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 board game will help you teach your students different feelings and emotions. Every time they roll the dice they get a feeling they have to say it with "I am". E.g.: I am hungry. You can tell ...
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Enjoy the range of hilarious animal jokes for kids and laugh along with the neat humor and classic jokes related to all our friends living in the animal kingdom. Very useful to make some funny pa ...
A simple worksheet for primary school. It includes colours, basic adjectives (happy, sad, tall, thin, etc.) and animals (pig, cat, lion, etc). Item I: read the text. Item II: draw the characters o ...
There are 3 easy passages consisting of free topics (introducing oneself, the amazon rainforest and egypt pyramids). It may be useful for your students to improve their translation skills. They wo ...
This is a ppt designed to make my students speak about inventions. All my students wanted to participate as it is a very creative topic. It can be used with all level students. They also enj ...
This worksheet is useful for reviewing things in the restaurant such as: fork, spoon, knife, plate, bowl, vinegar, wine, glass, napkin, etc. It contains some true false statements and also a conve ...
This power-point presentation is related to differences between city life and country life (modern life, noisy, traffic, fresh food, quiet and peaceful). It contains both lives' advantages a ...
Worksheet for primary school. This is a worksheet about the parts of the house. Item I: reading. Item II: complete the graphic organizer according to the reading. Item III: match the names with ...
A very simple worksheet for primary school. Before using the worksheet you can show a video with the parts of the body and then use the worksheet as a complement. Students write the parts of the b ...
This is a reading worksheet on the full English breakfast. It includes the following types of exercises:fill in with the titles of the paragraphs, T/F/Ns , table completion. Suitable for lower to ...
Informative worksheet about British currency covering its symbols, slang terms and denominations. Furthermore it provides a short overview for ss outside the UK to deal with British mon ...
I use this in the computer lab, but you can adapt it for the regular classroom (provide dictionaries, for example.) It's about the reasons that make certain YouTube videos extremely popular. ...
This powerpoint presentation is about baby animals. It is useful to present vocabulary related to animals babies. It's good for beginners. This powerpoint presentation is about baby animals. It is ...
Going on a picnic, a reading comprehension. An easy text for beginners with a picture to colour. Students read the text and colour it following the instructions. There are more reading comprehensi ...
This is a two-page worksheet for practicing how to talk about illness and ask for help at the chemist's. It is designed for both elementary and pre-intermediate language learners, particularly adu ...
Listening comprehension exercise (taken from: http://www.passporttoenglish.com/Beginning-English/Lesson7/Listening.html and http://www.esl-lab.com/pie1/pierd1.htm) plus phrases to be complete ...
This is a worksheet based on a video about food. It is designed for elementary levels specially young learners between 7-12 and it includes 3 activities, before watching, while watching, and ...
Reading Comprehension - Rihanna. Question Types included: Short questions for facts, long questions for the main idea, multiple choice questions, true, false , not given, referencing, su ...
Taboo is an interesting game. This worksheet contains some cards. Cut the cards and put your students into small groups. Each group challenge the other group by describing the given word, but they ...
This worksheet contains some questions about health. You can divide your students into small groups and ask them to talk about the questions. It is designed for both elementary and pre-intermediat ...
This is a worksheet to teach students vocabulary related to popular jobs as well as some useful phrases. It also includes exercises to practice matching the words and the meanings of them in Engli ...
This is e very simple worksheet. Pupils can learn and have fun at the same time. This worksheet was successful with pupils of first grade. We started by making sounds of the animals in the workshe ...
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