If you want to practice a specific topic, click on the links below it. Look at the “Great Videos” page to find any videos on the same topic.

Also look at English For Everyone for a outstanding range of worksheets on specific topics.

Adjectives – Adjectives give descriptions. They describe a noun. You can read about adjectives here and here.   Remember that in English, the adjective comes BEFORE the noun. Look below for comparing adjectives (Comparatives and Superlatives).

• Interactive Physical Description  book.    Match description to person
• Physical Descriptions ,
•  A video with more vocabulary for describing appearance
• Listening and Matching Hair Descriptions 
• Complete Physical Description sentences 
• Adjectives 1, Adjectives 2, Adjectives and Adverbs (from Adele’s Corner)
•   Match the adjective with the picture
•  Pirate Board game
•  The Adjective Detective – First, click on “What are Adjectives?” to learn more about these words. Then play the “Adjective Game.”
•  Opposites – Match opposite adjectives
• Opposites – Use the letters to spell the opposite word (speed spelling)
•   Adjective Order Quick Lesson ,    Order of Adjectives game–   Adjective Order Exercise

Articles

• OWL lesson on definite and indefinite articles (a, an, the)

Calendar

• Seasons
• El Civics Spring lesson
• Online Quizs
  • Days of the week 
  •  

Classroom Language

• Interactive Worksheet

Credit

• Credit Score Estimator
• Identify Theft – 
  • Steps to prevent 
  • Identify Theft.gov video (shorter)  ,   
  • 5 Steps to take when it happens (longer)

 

Clothes

• Clothes and Colors Game
• (IL) Shopping Vocabulary
• EL Civics Clothes Shopping Lesson

Community

• Community Names 1  (bakery, bank, fire station, hospital, laundromat, house, library,mall, park,pharmacy, post office, school, supermarket)
• Community Names 2  (police station, parking lot, court house, airport, gym, subway, zoo, bus station,  gas station, florist)
• Community Names 3 (bookstore, clinic, hotel, church, city hall, museum, synagogue, cinema, mosque)

Comparatives and Superlatives

Tokyo is bigger than Raleigh. Tokyo is the biggest city in the world.

Read about comparatives and superlatives here and here. Then enjoy some practice!

• Comparatives: How to make and use them. Follow exercise link at bottom of page
• Sentence scrambles with comparatives.
• How to use comparatives and superlatives  and game.
• Comparatives and Superlatives : quizzes, interactive exercises and instructional video
• Comparatives 1,  Comparatives 2,  Comparatives 3 , Superlatives 1, Superlatives 2 (writing practice from Adele’s Corner)

Conjunctions  (Fanboys) 

• FANBOYS – correlating conjunctions 
• Fanboys and semicolons  with Justin Bieber

•  Katy Perry Parody – fireworks

Count / NonCount 

You can count some words in English (table, chair, bag, radio) but you can’t count other words (coffee, flour, ice, peace). Sometimes it is difficult to remember what you can count and what you can’t. You can practice them here:

• Explanation 1 and  Explanation 2
• Practice Questions

Greeting 

• Talk English Lesson –  Greeting Someone you Know

Family

• Family 1, Family 2, Family 3 (from Adele’s Corner)
• Family Members 1 , Family Members 2 ,   Family Members 4,  
• Family Vocabulary Quiz
• Family, Family Tree 1, Family Tree 2 (from Learning Chocolate)
• Family Tree Vocabulary (audio only)

Food

• Interactive – Ordering Dinner
• My Plate –  Interactive tools

House Repairs

• Household Problems and Repairs (picture dictionary)
• Repairman descriptions (EL Civics)
• Rooms in a house (EL Civics)

Introductions

• Listening Practice 
  • Real English – Self Introduction and Introducing Others   
  • Randall’s Listening Lab – Nice to Meet You    

Parts of Speech

• Explanation
  • Overview of all parts
  • English Club Overview
  • Learn American English Lesson

• Rap Song Video
• Exercises
  • Road to Grammar   _ Parts of Speech ( 1 and 2
  • Asteroid Game
  • Underwater Game
  • Sort Parts of Speech ( a little more difficult)

Personal Info

• Filling out forms

Prepositions

       In, on, under, next to . . . where?

• Prepositions of Place: a fun activity to practice where things go
• Beaver’s Prepositions of Location: watch a video and practice where things are
• For Intermediates
  •   Hunger Games Video quiz 
  • Wheel Game 
• List of most common prepositions

Shopping

• Shopping Phrases  – Match dialog sentences
• Listening Exercises
  • Randall’s Listening 
    • Shopping Stores – Match what you want to buy with a store
    • Prices   – pick the price you hear
    • Girl shopping for a Father’s Day gift– 
    • Sneaky Son and his purchases 
  • Shopping for a Coat – Matching Action Pictures with Sentences 
• Reading and Comprehension  Exercises
  • Reading a Clothes Label  
  • Store Return Policy – 
  • Warranty Information 
• Watch and Listen
  • Shopping Video and quiz 
• Speaking Exercise 
  • Shopping Dialogs – Listening and Interactive Practice 

Verbs

• Multiple Tenses
  • General overview using timeline
  • Jeopardy game
• Present Simple
  • The Be Verb  Be sure to click on all 4 pages of exercises
  • Question Formation, Making Questions
• Present Continuous
  • Explanation and Practice
  • Practice 2 (matching)
• Simple Present vs Continuous
  • English Grammar 4U  –  Lesson followed by exercises
  • When to use present Simple / Continuous –  Guidelines with exercises
  • Jeopardy Game 
  • Snakes and Ladder game
• Simple Past
  • Listening Dialogs 
    • Past Tense Dialogs 1 Beginner
    • Past Tense Dialogs 2  Beginner
    • Past Tense Dialog 3  Intermediate – I Must Have left it in the Car
  • Snakes and Ladder game – Past Verbs (regular and irregular)
  • Jeopardy Games – Irregular and regular , Jeopardy – very easy to very hard irregulars
  • Jeopardy Game – Irregular Past Verb,
  • Betting Game –   Irregular Past Verb
  • MES Games – pick past tense from menu, then Grammar and choose your game
  • Lists of Irregular Verbs  – 50 most common, 370 most common
• Present Perfect
  • Hangman for Past Participle
• Simple Past vs Present Perfect
  • Spin the Wheel Game  
• Future Tense
  • Future Tense exercises

Weather

• Weather Forecast Game 
• Weather Grammar Game 
• Pirate Weather Game 
• Audio Dialogs   How’s the weather?    and   Weather forecasts
• Weather Conversation 
• Real English – What’s the Weather Like?
• Older Blog Posts ->  All Kinds of Weather      
• Janis”s ESL Page for more Weather activities    

WH – Questions    

• Question words –  review of Wh- words
• My English Pages 1
• My English Pages 2
• Conversational – Fill in missing Wh word
• Some fun exercises