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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"Mama" a song by boys2men that was used to introduce the theme of family. it puts the pupils in the right mood for the lesson that talks about family relationships and the generation gap. Before l ...
I have prepared this worksheet in order to review some keywords and vocabulary that can help beginners in dealing with the first lesson in our curricular. It's a set some simple activities which t ...
Do this activity in groups of four or five.These events are things that have happened to you in the past.
Pick up a card and read it out to the other members of your group. They must each ask you ...
The situation:
Say the following to your students:
You are all students who share a house. Today everyone wants to cook (everyone else has to clean up afterwards). So you have decided to have a ...
This worksheet has 2 pages and 6 exercises. The exercises are on matching, numbering the lines, filling the empty spaces.
They are about Past Simple - regular / irregular verbs. Also about aspect ...
This is a great roleplay worksheet that will keep your students talking for as long as you want them to :)
There are cards with the situation about interviewing a celebrity who is 1000 year ...
This is 1-hour role-play lesson plan about visitors coming to the company. Ss will have to present their company's products and/or services, using authentic materials as a starting point.
This is a nice worksheet for the 'Feelings and Emotions' lesson. It contains 10 adjective phrases which we can use to show our feelings.
Can you match adjective phrases on the left with explanati ...
Today's collection contains 11 coloring pages, the following cultures are presented:
Japan (Japanese Lantern, Star Festival Wishing Wands)
China (Chinese Lantern)
America (Ojibway Native Americ ...
The usual topic in September is about summer holidays. Filling spaces with words from the list (bad summer - great summer) pupils can easily write about their holidays. This activity can be a base ...
This is a 'create a picture' project where Ss cut out pieces of the picture, colour them and stick them onto the camping template. After creating this camp-out picture, the students will want to w ...
This 2-page document is a bookmark that you can use as a reward to your students or to accompany your lesson on the topic of nutrition. There is a cute image on the front of the bookmark, and then ...
This is a collection of exercises about London. It is aimed at students of level B1-B2. Contains a lot of useful information about the sights of London, the Tube and so on. It is a great material ...
Work with the song Family Portrait by Pink! this worksheet is useful to practise family words and also to set a discussion about family relationships, love and marriage. I hope you find it interes ...
This worksheet contains five parts which focus on different types of activities. The first two ask the learners to use their creative writing techniques filling in the lines in the poem and creat ...
This worksheet consists of two pairs of pictures for finding differences. Topic is food and clothes. With the help of this worksheet children can practice there is and there are, some/ any/ no. Ch ...
Here are three menus for practicing food vocabulary, social expressions . There is a food section, drinks section and desserts section. There are no prices but they can be added. You can use this ...
A very helpful thing to practice food vocabulary, there is/there are (also questions and negatives), some, any, no.
You can use it in different ways: for an individual description, pairwork - for ...
This is a simple worksheet for oral or written work. Here we practice clothes vocabulary and this/that/these/those. There are arrows: short arrow means that thing is close to you, long arrow means ...
Another worksheet about slang/everyday/informal English. There are three activities. Students have to read the sentences and label the boxes with the correct meanings, read a letter and re-write t ...
These pictures can be used as comics for brainstorming. There are three sections. Students are to write down what heroes are saying. It can be used in pairs and individually. It's possible to act ...
It's a questionnaire. The aim is to practice Present Simple and House vocabulary. Each one from the group gets it. Students are to gather information about their classmates asking them questions a ...
This is a worksheet for lessons when you learn how to name vehicles in English. It contains three different exercises which are not too hard for children (translating, writing sentences and naming ...
It is a funny activity sheet to practise clothes vocabulary. This material can be used to make your lessons more fun. It also contains a grammar practice exercise on using the expression"a pa ...
In this worksheet there are 3 jokes with ilustrations. I used different colours for each for them and I also put a picture that matches well next to each of the jokes. The worksheet could be used ...
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