Easy English 1: Basic Grammar, Vocabulary and Pronunciations

Learn the English alphabet of 26 letters and their varied sounds through practical pronunciation examples, building a solid base for grammar and phonetics.

Master cardinal and ordinal numbers in English, learn how to count from one to ten and beyond, pronounce numbers, and reinforce skills with a post-lesson quiz.

Explore English phonetics by explaining letter groups and their pronunciations, including w, oh, double l, and pre-age rules with examples like how, when, philosophy, and psychology.

Continue with the second part of phonetics, teaching tricky letter groups and pronunciations, including the long all from a and you, and the tea and a combination.

Explore letter groups and pronunciation rules in easy English 1 part 3, including six pronunciations of a, when c is before e or i, and how y and r vary.

Learn how to use the indefinite articles a and an before consonant and vowel sounds, with examples like a book and an orange, plus zero article and first-time usage.

Learn to use the definite article before singular and plural nouns, names, seas, rivers, deserts, and organizations, with examples like the Netherlands and the World Health Organization.

Learn when to use zero articles in English, with rules for general plurals, whole-class references like dogs are domestic animals, and common prepositional phrases.

Learn and visualize commonly used prepositions, including above, inside, in, among, out of, over, on, under, near, in front of, behind, between, and after, with illustrated examples and memory tips.

Explore correct usage of in, on, and at for time and location, with examples across centuries, years, months, days, streets, surfaces, transports, and specific places.

Learn how nouns answer what or who, identify subjects and objects in sentences, and study a simple past sentence like Sara made an amazing cake yesterday, plus upcoming noun types.

Explains singular and plural nouns and rules to form plurals, including -s, -es, -ies, and -ves. Covers irregular and count versus non-count nouns, with examples and practice tests.

Explore pronouns: definitions, role as subject or object, and five types—indefinite, personal, reflexive, possessive, and demonstrative—and learn how to use them in sentences.

Learn about indefinite pronouns like nobody, everything, and everybody, which refer to people or things. Explore quantifiers such as any, several, few, and many that precede nouns to show quantity.

Explore personal pronouns across first, second, and third person, in singular and plural forms, as subjects or objects, with examples like I, you, he, we, and they.

Examine reflexive pronouns, used when the subject and object are the same person, acting as the object. Learn their three persons and singular and plural forms with examples.

Explore possessive pronouns, showing ownership and functioning as both pronouns and adjectives. Learn first, second, and third person forms in singular and plural, with examples and placement rules.

Learn about demonstrative pronouns, including singular and plural forms with near and far distance, using this/these vs that/those for objects and time, with practice and examples.

Explore the definition, forms, and types of verbs, including infinitive, simple, present participle, past participle, and modal, linking, and gerund uses.

Identify action verbs and classify them as transitive, ditransitive, and intransitive. Explain direct and indirect objects with examples: reading a book, giving me a book, and walking in the park.

Learn how linking verbs connect subjects to nouns or pronouns and adjectives, with key examples like to be, to become, and to seem, using am, are, and is.

Learn how modal verbs like can, could, may, might, must, have to, will, should, and would express ability, permission, obligation, and possibility.

Explore irregular verbs, with about 40 common examples and their base, past simple, and past participle forms. Practice daily by making sentences and completing the lesson assignment.

Master the definitions and uses of adjectives, their types, and degrees of comparison. Learn how adjectives describe nouns and answer which, what kind, how many, and whose questions.

Explore the degrees of comparison for adjectives, including comparative and superlative forms, endings (-er/-est, -more/-most, -ier/-iest), irregulars like good/bad, and practical usage examples.

Define adverbs and show how they modify verbs, adjectives, and other adverbs, including the questions they answer, and explain placement, degrees of comparison, and linking verb restrictions.

Learn the types of adverbs: time, place, reason, manner, and frequency, and the questions they answer: when, where, why, how, and how often. Examples include yesterday, here, because, quickly, and always.

Learn the sentence construction by connecting subject, verb, and object, and enhance meaning with adjectives, adverbs, articles, and prepositional phrases that describe time and place.

Define tenses and their four kinds—simple, continuous, perfect, and present perfect continuous—across present, past, and future times, noting that English mainly uses present, past, and future simple.

Explore the simple present tense, its uses for regular or timetable actions, its subject-verb-object structure, how to form questions and negatives with do/does and don't/doesn't, and signal words.

Master the simple past tense by identifying past actions and using past verb forms, and form affirmative, questions, and negatives with did and didn't, noting signal words like yesterday.

Master the simple future I by using will to express future actions, including spontaneous decisions and assumptions, with examples of affirmative, negative, and interrogative forms and signal words like tomorrow.

Master simple future II by using am, is, or are going to + verb for certain future decisions. Learn its affirmative, negative, and question forms with signal words like next week.

This lecture defines present continuous as actions ongoing now or soon, using to be plus present participle and signal words like now and at the moment.

Explore past continuous tense, its uses for actions in the past, actions at the same time, or interrupted by another action, and the structure with was or were plus verb-ing.

Explore the future continuous tense, its use for actions at a future time with will be followed by a present participle, and signals like tomorrow or next week.

Explore the present perfect tense, which marks completed actions with lasting results at an indefinite time using have/has plus past participle, and signal words like already, just, never, and yet.

Master past perfect tense by learning that an action finished before another past point or before another action, using the structure subject had past participle and object, and signal words.

Explore the future perfect tense to express actions finished at a specific future time, using will have past participle with the signal words by and by the time.

Discover how the present perfect continuous expresses duration, not results, with have been and the present participle to describe ongoing or recently stopped actions.

Learn how the past perfect continuous tense expresses an ongoing past action before another, with two actions, using had been + verb-ing and signal words like before, since, and when.

Explore the future perfect continuous tense, focusing on the course of an action. Learn the structure will have been plus present participle, with signal words like for and by time.