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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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Video Activity - The Simpsons - Easy

Video Activity - The Simpsons - Easy

The activity is based on the episode called "Lisa's first word". It's an easy activity. There are: match the columns, answer the question and "who says what" exercises. Elementary and pre-intermed ...
16 Views 23,529 ElemPre-Int
Video Activity - Friends - Unagi

Video Activity - Friends - Unagi

This is a video activity about an episode of Friends. The name of the episode is Unagi and it is on the 6th season. The exercises are short, but the language isn't very easy. There are true or fal ...
23 Views 25,716 IntAdv
Video Activity - The Simpsons

Video Activity - The Simpsons

A video activity using the beginning of one episode of the simpsons. There are vocabulary activities and activities to explain a situation. The activity isn't easy, I needed to explain many parts ...
12 Views 20,137 IntAdv
Mother's Professions

Mother's Professions

Do you know how many professions does a mother have? This is an activity to review present Simple tense as well as trades and professions that all mothers may have... Your students fill in the bla ...
38 Views 37,457 Int
Personal Qualities

Personal Qualities

If you want to describe a friend you will need to know a lot of things about him/her. However learning vocabulary is very boring, so here you are a crossword, it is funnier. The keys are: generou ...
18 Views 13,355 Pre-Int
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Powerpoint Presentation: St Petersburg Sightseeing Tour

Powerpoint Presentation: St Petersburg Sightseeing Tour

The sights of St. Petersburg. It is the presentation made in Microsoft Power Point. It can be used at the lessons about countries, cities for Russian and other students. You can visually visit on ...
12 Views 14,852 ElemPre-IntInt
House and Furniture

House and Furniture

These are two activities to practise about the parts of the house and furniture. They are activities to complete with the right words. You can give these activities as homework once you dealt with ...
31 Views 37,453 Beg
Short Vowel Sounds

Short Vowel Sounds

A ws to get your youngsters into short vowel sounds. This time not only cvc words. Sts have to look and read the words from the box. Write them down and label the pictures. I hope it's useful for ...
11 Views 21,626 BegElem
Introducing yourself as a pair work activity combined with guessing

Introducing yourself as a pair work activity combined with guessing

The activity is conceived as a pair work activity. First the students have to fill in the boxes under the heading ‘name’, then each student introduces himself / herself to the neighbou ...
28 Views 32,120 Pre-IntInt
Phrasal Verbs - Routines

Phrasal Verbs - Routines

This activity is for strong pre-intermediate + students and helps them to practise regular phrasal verbs in the context of daily routines. Using daily routines the students will be able to practis ...
16 Views 19,819 Pre-IntInt
Complaining in a Restaurant

Complaining in a Restaurant

Vocabulary preparation and practice for simple roleplays about complaining in a restaurant. First students translate some common sentences. Then they put a few short conversations in the correct ...
26 Views 34,439 Elem
First Conditional Worksheet: If Clause & Will

First Conditional Worksheet: If Clause & Will

This is a fun class activity where students have to move around and ask 9 different students general questions which all start with the the phrase "it depends, if....". It takes about 20 minutes ...
26 Views 34,412 Pre-IntInt
Food

Food

It's a simple matching exercise in which you just have to match the pictures with the words related to food. It's a recommended worksheet for real beginners since it has basic words. Besides, you ...
16 Views 10,929 BegElem
Intermediate Vocabulary Crossword for FCE Students

Intermediate Vocabulary Crossword for FCE Students

A Crossword puzzle which uses 25 of the 26 letters of the alphabet as the initial letters of the answers. This crossword is designed to test the vocabulary of level B2 (Intermediate) students. It ...
15 Views 22,089 IntAdvExam
Words and Sounds

Words and Sounds

This ws is to get your students into describing sounds. I often teach adults who get stucked in a conversation because they simply don't know how to describe them. This sheet might help them a lit ...
13 Views 6,346 Int
The British vs. The Americans

The British vs. The Americans

This worksheet is a great activity to introduce your pre-intermediate or intemediate learners to the fact that both versions exist and have differences. They will need to match BR-AM equivalents ...
20 Views 18,191 Pre-IntInt
Song Worksheet: Yellow Submarine by The Beatles (WITH VIDEO) alternative

Song Worksheet: Yellow Submarine by The Beatles (WITH VIDEO) alternative

The yellow submarine by the beatles is completely a special one if put together with some TPR ... It helps the teacher recycle the smartest way & not the hardest way... it's one of the oldies ...
12 Views 16,639 ElemPre-Int
Classroom Issues Role Play - Great For the Back To School Lesson

Classroom Issues Role Play - Great For the Back To School Lesson

This is a set of 20 cards, each has a situation on it, a role to act out regarding their attitude to learning. I find it a lot of fun to hand one to each student and have then let them think about ...
31 Views 27,878
Travel Guide Role Play

Travel Guide Role Play

This material is suitable for your speaking class. There's a role play between a travel agent and the tourist. Students can develop their vocabulary by having a conversation about tourism places a ...
55 Views 95,816 Pre-IntInt
Writing Polite Business Letters

Writing Polite Business Letters

This worksheet fosters polite writing, making use of typical expressions and chunks. You can use this as homework or class work. Quality is not great but you can easily type it or adapt it! Hope ...
30 Views 29,199 IntAdv
Describing Trends & Graphs

Describing Trends & Graphs

This worksheet will complement your lesson if you are teaching business english and specifically how to talk about trends and describe charts. Two activities thought to put into use language discu ...
23 Views 23,522 Adv
What Sort Of Language Learner Are You?

What Sort Of Language Learner Are You?

This is a great activity for your higher level students to refresh their English skills. It's a maze type of game where students answer questions and depending on their answer they proceed to this ...
37 Views 20,770 IntAdv
Song Worksheet: Stairway to Heaven

Song Worksheet: Stairway to Heaven

Great song, My students loved it... It's great to introduce the concept of IDIOMS and discuss a few. I prepared this class for spanish-speaker students who can easily find equivalents in their m ...
18 Views 12,304 Int
Song Worksheet: I Don't Wanna Miss A Thing by Aerosmith (WITH VIDEO) alternative

Song Worksheet: I Don't Wanna Miss A Thing by Aerosmith (WITH VIDEO) alternative

Great Song! This worksheet will add to your lessons if you are discussing FEELINGS & EMOTIONS... Good for practising ADJECTIVE + PREPOSITION collocations and at the same time having fun with s ...
15 Views 14,744 Pre-IntInt
Project Worksheet: Hoops and Yoyo Headphone Bling

Project Worksheet: Hoops and Yoyo Headphone Bling

This is a project worksheet where your students will be making a 'bling' for their headphones. This is a tiny little thingy that the headphone cord is strung through, looks very neat and kids just ...
2 Views 6,173

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