Vocabulary Worksheets

Why is there a cultural taboo in some countries about eating insects? Would you feel apprehensive about munching on some chocolate-covered crickets? How about mealworm spaghetti?

This worksheet takes eating insects as its theme, with a warm-up, a gap-fill reading, vocabulary building and discussion.

It's a great topic to talk about - students of all levels and nationalities enjoy talking about food. Is there anything in your students' countries that foreign tourists would find difficult to eat?

This worksheet is written for upper-intermediate and advanced-level classes.

Do you have some intermediate-level business students who need speaking practice? This worksheet is a great way to improve fluency on common business topics. Can your students talk confidently about their company, responsibilities, skills and more? Students need to speak for 30 seconds (or longer) on each topic to proceed. This worksheet is written for intermediate classes.

This worksheet continues our series of handouts on business news.

Following the lead-in question, there are four short reading topics with a gap-fill reading task.

Subjects covered include the stock market, a company takeover, economic outlook and dividend payment.

The worksheet continues with vocabulary and collocation exercises. Do your students know (and use) phrases such as...

• meeting analysts' expectations
• to scotch a rumour
• pay a record dividend
• the stock price tumbled

... and much more!

The lesson rounds off with discussion questions. There's also a quiz which you can set as homework.

This worksheet is written for advanced-level students.

A double-target worksheet. The grammar point is 'used for' for explaining. (e.g. glue is used for sticking things.)

There's also lots of good office vocabulary.

Students work in pairs, though if you're teaching a one-on-one class, you can always take one part.

An easy-to-teach filler for higher level lessons.

This worksheet looks at building some vocabulary with in- un- and dis-.

The final exercise has a paragraph for rewriting - this should really challenge your students.

This worksheet can be successfully set as homework.

This crossword puzzle is great for helping students remember some of the key vocabulary for politics.

Perfect for both the classroom and homework, this could be just the answer for your students' vocab needs...

Health-based lessons always go down well! This worksheet looks at some common expressions connected to health. These include: * to be on the mend * to be running a fever * to come down with the flu * to be as fit as a fiddle * to have a splitting headache This worksheet has idiom matching exercises, rewriting practice and lots of discussion. It's perfect for intermediate levels and above.

There are twelve different flashcards in our description set.

They're a great way to build vocabulary for lower-level learners.

You can use these flashcards on their own, or teach them in conjunction with our 'What do you look like?' worksheet.