Your friend is planning a holiday and texting you about it. Drag the correct words to complete the messages.
I just booked a flight to Rome! ✈️ Now I need to make a reservation at a hotel. Do you think I should get a single room or a double?
The correct answer for the first blank is booked.
We say book a flight — this is the standard collocation for reserving air travel.
The correct answer for the second blank is make.
We say make a reservation — this is the correct verb collocation (not "do" or "put").
The correct answer for the third blank is single.
We say single room (for one person) or double room (for two) — these are standard hotel accommodation collocations.
Verb
If grammar feels overwhelming, the fix is almost always to focus on verbs first. They carry the action, the time, the mood, and the voice — a single verb form decides whether your sentence reads as past or present, fact or hypothetical, active or passive. Get verbs solid and the rest of grammar suddenly looks much smaller.
A verb expresses action, state, or occurrence — the engine of every English sentence. Most verbs have five forms (base, -s, past tense, past participle, -ing); be has eight; modal verbs have fewer. Verbs carry tense, aspect, mood, and voice.
Adjective
If you've ever written a French nice old wooden table and felt something was wrong without knowing why, you've hit the adjective-order rule. English insists on a particular sequence — opinion, size, age, shape, colour, origin, material — and rearranging the words makes a sentence sound non-native even when every individual choice is correct.
An adjective describes a noun or pronoun: a tall building, the soup is hot. Most adjectives also take comparative and superlative forms (taller, tallest), which is how you compare things — another core piece you need from day one.
Collocations
If your English vocabulary is large but your speech still sounds slightly off — do a mistake, powerful coffee, high winds blew strongly — you've hit the collocation problem. Each word is correct in isolation, but native speakers don't pair them that way. Fixing it isn't about more vocabulary; it's about learning words in their natural company.
Collocations are word combinations that habitually occur together: make a decision, strong coffee, heavy rain, highly unlikely. The grammar permits other pairings, but fluent English consistently chooses one over the rest. They're the connective tissue of natural-sounding language.
Vocabulary for A2/Elementary/Pre-Intermediate
If A1 felt like memorising lists of nouns and you're tired of pointing at things, A2 vocabulary is where English starts feeling more dynamic. You pick up phrasal verbs, common collocations, and the words you need for routine social conversations — small talk, ordering, asking about plans. It's the level where most learners feel they're "getting somewhere".
The A2 vocabulary tag covers vocabulary for pre-intermediate English — roughly 1,500–2,500 words. New areas: work and school, leisure, basic phrasal verbs, and common collocations.
A2 | Elementary | Pre-intermediate
If you can order coffee, ask for directions, and tell someone what you did yesterday — but struggle the moment the conversation drifts into anything abstract — you're operating at A2. Knowing this matters: A2 is the level where most learners plateau because they reach for B2 material too early and burn out. Stay here and your foundations get unbreakable.
A2 is the elementary level in the CEFR framework, covering routine communication and the first wave of real grammar: past simple and continuous, present perfect, basic modal verbs, first conditional, and common verb-pattern rules.
Difficulty: Easy
If a textbook leaves you confused, sometimes the issue isn't the topic — it's that the practice material is layered with extra complications. Filtering by Easy strips that away. You get one rule at a time, in plain everyday language, with no trick questions. It's how you make a shaky foundation solid before stacking more on top.
The Easy difficulty tag marks beginner-level questions and challenges — typically A1 or early A2. Single-rule focus, short sentences, common vocabulary, one clear correct answer.