-Treat goblin! You can extend this fanciful lesson (activity kindly provided by Evan-Moor Corp) by ...
11 Views 50,450 ElemPre-IntInt
A Character T-Shirt: Individual Book Report Project

A Character T-Shirt: Individual Book Report Project

This is a project based on a story 'Anansi and the Talking Melon' by Eric A. Kimmel.  Your learners will have some pre-reading activities focused on predicting a character's actions, discuss ...
4 Views 18,301 ElemPre-IntInt
18 Christmas Coloring Pages

18 Christmas Coloring Pages

These 18 Christmas coloring pages can be used to make your Christmas lesson fun and creative - just hand these to your young learners and have them name the colors they are using. These coloring ...
13 Views 19,807 BegElem
Happy Halloween: Elementary Activities

Happy Halloween: Elementary Activities

This worksheet contains several Halloween activities that you can use during the holiday lesson: a Halloween poem, phonemic awareness Halloween activity (write your own poem), and a few other lexi ...
14 Views 31,526 Elem
Turkey: Paper Tube Zoo Project For Your Young Learners

Turkey: Paper Tube Zoo Project For Your Young Learners

Nice little project for the Thanksgiving English lesson. 1. Cover the tube with brown paper. 2. Color the turkey patterns. 3. Cut out the patterns and glue them on the tube. This sesonal ...
10 Views 34,586 BegElemPre-Int
The Boy Who Didn't Know Fear: Folktale Reader

The Boy Who Didn't Know Fear: Folktale Reader

This is a full lesson plan based on the grared reader about a boy who didn't know fear. The lesson plan that was kindly provided by Evan-Moor Corp contains an activity (crossword) on action verbs, ...
25 Views 20,724 ElemPre-IntInt
The Very Bad Yorkshire Joke

The Very Bad Yorkshire Joke

Aim of the activity • To develop listening and reading practice in a light-hearted way. • To help develop students’ skills with textual cohesion and coherence.   This st ...
30 Views 55,940 IntAdvExam
A Blessing or a Curse? Approval and Disapproval Worksheet

A Blessing or a Curse? Approval and Disapproval Worksheet

Many inventions have good points and bad points. This worksheet contains some ways of expressing our approval or disapproval. Make sure your students understand the meaning of the words in bold.
6 Views 8,083 Pre-IntIntAdv
Nutrition Mini-Poster: Steps To A Healthier You

Nutrition Mini-Poster: Steps To A Healthier You

This mini-poster contains interesting facts about nutrition and healthy eating. We recommend you print it out and put up somewhere our learners can see it.  Your students will learn about ho ...
6 Views 10,253 BegElem
More Colorful Jokes

More Colorful Jokes

This worksheet is the second in the series (please see the 'Similar Worksheets' section for the first one) and it contains 4 simple jokes that you can ask your learners to color - they all have so ...
14 Views 20,783 BegElemPre-Int
Lucky Octopus

Lucky Octopus

Lucky Octopus is a story about a little octopus Ollie who missed the eighth leg and was really worried about it. Whether the story had a happy or rather sad end will be found out after the reading ...
19 Views 30,596 ElemPre-IntInt
Colorful Jokes

Colorful Jokes

This worksheet contains 5 simple jokes (you can be sure that most of them will be understood by your students - though we cannot guarantte they will be laughed at, as sense of humor is so differen ...
18 Views 27,687 BegElemPre-Int
14 Easter Coloring Pages and Activities

14 Easter Coloring Pages and Activities

Any of these 14 nice Easter coloring pages and activities will keep your young learners busy during that special Easter lesson you've been working so hard on, while having them learn a few things ...
16 Views 23,621 BegElem
7 New Year Coloring Pages

7 New Year Coloring Pages

This is a collection of 7 New Year coloring pages that will help make your New Year lesson filled with magic of the season and the holiday spirit! These New Year coloring pages were kindly provid ...
10 Views 15,346 BegElem
Spelling Checker (Homophones Worksheet)

Spelling Checker (Homophones Worksheet)

It is a very funny activity which I used to finish the course. It is a poem with homophones and students need to find a correct variant understanding the meaning. It is better to complete this act ...
22 Views 33,876 Pre-IntInt

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