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.

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.

Vocabulary for A2/Elementary/Pre-Intermediate

• Routine social: appointment, holiday, invitation, plan, weekend
• Work & school: colleague, meeting, exam, homework, deadline
• Basic phrasal verbs: get up, look for, turn on, put on, take off
• Common collocations: make a mistake, do homework, have a shower

A2 vocabulary = ~1,500–2,500 words. Covers routine social life, work/school, leisure, basic phrasal verbs, and common collocations. The level where English starts feeling dynamic rather than just naming things.

Focus: high-frequency phrasal verbs (top 50), verb-noun collocations (make/do/have/take + noun), and the vocabulary of daily routines.

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.