Drag the correct verbs to help little Tomás with his chores before the family dinner party. 🎉
Mum asked me to lay the table for six people. After that, she told me to make my bed because Grandma was coming to see my room!
The correct answer for the first blank is lay.
We say lay the table — to put plates, cutlery, and glasses on the table before a meal.
The correct answer for the second blank is make.
We say make the bed — to tidy the sheets, blankets, and pillows so the bed looks neat.
Verb
- walk → walk / walks / walked / walked / walking (5 forms, regular)
- go → go / goes / went / gone / going (5 forms, irregular)
- be → am/is/are/was/were/be/being/been (8 forms)
- can → can / could (modal: only 2 forms, no -s, no -ing)
A verb is the one word class every English sentence requires. Carries tense (when), aspect (duration), mood (attitude), and voice (active/passive). Regular verbs add -ed; ~200 irregular verbs have unpredictable past forms.
Key insight: fix your verbs and most grammar problems disappear. Wrong tense, wrong agreement, wrong form — verb errors account for the majority of grammatical mistakes.
Collocations
- ✅ make a decision — ❌ do a decision
- ✅ strong coffee — ❌ powerful coffee
- ✅ heavy rain — ❌ strong rain
- ✅ highly unlikely — ❌ very unlikely (grammatical, but less natural)
Collocations are word pairs that English habitually puts together. Both options may be grammatically valid, but one sounds native and the other doesn't.
Pattern: there's no logic to predict them — you make decisions but do homework, you have strong coffee but heavy rain. They must be learned as chunks, not deduced from rules.
Vocabulary for A2/Elementary/Pre-Intermediate
- Routine social: appointment, holiday, invitation, plan, weekend
- Work & school: colleague, meeting, exam, homework, deadline
- Basic phrasal verbs: get up, look for, turn on, put on, take off
- Common collocations: make a mistake, do homework, have a shower
A2 vocabulary = ~1,500–2,500 words. Covers routine social life, work/school, leisure, basic phrasal verbs, and common collocations. The level where English starts feeling dynamic rather than just naming things.
Focus: high-frequency phrasal verbs (top 50), verb-noun collocations (make/do/have/take + noun), and the vocabulary of daily routines.
A2 | Elementary | Pre-intermediate
- ✅ I went to the cinema yesterday. — past simple
- ✅ I have visited Paris twice. — present perfect (life experience)
- ✅ If it rains, I'll take an umbrella. — first conditional
- ✅ You should see a doctor. — modal for advice
These patterns are A2 — the second CEFR level. At A2 you move past survival phrases into real grammar: past tenses, the present perfect, basic conditionals, and modals for advice/obligation.
Marker: if you can describe yesterday and give simple advice, but struggle with abstractions or nuance, you're at A2.
Easy
- She is a teacher. — one verb form, one rule
- I have two cats. — basic possession, short sentence
- He doesn't like coffee. — simple negation with do-support
- Only one answer is clearly correct; distractors are obviously wrong.
Easy marks beginner-level challenges: A1–early A2, one rule at a time, everyday vocabulary, no trick questions.
Use "Easy" when you want to build confidence on a specific rule without interference from other grammar or tricky contexts.