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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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Jobs 2

Jobs 2

This power-point presentation is useful for teaching and reviewing occupations and related vocabulary items. It includes different occupations such as: health workers, information workers, constru ...
7 Views 13,242 Elem
Shakespeare Sonnets

Shakespeare Sonnets

It talks about the features of sonnets, how they are formed, what kind of subjects they include.What makes Shakespeare's sonnets different from others. It also analyses Sonnet 18, its quatrains an ...
9 Views 10,972 Adv
Alphabetical Order - Chinese New Year

Alphabetical Order - Chinese New Year

This year, Chinese New Year is celebrated on 19 February. This resource practices alphabetical order. Students look at the words related to Chinese New Year and write them in alphabetical order. T ...
5 Views 15,398 Elem
Biography - Famous Author

Biography - Famous Author

This handy report form is good for practicing research activities. Students are asked to choose a famous author and fill in the report form. The are asked to answer a few questions and write a sho ...
7 Views 18,196 Elem
Zoo Animals PowerPoint

Zoo Animals PowerPoint

This is the new version of my PowerPoint "Zoo Animals". More animal cliparts are added, such as kangaroo, cheetah, etc. It is designed for absolute beginners of learning English, particularly kids ...
8 Views 29,518 Beg
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Letter Q

Letter Q

This power-point presentation helps us to teach letter "Q". It contains some pictures and vocabulary items which start with letter "Q", on each slide there is one picture and missing letter. This ...
6 Views 11,537 Beg
Letter R

Letter R

This power point presentation is helpful for teaching and reviewing letter "R" and the correct way of writing. It includes related vocabulary items (which start with "R") and pictures  approp ...
4 Views 7,938 Beg
Speaking Activity / Adverbs of Fequency Questions Practice

Speaking Activity / Adverbs of Fequency Questions Practice

I created this worksheet to allow my students a bit of speaking practice with adverbs of frequency. I teach adults and young people, so you might add verbs that are suitable at your students' ...
26 Views 98,813 BegElemPre-Int
Body Bingo

Body Bingo

Alina and Martin Galaxy
Teach children general body parts while having fun playing bingo. 15 different Bingo cards, 24 body parts. Works like standard Bingo, only the cover cards have appropriate names of the body parts. ...
13 Views 36,026 BegElem
Colours

Colours

This is a simple presentation for young learners and elementary. It can be used either to introduce or to revise colours. Each page contains a shape filled with certain colour and its name. I u ...
3 Views 8,734 BegElem
Food Quantities- Corrected

Food Quantities- Corrected

This worksheet is appropriate for teaching and reviewing food quantities. This worksheet includes two pages, first it contains some pictures with detailed sentences, and in the second page there a ...
14 Views 24,418 Elem
Where Do Animals Live?

Where Do Animals Live?

This power-point presentation is useful for teaching or reviewing some of the animals and the place that they live. (lion, jungle, fish, water, cow, farm and etc ...). This worksheet is appropriat ...
7 Views 8,722 BegElem
Movie Worksheet: The Devil Wears Prada

Movie Worksheet: The Devil Wears Prada

DarkFox
The tasks based on "The Devil Wears Prada" movie. A good thing to talk about fashion and jobs (the very first impressions, interviews, duties, different kinds of jobs etc.). Also, it's a quite use ...
12 Views 47,397 Adv
At the Information Desk

At the Information Desk

At the Information Office is an activity inspired by one of the functional language lessons of Challenges 2 (Pearson coursebook). The procedure I used was the following: 1. Give your ss a chance t ...
4 Views 24,502 Pre-Int
Transport Information (Directions)

Transport Information (Directions)

This worksheet is appropriate for reviewing and practicing how to ask for transport information. It includes two parts- put words in order and gap filling. This worksheet is based on unit 29 of Ox ...
9 Views 51,552 Elem
A Circus

A Circus

This power-point presentation is useful for teaching or reviewing jobs in the circus such as: juggler, electrician, tailor, acrobat, clown, and trapeze. This worksheet is appropriate for young lea ...
5 Views 9,133 Elem
Draw Your House and Label Each Item

Draw Your House and Label Each Item

Rania Foka
As it is widely knownn young learners love drawing and labelling as it is part of their play. This worksheet aims at their enjoyment together with facilitating their learning vocabulary related to ...
3 Views 11,527 Beg
Work - Open Questions

Work - Open Questions

This PPT includes some of the most interesting conversation questions about work/professions/occupations etc. Can be used for group discussions as well as a revision of the topic. Suitable for (pr ...
12 Views 26,055 ElemPre-IntIntAdv
Classroom Language

Classroom Language

This worksheet is for the first day. It is very helpful when students do not have the level to express common things  in a classroom. Use this on the first day and encourage them to use them ...
7 Views 25,735 BegElemPre-Int
Movie Worksheet: Hugh Laurie & Ellen DeGeneres Slang Talk Show

Movie Worksheet: Hugh Laurie & Ellen DeGeneres Slang Talk Show

The worksheet is deditcated to advanced students who want to learn about British and American English, more precisely about some slang words. The additional material is a youtube movie (https://ww ...
9 Views 23,860 Adv
Colouring Fruit

Colouring Fruit

This worksheet is for children. It includes some fruit that children can color. I used it with beginner level children and they enjoyed it very much. We started by saying the names of the fruit an ...
2 Views 21,153 Beg
Colors

Colors

The aim of this worksheet is teaching about colors. This is used to introduce colors to foreign young pupils. I used this with my pupils and it was very successful. They enjoyed coloring and learn ...
4 Views 13,182 Beg
Talk about Your Favourite Toy

Talk about Your Favourite Toy

Rania Foka
This illustrated worksheet is for young learners in their second year. It facilitates them to speak about their favourite toys through pictures and then say which is their favourite one. If their ...
2 Views 18,708 Elem
Let's Visit Dublin!

Let's Visit Dublin!

This is a pairwork using "want to" and "would like to". Students imagine themselves in Dublin City. One student is a tourist guide advising nice places to visit and the other one is a touris ...
6 Views 26,034 Pre-Int
Song Worksheet: There's No Good in Goodbye

Song Worksheet: There's No Good in Goodbye

This is a worksheet about finding missing words that are taken from phrases to form a different meaning. The worksheet is based on the Script's song "No Good in Goodbye". There is also an extra bo ...
6 Views 15,567 Pre-IntInt

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