Shape Names – ESL Vocabulary Worksheets & Flashcards
Teach the most common shape names to your learners – with our lovely illustrated ESL worksheets and flashcards, exclusively from JIMMYESL.
Kids – and likely adults, too – will love the “smiling shapes” and thus will be highly motivated to learn the new vocabulary and to complete the exercises in the worksheets.
Reward your students with a personal Certification of Achievement after taking the lesson!
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License Info
Worksheets: Use them for your lessons and share them with your fellow teachers. Details: Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License
Illustrations: All rights reserved. Please contact us if you want to use them.
Free Worksheets Package
The free, downloadable and printable worksheet package includes the following resources:
- Dictionary Poster
- 32 Flashcards
- Worksheet “Missing Letters”
- Worksheet “Assign the Items”
- Certificate of Achievement
Scroll down to get a detailed list of the included resources.
Common Shape Names: The Items List
The free worksheets include the vocabulary for these 32 shapes:
![](https://jimmyesl.com/wp-content/uploads/materials/vocabulary/shape-names/items/shape-names-square.png)
This picture frame is a square.
![](https://jimmyesl.com/wp-content/uploads/materials/vocabulary/shape-names/items/shape-names-rectangle.png)
My TV is a rectangle.
![](https://jimmyesl.com/wp-content/uploads/materials/vocabulary/shape-names/items/shape-names-circle.png)
The clock is a circle.
![](https://jimmyesl.com/wp-content/uploads/materials/vocabulary/shape-names/items/shape-names-oval.png)
The rug is an oval.
![](https://jimmyesl.com/wp-content/uploads/materials/vocabulary/shape-names/items/shape-names-triangle.png)
Tortilla chips are triangles.
![](https://jimmyesl.com/wp-content/uploads/materials/vocabulary/shape-names/items/shape-names-semicircle.png)
I use a semicircle ruler in maths class.
![](https://jimmyesl.com/wp-content/uploads/materials/vocabulary/shape-names/items/shape-names-crescent.png)
The moon is a crescent.
![](https://jimmyesl.com/wp-content/uploads/materials/vocabulary/shape-names/items/shape-names-ring.png)
Rings are… ring shaped!
![](https://jimmyesl.com/wp-content/uploads/materials/vocabulary/shape-names/items/shape-names-heart.png)
A heart is the shape of love.
![](https://jimmyesl.com/wp-content/uploads/materials/vocabulary/shape-names/items/shape-names-cross.png)
A cross means no.
![](https://jimmyesl.com/wp-content/uploads/materials/vocabulary/shape-names/items/shape-names-kite.png)
I like to fly kites.
![](https://jimmyesl.com/wp-content/uploads/materials/vocabulary/shape-names/items/shape-names-arrow.png)
Arrows show us the way.
![](https://jimmyesl.com/wp-content/uploads/materials/vocabulary/shape-names/items/shape-names-star.png)
Stars are bright.
![](https://jimmyesl.com/wp-content/uploads/materials/vocabulary/shape-names/items/shape-names-cube.png)
Boxes are cubes.
![](https://jimmyesl.com/wp-content/uploads/materials/vocabulary/shape-names/items/shape-names-sphere.png)
Apples are spheres.
![](https://jimmyesl.com/wp-content/uploads/materials/vocabulary/shape-names/items/shape-names-cylinder.png)
Pipes are cylinders.
![](https://jimmyesl.com/wp-content/uploads/materials/vocabulary/shape-names/items/shape-names-right-triangle.png)
A right triangle has a 90 degree angle.
![](https://jimmyesl.com/wp-content/uploads/materials/vocabulary/shape-names/items/shape-names-isosceles-triangle.png)
An isosceles triangle has 2 equal sides.
![](https://jimmyesl.com/wp-content/uploads/materials/vocabulary/shape-names/items/shape-names-equilateral-triangle.png)
An equilateral triangle has 3 equal sides.
![](https://jimmyesl.com/wp-content/uploads/materials/vocabulary/shape-names/items/shape-names-scalene-triangle.png)
A scalene triangle has all 3 sides at different lengths.
