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Essential English Vocabulary and Grammar Reference

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Appearance and Personal Style

  • Accessories: Bracelet, dyed hair, earring, glasses, make-up, necklace, piercings, ring, sunglasses, tattoo.
  • Style: Casual, old-fashioned, scruffy, smart, sporty, trendy.

Urban Environment

  • Infrastructure: Bridge, factory, block of flats, highway, car park, railway, traffic signal, streetlight, mailbox, sidewalk, recycling bin, advertisement.

Adjectives and Sensory Perception

  • Extreme Adjectives: Bad (terrible), beautiful (gorgeous), big (enormous), cold (freezing), dirty (filthy), good (fantastic), hot (boiling), hungry (starving), small (tiny).
  • Senses: Smell, taste, sight, hearing, touch.

Relationships and Social Life

  • Stages: Meet somebody, fancy somebody, ask someone out, go out with somebody, fall in love, have an argument, split up, make up, get engaged, get married, get separated, fiancée.

Professions and Social Issues

  • Jobs: Architect, cashier, chef, coach, firefighter, flight attendant, judge, lawyer, plumber, soldier, surgeon, tour guide, veterinarian.
  • Global Issues: The arms trade, child labour, disease, endangered animals, famine, global warming, homelessness, pollution, poverty, racism, war.

Money and Finance

  • Banking: Banknote, cash, automatic machine, checkbook, coin, credit card, currency, purse, receipt, till, wallet.
  • Verbs: Afford, borrow, cost, lend, owe, pay, save, spend.

English Grammar Reference

Present Simple

Used for truths, definitions, and states (believe, hate, know, like, love, need, prefer, remember, want, understand). Structure: I/you/we/they play; 3rd person adds -s; negatives use don't/doesn't.

Present Continuous

Used for actions happening now or around this time. Structure: am/is/are + verb-ing.

Past Simple

Used for finished actions (last night, yesterday, in 1994). Structure: Verb-ed or irregulars; negatives use did not + verb.

Past Continuous

Used for actions at an exact time in the past. Structure: was/were + verb-ing.

Present Perfect

Used for completed actions or duration. Includes: already, yet, just, for, since.

Comparatives and Superlatives

  • Comparatives: Short (er/ier), two syllables (more), irregulars (better, worse, further).
  • Superlatives: Short (the -est), two syllables (the most), irregulars (best, worst, furthest).

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