Drag the correct verbs to complete Tom's weekend plans.
This weekend I want to have a good time with friends, take some photos at the park, and make plans for next week.
I want to have a good time with friends.
We use "have" with "a good time" - this is a common collocation meaning to enjoy yourself.
Take some photos at the park.
We use "take" with "photos" - this is the standard collocation for photography.
Make plans for next week.
We use "make" with "plans" - this collocation means to create or organize future arrangements.
Verb
A verb is a word that expresses an action, a state, or an occurrence — the engine of every English sentence. Most verbs have five forms: base (go), -s form (goes), past tense (went), past participle (gone), and -ing form (going). The verb be is the major exception with eight forms; modal verbs like can and must have fewer.
Verbs carry tense (when), aspect (how it unfolds), mood (the speaker's attitude), and voice (active vs passive). Mastering them is foundational — virtually every other grammar topic depends on getting verbs right.
Collocations
Collocations are combinations of words that habitually occur together in a fixed order — make a decision (not do a decision), strong coffee (not powerful coffee), heavy rain (not thick rain). The grammar would allow either pairing, but native speakers consistently pick one and reject the other. Common patterns include verb + noun, adjective + noun, adverb + adjective, and adverb + verb.
Learning vocabulary as collocations rather than isolated words is the single fastest way to sound natural in English. It's the difference between I made a big mistake and I did a big mistake — small, but immediately noticeable.
Vocabulary for A2/Elementary/Pre-Intermediate
The A2 vocabulary tag covers the next layer beyond A1 — roughly 1,500–2,500 words for the pre-intermediate learner. New territory: work and school topics, leisure activities, basic emotions, weather and travel vocabulary, and the first wave of phrasal verbs (get up, put on, look for) and collocations (make a decision, take a break).
This is where vocabulary stops being just "things" and starts being "actions and patterns" — the bridge from describing your immediate world to handling routine social interactions.
A2 | Elementary | Pre-intermediate
A2 is the elementary level in the CEFR framework, sitting between A1 and B1. At A2 you can handle routine exchanges — ordering food, asking directions, making small talk — and describe your immediate environment in simple sentences.
Grammatically, A2 introduces past simple and past continuous, present perfect for experiences, basic modal verbs, and the first conditional. You're also picking up collocations and learning which verbs take gerunds vs. infinitives. Knowing your level here is the difference between confident progress and frustration: A2 material consolidates the basics; B1 will overwhelm you.
Difficulty: Easy
The Easy difficulty tag marks questions and challenges aimed at beginners — typically A1 or early A2 level. Expect single-rule focus, short sentences, common everyday vocabulary, and one clear correct answer. Distractors usually rule themselves out quickly.
Filter by Easy when you're rebuilding fundamentals, warming up before harder material, or testing whether you've truly internalised a basic rule before moving on. Easy doesn't mean trivial — it means the rule itself is unambiguous and the context doesn't pile on extra complications.