Sam just landed after a long flight. Drag the correct words to complete his arrival story.
After we landed, I went to pick up my suitcase from baggage claim. Then I had to go through passport control. Finally, I found a taxi rank outside the terminal. Time to explore! 🧳
The correct answer for the first blank is pick.
We say pick up luggage/a suitcase — this phrasal verb means to collect something.
The correct answer for the second blank is passport.
We say passport control — the checkpoint where officials check your travel documents upon arrival.
The correct answer for the third blank is rank.
We say taxi rank (British English) — the designated area where taxis line up waiting for passengers.
Phrasal verb
If you've ever read I ran into my old teacher and wondered why anyone would run into a person on purpose, welcome to phrasal verbs. They're idioms hiding in plain sight — short verb-plus-particle combinations whose meanings don't match the words you see. Miss them and English films, news, and casual conversation feel half-translated.
A phrasal verb combines a verb with a particle, a preposition, or both, forming a unit with a non-literal meaning: give up, put up with, come across. They're the single biggest source of native-sounding fluency at intermediate level.
Noun
If you've ever frozen mid-sentence wondering whether to say an information or some information, child or children, they or them — you've hit the core of how English uses nouns. Nail this down and articles, plurals, possessives, and pronoun choice all stop feeling like guesswork.
A noun is a word that names something: a person, place, thing, idea, action, or quality. Nouns are the building blocks every other part of speech bolts onto. Spot one in a sentence and you can usually predict the article, the verb form, and the pronouns that follow.
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.