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 worksheet is an idea for a first class with very young kids. I used this with 6- and 7-year-olds who are starting to be alphabetized. It's for the first contact with the English language. The ...
This is a comprehensive worksheet with vocabulary for describing people. There are physical and personality characteristics, plus clothes. It's divided into categories: height; build; hair; c ...
This handout is an interesting consolidation activity to be used when teaching shopping/ clothes vocabulary. It is divided into 3 different tasks: the first one is a questionnaire about general co ...
This is a worksheet with an ironic poem about what a person eats on each day of the week. It can be used to study days of the week, food (mainly vegetables and fruit), usage of "some" with plural ...
It's a very simple way to get the students to practice reading CCVC/CVCC words in a fun competitive way. Pair up the students and the must read one word in turn. One student will be the top colour ...
Very simple mingling worksheet. Give one to each ss and they must go around the class talking to other students finding out answers to the questions in the worksheet. Ideal for a first class ...
This resource was created for KS2 students and will help them with their multiplication and division. Students are asked to work out the value of each letter to complete the sum. There are fourtee ...
This is a quiz about sports taken from the official Guinness World Records website. The quiz is updated for 2014. The topic is sports. The worksheet is divided into student A and student ...
This is a PowerPoint for teaching colors to absolute beginners of learning English, children between 4-8. You can teach "light" and "dark" as well. You may find it useful at the engagement stage o ...
This is a presentation of dates, months, holidays, star signs and ordinal numbers. There is a special section about the th sound, to help students pronounce the ordinals easily. There is also ...
This is a simple PowerPoint presentation to introduce vocabulary related to the preparations you need to make before going on a trip. Selecting the means of transportation; packing; booking a ...
This is a PowerPoint for teaching letter s to absolute beginners. It contains some words that start with letter s. It includes interesting cliparts to attract the learners' attention. You may find ...
Reading comprehension. Read the text and mark the sentences as true or false. Also, practise the meaning of adjectives (positive or negative). Suitable for intermediate to upper intermediate learn ...
It is known that learners encounter difficulties in speaking.To encourage them speaking, we must provide them with tasks in order for them to be able to speak and especially with each other. The s ...
Students get a table with words in three different colums. They must find the word in the centre that is suitable as an ending for the first as well as the beginning for the second word, in other ...
This worksheet includes some vocabulary items related to farm animals. It contains an activity in which students are asked to put the given words in alphabetical order. You can put the stude ...
This worksheet contains some vocabulary items related to different foods. It includes two activities to review present simple. It is appropriate for elementary language learners and you may find i ...
This is a worksheet I made to revise tourism-related vocabulary for a student at an advanced level. It was created as a test for a chapter of a certain book so it may be a bit specific, but it sti ...
These slides intend to help elementary or pre-intermediate students to comprehend the concept involving comparison of adjectives, by contrasting two interesting shopping streets in the center of S ...
A very strange poem for Valentine at first sight , but once explained the students mostly like it, some comprehension questions and a writing activity to make the students think about what love i ...
This is a blank board game template that can be used to practice any vocabulary or grammar. You will need a die and a game piece for each of the students playing. There are rainbows that move play ...
Frank Sinatra is one of the most popular American singers. Several generations were raised on his music and his incredible voice. If you want to understand American culture and American natio ...
This PowerPoint contains some farm animals, such as cat, frog, horse, etc. and what they are doing. It is appropriate for both absolute beginners and elementary levels. You may find it useful at t ...
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