![](https://jimmyesl.com/wp-content/uploads/materials/vocabulary/shape-names/items/shape-names-parallelogram.png)
My eraser is a parallelogram.
![](https://jimmyesl.com/wp-content/uploads/materials/vocabulary/shape-names/items/shape-names-trapezoid.png)
Gold blocks have a trapezoid shape.
![](https://jimmyesl.com/wp-content/uploads/materials/vocabulary/shape-names/items/shape-names-rhombus.png)
Rhombuses look like diamonds.
![](https://jimmyesl.com/wp-content/uploads/materials/vocabulary/shape-names/items/shape-names-pentagon.png)
The pentagon is an important building in the USA.
![](https://jimmyesl.com/wp-content/uploads/materials/vocabulary/shape-names/items/shape-names-hexagon.png)
Honeycombs are hexagons.
![](https://jimmyesl.com/wp-content/uploads/materials/vocabulary/shape-names/items/shape-names-heptagon.png)
Heptagons have 7 sides.
![](https://jimmyesl.com/wp-content/uploads/materials/vocabulary/shape-names/items/shape-names-octagon.png)
Stop signs are octagons.
![](https://jimmyesl.com/wp-content/uploads/materials/vocabulary/shape-names/items/shape-names-polygon.png)
A polygon can have many sides of different sizes.
![](https://jimmyesl.com/wp-content/uploads/materials/vocabulary/shape-names/items/shape-names-cuboid.png)
Bricks are used to make houses.
![](https://jimmyesl.com/wp-content/uploads/materials/vocabulary/shape-names/items/shape-names-cone.png)
Cones are great to put ice-cream in!
![](https://jimmyesl.com/wp-content/uploads/materials/vocabulary/shape-names/items/shape-names-pyramid.png)
The Egyptians built pyramids a long time ago.
![](https://jimmyesl.com/wp-content/uploads/materials/vocabulary/shape-names/items/shape-names-triangular-prism.png)
A wedge of cheese is a triangular prism.
Shape Names: The Worksheets
Dictionary Poster
The Dictionary Poster lists all 32 names of the shapes. Print it and attach it to your classroom wall! – 2 pages
![](https://jimmyesl.com/wp-content/uploads/materials/vocabulary/shape-names/thumbs/shape-names_dictionary-poster-1.png)
![](https://jimmyesl.com/wp-content/uploads/materials/vocabulary/shape-names/thumbs/shape-names_dictionary-poster-2.png)
Printable Flashcards
Teach the shape names vocabulary with flashcards. – 32 flashcards
![](https://jimmyesl.com/wp-content/uploads/materials/vocabulary/shape-names/thumbs/shape-names_flashcards-1.png)
![](https://jimmyesl.com/wp-content/uploads/materials/vocabulary/shape-names/thumbs/shape-names_flashcards-2.png)
Worksheet: Missing Letters
Let your students fill in the missing letters to complete the shape names and color in the illustrations. – 2 pages, colored and black & white to color in
![](https://jimmyesl.com/wp-content/uploads/materials/vocabulary/shape-names/thumbs/shape-names_worksheet-missing-letters-bw1.png)
![](https://jimmyesl.com/wp-content/uploads/materials/vocabulary/shape-names/thumbs/shape-names_worksheet-missing-letters-col2.png)
Worksheet: Assign the Items
Let your students assign the shapes to their names by drawing lines. – – 2 pages, colored and black & white to color in
![](https://jimmyesl.com/wp-content/uploads/materials/vocabulary/shape-names/thumbs/shape-names_worksheet-assign-words-bw1.png)
![](https://jimmyesl.com/wp-content/uploads/materials/vocabulary/shape-names/thumbs/shape-names_worksheet-assign-words-col2.png)
Certification of Achievement
Reward your students for their effort with a personal printable certification. – 1 page
![](https://jimmyesl.com/wp-content/uploads/materials/vocabulary/shape-names/thumbs/shape-names_certificate.png)
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Wonderful, Jimmy I am from India and always wanted to make my class meaningful and intetesting, your ideas and material are great help to me .God bless and thanks a ton.Would like to know more about you.
Thanks for your comment, Jagrati. I am happy that you like the resources!