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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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Find Someone Who

Find Someone Who

sarahyin
It's designed to get students to practice different grammar structures so that their communication skills can be enhanced. It works with any size classes and you can have different follow-up ...
8 Views 23,161 Elem
Find Something in Common- Bingo

Find Something in Common- Bingo

This worksheet is a wonderful get-to-know activity suitable both for your introductory lesson and as a warmer to start your class. It's particularly useful if you need to divide students into grou ...
5 Views 14,952 All
Movie Worksheet: Ted Talk Lizzie Velasquez

Movie Worksheet: Ted Talk Lizzie Velasquez

Carol
This is an activity based on a TED Talk made by the motivational speaker Lizzie Velasquez. I use it mainly with advanced students (b2 onwards). It can be used to lead in discussions about bullying ...
3 Views 19,404 AdvExam
A Greener School

A Greener School

Rosie Dodd
This is a very communicative lesson for all levels. It focuses on taking an environmental problem your school has, finding a solution, and then presenting it. It can be adapted for many levels. It ...
6 Views 9,284 ElemPre-IntIntAdv
Environmental Letter of Complaint

Environmental Letter of Complaint

Rosie Dodd
This higher level lesson is also a great follow-up to my lesson ‘A Greener School’, which you can also find on Busy Teacher. It gives students some useful language and organization fo ...
4 Views 20,793 IntAdv
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Responding to Complaints

Responding to Complaints

This is a worksheet for intermediate students to respond and practice complaining. It should work well  if practised in a small group or even in a very large class if they are put in pai ...
4 Views 13,184 Int
Cross-Cultural Misunderstandings TBL

Cross-Cultural Misunderstandings TBL

Rosie Dodd
This is one of my favourite lessons to teach. It requires little preparation, but is engaging, educational, and fun! In a quite task-based approach, it introduces the concept of cross-cultural dif ...
10 Views 47,906 Pre-IntIntAdv
Long Island Killer Worksheet (English for Law Enforcement Purposes)

Long Island Killer Worksheet (English for Law Enforcement Purposes)

This exercise is based on the ongoing case of the Long Island Killer: http://www.investigatingcrimes.com/monster-new-york-long-island-serial-killer/. There are 4 mini exercises: a gap-filling, a s ...
4 Views 18,029 IntAdv
Back to School - Alphabetical Order

Back to School - Alphabetical Order

Back to school - This worksheet was created for primary/elementary students and focuses on alphabetical order. Students look at the words in the box and write them in alphabetical order on the lin ...
9 Views 14,645 Elem
Back to School - All about Me (2)

Back to School - All about Me (2)

This is great for teachers to hand out at the beginning of class so they can learn a little bit about their new students. Students are asked to answer some questions about themselves and then draw ...
5 Views 26,329 Elem
Back to School - Homework Plan

Back to School - Homework Plan

Homework Plan - This homework plan can be used for students to write down their homework.There is a place for parents to sign it when it is finished and teachers can write down any notes that they ...
2 Views 11,331 Elem
What's in a Classroom

What's in a Classroom

I made this worksheet for the beginning of the year so that my French student becomes familiar with school items. The classroom picture is projected. I ask -how many items do you know? Can you pro ...
5 Views 13,869 Pre-IntInt
Giving and Asking for Directions

Giving and Asking for Directions

Guilherme Guedes
This is a ppt to help students to understand how to give and ask for directions. It has grammar points about how to ask for direction and how to answer to these questions, location expressions, st ...
27 Views 116,763 ElemPre-Int
Back to School - All about Me

Back to School - All about Me

This is great for handing out to kids at the beginning of class and can be used when students go back to school. They can write down a few things about themselves and get to know a little about th ...
12 Views 53,324 Elem
Family Role-play

Family Role-play

Anne Triest
This simple role-play has worked like magic with every class I've tried it with. I've tried to provide enough direction and suggestions that students take an interest in the activity and don't ta ...
12 Views 110,404 Int
English History Mind Maps - The Romans

English History Mind Maps - The Romans

The Romans, a quick mind map. This mind map shows just "headlines" with relevant vocabulary, so students are reminded of the main sub-topics but must provide details themselves. Different colours ...
2 Views 11,742 Pre-Int
Water Animals Word Scramble

Water Animals Word Scramble

BusyTeacher Contributor
This is a word scramble to review sea animal names. Animal names are basic common sea animals that have already been introduced to the class. In my class the animals were introduced with picture ...
4 Views 12,491 Elem
Interrogation Cards (Law Enforcement Purposes)

Interrogation Cards (Law Enforcement Purposes)

A murder was committed at a multinational company. Police interrogate a suspect, who was a colleague of the victim. In this exercise, jumble the questions and answers and let students match t ...
2 Views 18,034 ElemPre-Int
French English Computer Terms Word Search 2

French English Computer Terms Word Search 2

Glenn
French English Computer Terms Word Search 2 is for English students who are learning French. In my English classes I often use the DK French-English Visual Dictionary to help my students learn vo ...
2 Views 11,370 ElemPre-Int
French English Computer Terms Word Search 1

French English Computer Terms Word Search 1

Glenn
French English Word Search 1 uses French vocabulary in the clues, and the students must find the English equivalent in the puzzle. In my English classes I often use the DK French-English Visual D ...
2 Views 11,544 ElemPre-Int
French English Computer Terms Crossword 2

French English Computer Terms Crossword 2

Glenn
This is the same puzzle as the plain version, but it is decorated for younger students with clip art. In my English classes I often use the DK French-English Visual Dictionary to help my students ...
2 Views 13,151 ElemPre-Int
French English Computer Terms Crossword Plain

French English Computer Terms Crossword Plain

Glenn
In my English classes I often use the DK French-English Visual Dictionary to help my students learn vocabulary. Seeing the picture and seeing the vocabulary in their own language helps to reinfor ...
1 Views 9,778 ElemPre-Int
Phrasal Verb Equivalents 2

Phrasal Verb Equivalents 2

This exercise is about remembering phrasal verbs by associating them with their non-phrasal equivalents. In the first part the students work in pairs to match the phrasals with their meanings. The ...
8 Views 16,588 IntAdv
Channel One News

Channel One News

This is a worksheet I use with Channel One News. Before watching the news, students try to predict what the news will be about on that day in a classroom discussion. During the video, students fil ...
4 Views 22,832 ElemPre-IntInt
Planner

Planner

Suzanne
This is a planning for the first week of school. In this plan you will find the introductory games, vocabulary and a rhyme. I give classes to an ESL classroom so I am also teaching the basics ...
5 Views 13,638 Pre-Int

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