There is and there are

Vocabulary

Words 101 to 110

Review session

Word Bubbles review session

Pop the words you just met by matching each one to its meaning. A couple of rounds and the batch is yours.

Vocabulary

Words 111 to 120

Review session

Crossword review session

Cross the words you just met, clued in English. Slower than a drill, and it sticks harder.

Vocabulary

Words 121 to 130

Review session

Word Bubbles review session

Pop the words you just met by matching each one to its meaning. A couple of rounds and the batch is yours.

Grammar primer

There is and there are

How English says something exists: there is one man, there are two people. In speech, there is becomes there's.

Grammar primer

There isn't, Is there...? Yes, there is

There isn't and there aren't, some and any, Is there a bank? and the short answers. Things you cannot count, like money and milk, take there is.

Grammar primer

There is or it is? Never it has

There is brings in something new; it is tells you more about it. And English never uses have for this: there is a bank here, not it has a bank.

Vocabulary

Words 131 to 140

Grammar primer

The present continuous

How English says what is happening right now - am, is or are plus a verb ending in -ing.

Vocabulary

Words 141 to 150

Review session

Crossword review session

Cross the words you just met, clued in English. Slower than a drill, and it sticks harder.

Grammar primer

Sit down, come in, don't stop: the imperative

To tell someone what to do, use the verb alone: Wait. Come here. To say no, put don't in front: Don't stop.

Grammar primer

Please, let's and signs: more imperatives

Please makes an order polite, and Could you...? makes it softer. Let's is an idea for you and me. Signs and recipes use the bare verb.

Vocabulary

Words 151 to 160

Review session

Word Bubbles review session

Pop the words you just met by matching each one to its meaning. A couple of rounds and the batch is yours.

Grammar primer

Days, months and seasons

Monday to Sunday, January to December, spring to winter: the words, the weekend, and why Wednesday has only two beats.

Grammar primer

On Monday, in May: capitals, small words and dates

Capital letters for Monday and May, not for summer. On a day, in a month or season, nothing before tomorrow, and the date: the third of May.

Vocabulary

Words 162 to 171

Grammar primer

The past simple: worked, went

How English talks about finished actions in the past - regular -ed endings and the common irregular verbs.

Grammar primer

Was, were and did: past questions and negatives

I was, they were. Did you go? I didn't go: did carries the past, so the verb goes back to plain. And the time words: yesterday, last night, ago.

Vocabulary

Words 172 to 181

Review session

Crossword review session

Cross the words you just met, clued in English. Slower than a drill, and it sticks harder.

Grammar primer

Have got: I've got a brother

British English says I've got a car as often as I have a car. Have got means have, and in she's got the 's is has.

Grammar primer

Have you got...? Yes, I have. I haven't got

Questions with have first, short answers with no got, and haven't got. Never with do. Plus have got or have: British and American.

Vocabulary

Words 182 to 191

Review session

Word Bubbles review session

Pop the words you just met by matching each one to its meaning. A couple of rounds and the batch is yours.

Grammar primer

Plurals: friends, buses, babies

Add -s: one friend, two friends. Then -es after s, x, ch and sh (buses, boxes), and -ies after a consonant + y (babies).

Grammar primer

Plurals that change: men, children, people

Man and men, child and children, person and people: the plurals with no rule. And how to say the -s, with the extra beat in buses.

Vocabulary

Words 192 to 200

Read a story

Story milestone: top 200 words

You can read this story using only the words you've learned so far. Every content word sits at or below the rank-200 ceiling.

Grammar primer

The question house: who, what, where, how

The question words as a set: who for people, what for things, where for places, when for time, why for reasons and how for the way.

Grammar primer

Where do you live? The order in a question

After the question word, the helper verb comes before the person: Where do you live? Except when who or what is the subject: Who told you?

Community

Meet the British Council

English famously has no academy - nobody rules on 'correct' English. The British Council does not either: it is the UK's international organisation for culture and education, and its LearnEnglish website has free lessons from beginner (A1) to advanced (C1).

Conversation

Tom has something for Ana

Eight lines with Tom, who says money is nothing.

Arcade review

Arcade review

Replay this chapter's words as games - a different kind of repetition, and it counts.