English Basics

Topic
The Alphabet
Animals
Appearances
Beginner Lessons
Colours
Computers
Days and Dates

Greetings

Nationalities and countries

Numbers

Seasons
Shapes
Talking about family
Time
The weather
The UK
(Business English Basics)
Details
From a - z
Animals that you may see in the UK.
What do you look like?
English lessons for beginners.
All the colours of the rainbow.
The naming of parts - of a computer
Monday, Tuesday, 1st, 2nd etc . . .
How do you respond to different ways of saying
hi!

Germans come from Germany . . . flags and more!

Brush up your knowledge of numbers here.
Including mathematical symbols and fractions
etc . . .

Summer, winter ...

Square, circle, triangle .... and more!
My mother's mother is my grandmother . . .
1 o'clock, 2 o'clock etc . . .
What's the weather like?
What's the UK like?
Some guidance on making and taking phone calls,
greeting visitors, writing reports etc.
Word Opposite Word Opposite
A broad narrow
about exactly brother sister
above below to build to destroy
absence presence busy lazy
abundance lack to buy to sell
to accept to refuse C
accidental intentional calm excited
active lazy careful careless
to add to subtract careless careful
to admit to deny to catch to miss, to throw
adult child ceiling floor
advanced elementary cellar attic
affirmative negative centre outskirts, suburb
afraid brave certainly probably
after before changeable constant
against for cheap expensive
alike different child adult, grown-up
alive dead children parents
all none clean dirty
always never clear cloudy
ancient modern clever stupid
to agree to refuse, to argue closed open
to allow to forbid cloudy clear, sunny, bright
already not yet cold (adjective) hot
always never cold (noun) heat
amateur professional to come to go
to amuse to bore comedy drama, tragedy
angel devil complicated simple
animal human Word Opposite
to annoy to satisfy compliment insult
to answer to ask compulsory voluntary
answer question to connect to separate
antonym synonym consonant vowel
apart together constant changeable
approximately exactly construction destruction
to argue to agree to continue to interrupt
to arrest to free, to set free cool warm
arrival departure correct false, wrong
to arrive to depart, to leave courage fear
artificial natural courageous cowardly
to ask to answer cowardly brave, courageous
asleep awake to create to destroy
to attack to defend cruel human, kind,humane
attack defence, protection to cry (schreien) to whisper
attic cellar to cry (weinen) to laugh
autumn spring D
awake asleep Word Opposite
awful delicious, nice, pleasant to damage to repair
B danger security, safety
back in front of dangerous safe
background foreground dark light
backward forward daughter son
bad good dawn dusk
bad luck fortune, good luck day night
beauty ugliness dead alive
before after death birth, life
to begin to end, to stop, to finish deep shallow
beginning end, ending defeat victory
behind in front of defence attack
below above to defend to attack
best worst delicious awful
better worse to deny to admit
beautiful ugly to depart to arrive
big small, little departure arrival
birth death desperate hopeful
bitter sweet to destroy to build, to create, to form
black white destruction construction
blunt sharp devil angel
body soul dictatorship republic
to bore to amuse, to be interested into die to live
boring exciting, interesting different alike, equal, the same
to borrow to lend difficult easy
bottom top dirty clean
boy girl disease health
brave cowardly, afraid distant near
to break to mend, to fix to divide to unite
Word Opposite Word Opposite
to learn to teach open closed, shut
to leave to arrive, to enter opponent supporter
left right order mess
to lend to borrow ordinary special
less more other same
to let to forbid out in
to lie to stand outside inside
Word Opposite Word Opposite
division unity gentle violent, rough, strict
to divorce to marry gentleman lady
divorce marriage, wedding giant tiny, very little, small
divorced married girl boy
domestic foreign to give to take
down up to go to come, to stop
downstairs upstairs good bad
drama comedy good luck bad luck
dry humid, wet grown-up child
dull interesting guest host
dusk dawn guilty innocent
front rear health disease, illness
in front of back, behind healthy ill, sick
full empty heat cold
funny serious heaven hell
future past, present Word Opposite
E heavy light
early late hell heaven
east west here there
easy difficult, hard high deep
elementary advanced high low
to emigrate to immigrate hilly flat
emigration immigration to hit to miss
enemy friend hopeful desperate, hopeless
to enjoy to hate hopeless hopeful
to enter to leave horizontal vertical
entrance exit host guest, visitor
equal different hot cold
even odd huge tiny
evening morning human animal
everybody nobody humane cruel
everything nothing humid dry
exactly about, approximately hungry thirsty
excited calm husband wife
exciting boring I
to exclude to include in front of back, behind
exit entrance to ignore to notice
expensive cheap ill healty, well
export import to immigrate to emigrate
exposure shelter immigration emigration
extreme moderate import export
F in out
to fail to succeed, to pass to include to exclude
