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Vocabulary Worksheets by Rachel Spack Koch

Beginning Level Azar Grammar Series: Basic English Grammar, 3rd edition

Vocabulary Worksheets help students learn new vocabulary

in the context of the grammar covered in the tables of

contents of the Azar textbooks or any comparable syllabus.

An Answer Key and Word List for target vocabulary are provided for each chapter.

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Chapter 1—Using Be

1. Singular nouns

2. Singular nouns

3. Names of places

4. Adjectives

5. Adjectives

6. Prepositions and adjectives

7. Prepositions of place

8. Adjectives

9. Geography words

10. Prepositions of place

11. Adjectives

12. Adjectives

13. Adjectives: Opposites

14. Nouns and adjectives

15. Adjectives

16. Adjectives: Opposites

17. Scrambled letters

18. Vocabulary review: Adjectives

19. Which word doesn’t belong?

20. Crossword

Answer Key

Word List

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Worksheet 1. Singular nouns Complete each sentence with a word from the word pool. Write the word with a or an in

front of it.

animal car city color continent language

ocean season sport vegetable

1. A taxi is __a car___________________________.

2. A carrot is ______________________________________________.

3. An elephant is ___________________________________________.

4. Africa is _________________________________________________.

5. Summer is ______________________________________________.

6. Blue is __________________________________________________.

7. Golf is __________________________________________________.

8. The Pacific is _____________________________________________.

9. Spanish is _______________________________________________.

10. Rome is ________________________________________________________.


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Worksheet 2. Singular nouns

Write the words in the correct column. Write a or an before the noun.

actor banana carrot cow doctor egg

horse mouse orange pilot teacher tiger

Foods Animals Occupations

an actor


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Worksheet 3. Names of places

Write the words in the correct column.

Antarctica Asia Bangkok Chicago Egypt Europe

Italy Japan Kenya North America Paris Sao Paulo

Continents Countries Cities

Antarctica


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Worksheet 4. Adjectives

Complete the sentences with words from the word pool.

crowded empty full

1. The mailbox is ______full___________.

2. The mailbox is ___________________.

3. The bus is ______________________.

4. The bus is full. It is ________________.

5. The theater is full. It’s _________________.

6. The theater is ___________________.


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Complete the sentences with words from the word pool.

big cheap cold empty expensive hard hot narrow

round small soft square wide

1. The earth is ____round_________. It isn’t square.

2. This box is________________. It isn’t round.

3. The box isn’t full. It’s ____________________.

4. An elephant isn’t small. It’s

_________________________________.

5. Insects are not big. They’re _________________________________.

1. Puerto Rico is not cold. It’s _________________________________.

2. Antarctica is ___________________________________. It’s not hot.

3. A trip around the world is not cheap. It’s ______________________.

4. Newspapers are not expensive. They’re _______________________.

5. Rocks are not soft. They’re __________________________________.

6. Cats are not hard. They are _________________________________.

12. The shoe is not wide. It is ______________________.


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Worksheet 6. Prepositions and adjectives

Complete the sentences about this picture. Choose the correct word and write it in

the blank space.

fish bowl

fish

table

1. The fish is (in / on) __________in___________ the water.

2. The fish and the water are (in / on) ________________ the fish bowl.

3. The fish bowl is (in / on) _____________________ the table.

4. The cat is (next to / under) _____________________ the fish bowl.

5. The fish bowl is (full / empty) _____________________ of water.

6. The table is (hard / soft) ____________________.

7. The fish in the picture is (wet / dry) ______________________.

8. At the moment, the cat in the picture is (wet / dry) ______________.

9. The fish and the cat in the picture are (alive / dead) ______________.


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Worksheet 7. Prepositions of place

Where are they?

You can often find the noun in Column A in the place in Column B. Complete each

sentence in Column A with the correct phrase from Column B. Write the letter of

the word or phrase from Column B in the blank in Column A.

Column A Column B

1. The whale is __g_.

a. in a theater

2. The nurse is ____.

b. on the highway

3. The pilot is ____.

c. on the desk

4. The actor is ____. d. in an airplane

5. The traffic is ____.

e. in a restaurant

6. The waiter is ____.

f. in a hospital

7. The computer is

____.

g. in the ocean


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Worksheet 8. Adjectives, page 1

Choose the word to complete each sentence correctly.

