A selection of English ESL classroom vocabulary for kids printables

This interactive worksheet helps intermediate ESL students practise school-related vocabulary and spelling through a fun word search activity. Students search for words like teacher, classroom, backpack, and exam, then write sentences to reinforce their understanding of the vocabulary in context. Created by Primary Leap

School Vocabulary Word Search

Vocabulary for kids. 

Items commonly use in class.

To improve vocabulary and correct spelling. This could complet the presentation of vocabulary.



This excercise could work with Side by Side Level 1 Book.



In the classroom vocabulary crossword

Picture dictionary and classroom poster ESL printable worksheets for kids to study and learn musical instruments vocabulary. Look at the pictures and study the words. Useful for teaching and learning musical instruments vocabulary.

musical instruments flashcards

This interactive worksheet, created by PrimaryLeap.co.uk, is designed to help intermediate ESL students enhance their reading comprehension and expand their classroom vocabulary. By reading short descriptions of familiar classroom items—like notebooks, chairs, rulers, and whiteboards—students identify each object using a provided word bank. 
Supplementary writing exercises encourage students to apply the vocabulary in context, improving both their understanding and sentence construction skills. A bonus challenge activity fosters creativity and self-expression, ensuring the learning experience is both engaging and enjoyable.

Classroom Object Descriptions

Kids can draw and colour an animal. There are simple questions for them to answer. Good for practicing animal vocabulary, adjectives, verbs. You may edit to suit your classroom. 

Animals Worksheet

Farm Animal Bingo – Fun and Educational Game for Kids!

Bring learning and fun together with Farm Animal Bingo! This engaging printable game is perfect for children aged 4 to 7 who are learning about farm animals in English.

What’s included?
✅ 10 unique bingo cards
✅ 24 colorful farm animal calling cards
✅ Easy-to-follow instructions

How to Play:

1. Each child gets a bingo card.


2. The caller picks a card and says the name of the animal.


3. Players mark the animal on their card if they have it.


4. The first player to complete a row, column, or full card shouts “Bingo!” and wins!



Why You’ll Love It:
✨ Enhances vocabulary and listening skills
✨ Supports language learning in a fun way
✨ Perfect for classrooms, homeschooling, or family game night

Download, print, and start playing today!


Farm Animals BINGO

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This fun and educational worksheet helps pre-intermediate ESL students learn and practise school supplies vocabulary through a word search activity. Students search for words like pen, ruler, rubber, notebook, and scissors to improve their spelling and recognition of classroom items. After completing the word search, students write sentences using two vocabulary words, encouraging them to apply the words in context and develop simple sentence-writing skills. This activity is perfect for reinforcing classroom vocabulary in an engaging and interactive way.

School Supplies Word Search

 Classroom Poster & Poem for kids .Using present simple & past simple.Weather vocabulary. Sts have to read and learn the poem , they can write about "their rainy days. 

Rain I

It is a useful worksheet for young kids to remember their vocabulary. You should use a powerpoint first, and then ask them to write everything they can remember!

classroom material

Here you have a simple exercise for kids in elementary school with classroom vocabulary. They have to see and complete. I hope this will help you as it helped me.

Correct form of verb to be with classroom objects

Printable English Picture Dictionary and Worksheet for Kids with Specific Words 

Illustrated English Worksheets for Learning Specific Words for Kids. English Dictionary Worksheets with Pictures to Improve Vocabulary. Our worksheet simplifies learning by matching pictures and English words. You can prepare posters to hang in your classroom and home. Look at the pictures, examine the word and learn the English words quickly. You can make fun and permanent to learn by matching pictures with words. Our worksheets for both teaching and learning the words of are very easy, convenient, and fun. Each English language learning vocabulary worksheet you create is different.

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Nursery picture dictionary

Hi, this worksheet includes what I consider to be essential vocabulary for older primary kids. It includes school items and subjects, clothes, body parts, animals and animal parts, and food. Hope it's helpful.

