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.
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This is a worksheet for elementary students to revise vocabulary and structures they should have learned before. It covers 5 areas: listening, reading, vocabulary, grammar and composition. The tex ...
Correct the mistakes on these sentences if necessary. Very useful if you want to check your students’ level. There are mainly mistakes with adjectives (comparative / superlative) but there a ...
22 pages of material about Australia for elementary and low-intermediate students. It can be used as a supplementary material for teaching culture and making students acquainted with this English- ...
This nice quiz is a great activity for the back-to-school lesson, it contains 6 multiple choice questions on how to say things in the classroom. Your students are supposed to choose the best answe ...
This is a reading activity for grades 4-6, with 2 pages of text and several post-reading activities (multiple choice questions, prefixes practice, creative writing activity).
You will need ...
Three sets of exercises on phrasal verb "to take". Just a bit of explanation and practice: 1) Study the explanation and match the pictures. 2) Choose the correct answer. 3) Fill in the phrasal ver ...
A song worksheet with the song Waving Flag (from K'naan). An activity with fill in the blanks with the missing words in the box. "Wavin' Flag" is a song by Somali-Canadian artist K'naan from his ...
Here is 14 pages of August images: a calendar, a writing template, and a lot of coloring pages that all have something to do with August theme.
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This is a collection of beginner-level coloring pages that will come in handy with a class of younger learners. There are Flowers, Borders, Winter, Cowgirl Charm, Music, Sunny Daze, and also a min ...
This is a test for elementary students which contains the following topics: personal information, family, food, possessions and physical description. It could also be adapted and used as practice ...
'Have you ever?' by Brandy is the best song I have found so far with the continual use of the present perfect tense throughout the song. It is at a reasonable speed and sung clearly to allow inter ...
It's my very first worksheet made. It was created due to the fact that one of my students is going to Amsterdam, so she wanted to know something more about that city. Included is the introduction ...
This is a worksheet with some examples of differences in British and American English, it's for elementary level, I hope it's useful for practicing these differences; vocabulary exercises.
Three sets of exercises on phrasal verb "to make". Just a bit of explanation and practice: 1) Study the explanation and match the pictures. 2) Choose the correct answer. 3) Fill in the phrasal ...
These cards can be used either as an information gap activity where students ask and answer questions to each other (Where are you from?, what's your star sign? Can you....? , etc) and complete a ...
Revises MONTHS OF THE YEAR (focuses on SPELLING), WEATHER, PERSONAL FEELINGS Can be used as a part of topic word dictations, at the stage of vocabulary elicitation, as a time filler, as an extra t ...
Designed for children. Revises topic vocabulary on the following topics:WEATHER, MONTHS OF THE YEAR, SCHOOL SUBJECTS, SEASONS Can be used as a time filler, a warm-up, a homework. The task is ...
Most common SMS abbreviations - nice worksheet to get the students involved, if you're teaching a lesson about cell phones or teenagers etc.
Activities:
Match the SMS abbreviations with th ...
Suffixes are added to the end of root or base words. When you add a suffix to a base word, you change the word's meaning. some common suffixes and their meanings: -able= can be done, - est = most, ...
Prefixes are added to the beginning of root or base words. When you add a prefix to a base word, you change the word's meaning. Some common prefixes and their meanings: re- again, back; dis- not, ...
This worksheet is about food and human moods. There are two worksheets in one doc. Your students will need to find the appropriate words for the pictures. It may be used as a home task. It is a wo ...
Great for intermediate-uppermediate level students. A lesson plan in two parts. Part A) Are you a compulsive shopper - a quiz.Then Ss read some extracts on copmpulsive shopping, compare shopaholis ...
A couple of shopping activities for upper-intermediate learners: vocabulary practice - find synonyms for the words in the table then paraphrase the given sentences - changing the key words. The ac ...
The following is a list of words which are alike and are often confused. The definitions are simple and not comprehensive. The list is designed in a table format and can be printed to be used as ...
Make your students talk about shopaholism, additionally have them read a text about compulsive shoppers based on research findings (printed in American journal of psychiatry) - T/F exercise follow ...
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