Improve Your Vocabulary

SYNOMYMS     

INTERMEDIATE

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Can you give any synonyms for EXPENSIVE, STRANGE or FUNNY ?       After listening to this BBC podcast your answer will be ‘yes’. 

BASIC: Match the Synonyms

BASIC: Choose the Correct Synonyms

PRE -INTERMEDIATE: Match the Synonyms

INTERMEDIATE: Context Clues

INTERMEDIATE: Context Clues. Choose the right word

UPPER-INTERMEDIATE: Context Clues

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PRE-ADVANCED –   Take this quiz to see how well you know your synonyms and how well you can identify which topics certain words belong to.

CHUNKS OF LANGUAGE

BASIC

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What is «the rush hour» ?  And how do you say «vuelvo en seguida»? Learn these expressions and some more.

BASIC: SPORTS  – Collocations with «go», «play» or «do»

BASIC:  Collocations with «go», «have» or «get»

PRE-INTERMEDIATE: Collocations with «make» or «do»

INTERMEDIATE: Collocations with «mind» and «thought»

INTERMEDIATE: Collocations with «make», «do», «have» and «take»

UPPER-INTERMEDIATE:  TIME – Collocations  + expressions + prepositional  phrases

HOMOPHONES

BASIC

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Let’s learn some homophones: words with different spelling but the same pronunciation.

BASIC: Choose the Correct Homophone

PRE-INTERMEDIATE: They’re, There, Their

PRE-INTERMEDIATE: They’re, There, Their, Two, Too, To & some more

INTERMEDIATE: Homophone Pairs

INTERMEDIATE: Homophone Sets

INTERMEDIATE: Join the Pairs with Arrows

ANTOMYMS   

INTERMEDIATE

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Listen to this BBC podcast, Catherine and Finn will teach you about antonyms.

WORD FORMATION: Prefixes & Suffixes

ELEMENTARY 1 : -ful or -less?

ELEMENTARY 2 : -ing or -ed?

ELEMENTARY 3 : Add a prefix or a suffix

ELEMENTARY 4 : Add the correct suffix to make a new word

ELEMENTARY 5 : Separate the prefix from the root word

INTERMEDIATE 1: Add prefixes or suffixes

  INTERMEDIATE 2: Choose the correct prefix or suffix

INTERMEDIATE 3: Suffixes (-ful, -less, -ness, -er, -dom, -hood, -ship)

INTERMEDIATE 4: Basic Noun-Forming Suffixes

INTERMEDIATE 5: Form Adjectives & Nouns

UPPER-INTERMEDIATE 1: Use the root word to form new words

UPPER-INTERMEDIATE 2:  Use the root word to form new words

UPPER-INTERMEDIATE 3:  Use the root word to form new words

PHRASAL VERBS

INTERMEDIATE 1: GET

INTERMEDIATE 2: GO

INTERMEDIATE 3 : TAKE

INTERMEDIATE 4 : LOOK

INTERMEDIATE 5 : PUT

INTERMEDIATE 6: Match the phrasal verbs to the images & definitions

INTERMEDIATE 7: Mixed Phrasal Verbs

INTERMEDIATE 8: Some more!

INTERMEDIATE 9: Relationships I

INTERMEDIATE 10: On the phone

INTERMEDIATE 11 : BRING

INTERMEDIATE 12: Relationships II

INTERMEDIATE 13: Some Phrasal verbs in images

INTERMEDIATE 14: Clothes

INTERMEDIATE 15: Add the missing word

Play this game to make sure you know the 36 phrasal verbs. There are three parts in the game, each step is a bit more difficult.

IDIOMS

   These activities are for intermediate/advanced students

 1: 6 idioms 

 2: 9 more idioms

 3: Some idioms to describe people

 4: Some idioms you might use at school. Watch the video.

5: Money Idioms

 6: Halloween Idioms

 7: Idioms to Give Advice

 8: 15 more idioms

 9: Animal Idioms

  10: Work Related Idioms

 11: Love & Relationships. Watch the video.

 12: Health. Watch the video

 13: Books & Reading

 14: Idioms to talk about Feelings

EnglishClub offers you 48 sets of idioms classified by topic: animals, body, healh, law, clothing, food, money … Just click on the one of your choice!

FALSE FRIENDS

ELEMENTARY 1 : One Picture Out

ELEMENTARY 2 : Clasify the words

ELEMENTARY 3 : Drag the word to the correct image 

ELEMENTARY 4 : Listen and match the words to the pictures (Do ONLY activity 1)

INTERMEDIATE 1: Find the correct translation for the Spanish word 

INTERMEDIATE 2: Fill in the gap with the correct word

UPPER-INTERMEDIATE 1: False Friends & Confusing Words. Complete with the right one

ADVANCED 1: False Friends & Confusing Words. Complete with the right one

COMMONLY CONFUSED WORDS

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Choose the correct word(s) to complete the sentences and dont forget to check the explanation.

ABBREVIATIONS

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What does … stand for? Take this quiz to make sure you know some common abbreviations people use when they are chatting

BRITISH vs AMERICAN ENGLISH

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Complete this quiz to find out how well you speak British and American English! 

Choose the correct answer

Complete the text by choosing the correct word

Choose the correct word or phrase

Can you think of one word to complete each gap?

Some of the lines are correct but some have a word which should not be there.

This section is all about collocations, words that go with nouns,verbs and adjectives

Use the words given in CAPITALS to form a word that fits into the gap.

Use a prefix or a suffix to make a new word out of the word in brackets

Business ? Law? Clothes? The media? Just make your choice and practise