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.
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It's a ppt with Lenka's song "Everything at once". There is the original video and the audio of the song. There are pictures of the animals listed in the song and also a video with animated pict ...
This is a worksheet to teach some vocabulary to pre-schoolers and especially a way of making it easy for them to learn the lyrics of this popular song. It features the lyrics written in fun large ...
The students are working on questions accompanying the song Arsonist's Lullaby by Hozier. A song about, indeed, an arsonist. They are asked questions on how they feel when listening to this song, ...
I prepared this reading and drawing worksheet for my 15-16 year-olds class. Many of them have tattoos or are thinking about getting one, so I took advantage of their tastes and made them read some ...
A worksheet designed to introduce and practice vocabulary about farm animals. Learners are asked basic questions about animals, asked to complete a matching exercise, a word jumble exercise ...
Having strong reading comprehension skills will also help in other subjects. This reading comprehension includes a passage with some interesting facts about hibernation. Students read the text and ...
A word search designed by Busy Teacher Word search tool. Very effective as a post-reading activity. Students have fun finding the targeted vocabulary and focus on the spelling of these words.This ...
This exercise was designed as extra practice when I taught verb to be in the past. You can also use to review the same verb. I tried to keep the vocaulary very simple, but if you think some words ...
A fun worksheet to help learners use prior knowledge of Halloween, whilst embedding vocabulary by means of spelling exercises, word search and a crossword. There are answer sheets also provided fo ...
I created these worksheets to help students deal with seasons-related vocabulary. The texts are based on the book Seasons by Macmillan Factual Readers (freely adapted). There are 3 versions: the 1 ...
Simply cut out and give the cards to the students for a short speaking activity. Suitable for starters, beginner & pre-intermediate. These cards include speaking using: adverbs of frequency, b ...
I use this crossword puzzle with my elementary to pre-intermediate classes to test how much they know about simple punctuation marks. I use this at the beginning of a lesson before revising or te ...
This is a worksheet for B1 or B1+ students to recap family members, talk about the use of social networks in every day life. Hope you enjoy it as my students did. You can use it to introduce the t ...
I made this worksheet for my FCE and CAE students. It develops the structure of letters and emails required in these exams, and gives an organised overview of the language to be used. Page 2 is ma ...
This worksheet its about a funny elephant that says "hello" showing a smile, then it says "good bye" showing its backwards. It is perfect to be used with very young ESL learners in their fir ...
This is a fun warm-up vocabulary game, introducing unexpected pairs of words, which do not give an obvious indication of meaning, such as "clothes horse". As well as providing amusement, this ...
It's a Power Point Presentation inspired by Japanese pecha-kuchu presentations. It is created to encourage students to speak. Students should speak continuosly while watching the slide for 10 seco ...
Students create a mini company, and design and sell apps. The "design" aspect is simple, and consists of inventing a name for the app, and describing what it does. A simple, whole class mingl ...
This worksheet is to practice the format of recipes. Students will watch a video on youtube (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i8p5UtV4GqY), complete the list of ingredients, translate some cooking ...
The worksheet focuses on six serial killers and it is a reading exercise for B2 students. Looking for information and synonym finder can be found here with key. Students have to find one or more s ...
I used this song in high school to introduce a topic about relationships that can have a bad end, it's different from all new bands, singers and two versions of this song can be used: normal ...
This is a crossword puzzle about natural resources and materials obtained from Earth. In this crossword students read the definitions established for the purpose and figure out the material that f ...
This PPT is useful to practice descriptions. It can be used to add some fun to the class since they have to guess who the person is. They can take advantage of this activity to describe physical a ...
This worksheet is meant to be used with teenagers or young adults. The ad focuses on the different lifestyles of our grandparents. I took advantage of the topic to practice the structucture "used ...
In this exercise students are required to read about 5 unsolved serial murder cases and they simply have to fish for information from the article. The worksheet includes a key. (Source: http: ...
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