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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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Movie Worksheet: English Day

Movie Worksheet: English Day

Monica
We use this worksheet on an English day. We watch a video about ten attractions in London and in this worksheet you answer questions about these attractions. This woksheet is for intermediate leve ...
2 Views 7,191 Pre-Int
Feelings

Feelings

This is a worksheet for young kids to improve their writing at the same time they learn feelings in English. You can play this video before you give them the worksheet. I took the images from ther ...
10 Views 24,898 BegElem
Feelings- Board Game

Feelings- Board Game

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 ...
9 Views 40,816 BegElem
13 Things to Do before You're 23

13 Things to Do before You're 23

Paul
Remember turning 18? Feels like yesterday, doesn’t it? But you’re still young and haven’t graduated college, so technically you’re not a proper grown up yet. This ...
8 Views 17,218 Pre-IntInt
Animal Jokes for Kids

Animal Jokes for Kids

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 ...
7 Views 19,223 Int
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Colors, Animals and Adjectives

Colors, Animals and Adjectives

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 ...
7 Views 17,000 Beg
Amazon Rainforest and Egypt Pyramids

Amazon Rainforest and Egypt Pyramids

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 ...
4 Views 10,099 Elem
Inventions

Inventions

Mar
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 ...
14 Views 25,478 Pre-IntIntAdv
Order in a Restaurant

Order in a Restaurant

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 ...
13 Views 53,085 Elem
City Life vs Country Life

City Life vs Country Life

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 ...
16 Views 65,977 Elem
The House

The House

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 ...
5 Views 20,270 Beg
Dora's Body

Dora's Body

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 ...
7 Views 12,212 Beg
The Full English Breakfast

The Full English Breakfast

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 ...
9 Views 22,185 AdvExam
British Currency

British Currency

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 ...
7 Views 22,867 ElemPre-IntIntAdv
Movie Worksheet: Why Videos Go Viral ( TED Talk)

Movie Worksheet: Why Videos Go Viral ( TED Talk)

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.  ...
14 Views 34,409 Pre-IntIntAdv
Baby Animals

Baby Animals

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 ...
4 Views 21,564 BegElemPre-Int
Going on a Picnic

Going on a Picnic

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 ...
13 Views 26,077 Elem
How to Talk about Illness

How to Talk about Illness

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 ...
8 Views 24,990 ElemPre-Int
At the Restaurant - Listening Exercise and Phrases

At the Restaurant - Listening Exercise and Phrases

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 ...
13 Views 66,127 Pre-Int
Movie Worksheet: Food

Movie Worksheet: Food

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 ...
3 Views 25,581 Elem
Reading Comprehension - Rihanna

Reading Comprehension - Rihanna

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 ...
12 Views 37,865 Elem
Taboo Game, Health

Taboo Game, Health

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 ...
14 Views 38,756 ElemPre-IntIntAdv
Speaking Card, Health

Speaking Card, Health

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 ...
8 Views 40,029 BegElem
Jobs

Jobs

Khuu Thi Diem My
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 ...
10 Views 14,507 Pre-IntInt
Coloring Animals

Coloring Animals

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 ...
2 Views 11,102 Beg

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