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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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Back to Secondary School Pack

Back to Secondary School Pack

This pack contains three sets. 1. Wonderful World Listening (based on a song ‘Wonderful World’ by The Flying Pickets) 2. Summer Holiday / Identity Show game (students should tell about ...
12 Views 12,968 Elem
Thanksgiving Poetry Worksheet

Thanksgiving Poetry Worksheet

This Thanksgiving poetry worksheet challenges students to record their feelings in a beautiful and inspiring way in 12 lines. It may be written as an expression of thankfulness or as a prayer. Thi ...
15 Views 81,459 Pre-IntIntAdv
The Educational System and the Oldest Universities of Great Britain: Powerpoint Presentation

The Educational System and the Oldest Universities of Great Britain: Powerpoint Presentation

This is a slide show about the system of education in Great Britain (12 slides). It has a lot of interesting information and will make your lesson more colourful and professional. Some of the slid ...
18 Views 21,965 Pre-IntInt
Thanksgiving Activities Collection

Thanksgiving Activities Collection

This Thanksgiving worksheet collection includes crosswords, puzzles, dominos and many games about Thanksgiving. It is very good for English classes in primary school. You can use it to prepare a s ...
24 Views 37,205 Elem
The Santa Maria: Columbus Day Coloring Page Project

The Santa Maria: Columbus Day Coloring Page Project

This is a simple 'cut out, color and glue' project with some short reading piece on the origin of the Columbus Day for kids. The learners will create the first ship (the Santa Maria). We suggest t ...
3 Views 8,921 Beg
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The First Thanksgiving Lesson Plan: How To Plant Corn Project

The First Thanksgiving Lesson Plan: How To Plant Corn Project

Great project for the Thanksgiving lesson with young learners! Steps to Follow 1. Cut out the ear of corn and the kernels. 2. Glue the ear of corn to the yellow construction paper. Trim the con ...
12 Views 11,954 BegElem
Your Stuffing Meter: Thanksgiving Worksheet

Your Stuffing Meter: Thanksgiving Worksheet

Even though there is not much learning that can be achived with this fun Thanksgiving page, but you may still want to use it for your after-Thanksgiving lesson - ask your young learners to fill in ...
4 Views 14,608 Beg
Controlled Writing: Description of People

Controlled Writing: Description of People

This is a controlled writing activity for children, where they use the information in a simple form to write a short description of a person. After practising with different forms, they are asked ...
9 Views 22,935 Beg
School Crossword (Primary School)

School Crossword (Primary School)

Very usefull crossword that helps to remember or check school vocabulary. You can use it on the lesson to check your students or like a homework to revise material. Students remember how to read a ...
22 Views 17,443 BegElem
Thanksgiving Place Cards

Thanksgiving Place Cards

Use these nice Thanksgiving place cards to add a pinch of the Thanksgiving spirit on the before- or after-holiday lesson. Your young learners will enjoy finding their names on these cure Hoops and ...
6 Views 11,687 All
Thanksgiving Yummy Bingo

Thanksgiving Yummy Bingo

Play a quick game by calling out the things you see and marking them on your board. First to get a line horizontally, vertically, or diagonally and yell 'YUMMY!' wins. For a longer game, each play ...
10 Views 24,652 BegElem
Sara is a Scientist

Sara is a Scientist

Ask the pupils to help Sara find the correct way to reach the goal (be a scientist). Please note that there isn't a unique specified solution, so each of them should read his/her own path aloud. D ...
9 Views 8,057 BegElem
Leisure Time Activities Questionnaire

Leisure Time Activities Questionnaire

This worksheet + follow-up activities deals with the students' leisure time activities. There are four steps which cover both individual and pair work activities: A) The students check the freque ...
31 Views 49,194 Pre-Int
Easter Worksheet

Easter Worksheet

This is a 3 page worksheet for elementary level students.It contains a reading text and activities about Easter. It can be used as an additional material during the lesson. Also you can find there ...
39 Views 55,897 Elem
911: America Under Attack

911: America Under Attack

An article taken from Microsoft Encarta containing 10 short parts about the tragedy in the USA 9/11/2001. The article is supplied with tasks (finding synonyms) and a home-task. Questions for a dis ...
5 Views 8,362 IntAdv
Phrasal Verbs

Phrasal Verbs

Some exercises on a few phrasal verbs. The worksheet contains a matching excercise ( match the phrasal verbs in the left-hand column with their definitions on the left). The second activity - is g ...
8 Views 14,342 Pre-Int
Diphthongs ee ea

Diphthongs ee ea

Simple ws where the students have to fill in the brackets and label the pictures. I think this ws is a great warming up to get your students into diphthongs. I hope it's gonna be useful for some o ...
4 Views 8,197 Elem
Most Common Countable and Uncountable Nouns

Most Common Countable and Uncountable Nouns

This is a list of the most common Uncountable nouns and their corresponding countables, for example: bread - a loaf of bread, a slice of bread, etc. The list can be printed and used by students f ...
20 Views 31,525 ElemPre-IntInt
Common Classroom Items - Student Mingle

Common Classroom Items - Student Mingle

This is a great exercise to learn/revise • Names and spelling of common classroom items • alphabet pronunciation • names of members of the class Before this task check the class i ...
13 Views 19,397 BegElem
Back to Primary School Pack

Back to Primary School Pack

This archive contains one introduction file (PDF) and four game sets (4 PDF documents). 1. A Secret Message 2. Revision Board Game 3. Spymania 4. Meeting at the Airport Aim: revise reading, speaki ...
18 Views 21,746 Elem
Presentation Card

Presentation Card

This worksheet is useful to make students introduce their partners the day classes start. Give a copy of the worksheet to each student and make them fill in the tables. Students should write their ...
4 Views 6,968 ElemPre-Int
How To Get That First: Full Newspaper Reading Lesson Plan

How To Get That First: Full Newspaper Reading Lesson Plan

You are going to read an article from the Guardian newspaper. Here is the heading: How to get that first. Yvette Essen hears the secrets of two women who made the grade. Before you read it, lets ...
26 Views 29,146 IntAdvExam
Word Family Template

Word Family Template

Steps to follow: Write on the board the sound chunk for which you will build the word family. Have students write the 'chunk' on the tree's trunk. Challenge students to fill the treetop with word ...
6 Views 16,879 BegElemPre-Int
Beginner Fall Activities

Beginner Fall Activities

There are several Fall activities that you can use with your young learners: a phonics activity called 'It starts like Leaf', a numbers activity 'Help the squirrel', a shapes activity 'Acorns and ...
4 Views 11,551 Beg
Superlatives Quiz Questions

Superlatives Quiz Questions

This is a lesson plan for practising superlative forms of adjectives. It contains 10 quiz tasks and and few other activities for your class to practice the superlative degree of comparison (make y ...
25 Views 39,191 ElemPre-Int

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