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.
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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This presentation is a colourful exercise, with which your students will be able to practice phrasal verbs and expressins with the verb get. It consists of slides with fill-in-the-gaps sentences a ...
This is a worksheet for revising clothes related vocabulary. It can be used in connection with the Clothes PowerPoint Presentation. The students have to build questions and give short answers It ...
This PowerPoint contains some vocabulary that start with the letter F. In each slide, the young learners are asked to guess the word which is behind the circles and rectangles. It is really colorf ...
Wordsearch for the topic shopping contains such words as customer, counter, department store, shop assistant, purchases, sales, basket, mall, size, change, cashier, goods, trolley, receipt. ...
This worksheet is made for young learners. Once you have taught them some food vocabulary and how to write it, you can have fun with this activity. My students loved it. Your students have to ...
Suitable and moderate wordsearch for the topic shopping, contains the following words: bakey, butchery, grocery, supermarket, department store, dairy, greengrocery, chemist's, clothes shop, booksh ...
The worksheet is a gap-filling activity based on a funny fast-paced song "Balaklava" by Arctic Monkeys. The song is an allegory of love described as a robbery. The song is devoted to the topic of ...
This worksheet contains different questions about the home. Divide the language learners into small groups and encourage them to talk. Hope it works well.
This is a worksheet for practicing short and long vowels. It includes two activities. First, the students are asked to find the stress in some words. Next, they are asked to use their dictionaries ...
This ice-breaker activity allows teachers to get to know their students in a fun and easy way using music. This activity is similar to the hot seat games, but in this case students do not lea ...
This worksheet deals with some vocabulary items related to "talking about the home". It contains 2 activities. You can use it at the study part of your teaching. Hope you find it useful.
Read about the Big Ben and Globe Theatre in London and then answer the questions. This is a worksheet of cultural interest and can be used either as a speaking task or as as a writing task. The so ...
This power-point presentation is useful to talk about invention and inventors (such as Alexander Graham Bell, Edison, Wright brothers and etc.) . It is also useful for improving students speaking ...
This power-point presentation is appropriate for teaching quantifiers a, an and some, it includes some slides with which you can check their understanding. It also contains food related vocabulary ...
This power-point presentation can be used for teaching how to talk about likes and dislikes, what you want, and using a, an , and some before nouns. It also contains food related vocabulary items ...
This power point presentation is used for teaching weather such as (sunny and warm, sunny and hot, cold, snowy, foggy, rainy and windy) and days of the week. You can also ask about clothing item ...
For advanced students seeking an expansion of vocabulary for academic English. The worksheet contains a matching activity, in which the student would match the corresponding letter to the most su ...
This is a simple PowerPoint presentation compiled of common telephone vocabulary and phrases in English. Great for business students, general English and graduating high school students. Activity: ...
This worksheet can be used for practising and developing listening comprehension skills. The writer reflects upon environment and social issues. Thus, students can discuss and express their opinio ...
A fun ESL grammar exercise worksheet with pictures (food and drinks) for kids to study and practise countable and uncountable nouns. Write C for countable nouns and U for uncountable nouns. Useful ...
This is a simple worksheet were students will be able to recall and practice numerals from 1-10 and also order words alphabetically through matching activities, tracing activities, identifying wor ...
This is a worksheet for teaching school items. It includes two activities. First, the young learners are asked to read and draw. Secondly, they are asked to look at the pictures and write sentence ...
This worksheet contains a reading comprehension about April Fool's Day (All Fool's Day). It includes a true/ false activity to check the learners' understanding. Hope it works well!
Questions about drawing a budget and getting finance. The purpose is to prompt students to activate the business vocabulary they know, while practicing collocations. These questions can be used a ...
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