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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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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
This worksheet is a great activity to introduce your pre-intermediate or intemediate learners to the fact that both versions exist and have differences.
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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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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