The correct collocation is "Heavy rain," which describes rainfall that is particularly dense and falls at a fast rate.
Vocabulary
If you've ever known the grammar of a sentence but not the right word for what you actually wanted to say — help me, kindly, unfortunately, broke down, put up with — you've felt the limit of grammar without vocabulary. Most fluency-feel comes from word choice, not sentence structure. The Vocabulary tag is where you build that side of your English deliberately.
The Vocabulary tag groups word-focused practice — common words, collocations, phrasal verbs, idioms — across all CEFR levels from A1 to C2.
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.