failure success to increase to reduce
false correct, true innocent guilty
far near inside outside
fast slow insult compliment
fat slim, thin intelligent silly, stupid
fear courage intentional accidental
female male to be interested in to bore
few many interesting boring, dull
final first to interrupt to continue
to find to lose J
to finish to begin junior senior
finish start K
first final, last kind cruel
to fix to break L
flat hilly lack abundance, plenty
floor ceiling lady gentleman
to follow to lead to land to take off
to forbid to allow, to let, to permit land water
for against large small
foreground background last first
foreign domestic Word Opposite
foreigner native moderate extreme
to forget to remember modern ancient, old
to form to destroy monarchy republic
fortune bad luck moon sun
forward backward more less
to free to arrest morning evening
to freeze to melt mountain valley
frequently occasionally much little
friend enemy late early
G to laugh to cry
general particular, special lazy active, busy
generous mean to lead to follow
Word Opposite Word Opposite
senior junior true FALSE
to separate to connect, to unite to trust to suspect
serious funny U
servant master ugliness beauty
to set free to arrest ugly beautiful, handsome (boys), pretty (girls)
shallow deep under over
sharp blunt to unite to divide, to separate
life death outskirts
light dark, heavy over under
to like to hate P
liquid solid parents children
little big, large part whole
little much partial total
to live to die to pass to fail
long short past future, present
to lose to find, to win peace war
loser winner to permit to forbid
loud quiet to plant to harvest
to love to hate plenty lack
lovely terrible pleasant awful
low high polite rude
to lower to raise poor rich, wealthy
bad luck good luck poverty wealth
good luck bad luck powerful weak
M presence absence
major minor present past, future
male female pretty ugly
man woman private public
many few, some probably certainly
marriage divorce professional amateur
married divorced, single to protect to attack
to marry to divorce protection attack
master servant public private
maximum minimum to pull to push
mean generous pupil teacher
to melt to freeze to push to pull
men women Q
to mend to break question answer
mess order quick slow
midnight noon quiet loud, noisy
minimum maximum R
minor major to raise to lower
to miss to hit, to catch rainy sunny
N rear front
narrow broad, wide to receive to send
nasty nice, pleasant to reduce to increase
native foreigner, stranger to refuse to agree, to accept
natural artificial regret satisfaction
near distant, far to remember to forget
negative affirmative to repair to damage
nephew niece to reply to ask
never always reply question
new ancient, old republic dictatorship, monarchy
nice awful, nasty to rest to work
niece nephew rich poor
night day right left, wrong
no yes to rise to sink
nobody everybody rough gentle, smooth, soft
noisy quiet, silent rude polite
noon midnight rural urban
none of al lof S
normal strange sad happy
north south sadness happiness
not yet already safe dangerous
nothing everything safety danger
to notice to ignore salt sugar
now then (the) same different, the other
O satisfaction regret
occasionally frequently to satisfy to annoy
occupied vacant to save to spend, to waste
odd even to scream to whisper
off on security danger
often seldom, sometimes seldom often
old modern, new, young to sell to buy
on off to send to receive, to save
to open to close, to shut to sit to stand
shelter exposure unity division
short long, tall up down
to shout to whisper upstairs downstairs
to shut to open urban rural
sick healthy useful useless
silent noisy useless useful
silly intelligent V
simple complicated vacant occupied
to sink to rise valley mountain
single married vertical horizontal
sister brother victory defeat
slim fat village town
slow fast, quick violent gentle
small big, large, tall visitor host
smooth rough voluntary compulsory
soft hard, rough vowel consonant
solid liquid W
some many war peace
sometimes often warm cool
son daughter to waste to save
soul body water land
sour sweet weak powerful, strong
south north wealth poverty
special general, ordinary wealthy poor
spring autumn wedding divorce
to stand to sit well ill
to start to stop west east
start finish, end, stop wet dry
to stop to start, to go to whisper to scream, to shout
to stand to lie white black
strange normal whole part
stranger native wide narrow
strict gentle wife husband
strong weak to win to lose
student teacher winner loser
stupid clever, intelligent winter summer
suburb centre to work to rest
to succeed to fail woman man
success failure women men
to subtract to add worse better
sugar salt worst best
summer winter wrong correct, right
sun moon Y
sunny cloudy, rainy yes no
supporter opponent yesterday tomorrow
to suspect to trust young old
sweet bitter, sour
synonym antonym
T
to take to give
to take off to land
tall small, short
to teach to learn
teacher pupil, student
then now
terrible lovely
there here
thick thin
thin thick, fat
thirsty hungry
to throw to catch
tight loose
tiny giant, huge
together apart
tomorrow yesterday
top bottom
total partial
town village
tragedy comedy