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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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116 Cool Color Food Flashcards + Boardgame

116 Cool Color Food Flashcards + Boardgame

This game is called Pyramyd Go Fish, and it is meant for kids to get introduced to the topic of healthy eating and nutrition balance. However, it's amazing for any other food-related activities, a ...
86 Views 108,149 BegElem
Independence Day Crossword

Independence Day Crossword

Independence Day is the greatest patriotic holiday in the United States. It's celebrated on the Fourth of July, the day on which the Second Continental Congress signed the Declaration of Independe ...
10 Views 17,066 ElemPre-Int
Inventions Lesson Plan

Inventions Lesson Plan

Today we have a complete 6-page lesson plan about dreat kid inventors. The worksheet contains a reading piece, spelling practice activities, 'which word?' activities, quotations, and then a templa ...
20 Views 46,249 Pre-IntInt
Saint Patrick's Day - Listening and Vocabulary

Saint Patrick's Day - Listening and Vocabulary

Activities about Ireland and Saint Patrick's Day, using videos from Youtube. Ideally, you should use it in a computer lab (that's what I do, I'm lucky!). Otherwise, use a computer and a projector ...
20 Views 34,963 Pre-IntIntAdv
Song Workheet: Christy Moore, The City of Chicago (WITH VIDEO)

Song Workheet: Christy Moore, The City of Chicago (WITH VIDEO)

You can use this when you're teaching a class about Ireland or immigration, it's beautiful...
9 Views 9,231 Pre-IntInt
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Desperate Housewives Worksheet: Season 1, Episodes 2 and 3

Desperate Housewives Worksheet: Season 1, Episodes 2 and 3

I usually show my students (aged 18 to 23) these episodes in English with English subtitles (or without, depending on their level). It's great to improve vocabulary and oral comprehension, using a ...
12 Views 17,968 IntAdv
Third Conditional Competition

Third Conditional Competition

Memory competition where learners have to make associations between images using the clues and putting sentences in third conditional.
21 Views 24,953 IntAdv
Hoops and Yoyo ABC Flashcards

Hoops and Yoyo ABC Flashcards

For those of you teaching younger learners, this should come in handy: let the kids learn the ABCs with the Hallmark's cute characters: Hoops and Yoyo!
15 Views 16,486
Animal Babies: Flashcards and Mini-Book Project

Animal Babies: Flashcards and Mini-Book Project

This cute mini-book project is to help kids learn the animal vocabulary and it contains nice images of the following anumals: bear, cow, cat, horse, dog, and their babies. There is also a matching ...
20 Views 17,144 Beg
Astrology and the Zodiac

Astrology and the Zodiac

A reading activity on facts about star signs. Good for discussion and introduction/revision of adjectives to describe personality.
30 Views 35,940 ElemPre-IntInt
Talking about Clothes

Talking about Clothes

Printable worksheet to practise vocabulary about clothes
42 Views 41,322 Pre-Int
In sickness and health...

In sickness and health...

This poem was written by a teenage mother and provides discussion on this topic.
12 Views 12,429 Adv
My Lifestory

My Lifestory

Enables telling meaningful facts about your life story. Higher-level students can add up vocabulary items onto the worksheet in writing while preparing to speak. Lower-level students can do with t ...
8 Views 5,238 Pre-IntIntAdv
Cuisine: Food and Country

Cuisine: Food and Country

I made it for my beloved students when they were 8. Hope this gonna help you:)
16 Views 11,612 Elem
7 Independence Day Coloring Pages

7 Independence Day Coloring Pages

This set contains 7 coloring pages about the Independence Day. You are also free to use them as flashcards or projects, depending on the level of your students.
8 Views 11,641
The Addams Family: Have Got / Present Continuous

The Addams Family: Have Got / Present Continuous

This worksheet contains reading activities about a famous family (the Addams), as well as family relationship, and the use of the Present Continuous tense to describe actions in progress.
43 Views 28,532 Elem
Don’t say the word!

Don’t say the word!

An interesting game in which a student has to define a word without using three related words given. Very fun for groupwork.
40 Views 22,352 Int
Eurovision 2010 Song Worksheet: Satellite by Lena Meyer-Landrut (WITH VIDEO)

Eurovision 2010 Song Worksheet: Satellite by Lena Meyer-Landrut (WITH VIDEO)

This song by Lena Meyer-Landrut won the 2010 Eurovision contest on 29 May 2010.We liked the song so much, that we have created a song worksheet out of it - try it with your students, this is ...
25 Views 14,695
Food Presentation

Food Presentation

It is a slide show that illustrates some words concerning food. Hope you'll enjoy it, good luck!
20 Views 11,206 ElemPre-IntInt
30 Mother's Day Coloring Pages

30 Mother's Day Coloring Pages

This collection contains 30 Mother's Day coloring pages. I'm sure you'll find something to your liking. Or you can let the kids choose :)
11 Views 11,665
Food Images

Food Images

For foreign students learning the english words for different kinds of food.
16 Views 12,388 BegElem
Personal Pronouns and Nationalities

Personal Pronouns and Nationalities

Students have to read the sentences and write the correct number on the flag. They also have to re-write the sentences and change them by using personal pronouns and nationalities. I hope it's useful.
17 Views 13,048 Elem
11 Jokes (listening part)

11 Jokes (listening part)

This is the listening part of the jokes worksheet I've submited earlier. There are two files: one without punchlines and other version with the complete jokes. You can use it with or without the w ...
25 Views 20,312 BegElem
11 Jokes: Find the Punchline

11 Jokes: Find the Punchline

11 easy to understand jokes. The punchlines are missing to get students to completing the jokes.
22 Views 30,559 BegElem
Nationalities and Celebrities

Nationalities and Celebrities

The first page has some international celebrities and the second one has some flags. The thing is that the students have to match the celebrities with their nationalities. They have to cut them fi ...
22 Views 13,368 BegElemPre-Int

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