KIDS VOCABULARY

Culture, intercultural communication, cross-cultural communication

Adjectives to describe feelings, emotions

Adjectives to describe personality and character

Adjectives: Gradable / Non-gradable adjectives

Articles: Definite or indefinite article (a, an or the)

BE + infinitive structures (e.g. he was to become famous)

Clauses of contrast (e.g.  although, while)

Clauses of purpose (e.g. in order to, so that, so as to)

Clauses of reason (e.g. because, because of, due to, as, since)

Cleft sentences (e.g. It's Joey we're looking for)

Comparison: Comparative adjectives and structures

Comparison: Superlative adjectives and structures

Conditional 2 (second conditional) - would

Conditionals: Conditional phrases (e.g. unless, provided that, as long as)

Conjunctions (aka connectives, e.g. and, but, or, so, then)

Contractions (shortened forms, e.g. don't, aren't, etc.)

Determiners (words that can come before nouns)

Formal and informal English (politeness or colloquial language)

Future perfect continuous (progressive) tense

Future perfect simple and continuous (progressive) tense

Future phrases (e.g. be about to, bound to, likely to, due to, set to + INF)

Homonyms (two words with the same pronunciation - homophones and homographs)

It as preparatory subject (e.g. it's raining, it's nice of you to)

Linking verbs (aka copulas, e.g. I am a student)

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how to accuse somebody of something in English

how to apologize, say sorry, forgive and express regret in English

how to ask for information and make inquiries in English

how to ask for something, make requests in English

how to blame somebody for something in English

how to defend yourself from criticism in English

how to deny or admit something in English

how to describe things or people in English

how to emphasize important things in English

how to encourage or discourage people in English

how to evaluate people or progress in English

how to express agreement /disagreement in English

how to express approval and disapproval  in English

how to express cause and effect in English

how to express interest in something in English

how to express likelihood, probability in English

how to express likes and dislikes in English

how to express sequence and chronology in English

how to express shock and disbelief in English

how to express sympathy and condolences in English

how to give permission, authorization in English

how to inform somebody about some news in English

how to interpret what was said in English

how to keep a conversation going in English

how to make guesses about something in English

how to make, accept and refuse offers in English

how to order or make a booking in English

how to persuade, convince people in English

how to praise people and express appreciation in English

how to reassure somebody of something in English

how to refuse and object to something in English

how to remind people of something in English

how to rephrase, paraphrase what was said in English

how to say thank you, express gratitude in English

Nouns: Collective nouns (team, class, family, committee)

Nouns: Proper nouns (names of people, cities, companies)

Oxymorons (phrases with words of contradictory meaning, e.g. living dead)

Participles: Past participle (e.g. HAVING DONE)

Participles: Present participle (e.g. DOING)

Parts of Speech (aka word classes, e.g. nouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs)

Past perfect continuous (progressive) tense

Phonetics (pronunciation, IPA, phonetic symbols)

Plural nouns: regular plurals with S ending

Prefixes (e.g. A, UN, IM, DIS, MIS, EN, etc. )

Prepositions vs adverbs (e.g. before me, saw him before.)

Prepositions: Double prepositions (e.g. out of)

Prepositions: Participle prepositions (e.g. pending, concerning)

Prepositions: Phrase prepositions (e.g. by means of)

Present perfect continuous (progressive) tense

Present perfect simple or present continuous tense

Present simple tense: S for third person singular verbs

Present simple vs continuous (progressive) tense

Pronouns: EACH OTHER, ONE ANOTHER (reciprocal pronouns)

Pronouns: Possessive pronouns (e.g. my, mine)

Pronouns: Reflexive pronouns (e.g. myself, yourself))

Pronouns: SOMEBODY, ANYBODY, EVERYBODY, NO ONE, NOTHING, etc.

Pronouns: THIS, THAT, THESE, THOSE (demonstratives)

Pronouns: YOU and THEY to talk about people in general

Quantifiers (e.g. some, many, much, any, few, little)

Questions: WH questions (open-ended questions)

Reported speech: reported questions (indirect questions)

There is / there are / there was / there were / there will be, etc.

