
Explore time-focused phrasal verbs and their meanings, including move forward, bring forward, push back, and hang on, through a listening exercise on planning and scheduling.
Master essential work phrasal verbs used in meetings, such as go over, bring up, look into, sort out, wrap up, and move forward, through practical listening, reading, and discussion.
Learn to identify and use environment-related phrasal verbs to discuss pollution, waste, energy consumption, plastics, and shoreline cleanup.
Master four look phrasal verbs: look around, look after, look up, and look forward to. Use them to explore places, care for people or things, find information, and anticipate events.
Learn phrasal verbs with put, including put away, put off, put on, and put up with, and separable versus inseparable usage with meanings like storing, delaying, dressing, cooking, and tolerating.
Explore phrasal verbs with take, including take away, take over, take off, and take down, covering removing items, relieving pain, subtracting numbers, gaining control, and writing down.
Engage with phrasal verbs via a ten-question quiz that requires forming proper sentences by selecting two of four phrases, writing them down, and then checking answers.
Master phrasal verbs with the second quiz, a ten-question exercise that requires forming sentences by choosing two of four phrases.
Learn common work idioms such as turn a blind eye, pull one's weight, and learn the ropes, with workplace text revealing meaning in context.
Learn five English idioms: on cloud nine, to break the ice, to make matters worse, to give someone the benefit of the doubt, and go back on your word.
Explore idioms set 2, including a piece of cake, better late than never, beat around the bush, you can say that again, and under the weather, with pronunciation practice.
Explore idioms from set 2 through listening and meaning practice, using examples like 'piece of cake' and 'better late than never' to reinforce authentic language usage.
Master idioms set 3, including change of heart, actions speak louder than words, add insult to injury, call it a day, and bite the bullet, with examples and practice.
Explore idioms set 4, including to kill time, easier said than done, up in the air, water under the bridge, and don't cry over spilled milk, with examples and practice.
Learn five idioms: a close call, a dime a dozen, six of one and half a dozen of the other, beat the odds, and be at odds with someone.
Discover sports idioms such as time out, hit a home run, and roll with the punches, and learn how a game plan shapes confident, expressive English.
Learn ten common business idioms to boost work fluency. Master phrases like red tape, think outside the box, on the same page, pull one's weight, and see the big picture.
Master the first set of English expressions, including on the other hand, by no means, as a matter of fact, in the meantime, and by the way, with practical usage.
Explore practical English expressions from set 2, such as up to you, in no time, pay attention to, and of course, with examples that illustrate decision making and responsibility.
Explore five expressions using the word miss, including miss out on something, miss the boat, miss by a mile, hit or miss, and give something a miss.
Learn adjectives with dependent prepositions and how to use them naturally, with examples like interested in, afraid of, different from, used to, pleased with.
Master ten more dependent prepositions—combinations of nouns with prepositions—and use them to form phrases like reason for, decrease in, increase in, or need for in natural English.
Explore how to use used to, be used to, and get used to to describe past habits, current familiarity, and future adaptation, with examples and practice.
Learn how to use either and neither correctly, including either of and neither of, for two-item comparisons and related phrases.
Learn ten essential adjective–noun collocations, including fast train, fast food, big mistake, heavy rain, common knowledge, and alternative energy, with usage tips and examples.
Discover ten adverb-adjective collocations, such as absolutely necessary, highly effective, actively involved, strongly opposed, quite sure, perfectly normal, highly recommended, seriously injured, bitterly disappointed, and absolutely delighted.
Explore verb collocations with have, including have a meal, an illness, an idea, and a problem, and learn how have signifies possession or ownership and related meanings.
Learn ten English nouns with definitions and examples, including the false friend journey and words like employment, crowd, factory, goal, warranty, merger, weight, shortage, and wage.
Learn ten adjectives and their synonyms, antonyms, and collocations, with example sentences illustrating usage of words such as feasible, suitable, knowledgeable, elderly, foreign, thorough, annoying, economical, huge, and tedious.
Learn ten essential nouns with definitions, synonyms, collocations, and example sentences, including trend, parcel, headquarters, branch, furniture, wealth, luggage, accommodation, workforce, and mortgage.
Explore ten adverbs with definitions, synonyms and antonyms, collocations, and example sentences, including repeatedly, quite, hastily, relentlessly, yearly, sustainably, unexpectedly, subsequently, wrongly, and least.
Learn ten adjectives: obvious, remote, careless, dire, various, bold, useless, daunting, outstanding, and bankrupt, with their synonyms, antonyms, collocations, and example sentences.
Master ten verbs in verb set three, with explanations of synonyms, antonyms, collocations, and example sentences to demonstrate usage.
Explore ten adjectives: awful, reluctant, astounding, cautious, awkward, obnoxious, gorgeous, dismal, grand, and reckless. Learn their synonyms, antonyms, collocations, and example sentences.
Discover and practice essential nouns like ability, campaign, issue, and related collocations, with examples of best practices, location, requirement, and schedule.
Explore ten adverbs in set three, including highly, nevertheless, regardless, moreover, currently, presumably, especially, unequivocally, and overly, with synonyms, collocations, and example sentences.
Hello and welcome to my free course! My name is Anna. I'm a native English speaker from Canada.
What is this course about?
This a course that will help you to build your vocabulary and, hopefully, to change the way you learn English.
Scientific research shows that we learn language more easily when we learn words together in chunks.
There are many types of chunks. Idioms, phrasal verbs, collocations and expressions are chunks!
I will explain how to stop learning individual words and learn groups of words or chunks.
Intensive and focused explanation and practice activities are included.
Who is this course for?
If you have a pre-intermediate or intermediate level and you want to speak English more clearly; if you want to sound more native; or if you simply want to take your English to a higher level, this course can help you achieve your goal.
The words and phrases that you will learn will help you better understand spoken and written English. In addition, you will sound more native when you speak English.
This course is also perfect for anyone taking an IELTS test, TOEFL test or TOEIC test. If you want to build your English vocabulary more quickly and effectively you need to stop learning individual words.
Start learning the way native speakers learn language - by learning in "chunks".
Native speakers learn language automatically this way. With this course you can, too!
Enroll today and start building your English vocabulary!