Free English Practice, By Level

Facts, habits and routines — the first tense every learner needs.

When to use a, an, the — or nothing at all.

Making nouns plural — regular -s endings and the common irregulars.

The words for every relative — one of the first vocabulary sets any learner needs.

My, your, his, her, its, our, their — showing who something belongs to.

Everyday words for what we wear.

Talking about finished actions and events in the past.

Comparing two things, and picking out the most/least of a group.

In, on, at, and by — choosing the right small word.

Everyday words for ordering, cooking and eating.

Talking about ability now, in the past, and in the future.

The words for sun, rain, wind and everything in between.

Connecting the past to now — experience, and things just finished.

Predictions, plans, offers and promises — choosing the right future form.

Talking about things that were true or that you did regularly in the past, but not now.

The everyday phrasal verbs that show up constantly in spoken English.

Isn’t it? Don’t you? The short questions we add to check or confirm.

Always, usually, often, rarely, never — and exactly where they go in a sentence.

Real future possibilities vs. imaginary, hypothetical situations.

Shifting the focus from who did something to what happened.

must, have to, should and can — rules, advice and permission are not the same thing.

Which verbs take -ing, which take to + verb — and why it matters.

Imagining a different past — and the different result it would have had.

Who, which, whose, where — joining two ideas about the same person or thing.

Retelling what someone said, and how tenses shift back.

must, can’t and might for reasoning about the present and past.

When the time of the condition and the time of the result don’t match.

make, do, take, have — the verbs that sound wrong the moment you pick the wrong one.

"What I need is..." and "It was John who..." — splitting a sentence for emphasis.

Although, despite, whereas, nevertheless — connecting ideas at a higher register.

Fronting a negative or limiting adverbial for a formal, emphatic effect.

Less common phrasal verbs that show up in fluent, natural English.

The base-form verb that shows up after suggest, insist, essential and wish.

Idioms fluent speakers use without a second thought.

Turning verbs into nouns — how formal English gets its distinctive shape.

The same thing, two completely different words — a fluent speaker knows both.