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English Vocabulary for ESL learners 

•   Vocabulary 
  
  General vocabulary : useful words, phrases and expressions for general conversations and special events, as well as antonyms, homonyms and synonyms.
  
  
  • Abbreviations, acronyms and initialisms with their meaning.
    
    
  • Adjectives ending in '-less'
    
    
  • Adjectives ending in '-some'
    
    
  • Antonyms (words that are opposite in meaning to another)
    
    
  • British slang (informal language in the UK)
    
    
  • Binomial expressions (two words joined by a conjunction or preposition)
    
    
  • Christmas vocabulary
    
    
  • Collocations: adverbs + adjectives
    
    
  • Collocations: adverbs + verbs
    
    
  • Confusing words (e.g. accept/except, coarse/course, lose/loose, waste/waist ...)
    
    
  • Diseases, illnesses and sickness (medical terms and words with their meaning.)
    
    
  • Easter vocabulary (words relating to Easter beliefs, traditions and celebrations.)
    
    
  • Else: Words and phrases with 'else' and 'or else' in English.
    
    
  • Environment vocabulary (words from 'acid rain'  to 'wind turbine' with their meaning)
    
    
  • Euphemisms (expressions used to avoid being too blunt or harsh)
    
    
  • Everyday phrases (short phrases and expressions used in everyday conversational English)
    
    
  • Expressions for everyday situations (useful phrases to deal with common situations).
    
    • Advice: asking for and giving advice
      
    • Agreeing and disagreeing: ways to express agreement or disagreement
      
    • Apologies: making and accepting apologies
      
    • Bad news: announcing and responding to bad news
      
    • Clarifying information: checking that you have understood
      
    • Conversational expressions: phrases used in everyday conversation
      
    • Disappointment or frustration: ways to express disappointment or frustration
      
    • Decisions and choices: well-known expressions about reaching a decision
      
    • Encouragement or support: ways to encourage someone or show support
      
    • Excuses for being late: giving a reason for arriving late
      
    • Expressing concern: enquiring about someone and/or offering help
      
    • Get well soon: other ways of wishing someone well
      
    • Remembering, forgetting, saying "I don't know" : useful phrases
      
    • Ways to say "I'm bored" or "I'm tired"
      
    • Ways to say something is difficult or easy.
      
    • Ways to say "Thank you" - expressing gratitude
      
  
  
  • Expressions with 'all'
    
    
  • Expressions with 'as'
    
    
  • Expressions with 'can't'
    
    
  • Expressions with 'first'
    
    
  • Expressions with 'good'
    
    
  • Expressions with 'hand'
    
    
  • Expressions with 'high'
    
    
  • Expressions with 'just'
    
    
  • Expressions with 'know'
    
    
  • Expressions with 'meet'
    
    
  • Expressions with 'matter'
    
    
  • Expressions with 'mind'
    
    
  • Expressions with 'new'
    
    
  • Expressions with 'once'
    
    
  • Expressions with 'point'
    
    
  • Expressions with 'time'
    
    
  • Expressions with 'touch'
    
    
  • Expressions with 'world'
    
    
  • Expressions: two words (informal two-word expressions)
    
    
  • Expressions with 'work' + 'as'-'at'-'for'-'in' (talking about jobs)
    
    
  • Expressions with 'yourself'
    
    
  • False Friends (Faux Amis) (words that appear similar but have a different meaning).
    
    
  • Foreign words in English (words adopted from other languages)
    
    
  • Formal vs informal letter writing
    
    
  • Formal-informal expressions
    
    
  
  
  • Golf vocabulary
    
    
  • Halloween vocabulary
    
    
  • Homonyms (a list of homographs and homophones with examples of use)
    
    
  • Hotels-rooms vocabulary (useful phrases)
    
    
  • Informal contractions (in casual conversations)
    
    
  • Invitations (ways to invite and accept or refuse politely)
    
    
  • Multiple-meaning words (words that have two or more meanings)
    
    
  • New words in English (recently-coined words and phrases)
    
    
  • Nouns ending in -hood
    
    
  • Nouns ending in -ship
    
    
  • Polite Requests (accepting or refusing)
    
    
  • Political vocabulary
    
    
  • Prepositional phrases (set phrases introduced by a preposition)
    
    
  • Renting accommodation vocabulary
    
    
  • Restaurants - food vocabulary
    
    
  • Shopping vocabulary
    
    
  • Similes and Metaphors with examples
    
    
  • Suffix '-ish' (words ending in 'ish')
    
    
  • Suggesting leisure activities (ways to make, accept or reject a suggestion)
    
    
  • Synonyms (words that are similar in meaning to another word)
    
    
  • Synonyms-Homonyms-Antonyms (comparative table)
    
    
  • Thanksgiving vocabulary
    
    
  • Travel and transport vocabulary
    
    
  • Travel phrases : airport - train - bus
    
    
  • Travel words: travel, trip, journey, tour, voyage, trek, hike, excursion, expedition, cruise
    
    
  • UK-US differences (different words and spelling).
    
    
  • Useful phrases (useful phrases and expressions for everyday situations)
    
    
  • Work and Employment vocabulary
    
    
  • Words to use instead of others (replacing words to avoid repetition)
    
    
    


•  Business English Vocabulary 
  
  Lists of vocabulary, useful phrases and terms used in all areas of business, More here ...
  
  
  • abbreviations-acronyms: list of abbreviations and acronyms used in business today.
    
    
  • advertising vocabulary: vocabulary used in advertising and publicity.
    
    
  • business letter guidelines : guidelines to help you write a business letter
    
    
  • business letters : list of useful phrases for business letters
    
    
  • computer vocabulary
    
    
  • employment vocabulary
    
    
  • graphs - charts : useful phrases and vocabulary for presenting or commenting graphs and charts.
    
    
  • interviews : list of questions in preparation for an interview
    
    
  • interviews: describing yourself -  phrases to help candidates describe their qualities and experience
    
    
  • investment vocabulary
    
    
  • marketing-sales vocabulary
    
    
  • meetings vocabulary
    
    
  • money-finance vocabulary
    
    
  • negotiations vocabulary
    
    
  • presentations:  useful phrases for presentations
    
    
  • presentations:  vocabulary for presentations
    
    
  • telephone vocabulary: useful terms and phrases for use on the telephone
    
    
  • transitional phrases: useful phrases for meetings and presentations, to move smoothly from one point to the next
    
    
  • more business resources