Learn: knowledge and skills
Use learn, learns and learned to describe gaining knowledge or a skill and learning from an example.
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Want: desires and actions
A cup of tea or a walk home: express a desire for a thing or an action and ask what someone wants.
Read and practiseEnjoyment and preferences with like
Warm bread or a favourite song: say what you enjoy and ask others about their preferences.
Read and practisePlaying games, sports and instruments
Chess after lunch or a tune on the guitar: describe games, sports and music with one useful verb.
Read and practiseWriting words and messages
A list before shopping or a card yesterday: describe writing now and in the past with the right forms.
Read and practiseAnswer: replying to questions
Respond to questions and people directly, answer a phone, and choose the past form in everyday situations.
Read and practiseArranging plans and events
A meeting, a phone call or a trip: talk about making the plans needed for an event or agreeing to do something.
Read and practiseBelieve: facts and confidence
A surprising story, a train time or someone’s ability: express what you accept as true and where you place your confidence.
Read and practisego: destinations and irregular forms
Use go and goes for regular journeys, went for a past journey, and go home without to.
Read and practiseBreaking and separating objects
A fallen cup, a damaged phone or a piece of bread: describe what breaks and how things separate into pieces.
Read and practisemake: creating and common phrases
Practise make, makes and made with a cake, a list and a decision, and distinguish do homework.
Read and practiseBrushing hair and teeth
Hair and teeth need different brushes: describe this daily action, name what is brushed and practise its forms.
Read and practiseteach: giving someone a skill
Use teach and teaches for instruction, taught for the past, and distinguish teaching from learning.
Read and practiseClimbing up and down
Stairs, hills and ladders offer everyday ways to describe moving upward or downward with care.
Read and practiseborrow: receive something temporarily
Use borrow when receiving something to return, contrast lend when giving it, and form borrowed for the past.
Read and practisemeet: introductions and appointments
Use meet and meets for encounters, met for the past, and distinguish meeting someone from knowing them.
Read and practiseCollecting things and fetching people
From shells on a beach to a parcel at a shop or a friend at a station, collect describes gathering or fetching.
Read and practiseGive: things and recipients
Use give, gives and gave to talk about passing something to someone, with two common word orders.
Read and practiseCounting things and numbers
Apples in a basket or steps to a door: find a total and say numbers between a starting point and an end.
Read and practiseAsk: questions and requests
Use ask to pose a question, request something or ask someone to do an action.
Read and practiseCrying and its reasons
Tears can express sadness or joy: describe crying and explain why it happens using simple English.
Read and practiseUnderstand: meaning and clarification
Use understand, understands and understood to talk about meaning and ask for clearer speech.
Read and practiseDancing to music with a partner
A slow song or a party with a partner: describe moving to music and inviting someone to dance.
Read and practiseSend: messages and deliveries
Use send, sends and sent for messages or deliveries, and name the recipient in two common ways.
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