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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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A Mother's Day Surprise: Reader's Theatre Worksheet

A Mother's Day Surprise: Reader's Theatre Worksheet

Use this printable worksheets to stage a mini-play with your class: perfect for the Mother's Day lesson. Opening lines: It’s noon on Saturday. Jay Thomas and his sister, Nadia, have just bee ...
22 Views 17,211 Pre-Int
Happy Mothers Day: Scavenger Hunt

Happy Mothers Day: Scavenger Hunt

Happy Mother's Day! Directions: What do you know about Mother's Day? Use the information you find at the Web site provided below to answer the questions on this page. Write your answers on the lin ...
9 Views 18,245 Elem
Food Lexicon for Ukrainian Teachers: Words, Definitions, Translation

Food Lexicon for Ukrainian Teachers: Words, Definitions, Translation

Vocabulary, definition, translation (Ukrainian)
15 Views 8,164 Adv
Do you feel lucky? Superstitions Lesson Plan

Do you feel lucky? Superstitions Lesson Plan

Superstitions, reading & discussion. This is a full 1-hour lesson plan for Upper-Intermediate class.
24 Views 35,796 Adv
Language of Persuasion

Language of Persuasion

Language of persuasion - strong expressions to criticise, reproach or advise somebody; mild and tentative expressions for suggestion used in both formal and spoken language
8 Views 19,731 Adv
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Using the Future Tense: Write the Horoscope

Using the Future Tense: Write the Horoscope

Using the Future simple ("will", "going to"), students must predict for each astrological signs what will soon happen during the day.
30 Views 55,988 Elem
We are Going to be Friends by Jack Johnson: Song Worksheet

We are Going to be Friends by Jack Johnson: Song Worksheet

Gap-fill activity with the lyrics of the song, explain the meaning of the words in the blanks, put the lines in order. This song is great for the first lesson of the year.
20 Views 21,115 Pre-Int
Graffiti

Graffiti

Turning some well known graffiti into fun exercises.
25 Views 13,006 Adv
American - British Food: Text Only Cards

American - British Food: Text Only Cards

American - British English Food: text cards that can be used for matching or describing, guessing, etc
20 Views 15,355 Int
Intermediate Conversation Questions

Intermediate Conversation Questions

Discussion questions: ask and answer Topics: Animal rights, The Arts, Crime and Punishment, Cultural Differences, etc.
14 Views 22,261 Int
Countries and Nationalities

Countries and Nationalities

This worksheet is for emphazing vocabulary about countries and nationalities
18 Views 20,262 Beg
Zoo Animals Wordsearch Puzzle

Zoo Animals Wordsearch Puzzle

It is a wordsearch puzzle about zoo animals in order to practice the writing part of the vocabulary.
16 Views 11,182 Elem
Hotel English: Making a Hotel Reservation

Hotel English: Making a Hotel Reservation

Making a hotel reservation: conversation activity (role-play). A gapped dialogue at the hotel front desk, where Ss need to use specific phrases.
56 Views 74,514 Pre-Int
Health

Health

Handout that helps learning vocabulary related to health (toothache, headache etc.)
10 Views 18,860 Elem
Describing Famous People Printable Worksheet

Describing Famous People Printable Worksheet

Famous people: Worksheet to work with descriptions and questions. Based on a worksheet already posted on the site! Choose three well-known famous people. Now describe each person using the prompts ...
33 Views 104,355 Pre-Int
Waving flag: World Cup 2010 Song Activity

Waving flag: World Cup 2010 Song Activity

This is the song of the Football World Cup 2010. My students want to learn it so here it is. The exercise is simple because the song is repetitive.
17 Views 12,893 Pre-Int
Rosa Parks - The Woman Who Changed a Nation

Rosa Parks - The Woman Who Changed a Nation

This is a reading task about Rosa Parks and the event which sparked off America's civil rights revolution. There is a vocabulary matching task, followed by the text and some comprehension questions.
15 Views 28,475 Int
31 Phrasal Verbs: Gap-Fill

31 Phrasal Verbs: Gap-Fill

Gap-filling exercise to practise phrasal verbs. Choose the right phrasal verb and put it in the correct form or tense. You may have to change the position of some other words. Use each verb only ...
26 Views 35,853 Adv
Making a Good Impression: Cultural Awareness Worksheet

Making a Good Impression: Cultural Awareness Worksheet

Here are some issues to think about when you are a visitor or receive a visitor from abroad. Match the issues with the ideas. Then decide if the ideas are good or bad. 1 Hand-shaking Use hand sign ...
16 Views 20,578 Pre-Int
Past Simple Wordsearch

Past Simple Wordsearch

Pupils are to find the past form of the given verbs and fill the gaps with their correct form
16 Views 11,058 Beg
Describing famous people

Describing famous people

Pupils are to choose their favourite famous people and describe them according to the features given in the chart
14 Views 18,368 Beg
Dressing for the Weather Wordsearch

Dressing for the Weather Wordsearch

Dressing for the weather wordsearch: find the word and put it into the right box: Weather, Clothes, Things we do. Visit our Weather worksheets category to see more worksheets like this.
27 Views 64,112 Elem
Are You Happy: Personality Adjectives Printable Worksheet

Are You Happy: Personality Adjectives Printable Worksheet

Are You Happy: Personality Adjectives Printable Worksheet
12 Views 13,735 Elem
Famous people and Nationalities

Famous people and Nationalities

Countries, Nationalities and Colors. This game will make your students move. They will have to tell to the others what celebrity they are and complete his/her nationality!
22 Views 35,868 Elem
The Simpsons - Family Tree (1/2) - worksheet

The Simpsons - Family Tree (1/2) - worksheet

A worksheet that goes along with "the simpsons famliy tree" poster. I used it as a revision of jobs and family members.
14 Views 36,782 Pre-Int

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