1. A wheel is ______round________.

square round tall soft

2. A piece of paper is ______________.

round hard long flat

3. A coin is _______________.

wide narrow soft hard

4. Line A ______________________________________________________________

Line B __________________

Line A is long. Line B is _______________.

long soft short hard

5. The road between the cities is ______________.

large long tall heavy

6. The Empire State Building is _______________.

short small tall round


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7. A basketball player is ______________.

tall long square flat

8. The opposite of a tall person is a ______________.

person.

large big small short

9. The box is not light. It’s _______________.

small narrow short heavy

10. The bird is _______________. It’s not heavy.

flat wide light short

11. The towels in the bathroom aren’t wet. They’re

_______.

dry long round short

12. The boots and the floor are ______________.

dry wet light narrow


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Worksheet 9. Geography words, page 1

Choose the correct word or phrase to complete each sentence.

Chile Brazil

Argentina

MAP OF SOUTH AMERICA

1. South America is __b_____.

a. a city b. a country c. a continent d. an island

2. Chile, Argentina, and Brazil are _______ in South America.

a. cities b. countries c. islands d. continents

3. On the map, Brazil is _______.

a. short b. tall c. long d. large

4. On the map, Chile is _______.

a. large b. tall c. long d. square

5. Argentina is _______ Chile.

a. in b. on c. under d. next to

6. Argentina is _______ Chile and Brazil.

a. under b. below c. between d. in


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Worksheet 9. Geography words, page 2

MAP OF CANADA

NORTH

WEST EAST

Pacific Atlantic

Ocean Ocean

Vancouver Montreal

United States

7. Vancouver is __a_____ Canada.

a. in the west of b. between c. next to d. in the east of

8. Montreal is _______ Canada.

a. in the west of b. between c. next to d. in the east of

9. Vancouver and Montreal are _______.

a. countries b. islands c. cities d. continents

10. Vancouver and Montreal are _______ Canada.

a. next to b. in c. in d. above

11. The land of Canada is _______ Montreal and Vancouver.

a. between b. next to c. in d. on

12. Canada is _______ of the United States.

a. north b. south c. east d. west


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Worksheet 10. Prepositions of place

Complete the sentences. Choose the correct word from the word pool and write it in

the blank space. You may use a word more than once.

on behind above under next to between in

sofa

1. The sofa and the rug are ______on_____ the floor.

2. The sofa is _____________________ the woman.

3. The pictures are _____________________ the sofa.

rug

umbrella

4. The man and the woman are ___________________

the umbrella.

5. The man is _____________________ the woman, and

the woman is _____________________ the man.

6. The umbrella is _____________________ the man

and the woman.

towel

7. The baby is _____________________ the bath tub.

8. The mother and father are ____________________

the bath tub.

9. A towel is _____________________ the bath tub.

bath tub


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Complete each sentence. Choose the correct word from each word pool and write it

in the blank space.

hungry

tired

angry 1. The man is _____hungry___________.

thirsty

hungry

sleepy

thirsty 2. The man is _______________________.

angry

sleepy

hungry

angry 3. The girl is _____________________.

thirsty

hungry

tired

angry 4. The man is _____________________.

thirsty

angry

hungry

thirsty 5. The woman is ____________________.

tired


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tired

happy

angry 6. The boys are __________________.

happy

happy

sad

friendly 7. The girl is ________________________.

hot

tired

hot

cold 8. The man is ______________________.

happy

hungry

friendly

hot 9. The camel is ______________________.

cold

nervous

hungry

thirsty 10. The man is ______________________.

cold


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Complete the sentences. Write the correct word from the word pool in each blank.

One word is used twice.

big cold hot new old sick small well young

1. The boy is __sick___ in bed. He’s not _____________.

2. I have a 1985 car. In other words, my car is not ___________________.

It’s ___________________.

3. My grandfather 93. In other words, he is ___________________. He’s

__________________.

4. China and Monaco are countries. They are not the same size. China is

___________________. Monaco is ___________________.

5. Winter and summer are seasons. The weather is different. Winter is

___________________. Summer is ___________________.


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Worksheet 13. Adjectives: Opposites Complete the sentences. Write the correct word from the word pool in the blank.

One word is used twice.

cheap clean dark dirty expensive happy heavy

light right sour sweet wrong

1. Candy is not _______sour___________. It’s ______________________.

2. Diamonds are not ____________________.

They are ____________________.

3. It’s __________________ at night. It’s __________________ at noon.

4. A feather is not __________________. A feather

is ____________________.

5. Before the bath, the baby is ____________________. After the bath,

the baby is ____________________.

