Restaurant and Food Vocabulary — The Words Every Diner Needs (A2)
From Sourov's world: In my early days at Uccello in Sydney — a fine Italian restaurant in the Merivale group — a guest pointed at the menu and said: "Can I have the thing with…
Category: Vocabulary & Collocations
Word combinations, collocations, lexical sets, and vocabulary building across all CEFR levels.
Academic Word List — Upgrade Your Vocabulary Register (C1)
Same idea, higher register — the vocabulary that examiners reward
Fixed Expressions and Idioms of Feeling (B2)
From Sourov's world: When I moved from Sydney to Saint-Pierre in La Réunion to be with my wife Vanessa, I had to relearn how people express feelings in French. The French say "avoir le cafard"…
Word Families — Learn One Word, Get Four (B2)
Word families share the same root. We change the form using suffixes (endings) and prefixes (beginnings).
Phrasal Verbs for the Workplace (B1)
The everyday work verbs that textbooks don't always teach you
Collocations: Verb + Noun — The Words That Travel Together (B1)
The words that always travel together — get them right, sound natural
Collocations in English — Words That Go Together Naturally
💬 Why your English sometimes sounds "off": A student once told me she "did a mistake." She knew the vocabulary. She knew the grammar. But native speakers "make" mistakes — they don't "do" them. This…
Numbers 1–100 in English — Let’s Count! (Kids & Beginners)
🔢 Hello! Numbers are the first things you need in any language. Age, price, time, phone numbers — everything uses numbers. Let's count together, step by step!
Colours in English — A Rainbow of Words for Kids and Beginners
🌈 Hello, young learners and beginners! Colours are everywhere. Your pencils, your clothes, the sky, your food. Today we learn ALL the colours in English. Ready? Let's make a rainbow!
English Idioms About Money — 8 You’ll Hear Every Week
💬 The idiom that got me the tip: A regular at the bar I worked at in Sydney once said: "You really know how to make every penny count." I understood it — barely. I…