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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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Thunder By Imagine Dragons Fill In The Blank Worksheet

Thunder By Imagine Dragons Fill In The Blank Worksheet

Tammy Cohen Dadon
  This listening comprehension activity is a fill-in-the-blank assignment. Students listen to and watch the video then answer the questions using the words from the word bank. It includes ...
1 Views 35,861 IntAdvExam
Colour Idioms

Colour Idioms

This is a new grammar guide about idioms.   This resource contains five pages of idioms and expressions connected with colors: black, white, red, green, brown, silver, color, etc. It includ ...
1 Views 14,499 IntAdv
Telling The Time Difference Between Two Clocks

Telling The Time Difference Between Two Clocks

Kousi
  This worksheet helps students learn how to tell and write down the time shown on an analog clock and understand how to tell the difference between the hours and minutes shown in two cloc ...
1 Views 10,955 Elem
Power Point Song – Behind Blue Eyes By Limp Bizkit

Power Point Song – Behind Blue Eyes By Limp Bizkit

This is a multiple way of practicing English from listening comprehension to grammar rules. There are a variety of methods to teach students by using songs. Students can watch and listen to ...
1 Views 7,657 Pre-IntIntAdv
Dan Pink – The Puzzle of Motivation – TED Talk Worksheet

Dan Pink – The Puzzle of Motivation – TED Talk Worksheet

  This is a 4-page intermediate worksheet is to accompany Dan Pink's TED Talk on Motivation. It includes discussion questions, diagrams and images to illustrate the concepts. Begin with as ...
1 Views 19,186 IntAdv
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Cloze Exercise – Abraham Lincoln

Cloze Exercise – Abraham Lincoln

  This fun educational cloze activity can be used in your class when teaching students reading comprehension. Students read the facts about the 16th President of the United States, Abraham ...
1 Views 7,924 ElemPre-Int
Equal Pay

Equal Pay

Guilherme G Tidon
  This worksheet uses a video from elllo.org to discuss the issue of equal pay between men and women in France. There is some vocabulary work and functions to make suggestions. You can use ...
1 Views 9,546 IntAdv
Introduction Cards

Introduction Cards

  This worksheet contains 16 cards which you can use whenever your students are practicing how to introduce themselves and giving personal information. You need to cut them out and give on ...
1 Views 26,822 BegElem
APPEARANCE: 7 Curious Facts Your Appearance Says about You

APPEARANCE: 7 Curious Facts Your Appearance Says about You

Anastasiia
  The video-based worksheet deals with the topics of appearance and its possible influence on character. Students work on the vocabulary units that describe the facial structure, namely no ...
1 Views 11,760 Pre-IntInt
Song Worksheet Melanie Martinez – Mad Hatter

Song Worksheet Melanie Martinez – Mad Hatter

Katherine
  This song "Mad Hatter" by Melanie Martinez is from Tim Burton's movie Alice in Wonderland. Students watch and listen to the video on YouTube. This task is complicated. Before handing out ...
1 Views 14,698 IntAdv
Sweat Shops

Sweat Shops

Hanna Piasecka
  This lesson, based on a YouTube film, is about sweatshops. Students get to learn new vocabulary, watch a film, and answer open questions. The class can be divided into pairs to discuss q ...
1 Views 8,161 IntAdv
Song worksheet: On Top of the World

Song worksheet: On Top of the World

Henriqueta
    The subject of this worksheet is Looking for adventure | Searching for happiness. It helps practice listening skills. Students listen to the song and discuss the meaning of "bein ...
1 Views 16,662 Pre-IntInt
VIDEO: How I met your mother – S01E02

VIDEO: How I met your mother – S01E02

Igor de Oliveira Poty
  This worksheet is for upper-intermediate to advanced students. It includes a set of questions about the TV series How I met your mother S01E02 – Purple Giraffe. Students watch the ...
1 Views 6,268 Adv
CLIL MUSIC – ROMANTICISM

CLIL MUSIC – ROMANTICISM

BusyTeacher Contributor
  This Music lesson plan is taught in English via the CLIL method and comprises the ballet music of Swan Lake by P. I . Tchaikovsky. It also includes creative activities that students can ...
1 Views 5,186 Elem
Extension Questions – An Inspector Calls

Extension Questions – An Inspector Calls

Digital Theatre Plus
  Test and expand your students’ knowledge on An Inspector Calls. Students can discuss the characters including the theme of gender. These questions have been curriculum mapped again ...
1 Views 8,457 IntAdvExam
Song Worksheet – Alice Merton

Song Worksheet – Alice Merton "No Roots" Gap Fill

Katherine
  Students watch the video, listen to the lyrics and fill in the gaps. You need to pause while listening, or you may give it to your students for listening for the first time. Let them gue ...
1 Views 6,407 Pre-IntInt
English for Work – How to ask for a Raise

English for Work – How to ask for a Raise

Anastasiia
  The worksheet teaches communication in professional settings. It can be used as a part of Business English classes at the workplace. The tasks include watching the sample videos of unsu ...
1 Views 5,625 Pre-IntInt
Spelling Activity: Famous Inventions

Spelling Activity: Famous Inventions

  This short spelling activity for elementary learners includes a list of 12 inventions. Students learn the spellings and firstly put them in alphabetical order. They must then choose the ...
1 Views 6,709 Elem
Telling the Time Board Game

Telling the Time Board Game

  This easy worksheet consists of a board game to practise the key vocabulary and expressions about telling the time. Students roll a dice, move the number of spaces and read aloud the tim ...
1 Views 12,303 Pre-Int
Common English Idioms

Common English Idioms

NKenny
  This activity includes common idioms with picture clues to help students find their definitions. The resource can be use in the classroom as an activity or as a homework task. An answer ...
1 Views 12,245 Int
Extension Questions – Frankenstein

Extension Questions – Frankenstein

Digital Theatre Plus
    Test your students’ knowledge of the novel Frankenstein. The questions have been written to deepen and expand their understanding and to encourage discussion of key issues ...
1 Views 10,874 IntAdvExam
Song worksheet: On Top of the World

Song worksheet: On Top of the World

Henriqueta
  This worksheet for Pre-/Intermediate levels can be used to practise listening skills, comprehension and to discuss the meaning of "being on top of the world". It can be used as a warm-up ...
1 Views 12,205 Pre-IntInt
BINGO Gorillas

BINGO Gorillas

Valeria
  This Bingo game about gorilla's can be used as a warm-up or to close the class. It helps improve the vocabulary. When the children hear a word called out, they look at their bingo c ...
1 Views 5,782 Pre-Int
Present Simple reading – Describing People

Present Simple reading – Describing People

Kamila
    This worksheet was created for  Elementary level adult students. They read the descriptions and match them with the photos on page 2.  The sheet can be used to revise t ...
1 Views 23,594 BegElemPre-IntInt
Face Masks and French Fashion

Face Masks and French Fashion

Anastasiia
  The worksheet is based on the adapted article from the Economist describing how face masks can become fashionable items in France. The tasks are aimed at developing reading comprehension ...
1 Views 8,258 Pre-IntInt

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