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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This beautiful song performed by Russian singer Polina Gagarina is represented at the contest "Eurovision 2015". It is about faith in future, friendship of all peoples and world peace. In this wor ...
This worksheet can be used to find out how much your students know about the country India. There are 11 mixed questions that students must answer. This is also a good exercise to practice researc ...
This worksheet was created for primary/elementary students. It can be used to find out how much your students know about the country: China. There are 11 mixed questions that students must answer ...
This worksheet is made for children around 6-8 years old to review daily routines vocabulary and telling the time. This worksheet contains three activities: 1. The teacher has to randoml ...
This worksheet is good to do something different in your class. Your students can watch this episode of Modern Family and complete this worksheet. In this worksheet you will find different types o ...
A super simple worksheet for complete beginners. It contains a basic vocabulary (transport, places to stay, things that are used on holidays and useful verbs in past simple). The aim of the works ...
This is a video based activity for the final class of the year or the end of the course. Students first need to learn what a commencement speech is. Then as an example they watch the video, do the ...
This worksheet contains an activity in which the students are asked to look at the picture and write the body parts; cheek, neck, finger, foot, stomach, toe, and knee. It is appropriate for elemen ...
This power-point presentation is appropriate for showing and introducing musical instruments such as: guitar, violin, trumpet, drum, piano, flute, daf, accordion, etc to our students. It can be su ...
This powerpoint presentation icludes different types of shops with real pictures. You can use it to introduce new vocabulary, to chek if students know any types of shops, it can also be used to pr ...
This is a PDF file containing four clip arts in which the learners of English as a second language are asked to look and write the name of each of the creatures for each definitions. There is also ...
This handout can be used to introduce students to new vocabulary or as a revision. It can be a handout for speaking activities. You can ask students about their future plans, job opportunities, th ...
This worksheet is appropriate for young learners reviewing outdoor activities related vocabulary items and also the present progressive tense. Print out each card and fold the score part, then sti ...
This worksheet is related to days of the week and months of the year vocabulary items. All you have to do is, print out and cut each bingo card and hand them out to the students, then you say eac ...
Ready to go lesson plan for a 2-3 hours (depending on the number of children) meeting of a speaking club. Children create a joke, a meme, present their own school club, invent a new brand and film ...
This class involves reading, writing and speaking skills. Students are supposed to read the website page that shows options of travel packages, choose the ones they consider interesting and build ...
A worksheet to complete after/while watching the video Underwater Astonishments from TED.com Includes the transcript in which the student much choose the correct preposition, a vocabulary mat ...
This worksheet contains a number of food idioms and expressions that students have to complete with the correct food item, and then a gapfill activity where they must choose the correct expression ...
This is a worksheet used to accompany topics on house and home. It features several popular phrasal verbs/idioms/proverbs and includes a gapfill exercise to check understanding. I have used t ...
A worksheet to accompany the short film One Man's Loss Adapted from the idea on DesignerLessons. Focuses on listening/ watching for gist and detail, descriptions of people, informal conversa ...
This is a common basic vocabulary list for clothing. A link is attached at the end to use it with an interactive video where the images were taken froml. This might be used to have students list ...
A list of 40 questions about getting finance, drawing a budget etc. The purpose is to activate words students should know at intermediate level but may not be able to use owing to lack of practice ...
This power-point presentation is useful for teaching and reviewing demonstrative adjectives (this , that, these, those). It contains some comprehension check questions. This power-point is appropr ...
This power-point presentation is useful for teaching twelve months of the year and seasons. It also helps you to talk about present simple, question formation and a leap year, the activities that ...
This power-point presentation is helpful for teaching outdoor activities, present progressive and question formation. It contains activities such as: roller skating, jumping rope, riding a bike, c ...
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