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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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Garfield The Cat - Back To School Test

Garfield The Cat - Back To School Test

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 ...
19 Views 15,177 Elem
Correcting Mistakes Worksheet

Correcting Mistakes Worksheet

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 ...
31 Views 59,670 Pre-Int
Australia

Australia

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- ...
22 Views 47,404 ElemPre-IntInt
How We Say Things In The Classroom: Classroom Quiz

How We Say Things In The Classroom: Classroom Quiz

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 ...
21 Views 12,707 BegElem
The Greatest Show On Earth

The Greatest Show On Earth

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 ...
17 Views 21,636 Pre-IntInt
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Phrasal Verbs Challenge: To Take

Phrasal Verbs Challenge: To Take"

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 ...
11 Views 12,514 Int
Song Worksheet: Waving Flag by K'naan (WITH VIDEO) one more alternative

Song Worksheet: Waving Flag by K'naan (WITH VIDEO) one more alternative

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 ...
9 Views 15,273 BegElem
August Calendar and Seasonal Coloring Pages: 14 Pages

August Calendar and Seasonal Coloring Pages: 14 Pages

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.  This collection was kindly provided by Evan-M ...
12 Views 10,971 BegElem
Everyday Decorations: Coloring Pages

Everyday Decorations: Coloring Pages

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 ...
5 Views 11,623 Beg
Test for Elementary Students

Test for Elementary Students

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 ...
20 Views 15,978 Elem
Song Worksheet: Have You Ever by Brandy (Present Perfect)

Song Worksheet: Have You Ever by Brandy (Present Perfect)

'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 ...
41 Views 69,924 IntAdv
The City of Amsterdam

The City of Amsterdam

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 ...
14 Views 8,506 Pre-IntInt
British vs American English

British vs American English

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.
8 Views 20,165 Elem
Phrasal Verbs Challenge: To Make

Phrasal Verbs Challenge: To Make

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 ...
13 Views 11,834 Int
Personal Profile Cards

Personal Profile Cards

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 ...
22 Views 24,609 BegElem
What's The Weather Like?

What's The Weather Like?

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 ...
34 Views 19,673 BegElem
Mystery Picture: Colors

Mystery Picture: Colors

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 ...
10 Views 12,473 BegElem
That's Gr8! Mobile Phones and SMS Worksheet

That's Gr8! Mobile Phones and SMS Worksheet

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 ...
19 Views 34,519 Pre-IntInt
Suffixes

Suffixes

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, ...
19 Views 51,218 Elem
List of Prefixes

List of Prefixes

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, ...
12 Views 34,619 Elem
Food and Moods Worksheet

Food and Moods Worksheet

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 ...
14 Views 16,232 Elem
Shopaholism: Are You A Compulsive Shopper?

Shopaholism: Are You A Compulsive Shopper?

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 ...
23 Views 30,975 IntAdv
Shopaholism - Shop Till You Drop Upper-Intermediate and FCE Worksheet

Shopaholism - Shop Till You Drop Upper-Intermediate and FCE Worksheet

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 ...
14 Views 25,654 Adv
Commonly Confused Words

Commonly Confused Words

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 ...
23 Views 33,727 ElemPre-IntIntAdvExam
Shopaholism and Shopoholics Worksheet

Shopaholism and Shopoholics Worksheet

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 ...
12 Views 13,976 Int

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