6. A: 25 X 40 = 10,000. Right?

B: No, It’s not ____________________. It’s ____________________.


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Worksheet 14. Nouns and adjectives

Write the nouns and adjectives in the sentences in the correct columns.

1. Do you like Italian food?

2. We sat at the kitchen table and ate dinner.

3. Grammar is an interesting subject.

4. I have a red grammar book.

5. We bought a beautiful rug in China.

6. She has an important job in the police department.

Adjectives Nouns used as

adjectives

Nouns

1. Italian food

2. kitchen table, dinner

3.

4.

5.

6.


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Complete the sentences. Choose the correct word or phrase and write it in the

blank.

1. Turtles are _______slow_____________.

difficult

fast

slow

shy

2. A handsome man is ____________________.

lazy

angry

good-looking

hardworking

3. Roberto is absent. In other words, he’s not ___________________ today.

at home in class on the telephone asleep

4. When you are homesick, you are away from home and are

___________________.

wrong unhappy in the hospital tired

5. The bus is full of people. It’s _____________________.

sour expensive crowded tall

6. Tom isn’t lazy. He’s ____________________.

shy friendly funny hardworking

7. The trees aren’t dead. They’re ____________________.

easy noisy alive busy

8. My shoes are small. My feet are big. My shoes are __________________.

single shy sour uncomfortable

9. This area is dangerous. It’s not _____________________.

cold hot safe clean


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Worksheet 16. Adjectives: Opposites

Complete the sentences in Column A with words that are opposites. Write the letter

of the word in Column B in the blank space in Column A.

Column A Column B

1. The opposite of healthy is _h___.

a. sour

2. The opposite of hardworking is ____.

b. difficult

3. The opposite of sweet is ____.

c. south

4. The opposite of under is ____.

d. west

5. The opposite of married is ____. e. alive

6. The opposite of easy is ____.

f. single

7. The opposite of north is ____.

g. full

8. The opposite of east is ____.

h. sick

9. The opposite of empty is ____.

i. above

10. The opposite of dead is _____.

j. lazy


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Worksheet 17. Scrambled letters

Unscramble the letters to make words. Write the words in the blank spaces.

Animals

m a l e c ___camel__________________________________

r u l t e t __________________________________________

p e h e l t a n ______________________________________

Foods

a n a n a b ________________________________________

o t a p o t _________________________________________

i c e r ____________________________________________

Colors

n p i k ____________________________________________

a g y r ____________________________________________

u e l b ____________________________________________

Geography

n o t i n c t n e _____________________________________

s d a n l i __________________________________________

c a n e o ___________________________________________


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Worksheet 18. Vocabulary review: Adjectives

Check all the words that can complete the sentence logically.

1. My friend is _shy___lazy___.

shy lazy expensive long

2. My cat is _______.

soft sour beautiful gray and white

3. An elephant is _______.

long hot large square

4. The elephant in the zoo is _______.

old tired flat friendly

5. The building is _______.

tall long big old

6. The street is _______.

wide long tall noisy

7. My friend is _______.

happy tall funny long

8. The weather is _______.

hot cool quiet noisy

9. The car is _______.

safe sour young expensive

10. I am _______.

cold healthy homesick hardworking


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Worksheet 19. Which word doesn’t belong?

Check the word that does not belong in each group.

1. O blue O red O shirt O gray

2. O big O small O large O beautiful

3. O lake O river O ocean O continent

4. O cow O cat O mouse O square

5. O game O carrot O carrot O banana

6. O tired O sick O hungry O comfortable

7. O cool O warm O ugly O hot

8. O round O sugar O square O long

9. O desk O kitchen O bed O table

10. O suit O hand O foot O knee

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Worksheet 20. Crossword

Complete the crossword puzzle. Use the clues to figure out the words. Write the

correct words across and down. Write one letter in each space.

1

2 3 4

5

6 7

8

9

www.CrosswordWeaver.com

ACROSS DOWN

1 I _______ a student. 1 Elephants are _______.

2 The Atlantic is an _______. 3 A big city is _______.

5 A _______ is sour. 4 Tokyo is a _______.

7 The opposite of sad. 6 Not noisy.

9 Jack is _______. He is not 8 The opposite of beautiful.

married.


