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.
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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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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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