Ready-made word packs: each one is a list with definitions, examples and the text those words live in. A pack is copied into your own dictionary and then follows your review schedule.
Ten words for getting through a terminal without guessing. Signs, queues, and the bag that did not arrive.
Ten words for describing what hurts and how badly. The minimum for a pharmacy, a doctor, or an honest answer to “how are you?”.
Twenty phrases for talking about the decisions school leavers face: choosing a university course, keeping options open, doing research, taking qualifications into account and listening to advice. Taken from the worksheet 'The end-of-school dilemma, Part I' (translation, definitions, gap-fill and discussion). B1-B2, for speaking about education and career choices.
Twenty phrases for discussing how to choose well at the end of school: being good at a subject, staying motivated, asking a careers adviser, not rushing into a decision, weighing advantages and disadvantages, and not letting stereotypes decide for you. Taken from the worksheet 'The end-of-school dilemma, Part II'. B1-B2, for speaking about education and career choices.
English – the first words – things, people, everyday actions
English – everyday life: home, work, travel, feelings
English – abstract and connecting words, the ones that carry an argument
English – precise words where a simpler one would have been vague
English – shades of meaning, register, words that place a sentence
English – rare and exact – the words a native speaker reaches for last
Ten phrasal verbs that natives use hourly and textbooks bury on page 300. Each one replaces a stiffer word you already know.
Ten words for states that “happy” and “sad” cannot reach. If your English feelings all come out as “fine”, start here.
Twelve words and collocations from a model IELTS Task 2 answer on the advantages and disadvantages of tourism: holidaymaker, influx, thriving, unruly behaviour, tackle a problem and more. The pack text is the essay itself, together with the question it answers, so every word is met in place and can be reused in your own writing. B2 level, aimed at the advantages-and-disadvantages essay type.
Ten things you touch every time you cook: the pans, the sink, the lid you cannot find. Enough to describe a kitchen without pointing at it.
How school and university subjects are grouped: subject, science, the hard sciences, social science, the humanities and STEM. A short list pack, no text, meant to sort out terms that are easy to confuse when you talk about what you study. B1-C1.
Everyday vocabulary for talking about life at school: term, academic year, subject, timetable, grade, coursework, continuous assessment and more. Built around a UK Sixth Form student's interview about her school year, so most words are met in a natural spoken context. B1-B2, for exam speaking and describing your own studies.
The words you need to talk about university life in Britain: campus, induction week, lecture, tutorial, personal tutor, undergraduate, scholarship, student loan and more. Built around a short guide to starting at a UK university, so most words appear in place. B1-B2, for the higher-education topic in speaking and writing.
Ten words for bills, wages and the gap between them. The vocabulary of renting a flat and reading a payslip.
Ten words for pushing back in English without sounding rude – the hedges, the concessions, and the polite knife.
Ten words that carry a working day: the meeting that could have been an email, the deadline, the colleague covering for you.
Ten words for saying how often, how soon, and how late. Adverbs of frequency that do more than “sometimes”.
Twelve ways of saying that one thing changes another — affect, influence, have an impact on, shape, alter, contribute to, be instrumental in, leave a mark on and more. Each card pins down what makes that one different: how strong it is, how formal, what pattern follows it and which adjectives it takes. The pack text uses all twelve in one story and then compares them side by side. B2-C1, for IELTS Task 2 and any cause-and-effect writing.
Ten words for what is happening outside the window – beyond “nice” and “horrible”. Half of them are what English people actually say every morning.
Twenty words you meet in your first month at any job – in a short story where all of them actually appear.
Набор академической лексики для темы «оба родителя работают»: причины (деньги, карьера женщин), последствия для детей и возможные решения. Уровень B2–C1, 19 выражений – почти все многословные коллокации и идиомы, а не отдельные слова. После набора вы сможете уверенно писать IELTS Writing Task 2 и говорить в Part 3 о семье, воспитании и балансе работы и личной жизни: объяснять, почему семьи живут на два дохода, описывать, как занятость родителей влияет на отношения и поведение детей, и предлагать
Français – the first words – things, people, everyday actions
Français – everyday life: home, work, travel, feelings
Français – abstract and connecting words, the ones that carry an argument
Français – precise words where a simpler one would have been vague
Français – shades of meaning, register, words that place a sentence
Français – rare and exact – the words a native speaker reaches for last
Deutsch – the first words – things, people, everyday actions
Deutsch – everyday life: home, work, travel, feelings
Deutsch – abstract and connecting words, the ones that carry an argument
Deutsch – precise words where a simpler one would have been vague
Deutsch – shades of meaning, register, words that place a sentence
Deutsch – rare and exact – the words a native speaker reaches for last
Español – the first words – things, people, everyday actions
Español – everyday life: home, work, travel, feelings
Español – abstract and connecting words, the ones that carry an argument
Español – precise words where a simpler one would have been vague
Español – shades of meaning, register, words that place a sentence
Español – rare and exact – the words a native speaker reaches for last
The words you have already learned, and the ones you still will, bring into KYW – and they stay with you.
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