Verbs: Transitive or intransitive verbs (words that can or cannot stand with objects)

Working with Paragraphs: ordering, titling

Role play, miming, drama activity or improv game

Pictionary (picture dictionary) or picture matching

Writing an opinion essay (persuasive essay)

Learners who are Pre-A1 have just begun learning English and will first learn how to:<ul><li>Say the letters in the alphabet and numbers</li><li>Say hello, talk about names and age</li><li>Name the colors and dates, express likes and dislikes</li></ul>

Absolute beginners who have begun to learn the letters and numbers

Learners taking the A1 Elementary exam should be able to:<ul><li>Introduce themselves and ask and answer questions about personal details such as where he/she lives, things he/she has, people he/she knows.</li><li>Communicate using very basic phrases as long as the other person talks slowly and clearly and is prepared to help.</li><li>Main grammar points to know: common adjectives & adverbs of frequency, going to, how much/how many, imperatives, I'd like, 's – possessive, common prepositions of place and time, present simple & continuous, there is/are</li></ul>

A very basic tourist level, which is enough for buying food and a bus ticket

Learners taking the A2 Pre-intermediate exam should be able to:<ul><li>Understand sentences and frequently used expressions (e.g. very basic personal and family information, shopping, local geography, employment).</li><li>Complete tasks that are routine and exchange information about familiar matters.</li><li>Describe matters of immediate need in simple terms.</li><li>Main grammar points to know: countable/uncountable nouns, adverbs of frequency, future will/going to, much/many, present perfect, past simple, past continuous, common phrasal verbs, common modals: can/should</li></ul>

A tourist who can do basic conversations about the past, present and future

Learners taking the B1 Intermediate exam should be able to:<ul><li>Understand points regarding family, work, school or leisure-related topics.</li><li>Deal with most travel situations in areas where the language is spoken.</li><li>Create simple texts on topics of personal interest.</li><li>Describe experiences, events, dreams, and ambitions, as well as opinions or plans in brief.</li><li>Main grammar points to know: question tags, intensifiers: too/enough, future tenses, past tenses, modals, conditionals, wh-questions in the past</li></ul>

Learners who can deal with both familiar and routine situations, in friendly and work contexts

Learners taking the B2 Upper-intermediate exam should be able to:<ul><li>Understand the main ideas of complex text on both concrete and abstract topics, including technical discussions in his/her field of specialization.</li><li>Interact with fluency and spontaneity that makes regular interaction with native speakers quite possible without difficulty for either party.</li><li>Produce clear, detailed text on a wide range of subjects and explain an opinion on a topical issue giving the advantages and disadvantages of various options.</li><li>Main grammar points to know: perfect tenses, mixed conditionals, modals in the present, phrasal verbs, reported speech, wish, relative clauses</li></ul>

The level where you can be a tour guide for your foreign friends and talk about a lot of topics, even abstract ones, with ease and fluency

Learners taking the C1 Advanced exam should be able to: Express ideas fluently and spontaneously without much obvious searching for expressions. Use language flexibly and effectively for social, academic and professional purposes. Understand a wide range of demanding, longer texts. Produce clear, well-structured, detailed text on complex subjects, using linking phrases (=words that connect ideas between sentences). Main grammar points to know: inversion, mixed conditionals, modals in the past, all passive forms, phrasal verbs (all patterns), wish/if only for regrets

Learners who can smoothly communicate in every walk of life, read long texts and write well

Learners taking the C2 Proficient exam should be able to:<ul><li>Understand almost everything read or heard with ease.</li><li>Summarize information from a variety of sources into a coherent presentation.</li><li>Express themselves using precise meaning in complex scenarios.</li><li>Can express him/herself spontaneously, very fluently and precisely, differentiating finer shades of meaning even in the most complex situations</li></ul>

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21 Classroom vocabulary for kids English ESL worksheets pdf & doc