Vocabulary for A1/Elementary/Beginner

• Greetings & introductions: hello, goodbye, my name is, please, thank you
• Family & people: mother, father, friend, teacher, child
• Daily life: house, food, water, school, work, go, come, eat, sleep
• Numbers, days, colours: one–hundred, Monday–Sunday, red/blue/green

A1 vocabulary = the first ~500–800 words every learner needs. Covers survival topics: introductions, family, home, food, numbers, time, basic actions. The smallest investment with the largest immediate payoff.

Focus: high-frequency concrete nouns + the 20–30 most common verbs (be, have, go, do, say, get, make, know, come, see).

Vocabulary

• A1: ~500–800 words (survival: family, food, numbers)
• A2: ~1,500–2,500 (routine: work, leisure, basic phrasal verbs)
• B1: ~2,500–4,000 (opinions, news, abstract topics)
• B2: ~4,000–6,000 (register precision, hedging, idioms)
• C1: ~6,000–10,000 (academic, register sensitivity)
• C2: 10,000+ (literary, rare, full style range)

Vocabulary covers word-level practice: individual words, collocations, phrasal verbs, idioms. Organised by CEFR level. Grammar tells you HOW to build sentences; vocabulary gives you WHAT to put in them.

Collocations

• ✅ make a decision — ❌ do a decision
• ✅ strong coffee — ❌ powerful coffee
• ✅ heavy rain — ❌ strong rain
• ✅ highly unlikely — ❌ very unlikely (grammatical, but less natural)

Collocations are word pairs that English habitually puts together. Both options may be grammatically valid, but one sounds native and the other doesn't.

Pattern: there's no logic to predict them — you make decisions but do homework, you have strong coffee but heavy rain. They must be learned as chunks, not deduced from rules.

A1 | Elementary | Beginners

• ✅ My name is Anna. — present simple of be
• ✅ Where is the station? — basic *wh-*question
• ✅ I have two brothers. — possession with have
• ✅ She likes coffee. — third-person -s

These are A1 sentences — the starting level of the CEFR framework. At A1 you can introduce yourself, ask and answer simple personal questions, and handle basic everyday transactions using present tense, be/have/do, and core vocabulary.

If you can say these but freeze at normal speaking speed, you're solidly A1 — and that's exactly where to start.

Easy

• She is a teacher. — one verb form, one rule
• I have two cats. — basic possession, short sentence
• He doesn't like coffee. — simple negation with do-support
• Only one answer is clearly correct; distractors are obviously wrong.

Easy marks beginner-level challenges: A1–early A2, one rule at a time, everyday vocabulary, no trick questions.

Use "Easy" when you want to build confidence on a specific rule without interference from other grammar or tricky contexts.