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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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Places and How You Get There

Places and How You Get There

This power-point presentation is useful for introducing some places around the city like: bookstore, newsstand, pharmacy, and it helps the student to get to the places.
9 Views 49,670 BegElem
Song Worksheet: Preacherman

Song Worksheet: Preacherman

Carlos Lindade
Melody Gardot's latest album, Currency of Men, is full of stories and great learning opportunities. Preacherman, the album's second single, provides a unique opportunity for anyone aiming to intro ...
5 Views 7,244 Pre-IntIntAdv
Clothes and Accessories Presentation

Clothes and Accessories Presentation

Presentation containing pictures of clothes and accessories including underwear, suit, bracelets, tights, caps etc., more suitable for female students (apart from suit + tie are the pictures show ...
6 Views 15,318 Pre-IntIntAdv
Nouns from Verbs (Word Formation)

Nouns from Verbs (Word Formation)

Word formation: examples of nouns made from verbs (suffixes -er, -or, -ar, -cian) and a short exercise originally for pre-intermediate but can be used at all levels. It can be accompanie ...
5 Views 28,058 All
Research Activity - Guy Fawkes

Research Activity - Guy Fawkes

When was Guy Fawkes born? What was Guy Fawkes famous for? What was his occupation? This research activity asks kids to find out some information about Guy Fawkes and include their research in the ...
4 Views 16,558 Elem
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Money Idioms

Money Idioms

Natalia Serdyukova
This presentation can be used to help learn some idiomatic expressions dealing with money and expense matters. It contains 15 phrases with definitions illustrated with pictures. It is possible to ...
13 Views 40,694 Pre-Int
Movie Worksheet: Halloween (Modern Family - Season 2, Episode 6)

Movie Worksheet: Halloween (Modern Family - Season 2, Episode 6)

Elena
These are exercises for the episode devoted to Halloween. There are enough exercises to spend 30-40 minutes. The episode itself lasts about 20 minutes and it is hilarious and valuable from the lin ...
16 Views 40,607 IntAdvExam
Part of Speech (Classify Words)

Part of Speech (Classify Words)

Tien Ho
This worksheet is used for elementary and  beginner students to learn out word types: noun, verb, adjective, adverb. There are words with typical suffixes such as -able, -tion, -ance, -ly, et ...
5 Views 20,169 All
FCE Speaking Practice (Parts 2 and 3)

FCE Speaking Practice (Parts 2 and 3)

JOAN MARTÍ
This is a powerpoint I use to practise the FCE speaking parts 2 and 3 with my students. All the students can particpate in the descriptions and discussions in general. It is a whole class exercis ...
19 Views 82,641 IntAdvExam
Movie Worksheet: Bet You Didn't Know - Halloween

Movie Worksheet: Bet You Didn't Know - Halloween

Bella
This is a video activity with fun facts about Halloween. For intermediate students, show the video. For more advanced students use only the audio. Enjoy! Link: http://www.history.com/topics/h ...
12 Views 46,380 Pre-IntIntAdv
Clothes for Weather

Clothes for Weather

Rita Mucha
Describing different clothes for different weather conditions. Easy worksheet. Elicit clothes words. Fill in sentences and then do the questions. The last part can be done as a speaking activity, ...
6 Views 29,531 Int
Halloween Vocabulary Match Up

Halloween Vocabulary Match Up

Eva Oros
This worksheet was designed to help students learn Halloween English vocabulary through pictures. It can be used with complete beginners and elementary students. This type of activity helps studen ...
7 Views 44,613 BegElem
Song Worksheet: This Is Halloween

Song Worksheet: This Is Halloween

Lacrimosa
This Halloween worksheet contains the "This is Halloween" song from Tim Burton's The Nightmare Before Christmas movie with (mostly) Halloween related words omitted. The students are supposed to li ...
9 Views 51,028 Pre-IntInt
Song Worksheet: Halloween Songs (Quiz)

Song Worksheet: Halloween Songs (Quiz)

banana fish
This is a Halloween-themed song quiz for funny and useful holiday lesson. Students must guess the song while music is playing. Use song extracts with given lyrics. Print out each sheet on paper of ...
1 Views 20,288 ElemPre-IntInt
Celebrities, Part 2 (Writing)

Celebrities, Part 2 (Writing)

This can be used as a pre-task to the power point presentation that I provided entitled "Celebrities". Go through the pronunciation of the countries and the nationalities outlined on the worksheet ...
4 Views 14,082 ElemPre-Int
Movie Worksheet: Friends, Season 8, Episode 6- Halloween Party

Movie Worksheet: Friends, Season 8, Episode 6- Halloween Party

I have prepared this one for teenagers. I often use the following link for making my own worksheets http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0583612/ There you'll find quotes, plot summaries, goofs. And there ...
8 Views 48,702 ElemPre-IntInt
Song Worksheet: Pet Cemetery by Ramones

Song Worksheet: Pet Cemetery by Ramones

Mainly
Pet Cemetery from Ramones. Great song activity for Halloween celebration. Students first look up the words and then complete the song. Great activity for warm up or filler. Enjoy. Happy Hallo ...
3 Views 16,810 All
Song Worksheet: Hello by Adele (Vocabulary and Reading)

Song Worksheet: Hello by Adele (Vocabulary and Reading)

Worksheet and Lyric wordfill for the song "Hello" by Adele. There's a excerpt from Wikipedia as a reading introduction and a vocabulary section with words and idioms. You can find the music video ...
8 Views 32,769 Pre-IntInt
Animals Color

Animals Color

pamela
This document will help kids. They can learn the animals and color them.  It's an interactive way to teach farm and domestic animals to children. 
4 Views 33,084 Beg
Song Worksheet: Hello by Adele with Biogrpaphy

Song Worksheet: Hello by Adele with Biogrpaphy

This worksheet is aimed to be used with pre-intermediate students and above. It contains Adele's short biography, as well as activities such as number the verses in correct order, unscramble the w ...
7 Views 32,341 Pre-IntIntAdv
A Halloween Quiz

A Halloween Quiz

This worksheet contains 3 tasks. The first one requires the basics on Halloween (you can for example use my other worksheet called "Halloween for Elementary Students first). It is a true/false tas ...
4 Views 27,118 Pre-Int
Possessives Game

Possessives Game

The woksheet is designed to practice possessives and some family vocabulary. Give each group of 3-4 students a picture of the family, one set of object cards and family members cards. Students put ...
14 Views 58,188 BegElem
Celebrities

Celebrities

This is a very interactive way to introduce the topic of 'celebrities' to your ESL classroom, while integrating basic topics such as countries, nationalities and giving a reason for liking or admi ...
4 Views 18,082 ElemPre-Int
Shopping

Shopping

Ágnes K-Cs.
It is an intermediate-level worksheet on shopping. It contains questions, picture descriptions, role-plays (buying and complaining) and shopping-related vocabulary development. The students are al ...
10 Views 29,026 Int
Halloween Games

Halloween Games

marga
Double page activity with beautifully scary drawings they must be challenged to find them all in the huge puzzle in a competition type. E.g., who will be the fastest finding them right? Later yo ...
18 Views 53,747 ElemPre-IntInt

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