Action Verbs Vocabulary Matching Exercise ESL Worksheets - Free Printable

Let me work through this vocabulary matching worksheet step by step.

I need to match each picture with the correct action verb from the word list. Let me go through each image systematically:

Row 1 (top row):
1. Person reading a book → read
2. Person opening a box/gift → open
3. Person jumping on a trampoline → jump
4. Person writing at a desk → write

Row 2:
5. Two people running/jogging → run
6. Two people talking to each other → talk

Row 3:
7. Person wearing headphones listening to music → listen
8. People dancing together → dance

Row 4:
9. Person sitting in a box/crate → sit
10. Person walking → walk
11. Person giving something (appears to be handing over an item) → give
12. Person exercising with weights/dumbbells → exercise

Row 5 (bottom row):
13. Person doing push-ups/exercising → exercise (but wait, let me reconsider - this could also be another exercise-related word)
14. People watching TV → watch
15. Person sitting in a chair → sit (but we already used sit... let me reconsider)
16. Person singing into a microphone → sing

Let me reconsider more carefully:

Looking at the images again:
- Row 5, image 1: Person doing push-ups → This is definitely exercise
- Row 5, image 2: People watching TV → watch
- Row 5, image 3: Person sitting/relaxing in a chair → Could be sit but we have two "sit" pictures? Let me check if there's another word... Actually, looking at the word list, I see "close" which might fit better for one of these
- Row 5, image 4: Person singing with microphone → sing

Wait, let me recount the images and words:
- There are 16 images total
- The word list has: listen, talk, jump, exercise, read, sit, run, walk, write, watch, dance, sing, open, play, close, give = 16 words

So each word should be used once. Let me re-examine:

Row 4, image 4 shows someone lifting weights - that's exercise
Row 5, image 1 shows someone doing push-ups - but we already used exercise... Hmm, maybe one of these is different?

Actually, looking more carefully at Row 4, image 4 - the person appears to be playing with something or using equipment. And Row 5, image 1 is clearly doing push-ups which is exercise.

Let me try again more carefully:
- Row 4, image 4: Person with what looks like gaming equipment or musical equipment → could be play
- Row 5, image 1: Push-ups → exercise

That makes more sense!

Final Answer:
1. read
2. open
3. jump
4. write
5. run
6. talk
7. listen
8. dance
9. sit
10. walk
11. give
12. play
13. exercise
14. watch
15. close
16. sing