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Answer Key

Worksheet 1

1. a car

2. a vegetable

3. an animal

4. a continent

5. a season

6. a color

7. a sport

8. an ocean

9. a language

10. a city

Worksheet 2

Foods: a banana / a carrot / an egg / an orange

Animals: a cow / a horse / a mouse / a tiger

Occupations: an actor / a doctor / a pilot / a teacher

Worksheet 3

Continents: Antarctica / Asia / Europe / North America

Countries: Egypt / Italy / Japan / Kenya

Cities: Bangkok / Chicago / Paris / Sao Paulo

Worksheet 4

1. empty

2. full

3. empty

4. crowded

5. crowded

6. empty

Worksheet 5

1. round

2. square

3. empty

4. big

5. small

6. hot

7. cold


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8. expensive

9. cheap

10. hard

11. soft

12. narrow

Worksheet 6

1. in

2. in

3. on

4. next to

5. full

6. hard

7. wet

8. dry

9. alive

Worksheet 7

1. g. in the ocean

2. f. in a hospital

3. d. in an airplane

4. a. in a theater

5. b. on the highway

6. e. in a restaurant

7. c. on the desk

Worksheet 8

1. round

2. flat

3. hard

4. short

5. long

6. tall

7. tall

8. short

9. heavy

10. light

11. dry

12. wet


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Worksheet 9

1. c. a continent

2. b. countries

3. d. large

4. c. long

5. d. next to

6. c. between

7. a. in the west of

8. d. in the east of

9. c. cities

10. b. in

11. a. between

12. a. north

Worksheet 10

1. on

2. behind

3. above

4. under

5. next to / next to

6. above

7. in

8. next to

9. above

Worksheet 11

1. hungry

2. thirsty

3. sleepy

4. angry

5. tired

6. happy

7. sad

8. cold

9. hot

10. nervous


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Worksheet 12

1. sick / well

2. new / old

3. young / old

4. big / small

5. cold / hot

Worksheet 13

1. sour / sweet

2. cheap / expensive

3. dark / light

4. light / heavy

5. dirty / clean

6. right / wrong

Worksheet 14

Adjectives

Italian

interesting

red

beautiful

important

Nouns used as adjectives

kitchen

grammar

police

Nouns

food

table, dinner

grammar, subject

book

rug, China

job, department

Worksheet 15

1. slow

2. good-looking

3. in class

4. unhappy

5. crowded


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6. hardworking

7. alive

8. uncomfortable

9. safe

Worksheet 16

1. h. sick

2. j. lazy

3. a. sour

4. i. above

5. f. single

6. b. difficult

7. c. south

8. d. west

9. g. full

10. e. alive

Worksheet 17

Animals: camel / turtle / elephant

Foods: banana / potato / rice

Colors: pink / gray / blue

Geography: continent / island / ocean

Worksheet 18

1. shy / lazy

2. soft / beautiful / gray and white

3. large

4. old / tired / friendly

5. tall / long / big / old

6. wide / long / noisy

7. happy / tall / funny

8. hot / cool

9. safe / expensive

10. cold / healthy / homesick / hardworking

Worksheet 19

1. shirt

2. beautiful

3. continent

4. square

5. game


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A M

O C E A N C

R I I

L E M O N M T

Q W H A P P Y

U U D L

S I N G L E S

E L D

T Y

6. comfortable

7. ugly

8. sugar

9. kitchen

10. suit

Worksheet 20

Across:

1. am

2. ocean

5. lemon

7. happy

9. single

Down:

1. animals

3. crowded

4. city

6. quiet

8. ugly


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Word

List

above

actor

alive

am

angry

animal

Antarctica

Asia

banana

Bangkok

beautiful

behind

big

blue

camel

car

carrot

cheap

Chicago

city

clean

cold

color

continent

cool

country

cow

crowded

dark

difficult

dirty

doctor

dry

Egypt

elephant

empty

Europe

expensive

flat

food

friendly

full

funny

game

geography

good looking

gray

happy

hard

hardworking

healthy

heavy

homesick

horse

hot

hungry

in

in class

inside

island

Italy

Japan

Kenya

kitchen

language

large

lazy

lemon

light

long

mouse

narr ow

nervous

new

next to

noisy

North

America

not at home

occupation

ocean

old

on

orange

outside

Paris

pilot

pink

potato

quiet

rice

right

round

sad

safe

Sao Paulo

season

shirt

short

sick

single

sleepy

slow

small

soft

sour

south

sport

square

sugar

suit

sweet

tall

teacher

thirsty

tiger

tired

turtle

ugly

under

vegetable

well

west

wet

wet

white

wide

wrong

young

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